Asklemmy

I think I'll stay here. I like the prospect of building this ting together and shaping it the way we want it. Just that they caved in this one time doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. I would rather invest my time and effort into something I can stand behind and agrees with my believes. I like that it's open source and decentralised.

Main thing that needs to be addressed with Lemmy/kbin is the mobile app situation which is well...not great at the moment

Apart from the pains of being a relatively new thing (with very barebones alpha mobile apps) I'm already enjoying Lemmy more than Reddit.

I think they've made it super clear the direction they're going. Even if they back down on the third party API cost, the fact they keep trying to push NFTs, Talks, their own video hosting service, their own little emoticons no third party app can support, the idea of selling all users comments to AI firms... No thanks.

Both. Even if Reddit step back this time I think this action is just another on the road to their demise. But Lemmy/Fediverse still needs the critical mass shift to become the true alternative.

If reddit took a step back I will definitely use it, but the fact that you can ask a question without being flooded with bad jokes makes this platform have value for me. I'll happily use both.

I'll stay.

One of the reasons is that I don't think Reddit will step back. They might do some changes, and revert some of the decisions, but I'm pretty sure those would be temporary. I don't trust their CEO and I don't trust their intentions.

But most importantly, I like the Fediverse. I like hosting my own services, so I don't depend on a big company which will inevitable change their terms of service, close their APIs, or do something that is not in the best interest of the users, but of the investors and share holders.

I probably will, because I know the communities I was part of there will never be as big and succesful here. Let's face it, Reddit is far simpler. Lemmy takes a little effort to figure out how to navigate, and many casual internet users won't want to put in that effort.

If your girlfriend/boyfriend hit you with a baseball bat but then said sorry didn't realize you would leave me I wont hit you again. Would you go back?

Reddit burning its bridge with Apollo’s dev probably sealed the deal for me. Beyond handling things poorly, most of my time on Reddit was on my phone via Apollo. I highly doubt Christian ever works with Reddit again even if they did completely pull everything back.

Things have been pretty good here, I don’t see any reason not to stick around, and there isn’t anything to make me go back. I’ll probably check hockey news on Reddit occasionally, but I can’t see myself being active.

Probably not besides looking up old posts and info. After the past week or so of not using Reddit, can’t really say I miss it. Lemmy reminds me of the pre-social media days of web forums and I love it.

ATM my intro Lemmy experience doesn't have any desirable content. I can deal with new uis, slower loading, etc. But using Lemmy this morning instead of reddit is distinctly a worse experience than normal... Notably because every single post is about reddit lol

Yeah. Spez is still a piece of shit and my old accounts with massive gobs of post history are still banned. My "image" that was well respected in a ton of car groups is long gone, and I can't get it back via alts without running afoul of the "no ban evasion" policy, so fuck 'em. Lemmy has been working just fine for my light, casual browsing needs. Why would I go back now?

I've been hearing a lot about the "fediverse" and just haven't had any motivation to bother looking into it. But here I am now.

Lemmy is still new. But that's a boon ; it has plenty of room to grow and already it is teeming with life and a plethora of new ideas.

I was thinking of deleting Reddit before the fiasco because I just wasn't enjoying it anymore. It was the same with 9GAG many years ago, whose era came to an end when I discovered Reddit.

I find pleasure by browsing Lemmy, so... Now is the time for change. I am not looking back.

Like most of the other people around here, I will definitely stay at Lemmy. But I will also use Reddit as long as it has viable subreddits for me, that I cannot compensate with a Lemmy alternative.

But I hope, that Lemmy will have the same impact than Mastodon had and that many cool communities will rise from this!

Unless this place becomes as dead as before the exodus again, I don't think I'll be spending much time on Reddit anymore. I've been meaning to browse less anyways as it's often a giant waste of time. I don't expect that to be much different here but it might be less of a waste due to the smaller scale.

I'll still google for Reddit when I need to find some actual answers though; no way around that for now.

I will be staying for sure. There's nothing worth saving over on reddit anyway. I've hoped for a long time the fediverse would get good enough to challenge the mainstream platforms. and with this sudden influx of people (and hence developers), it just might.

I already deleted my reddit account, so there is no going back.

I will. No Apollo no Reddit. Easy as that.

inb4 sorry, long wall of text.

I'll stay across multiple fediverse instances, likely including lemmy.ml. I won't be back to Reddit, not even if Reddit rolls back all the third party app changes, and if spez is fired.

There's a reason my Lemmy account is two years old, not new: I am already extremely displeased with Reddit, for years. (More than two, by the way.)

It is not just the admins and the businesses. It's also the moderation system:

I don't think that the users becoming moderators in Reddit are intrinsically bad people, I was myself a moderator there, but the whole moderation hierarchy boils down to "everyone competent will eventually leave, and the top mod will be eventually a clown with too much time at hands, too little reasoning in his head, and too much power hunger in his stomach".

It's also in large part the userbase. Users there behave like braindead morons: they're assumptive, context-illiterate, they don't even see what's wrong with "X said it so it's true/false" and prone to oversimplify complex matters, in a way that boils down to "u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is 0? dats dumb lol lmao". And they are extremely disingenuous.

I don't think that it's due to inability to reason; I think that it's the environment of Reddit dictating how you should behave there. What I described about the Reddit user might potentially apply to myself, too, when I'm there. And I don't want to feel disgusted with myself.

It should not be a surprise that the userbase is like this, when the admins set up the example. A site that launched itself by expecting users to be stupid enough to notice "this place is empty, it's all sock-puppets" is bound to attract stupid users.

Possibly. That said, I'm going to actively use Lemmy and try to get used to it and find new communities.

Reddit could only succeed because of their user base...which they are actively giving the finger to...

