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Yes, absolutely. I love(d) Reddit! All the niche communities, all the subs that I enjoyed so much, like r/whowouldwin and r/tiktokcringe and r/askhistorians and so many more :(
I admit, I have sentimentality attached there. It sucks. It does feel almost like the loss of a friend.
Honestly, I really couldn't agree more, there really was a sub for almost anything that you could think of especially when it comes to interests and hobbies, it's just the bigger subreddits that tends to have a lot of karma-whoring and spams that makes them just not palatable to browse. While im sure lemmy would eventually have those niche communities set up, it's definitely going to take a while to do so.
It's definitely sad, but I have hope for Lemmy and other alternatives.
I think this is one of the first pushes where convivences don't mesh with security. We have been taken advantage of for a very long time, and very easily. This type of diversification I feel will ultimately be healthy.
Nah. I just uninstalled baconreader from my phone and look forward to lemmy being my new home.
i’m mourning it a bit, but to be honest i think it’s going to be a bit difficult for me to get off for a while until other places (aside from facebook, which i’d much prefer to avoid over the current iteration of reddit) have the same amount of niche communities. for example, i’m in a private pregnancy subreddit with other people with my same due date and it’s reallllly useful in comparing notes and feeling like i’m not going insane at any given symptom and i think it’ll take a while for a place like lemmy to have an audience big enough to build niche communities like that.
Yes i'm very sentimental. I know the biggest subreddits were now toxic and/or repost so i'm not sad about them, but I was in a lot of smaller subreddits where I know a lot of people very fun to interact with and if they don't go on Lemmy, I will be sad
It's a bittersweet kind of reaction for me. I've been aware of how shit reddit's been for a while, and how shit it's been habit-wose for myself. So maybe it's the push i needed to get away. That's the sweet part I guess.
The bitter part is, I moderate a relatively small community (181k) that's been a passion of mine for literal years. Still is. If i have to moderate that with the official app, I'm out, I can't do it, I tried. I know reddit doesn't care about me or my community. It's all a rounding error. But this situation applies to bigger communities as well. And it's just a big slap in the face after being exploited. Reddit absolutely needs moderstors, needs this free labor. And they just said fuck you to those people.
Yeah, I definitely miss the idea of what Reddit used to be. But it's just the platform that's dying, the people are still around and it looks like more and more are jumping ship. Perhaps the niche communities will migrate, as well.
I don’t mourn Reddit, I mourn the people and ideas I enjoyed engaging with through it. But, I’m glad people chose to find another way to engage (such as Lemmy) vs. staying in that toxic system. :)
IDK...On one hand, we lose a repository of content and information. On the other hand, people will move to federated, non-megacorp places like the Lemmy federation and safeguard our future. However Reddit was the sole savior of enshittified Google Search since like 2017, and if it goes away that means Google Search will also stagnate heavily. People usually migrate from proprietary service 1 to proprietary service 2 so I really really hope people keep flocking to Lemmy despite the excessive load concerns. lemmy.ml and beehaw should close registrations at some point to distribute the load more evenly though
I am so excited for it to die and be replaced by an ecosystem that isn't controlled by individuals. To that end I think it's really important that we get account moving functionality; no admin should be fully trusted.
Honestly, I've been waiting on a replacement for a while. They made a lot of poor choices ever since they dumped the AMA mod. Then there's also this thing about tencent owning a big part of Reddit...
Reddit felt like one of the last decent places on the internet that wasn't being completely taken over by ads or suggested content. Sure it was there, but I also knew that there were a lot of real people there too. When in doubt, anything you googled could have the word "reddit" added and get you an answer. It feels like all of the social tools we use to communicate with each other on the internet are rapidly deteriorating in favor of profits.
Totally, but I'm also upset with myself for the amount of hours and content I've wasted on what is ultimately another corporate greed fest. Learned my lesson. Never again
I'm missing it a lot less than I ever missed Twitter…
For the most part, Reddit has sort of filled a void of community groups or random goofy videos/memes for me, as I'm not on either FB/IG or TikTok. On Reddit I could see a post about something going on in my city (Portland), a review of a game I like, a cat floofing out of a tiny vase, and a gorgeous photo of a mountainside all in the span of 30 seconds. It'll be a bummer not to have that experience any more, but I get enough value out of the Fediverse at this point (along with a few Discord servers) I'm not going to lose sleep over it.