Asklemmy

I don't really care... Reddit is constantly spamming me with follow bots from Only Fans, and I have never posted in a NSFW sub.

I'm also hopeful the way this is structured we will see a bit better moderation of servers/subs.

A little but it's not like we didn't know this was coming. I mean, Lemmy was made because they recognized that centralized platforms all follow the same cycle.

I feel like I’ve been evicted from a house I loved and I’m kinda struggling with this feeling

Nah, it's one of 1000 sites that rose and is now falling.

Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.

Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let's rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.

Open-source is the future, and I'm willing to invest my time on it.

I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love

Yes, I do. Reddit was a great source for troubleshooting and interesting knowledge. But without the drama and the resulting digital diaspora I would have never found out about lemmy.

Absolutely! I was able to find so many communities and started new hobbies there. But I just have to remind myself that I was there for 12 years so it just takes time to find that elsewhere.

It's complicated. joined in 2018 right before they introduced new reddit and even back then there was a stigma reddit was "getting bad". However, reddit has been the best place for me to discover new things and the niche communities and interests were really great. I use an extension (that will surely die alongside the 3rd party apps) to find reddit comments associated with any youtube video that made my browsing really great.

The thing that makes me most upset is how they pulled out the rug from so many people and then acted like it was the people on top of the rug's fault it was pulled.

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

I'm sad for the hidden gems of smaller communities that I loved but couldn't move to lemmy/didn't know about lemmy or generally rely on mass platforms to get the action going being so small. I hope one day they migrate.

Not really, just annoyed. I used reddit for just over 10 years, and I was getting sick of it for the last few years anyway. I am really excited about Lemmy, I really hope it catches on. I got on the fediverse with Mastodon at the end of last year and I’m just so excited about the potential of it.

I'm excited to be diving into the federated side of things, but yeah. I've been an avid user of Reddit as a discussion board since the old days. There are some great technical communities there. Love the platform, but am struggling to deal with it any longer.

yes absolutely, found so many new hobbies just browsing/wasting time on reddit, let's hope that carries over to lemmy.

Honestly not really. I am not fully abandoning reddit either but in my case it's less about a boycott and more the fact that I almost exclusively access reddit on my phone and I find the official app genuinely too frustrating to use. This isn't even like an anger thing, I literally can't figure the piece of shit out. So once Relay is dead I am just going to be visiting reddit way, way less. From my perspective this wasn't my choice, reddit has forced me out. But for a good few years now I have been looking for an excuse to branch out. It's been a toxic cesspool of fascist enabling for some time so I am actually a little grateful this is happening now. I needed a little push to get myself off their platform for the most part. And so far the Lemmyverse looks pretty promising to me.

Personnellement je ne viens pas sur Lemmy à cause dea mauvaises décisions de Reddit, mais tout simplement parceque je pense que Lemmy est une meilleure place. Le fediverse est pour moi une révolution de l'internet actuelle et je me sens tellement plus confortable sur ces plateformes qui respectent mes valeurs.

I'm mostly sad about losing the communites i loved, for which I have not yet found a comarable one on lemmy. r/cars and r/cartalk mostly

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 think what breaks my heart even more than the whole mess about 3rd party apps is that people are not going to care in a couple weeks, and just revert to reddit. Everyone just wants to go back to how things were.

There's gonna be a bunch of abandoned accounts here.

I hope I'm wrong.

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

Eh, good content was less and less common in a sea of low effort fluff and reposts. Once I started actively blocking subreddits I didn't care about, I got deeper into the fluff much more quickly.

There will always be nerds pooling quality content. Reddit was the best place for that for a while, but like all pools it had grown stagnant. I'm excited to witness the revitalization afforded by migration. The site is just a site. It was nice, but all things must pass, and metamorphize in passing.

Oh yeah, I mean I find my self wanting to check it right now even, not checking reddit is giving me a huge sense of FOMO but that is reason enough alone to make me want to leave it lmao