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I did at first, but the more acclimated I get to Lemmy/Fediverse that feeling has mostly gone away. I'm mostly going to miss the Apollo app, because it was just that good and is where I spent the most time browsing Reddit. I sincerely hope Christian Selig makes a Lemmy app and I will gladly pay for it if he does, but I understand if he wants a break or wants to focus on other projects.

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

I have been on Reddit for 13+ years and it's gone through a lot of changes. I do miss the old days when it felt like one big community. These days, I have found my niche pockets of Reddit where I can get a small semblance of that old community feel which I have been content with. There really isn't a strong contender to genuinely replace Reddit, but I guess that's just the way it goes. If Reddit does really go the way of Digg, I will still miss it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. Happy to try out something new, though.

Reddit has made me discover many things in 5 years of using it, and I would have never become a Linux user without it. Nevertheless, platform come and go, and it's time to move, as usually happens once in a while. It's not wise to get affectionate to websites

I felt sad at first. When I saw that disaster of AMA it motivated me to just leave and delete my account.
I was a lurker on Reddit but here I get to participate and you really feel heard.

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.

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

I just keep thinking to myself, "it's the end of an era"

Reddit has been the only social network I've used for 12 years. I've watched it go through so much change over the years, but it always felt like even at its worst, it showed its users more respect and gave them more control over what content they saw than any other social network out there. I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Lemmy, but it makes me sad to watch RiF and Reddit phase out of my life.

Nothing is forever, not even social media platforms. Yesterday was Digg, today is Reddit, tomorrow will be whatever platform takes its place. Sadly, greed always appears and things like these happen. The morale of the story is don't be greedy.

Kind of - I'd just hung around because they hadn't given me a single, strong reason to leave. 3rd party apps getting crushed was the kick up the ass I needed

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.

Yeah, reddit has always been my favorite type of social media. Especially being able to choose your own communities and being free of most algorithm shenanigans is what made me love it. I hope they turn around, and otherwise I hope Lemmy becomes more active and popular. It would suck to lose such an unique type of social media.

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

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."

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.

it is kinda sad, but it's been a long time coming. reddit has just gradually gotten worse and worse over the years, it's far from what it used to be.

reddit used to be different, used to be much less corporate than any other traditional "social media" website, more like the old internet. i think reddits gotten way too greedy and money-driven, and has lost sight of its core users and why they used the site in the first place.

i think lemmy so far is doing an amazing job capturing what reddit used to be like back in the day. it really is a breath of fresh air imo, especially compared to how the internet is today in general.

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.

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"

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.

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

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

Yeah. Here’s hoping this is just the beginning of something better

Had an account for 11 years but lurked for a few before. Yes. I been expecting it for years since its been declining but still going to miss it.

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.

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