Actually I feel excited, because Lemmy has sparked a new interest in news aggregators and the fediverse and I'm enjoying my time here a lot.

I joined Reddit during the digg exodus. Before digg I was into fark and before fark, something awful.

It's good that things die. it's where new mediums come from. It also keeps the power with the user. It's an important part of the internet life cycle.

A little bit. What I hate is losing the communities related to my hobbies. Reddit is/was very very helpful for me. Finding new music, finding new games, discussing movies and TV, learning about weird movies or cult shows, sharing my stuff to people that find it cool... It was 11 years of that. I needed that site, so many very helpful posts. I hope whatever comes next is better. For now I'm here, waiting to see what happens.

I went from digg to Reddit during that mass exodus and will be doing the same from Reddit to Lemmy. It is a little bittersweet seeing what Reddit was 10+ years ago to what it’s become, but I’m excited for the future and to see what becomes of Lemmy, kbin, etc.

I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won't force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn't include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add "reddit" to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or are completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.

No, actually, I used reddit just to pass time, never really engaged in the community, and without this whole debacle I wouldn't have found out about lemmy and the fediverse as a whole, which is really exciting and a new part of the internet (for me) that feels like a breath of fresh air after years of everything being so centralized around very few companies, I'm getting a vibe of the internet from 15-20 years ago, exploring the wild west of the internet.

Yes. I loved Reddit for a LONG time. They started to crumble in my opinion when the added these Snooavatars, which later turned into a NFT scheme. I never bothered with these. The promise of the website was awesome though. Being able to follow interests and communities instead of people was a completely new concept, which I had never seen before. Now it feels like the corporate greed has finally completely taken over.

Time to jump ship.

I think it will hit harder when I want to search for something on google and have to avoid adding reddit onto the end.

I actually feel more relieved. It has become toxic and dominated by bots. As soon as a real person posts anything, it's immediately down voted

I'm enjoying Lemmy much more. Reminds me of the internet of old.

I view this as a fresh start. Cut off the old and grow a new one. Just like a gecko. I spent a lot of time on reddit but I can't say I ever actually connected with another person on it, there were just too many people on even the small subs I joined. Maybe lemmy will bring back the small internet forum feel and we'll actually be able to stand out from the crowd better and actually get to know each other.

Reddit hasn't really been the same for a long time anyways. I liked the feel of Reddit in the old days better, and this kind of has the same vibe

Not really, im actually excited about exploring the lemmy verse. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Reddit was starting to feel stagnant.

Kinda. But I don’t care about Reddit itself. I care about a few communities and the people from there. I know a couple of them are here. But we are scattered and trying to figure out this site.

Time will tell if this sticks or not. I pretty much hope so.

If someone finds a Lemmy equivalent to r/Grimdank or r/40klore please let me know.

While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I'd love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y'all don't mind if I vent a bit.

Firstly, there are a lot of "niche" communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don't see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they'll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.

Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there's a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.

I guess I'm still in the denial phase. I haven't technically left reddit yet. I guess during the blackout, then I'll really know how I feel without it. I'll definitely have to leave once RIF stops working.

I'm just having a really hard time getting used to kbin and Lemmy.

12 years of reddit. It will take some time to adjust but I also switched from google to duckduckgo years ago after decades of google, and then too never looked back. Lemmy does need a LOT of work, still, but so did reddit in the early days..

To those working on Lemmy, please don't fuck this up for us. Don't be a spez.

Man, I'm grieving a little. Anger, denial, the whole gamut really.

Mostly anger tbh. We all knew it was coming, once they started moving towards an IPO, but I think we hoped that it wouldn't be this bad. The way spez handled it all makes it even worse. Just shitting on all the mods and users that made the IPO possible in the first place.

It would not surprise me if there's something in the news about a bunch of angry ex redditors going project mayhem on him. The whole "do not fuck with us" thing kinda fits here, and there are some crazy people on reddit

Im just mad 4chan survived reddit. And will probably miss some of the smaller communitys i was active in.

Yes, I'm really upset about it. It feels like i've had so much taken away from me over my life and I was always willing to accept it and move on, but to see something so simple and innocent get taken away seems just so pointless and depressing. Like why am I not allowed to just have my little shitposting community? is it too much that I get to smile without some capitalist coke rat getting a payday? I hate this so much and there is nothing I can do about it. I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.

I am a reddit user from the Great Digg Exodus of 2008. Fifteen years of content and over a million karma that I'm going to overwrite at the end of the month. I'm going to bring as many people with me as I can before I go. I hope all three of them enjoy lemmy.

Yeah, this feels a lot like a bad breakup. I've explored reddit alternatives before, but this time it's for good.

I feel just a bit heartbroken but at the same time I really love the concept of lemmy.

