Asklemmy

Yeah, I had 13 years on reddit so it was a nice run. Seems like every online platform dies at some point, so it was going to happen sooner or later.

Right now, yeah. It had become part of my daily routine, and it's challenging. With a little effort, I'll release myself from their evil grasp.

I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.

I joined Reddit during the digg exodus. Before digg I was into fark and before fark, something awful.

It's good that things die. it's where new mediums come from. It also keeps the power with the user. It's an important part of the internet life cycle.

I feel like it's a break up with an abusive partner. I'm relieved but also sad.

More than anything else, I'm going to miss the easy access to reliable answers by appending reddit to whatever I'm searching for in Google

I miss how easy it is to find everything, even things that are very niche. Yes i'm talking about porn stuff

I have this feeling of loss over several good spaces on the internet going down/changing for the worse recently. There was ADS-B Exchange getting sold to a company with a vested interest in certain planes not showing up on the tracker.

Twitter, while never good, was at least a good place for a lot of discussion especially news. From the world's biggest breaking news to smaller local journalists and reporters, you could find it all and talk about it there.

Then imgur wiping all nsfw and non-account posted photos. It was the second coming of photobucket. I can only hope that a lot of the pics posted on forums got saved and can eventually be redirected to the archived versions.

Now reddit cutting off the only good ways to access all of the information on their site. I know the world will eventually move on to the next thing, but I will always remember my time on reddit. I had a shitty home life and my escape on the site was the only thing keeping me going some days.

Okay, dramatic rant over. I need to get good at coding and shit so I can be the change I want to see on the internet.

I'll miss the r/place

Joining discords and forming alliances with complete strangers over a few pixels was quite a good time

16-year user here. Its been a long time coming, I've watched my friend spiral into a bad place and call me an idiot for being concerned. There is no saving these old networks. They will be around as bullhorns of whoever pays for them but even with the different usability I think its only a matter of time before people start to see "True Reddit" style material coming out of the fediverse and things start to grow less due to thee circumstancesbut more for the same reasons reddit and slashdot before them grew to begin with.

Even IF these networks never fall, no original social network was predicated on the idea that it MUST be for everyone. Thinking it needs to be is just monopoly enabler talk IMO.

Absolutely. Most of my 20s and 30s I've been on reddit. It was game changing for the early web. I decided today that I'm going to delete all my previous comments, posts, and accounts. It's time to move on.

Totally agree. My reddit account is 12 years old, and I was only just now starting to gain confidence that there would already be a sprawling community for a new topic I found. I know it will take a long time to get that feeling again, but it's also refreshing to see the fantastic discussions on this platform.

Not at all, I wanted to leave reddit since Tencent bought their shares. Lemmy seems almost ready now. Good enough not to look back.

I'm not breaking up yet but I'm definitely gonna cheat a little while Reddit goes through their drama!

Yes Reddit was great before it betrayed its users with a level of discourse and creativity not seen anywhere on the internet

Sure, but here's the thing. If we all just moved to another centralized system, we'd just be setting the timer for the next heartbreak. It's a matter of when, not if.

Lemmy's growth will be slow. It may even stagnate. But, unlike Orkut, Friendster, Google+, etc. it can't be taken away from us. lemmy.ml might even shut down, but the Fediverse will always be here in one form or another.

I've been waiting for reddits death for ages, so no. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I actually really like the idea of the fediverse, keeps any singular entity from having too much power.

I wouldn't really consider myself a "refugee".

I've been feeling like the internet has been become a more isolating and nonconstructive place for a long time, and I have been following the fedverise & other projects for a while, hoping that we might be able to build something better.

I am interested to see where things go.

No. I first joined Digg and Reddit around the same time, but I rapidly came to the conclusion that Reddit was the right choice for me. I just loved Reddit's simpler and less cluttered interfaced, and the smaller (at the time) communities. Then, one day, proper Reddit became 'old' reddit, and it became clear that the end was coming. I started my search for an alternative almost immediately and now, finally, I found one. So, no, I am not heartbroken. To me, Reddit has been dying for years. And honestly, even if reddit survives, I do not want to go back. The feddiverse is a much better proposition, it is the way forward.

I've been a heavy forum user for well beyond half my life, and the social media boom ruined that whole world such that all I really have now is reddit, so I'm pretty upset about it honestly. I'm sure it'll eventually be fine, but the uncertainty sucks right now.

I'm used to the shit I do online eventually being replaced by something else that's better, as I eventually forget the old thing exists for a while. This is a much more harsh ending to Reddit, so I'm really hoping Lemmy becomes all it can be with a healthy community.

I guess it's Lemmy's turn to experience the eternal September effect. At least the "New Platform" is better resilient to greed this time. Long live ~~Digg~~ ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy!

Just deleted the Apollo app. Sad times. Hope this turns out to be a viable replacement

Honestly yes, I had been using Reddit since at least 2010 and I was a strong forum user before that. Losing the community hurts, and fuck spez for forgetting his roots.

The hardest part is finding a replacement application after using Apollo for so many years.

I felt a little like that. I miss a few of my favorite subs. The “break up” feelings went away when I stopped lurking and started participating.

Yes but I think more from a familiarity standpoint (10 year old account). I had my routine of subreddits to visit. I also liked the centralization on content.

This new federation of sites is going to take a bit of time for me to figure out. I used the reddit app and was ok with it. What actually pissed me off the most was the callousness of the admins. Fuck that.

Not really, im actually excited about exploring the lemmy verse. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Reddit was starting to feel stagnant.

Not really. I didn't comment much, hell I've had an account over ten years and barely interacted with any community. Really, I'd just use it as a news source for my interests. Or to kill time on breaks at work and shit. Probably will miss some subs but my theory is they will pop up elsewhere. Perhaps not ran by the same people but that might be a good thing.

I had been getting sick of the direction reddit has headed for the past couple years and have been looking for alternatives. I discovered lemmy at basically the perfect time. So I guess I'm not too heartbroken mostly because I've been frustrated with the platform for quite a while.

I am not sad. It started to feel a bit like a bad addiction. The huge increase in casual users also brought a whole bunch of corporate accounts running heavy PR activity on reddit, and quality of discussion has tanked, probably from a lot of bots commenting.

I stayed on Reddit a lot for support forums that were prone to brigading attacks. I know how hard the mods were working to keep the spaces constructive. Reddit is not only trying to sell my attention as a commodity they own, but also under appreciating the mods volunteer hours for why the site was worth it.

Not really. Fuck em. Been on Reddit for 8 years and I've been disillusioned for a while. I just hope this place grows and I figure out how it works well enough to not feel the need to go back.

Absolutely. I had 86k karma, and wasted 3-4 years on there...

Not that much compared to some people but I like to think that I contributed a lot of content to the site.

Now I saw this crap and decided to move.

I'm sitting here having lunch and out of habit I went to open Reddit. Got confused for a moment and realised there's no more reddit for me. Was sad for a few seconds, opened Lemmy and now I'm happy again.