Asklemmy

No. I am very happy at discovering a new place. I also miss the social media, pre 2010s. like in 2005, it was amazing and people felt much closer. One had a feeling that everyone is genuinely here to help and enjoy while socializing, rather than karma farming.

I am talking before Facebook grew big. The time of Orkut, Gazzag, old reddit, Slashdot. or even yahoo messenger, mIRC, before all those websites became a thing. I was not afraid of posting something, and wasn't looking for votes, or afraid of down votes. Main aim of contributing to a post of joining in the discussion.

I've been on giant, corporate owned services for so long, I kinda forgot what it's like to be out in the cottage industry of small websites.

I miss Relay haha such a great app

Not at all. Probably because I was not a mod of any subreddit. I've commented every now and then, but that bit is the same here.

New place new rules new spirit. I’m all in. Deleted Apollo, will overwrite my stuff on Reddit.

I had reddit filtered to the eyeballs to avoid the random drama and bullshit that seemed to infect the larger subs. I was hugely into Ruqqus before it imploded, and have always held out hope for an alternative to take off. The key now is for the blackout to actually be a lasting protest, and not just a "uwu we stopped for 2 days but we're all back now"

I'm used to the layout of RIF and my niche subreddits NCD/Ukraine Conflict, NBA but I'm posting here and trying to add to the community. Hoping for a better mobile app one day though:X

Um. Yeah. Taking a break from it for a few days during the blackout. Checking out the fediverse and am loving lemmy, pixelfed, and mastodon. Just joined kbin today but am a bit confused about it because I haven't found a mobile app that supports it. There are a ton of subreddits that I am missing incredibly, but you know it'll be all right. I'm hoping lemmy grows a bit, but not too big. I just enjoy a string of random posts.

No, not heartbroken at all. Maybe you can call it the R-word? Ha!

I came back to Apollo for a while on a new iPad. I am so sad to see it go - it's one of the top parts of iOS I actually miss. Certainly sad to not use it nor Boost anymore.

I have used Deddit on and off for years now and whilst I miss the communities and the sheer mass of useful/amusing information, I am happy we can start a new on something like this.

No. Sites and communities come and go. Before Reddit, I was on slashdot and would occasionally use others like kuro5hin, fark, etc. Reddit had a lot more going on and was much better for comments when it came along. Then it got huge and only the small subs were any good for a sense of community or discussion. For a long time, it’s mostly been good for doom scrolling outside of some niche hobby subs. If anything, it’s kinda nice that some people are motivated to try other things like lemmy and kbin.

I'm from the state of Kerala in India. We had 4-5 active n quite decent subreddits on the state, local memes n all.
People are moving into lemmy, but many might not. Some might stay away from reddit, even after the blackout ends. Overall, I think they were fun people to interact with and since it's not sure whether an equivalent community will be built up here, it's sort of a loss.

Yeah, I think that loosing access to great communities like OSR, Boardgames, RPG, Horror and horrorlit will hurt, but I'm hoping to find new ones too, with fresh new people and new ideas.

It does suck a little, but I will say that once I had my main account on reddit banned, it felt like I realized I spent so much dumb effort trying to up my karma, that I took a step back and thought, wow I'm addicted to this and it's ultimately meaningless. I still post on reddit, but definitely more constructive, and the Fedeverse is much better since it's decentralized, and there's no central karma aggregate if that makes more sense.

Annoyed, really. I'm reminded of how Usenet went to shit in the early 2000s due to major servers utterly failing at spam mitigation.

As they say, "this is why we can't have nice things."

I go by the thought that the Reddit I cared about died a few years ago. I was a very vocal/active membre of the french community, but once it reached its critical mass, it all went downhill. The recent efforts to hire powermods to create more content has been the last nail in the coffin.

It is just sad to see another good thing, build up collectivly by people in their spare time comes down due to cooperate greed.

I will use reddit as long as the subs I'm mainly engaging in haven't migrated and as long as there is a secure & a/tracking free way of accessing Reddit, even if it is desktop only

Bit then again I'm happy that truly free and non commercial alternatives get the attention they deserve

Yes. It feels like moving to a new town and having to meet new neighbours, make new friends, know the neighbourhood and all that