I'm just a little afraid that lemmy is just a short-lived alternative and the people go back because not everything is working perfect right now.

I do. Started using reddit in 8th grade and now I'm finishing my masters. So it's been a while. Over the years, it has changed a lot and I've been pretty dissatisfied, to say the least. It used to be a great place for insightful and more-or-less friendly conservation, there was a sense of community. It hasn't been that way in a long time, so I'm ready to move on. Still sad but it's for the best.

I'm hoping Lemmy will have the same spirit as reddit had when I created an account all those years ago. I'm staying optimistic.

For me, I'm mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who've just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.

But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I'm kinda glad to be moving on.

I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.

More than anything else, I'm going to miss the easy access to reliable answers by appending reddit to whatever I'm searching for in Google

I think what sucks is there is a wealth of knowledge and reviews etc. that may be lost

I cared more about the niche communities than I did about Reddit as a whole. Once those move over here, I'll be just fine.

Yes but I think more from a familiarity standpoint (10 year old account). I had my routine of subreddits to visit. I also liked the centralization on content.

This new federation of sites is going to take a bit of time for me to figure out. I used the reddit app and was ok with it. What actually pissed me off the most was the callousness of the admins. Fuck that.

It’s a shame. Ultimately, Reddit (like Twitter) was popular because it provided something that people wanted. We may leave because those platforms have gone to rats, but we still want what they once offered.

I think it's exciting witnessing this platform take off almost literally overnight. The past few days I've been trying to figure out how lemmy actually works with little success. Tonight though it's actually clicking, there's actually content and discussion.

Going to sound sad but I'm a more than a bit bummed.

Outside my family and my job, reddit and the community was a massive social outlet for me. I don't have as much contact with friends any more and being part of some of the communities there made it not so bad.

Yeah, the idea of ditching Reddit after so long is daunting. I'm tentatively liking Lemmy as a replacement, though it took a hot minute for me to understand how it works. I imagine it'll be a barrier to entry for many, but maybe that's not the worst thing. I just hope more people migrate.

Yeah, Reddit had a lot of communities that I loved interacting with and finding advice with. I do hope Lemmy gains enough traction to replace Reddit.

Honestly? Not really, actually I am glad things are getting mixed up again.

While twitter is slowly burning out, and with reddit just deciding to randomly self-destruct, this leaves a lot of space for this project which I find absolutely amazing.

This thing has potential to become so much more than reddit could ever become, and it feels so... Wild-west? Not 4chan style bs but like small communities can persist in a dark corner for a long time, and have less problems of exploding out of control with bots and frequent reposts...

Of course the 'main' instance is seeing some problems atm, but that'll push people away from it and toward smaller instances.

This is going to be great, I want to be a part pf this journey

Nah, over the years I have seen many discussions sites rise and fall, and you tend to get over it. Slashdot, Fark, Digg, and countless PHP-based boards for instance. I am happy that there is a real possibility that a decentralized mechanism for discussions is catching on again. To me it's somewhat like Usenet back in the day, but prettier.

Nah

Lemmy feels similar enough

I experienced Reddit taking over BBs, Facebook taking over MySpace, the death of Netlog...so much change and I'm too young to have experienced BBS and Usenet in their prime even

It always expected reddit going to shit at some point. Commercial platform without open standards = pain once management makes poor strategic decisions

A bit. Reddit has been a big part of my life for over a decade. If I lost access to all of those communities, it would be really unfortunate and hard to accept. I'll miss being able to get amazing advice or insightful comments just by adding "reddit" to my google search.

I think the spirit of Reddit will live on though, I doubt that everyone will just vanish and we'll all be stuck on subpar platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tiktok.

I'm really excited about the possibility of the new "Reddit" being a federated, self-hostable platform like Lemmy, and solving these periodic exodii issues once and for all! No more dictators deciding the direction the community should go. I'm really impressed with what Lemmy has accomplished so far with its code and its community.

My biggest worry is a fracturing of some communities. For tech support for various companies, different niche academic communities, etc. that had a free and easy place to have discussions instead of running their own forum. If we end up with those groups splitting and half staying on Reddit, half coming here, that's a bummer all around for someone who previously knew where they would find the best info.

really sad about this. lemmy won't be the same. we're also losing 15+ year of history with all the people purging posts and comments..

After going to mastadon from twitter, and now to Lemmy from Reddit, I feel like the fediverse is the future of the internet. The internet was always a very democratic place. It only makes sense it ended up this way. When people can choose a different option at the flick of a wrist it makes it hard to keep autocracies.

im gonna, miss it, I don't wanna leave, I don't wanna go, It feels like reddit is breaking up with me rather than vice versa. As much as reddit sucked, it was the one thing consistent in my life that I could always go back to when things were rough. I just hope that the people and culture of subreddits that are closing down are going to migrate here.