Asklemmy

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

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.

It only really sets in as I'm scrolling through the replies. I'm going to miss all the communities I was a part of, especially r/otomeisekai and r/withesvspatriarchy. And I'm also going to miss the ui. I didn't have any social media until relatively late in their development process, so I'm not used to the look here yet.

Kind of. I will miss the small communities, the very niche ones. As for the frontpage or r/all, I won’t miss it a bit. The site has grown to a large enough size that most of the content is basically low effort memes and bots, and now the inevitable boot of corporate posturing threatens to kill whatever soul the site once had.

What I’ll miss is the stuff beneath the “surface”, the expert that knows how to fix your problem, the lovely self-proclaimed nerd who recommends my next fantasy series to delve into, the experienced DM that shares his tricks to have a great DnD campaign and the amateur chef that knows exactly how to sous-vide a chuck roast to perfection.

I hope this breadth of content is something that lemmy can grow into, but I think that is more of a long term goal and not something that will spontanously pop into existence once the exodus begins. Finger’s crossed though!

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.

I'm gonna miss the posts, communities, and history. But Reddit itself, not really. It's just one big, bloated fourm site with a reputation that was already on a downward slope. Hopefully Lemmy will grow to be even greater, seeing as it's in the hands of the users than a company.

Absolutely! I was able to find so many communities and started new hobbies there. Any random thing I can think of, you can probably find a sub there. But I just have to remind myself that I was there for 12 years so it just takes time to find that elsewhere.

A bit, yes. I'd been on Reddit for over a decade, and grew attached to the site and the many different communities that were there. I could find a subreddit for nearly anything.

But over time, one could see it begin to change. It started with "new" reddit, then NFTs, and it all felt like it started to move away from what it began as. It also became more toxic (though this may be more due to users than the site itself).

But now, we can plainly see that Reddit/Spez is all about profit and greed, nothing else. Gotta get that IPO for shareholders, right?

Though Lemmy is still small, I'm excited to see what it can become.

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.

Personnellement je ne viens pas sur Lemmy à cause des 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. Donc non, je ne vis absolument pas mal le fait de quitter Reddit

Of course, change is hard. But I'm excited to scope out and learn new technology like Lemmy. Decentralization is the future, and it's pretty exciting.

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.

Honestly I’ve been looking for an alternative. I miss the days where there many places to go to now just some major player have the entire market share

A little bit, there's a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I've been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there's no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).

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

I feel excited because I see the potential here. It's not just another app, it's another internet if it becomes very popular.

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

Honestly yes, I had been using Reddit since at least 2010 and I was a strong forum user before that. Losing the community hurts, and fuck spez for forgetting his roots.

I'm not breaking up yet but I'm definitely gonna cheat a little while Reddit goes through their drama!

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'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

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