I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.
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Hehe that’s kind of the same thing I am experiencing with Mastodon
I tried migrating when voat got popular and for awhile I used both. Voat started attracting worse and worse people though so eventually I left.
I would probably use both and hopefully Lemmy can avoid voats fate.
Wasn't the main selling point of voat the "free speech" angle? It would make sense that it would attract people whose speech got them banned from other social media.
The Fediverse's selling point is "not run by corporate greed-heads," which is going to attract a different demographic.
Sure was. That was when Reddit banned r/fatpeoplehate and several other subs. I tried Voat out of curiosity but it definitely attracted a certain kind of person.
This time around I feel like the types of people that have and will leave Reddit are more ‘power users/techies’ whatever you want to call it. And so far this place seems pretty nice!
PS: Woo! First post!
voat was an absolute toxic cespool like six months after launch. Completely unusable.
I stopped using it and then came back a few months later just to see how it was doing... Wow it was awful lol
If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.
But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I've already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.
So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.
The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it's understandable: they're a giant platform on the web, but they're unprofitable - they'd like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I've already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.
My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This "mass exodus" is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don't care. But I'm enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I'm just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.
Maybe if reddit didn't spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn't be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.
I also think Reddit is far from dead. The blackout will end and then Reddit still has many more users and thus much more content. That pull back people after a while.
I just hope this boost for the Fediverse brought it to a sustainable level until the next Reddit scandal. Maybe the IPO or whatever.
I would be on both. I'm assuming that CEO isn't long for that position but we'll see. Reddit survives though. It's really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.
I won't go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.
I'm really digging Lemmy so far and excited to see how it evolves!
I doubt it's gonna overtake or stand on the same ground as Reddit for the foreseeable future, It's almost impressive how complacent the avarage person can be while being treated like shit.
That being said I'm happy people are making places outside of big-techs walls again to share content and chat, Even if Reddit backpedalled on all their upcoming changes I'd still feel dirty giving them my time/attention after all this.
I do see a way that I would use reddit beside lemmy again. But that would take a lot of change from reddit.
Nah, even if they reversed the bad changes they're making completely I still wouldn't go back. I'm over spez's attitude. Plus, reddit was toxic af--I'm excited to be exploring a new community instead.
Reddit will be absolutely fine but I don't see myself going back. I realized I only ever used it for a few things, mostly memes. I can get that here so I'm sticking it out and helping build something new
I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.
Will reddit continue? Yes.
Will reddit ever make a profit? No.
I'm going to use both, same as I'm trying to do now before the shutdown.