I havenβt been a daily Reddit user for a long time, if Apollo stayed active and useable Iβd keep it loaded on my phone but Iβm into the vibe on lemmy and want to be part of it.
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I'm seeing how things play out.
I certainly like Lemmy and I could very well use both for a while. I'm mostly worried my favorite subs (especially my local City sub) won't migrate or be an active enough group here. Time will tell. I want to follow the community, not the platform.
That's a big issue. Unfortunately there is no way to keep everything after such a thing
Nothing could convince me to go back, we need decentralization.
I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iβm not looking back.
And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?
Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.
Iβve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure Iβve found it.
I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days, but back then there weren't any good alternatives (especially after Tumblr was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed out of a lack of alternatives.
The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.
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I plan on sticking to lemmy and only using reddit on the pc for specific things that I can't find here for the time being
Yep, congrats Reddit you've become StackOverflow for me. Searching for weird answers and taking them. I'm no longer contributing, I have Sync on my phone out of respect, but will not participate there. Not that karma matters, but I see tons of posts here of some super high karma users all leaving - which does mean that they pissed off their largest contributors.
As Facebook before them, let them drive out their content creators and let themselves fall into the corporate ad-riddled hellscape they want.
Reddit is doing a tumblr so I don't think is gonna recover that easy. Reddit is not gonna allow NSFW subs to be seen outside of the official app, who the hell watches porn from the official app? So many people is gonna drop it.
I think is still gonna survive IF subs like askreddit, amitheasshole or entitledparents are still up and have a lot of people posting, because they so many YT channels read from those (and I hear them daily as podcasts) but if the mayor subs go dark or shutdown is not gonna affect reddit only, but also so many people who works reading those.
Iβll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application
Stay! And participate less in their site, so they note the change.
I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.
I'll use both then. reddit is still unparalleled for support, simply because of its sheer size
I've overwritten and deleted all my comments and posts and nuked my account. This is my new home.
Personally I doubt I'll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I'll happily let my gather dust unless there's a support question or something for a community that hasn't taken off here.
Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I'm supposed to be a writer, I would probably down more times actually doing that anyway.
What if your SO stops beating you?
Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.
I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.
With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up
I would probably stay here. I do like exploring new things and the fact that it is smaller would likely make me lurk less.
It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.
I'd probably return to using Reddit through the Infinity app, but I'd mostly use Lemmy. There are some communities there that just don't have equivalents here yet
Base on my couple hours of experience, nope, I don't need that huge amount of unrelated content that I am not interested in. It does take sometime to customize and filter lemmy but it would be the same like early reddit anyway, won't take long to tune it to what you like.
I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iβm not looking back.