Asklemmy

I had been getting sick of the direction reddit has headed for the past couple years and have been looking for alternatives. I discovered lemmy at basically the perfect time. So I guess I'm not too heartbroken mostly because I've been frustrated with the platform for quite a while.

I was always aware this could happen, but never expected it would happen. Reddit has been a part of my life for years. I never felt good about the company, but thanks to the communities on there, I found so many amazing things and learned so much. As absurd as it sounds, I had completely life changing moments begin on Reddit. So yeah, I'm sad about what happened, but I'm optimistic that we can build something better.

A little sad and a lot salty, my main account got suspended by reddit in retaliation for actions taken as a moderator and got totally ignored by members of the mod relations team and their oh so smugly named "anti evil operations" drones.

I'm sad Reddit is no longer the site it was

I'm glad that Spez and the rest of the reddit execs get to see their precious cash-cow die in flames.

Fuck technofascists

If I didn't see this coming from a lightyear away maybe I would be, but it's been obvious since at least 2016 the direction reddit was going.

No. Full stop. Fuck spez. I miss Apollo though.

I closed my Facebook account in 2016 and haven't looked back. Hoping I feel the same about Reddit

Yes and no. Reddit had become toxic and a shadow of it's former self. It was a good run for 11 years. Hopefull Lemmy can be an alternative. :)

In a way I'm a little sad but I'm also hopeful. I started on Reddit 13 years ago and it was a very different place than it is now. I liked it better then, and I think I'm sad and will miss it for what it was, not what it is. I'm hopeful for a fresh start here on Lemmy where it feels like I'm getting back to the actual conversation with other users, which is what I miss about the current Reddit. There's very little conversation there anymore, so much of it is just pictures and jokes and bots.

Nah, honestly this is great. I missed the old Reddit with less people and a more community feel. This is fantastic!

Been on reddit for almost a decade. Watched it fall from a great website to the current day shithole. I'm relieved actually.

Hmm~ I guess I feel sad a little, yeah. Reddit was a pretty cool place. Still is if you hang in the right communities. But I do most of my browsing using a mobile app as of late and if they're killing off RIF and Apollo, I might as well look elsewhere. I also feel a little optimistic about this "migration" slowly taking place, since this time it's not out of some knee-jerk reaction to admins banning some problematic subreddits, spawning places like Voat.

And the federated, open-source nature of Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon reminds me of how a group of friends can create their own Discord server.

No. All I got from reddit was negative interactins and videos of decapitations... I think this is a good time to get away from that place.

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.

I'll miss the r/place

Joining discords and forming alliances with complete strangers over a few pixels was quite a good time

I’m more upset about losing Apollo than anything. That app was the best thing to happen to the Reddit experience for me, and losing it will be weird for a while.

Haven’t been on KBin too long, but I’m glad to have found it.

No I don't get attached to things like social media sites.

Nah, it's one of 1000 sites that rose and is now falling.

tbh i've been so sick of reddit lately that i've been spending time on 4chan again, which is really saying something

hoping the fediverse will put a stop to that lmfao

Absolutely! I'm not a particular fan of reddit, the company, but I have loved reddit, the community, for a long time. My first account is over 11 years old now. That platform has been something of a home to me on the internet for a really long time. I think it's not abnormal to feel some grief or something grief-adjecent over what's been happening.

Not much. There's so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there's a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.

Yes, I do. Reddit was a great source for troubleshooting and interesting knowledge. But without the drama and the resulting digital diaspora I would have never found out about lemmy.

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.

I'm from the state of Kerala in India. We had 4-5 active n quite decent subreddits on the state, local memes n all.
People are moving into lemmy, but many might not. Some might stay away from reddit, even after the blackout ends. Overall, I think they were fun people to interact with and since it's not sure whether an equivalent community will be built up here, it's sort of a loss.

I felt a little like that. I miss a few of my favorite subs. The “break up” feelings went away when I stopped lurking and started participating.

Honestly not really. I am not fully abandoning reddit either but in my case it's less about a boycott and more the fact that I almost exclusively access reddit on my phone and I find the official app genuinely too frustrating to use. This isn't even like an anger thing, I literally can't figure the piece of shit out. So once Relay is dead I am just going to be visiting reddit way, way less. From my perspective this wasn't my choice, reddit has forced me out. But for a good few years now I have been looking for an excuse to branch out. It's been a toxic cesspool of fascist enabling for some time so I am actually a little grateful this is happening now. I needed a little push to get myself off their platform for the most part. And so far the Lemmyverse looks pretty promising to me.

Not sad, just disappointed. They could have the perfect app and they ruined it, all just for more money.

Honestly yes, I had been using Reddit since at least 2010 and I was a strong forum user before that. Losing the community hurts, and fuck spez for forgetting his roots.