I plan on staying but I'd use both if they did. I believe in the saying "competition breeds improvement" and while I know that Lemmy is essentially built to have it own sort of "competition" in the form of alternate instances, I think it would still be worth using both, along with other Reddit alternatives because they do have their sets of pros and cons. I don't want Reddit to shut down, but I also don't want to support a platform that very clearly doesn't care about their users.

I'll stay. While lemmy, at least for now, is a bit harder to use than reddit, and also lacks content, I see both of those as temporary issues. This feels nice and fresh, and i'm excited to see how it evolves. That applies to the entire Fediverse.

I'm going to stick around on lemmy and see what happens. I'm enjoying it more than reddit already and am posting/commenting a lot more than I used to.

There's a couple of places that I'm not sure will be replicated here any time soon that I'll really miss, but hey whatever.

Saying that I've only logged out of reddit, not deleted anything yet 😬

If Reddit isn't destroyed, and I don't think it will be, I'll likely keep using it for the main function I use it for. Using a search engine to search "technical problem I have Reddit".

While there's many online resources to find the answers to my technical issues, Reddit typically has the highest quality discussions on average or serves as a jumping off point to the answers at least.

But I will continue to use Lemmy for browsing and adding in my 2 cents when I feel the need. I've become a somewhat recent enthusiast of FOSS, Linux, and the fediverse.

Depends if enough people move to make it fun.

Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes?

No; I didn't even know about the API issue until after I registered on a lemmy instance.

My transition from twitter -> mastodon was so smooth and pleasant I started sniffing around lemmy again. I'd looked at it a year or two ago but didn't take the bait at that time.

Honestly yes, if Reddit steps back and Apollo stays around I’d probably go back to it. While Lemmy is a good alternative IOS support is limited with Mlem and the communities aren’t as large. I’d still probably use Lemmy but less often.

I might still google "[question] reddit" when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I'll check for that kind of purpose, but I've already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn't show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).

Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.

What's more, they've blocked old reddit if you're not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a "you broke reddit" error page. It won't be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.

Absolutely. Capitalists are mad dogs. You are never ever safe with them. I like the Fediverse. I'd like to see it improved by becoming fully democratic and publicly funded.

I think I'm here for now. Reddits bullshit is only going to get worse and I am just plain tired of the losing battle against the data hoarding and ads and all the other crap they foist on users. Community seems more engaged and discussion is deeper here as well. No reason to go back.

Definitely. Fuck Reddit forever. Killing third party apps was the last straw.

That's a difficult question for me. I'm a mod of a small niche subreddit over there. I don't like the idea of leaving that small community to die, and I'm not sure I could rebuild it here. But at the same time the enshittification of Reddit is progressing in a way I'm not at all comfortable with. I'm definitely in on the blackout, but I'm not sure what it'll take to make me stay or make me leave after that.

I will probably end up using both, regardless.

Will I stay at the quieter, cooler and more positive communities rather than be addicted to the endless scrollfests of cringe and toxicity? You bet I'm staying here :)

Besides, even if they step back, odds are good that they'd just make other, less pleasing changes anyway.

I probably would, yes

I mean you can't really say no to the critter in the sweater. What kind of monster does that? (I bet they put pineapple on their pizza, too)

The thing is, even if Reddit 100% steps down from their proposed changes and fires spez, they've already burned the 3rd party app developers to the extent that they simply won't want to continue development. I can't imagine the Apollo or RiF devs want anything to do with Reddit after the way they've been treated.

So one way or another, 3rd party apps for Reddit are probably dead. For that reason, I'm seriously unlikely to ever use Reddit the way I used to. I will probably still check it in browser using old.reddit from time to time, at least until they kill that too. But my typical use will never be the same.

I think I’ll become a lurker and have a read only account and only log in with an ad-blocked to hell web browser.

I hope the lemmy community continues to grow though, you guys are great 👍

Yes, I don't think the problem with Reddit is just a collection of recent poor decisions, rather it's a fundamental result of it being a centralized platform that aims to be profitable. Same as Facebook, Twitter, and other networks.

But I'd like (and hope) to see many UI/UX improvements to Lemmy on desktop and mobile in the following weeks and months.

Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.

Most likely yes, I'll be sticking around. Something I very much appreciate about lemmy as an advantage over the big social media sites is that lemmy is set up such that you can be reasonably sure that there are many more human users than bots. On reddit you can mostly avoid the bots by sticking to the smaller subs, but I think lemmy may be able to grow larger than that and still avoid being overrun by propaganda and marketing bots due to the prevalence of manual approval for newly registered users.

I'm definitely hoping to see even more features that emphasize this advantage of lemmy. I'd like to try contributing some code for this myself, at a time when things feel more stable (i.e. no huge sweeping changes in the pipeline, like the HTTP client is now) and I can find some time for it.

For example...

One obvious improvement would be to add an invite system, where new user registration occurs via reputable users sending invite links to people they know.

And I envision a feature where one instance may mark some of the instances it federates with as low trust. Users on the instance would have the option not to see content posted by the low-trust instance's users, or the option to have their content explicitly marked in the UI. This could be used, for one thing, to still federate with larger instances that are less stringent about disallowing bot accounts, but provide a means to view only content where there is a higher degree of confidence that it was posted by a human, or to at least clearly mark low-confidence content.

I will stay here. The way reddit has acted is completely unforgivable and it would be an insult to my self respect to go back.

Yes, because the reddit admins have shown their true selves and I don't like it.

I'll stay in the Fediverse. With reddit, the damage has already been done, even if they do backpedal.

I like to browse reddit for fun. I'm a casual user, and so I'll stick with Lemmy. I see less people dying in terrible accidents and hate speech, so I don't see much of a reason to go back!