Asklemmy

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

No it's long since passed it's prime when it stood for something nows its just a cash grab.

As Ivan Drago says if he dies , he dies

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 was always aware this could happen, but never expected it would happen. Reddit has been a part of my life for years. I never felt good about the company, but thanks to the communities on there, I found so many amazing things and learned so much. As absurd as it sounds, I had completely life changing moments begin on Reddit. So yeah, I'm sad about what happened, but I'm optimistic that we can build something better.

Reddit kinda stopped being fun at some point, and I didn’t even realize it until I came here. The lack of doomscrolling potential here is an added bonus.

Reddit has gone downhill for a couple of years. I am glad it will die.

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.

@Acetamide Reddit has been pretty terrible for years, I'm excited rather than sad to see their demise.

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.

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.

Of course I feel heartbroken. Niche communities that I am slowly leaving behind. Many many saved posts that I always intended on going back to but never did. I'm still on Reddit and the reality of the situation hasn't sunk in yet. But I'm starting over here fresh and I'm even ready to actually participate more over here than on Reddit. I'm just ready to start something new

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.

No. All I got from reddit was negative interactins and videos of decapitations... I think this is a good time to get away from that place.

I do yes. I've been on that place for 4 - 5 years and moving out for the first time is quite a change.

Yeah, it’s a really weird feeling. I discovered Reddit in 2011 and it’s been a not-insignificant part of my life ever since.

Now I’m here, on this new thing that feels really small and inactive in comparison. All the subs I’m used to reading just aren’t here. Many of them will probably stay on Reddit. I really hope Lemmy takes off, and I don’t end up caving in and downloading the official app a week later.

Nah, they were just a company after all. The strongest feeling I get is that it's just a bummer because I've grown to depend on the platform so much and now I've got to try and adapt.

At the same time, as this thing that was previously an interesting little curiosity on a corner of the web grew to be a big time suck and addiction, the dopamine hit returns and actually helpful interactions I was getting from Reddit were diminishing anyway so when there was finally a convenient push to make me try harder to either find an alternative I was strangely grateful.

I do feel like I'm losing something that was very useful resource and which also filled a need, albeit one that it created in the first place, but at the end of the day, it's just a forum. I can't really feel betrayed or heartbroken by an entity that was only ever intended to make money and had no obligation to my approval.

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.

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 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 much. There's so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there's a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.

No I don't get attached to things like social media sites.

tbh i've been so sick of reddit lately that i've been spending time on 4chan again, which is really saying something

hoping the fediverse will put a stop to that lmfao

Been on reddit for almost a decade. Watched it fall from a great website to the current day shithole. I'm relieved actually.

Nah, this is exciting, like getting out of a mildly abusive relationship that all your friends and family knew was bad and had been trying to get you to leave the jerk for years and now you’re finally out the door. And you feel that spark in your chest, the stirring of anticipation you’ve not felt in a long time.

Get into it, you fucking hedonist

A little sad and a lot salty, my main account got suspended by reddit in retaliation for actions taken as a moderator and got totally ignored by members of the mod relations team and their oh so smugly named "anti evil operations" drones.

I'm sad Reddit is no longer the site it was

I'm glad that Spez and the rest of the reddit execs get to see their precious cash-cow die in flames.

I’m more upset about losing Apollo than anything. That app was the best thing to happen to the Reddit experience for me, and losing it will be weird for a while.

Haven’t been on KBin too long, but I’m glad to have found it.

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.

If I didn't see this coming from a lightyear away maybe I would be, but it's been obvious since at least 2016 the direction reddit was going.

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

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 out 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.