Asklemmy

Hmm~ I guess I feel sad a little, yeah. Reddit was a pretty cool place. Still is if you hang in the right communities. But I do most of my browsing using a mobile app as of late and if they're killing off RIF and Apollo, I might as well look elsewhere. I also feel a little optimistic about this "migration" slowly taking place, since this time it's not out of some knee-jerk reaction to admins banning some problematic subreddits, spawning places like Voat.

And the federated, open-source nature of Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon reminds me of how a group of friends can create their own Discord server.

I've been trying to jump for a long time now, I used tildes for a while, but it just didn't have enough content I'm interested in. Now it seems lemmy is gaining enough steam to be my primary social media.

Reddit really peaked with the Obama ama. After that it was all downhill, the place grew too quickly to keep its culture.

Yes. I loved Reddit for a LONG time. They started to crumble in my opinion when the added these Snooavatars, which later turned into a NFT scheme. I never bothered with these. The promise of the website was awesome though. Being able to follow interests and communities instead of people was a completely new concept, which I had never seen before. Now it feels like the corporate greed has finally completely taken over.

Time to jump ship.

I went from digg to Reddit during that mass exodus and will be doing the same from Reddit to Lemmy. It is a little bittersweet seeing what Reddit was 10+ years ago to what it’s become, but I’m excited for the future and to see what becomes of Lemmy, kbin, etc.

Yeah, totally. But I'm also finding extremely cool Lemmy and the concept behind the fediverse

I'm really hoping some of my smaller communities focused on specific novels or games make the leap over.

I used Reddit a lot, but I always thought a foss alternative should exist. The thing is most don't care about if things are foss or not, so I thought nothing was going to change.

Just like with Whatsapp, Youtube, Discord, Instagram... You name it. There are foss alternatives out there that do the same thing, but most people just don't care about this issue.

Honestly, I'm glad they fucked up. We can build a strong foss community where there are no crazy CEO's or overall people that you don't even know getting rich from advertisements and shit, and no tracking or obscure algorithms / code too.

Let's hope Whatsapp goes next!

Foss is the way to go.

Kind of - I'd just hung around because they hadn't given me a single, strong reason to leave. 3rd party apps getting crushed was the kick up the ass I needed

Yup, I loved reddit. But they changed and idk if there is any going back to normal.

Same as you OP. Lots of years and lots of memories. But it's for the best and I'm looking for something fresh.

While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I'd love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y'all don't mind if I vent a bit.

Firstly, there are a lot of "niche" communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don't see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they'll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.

Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there's a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.

It turns into relief meanwhile. Actually, I want Reddit to die as fast as possible.

I deleted my Facebook-account a couple of years ago. At the beginning it felt a bit weird. But in hindsight it was one of the best decisions. My Twitter-Account got deleted in fall last year. And again: It was a good decision. I expect the decision to delete my Reddit-Account to be equally liberating.

I like that it's back to small communities. Like Reddit once was.

For me, I'm mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who've just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.

But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I'm kinda glad to be moving on.

No I don't. I've been in denial for too long that Reddit was great. But it has devolved alot. The formative moments of Lemmy feel like old reddit and I'm enjoying it so much more. Will that change? Probably, but I'm savouring the wholesome and fun community that is Lemmy right now.

Yeah, the idea of ditching Reddit after so long is daunting. I'm tentatively liking Lemmy as a replacement, though it took a hot minute for me to understand how it works. I imagine it'll be a barrier to entry for many, but maybe that's not the worst thing. I just hope more people migrate.

It’s a shame. Ultimately, Reddit (like Twitter) was popular because it provided something that people wanted. We may leave because those platforms have gone to rats, but we still want what they once offered.