Asklemmy

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.

Maybe now I'll be abit happier lol seeing nothin but mad American politics and videos of nazi rallies just makes me lose hope for humanity, at least of it's more out of sight that'll be better for everyone's mental health

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.

I'm sad, as my account is many years old since digg days. But I hardly comment or post, and dgaf about karma, so I am considering deleting in total rather than just stop using. At the same time, I'm interested to know how it'll play out.

Like Netflix, despite the public outcry, we may well see that reddit is still alive and well after this. /shrug.

I'm sad for the hidden gems of smaller communities that I loved but couldn't move to lemmy/didn't know about lemmy or generally rely on mass platforms to get the action going being so small. I hope one day they migrate.

yes absolutely, found so many new hobbies just browsing/wasting time on reddit, let's hope that carries over to lemmy.

I think what breaks my heart even more than the whole mess about 3rd party apps is that people are not going to care in a couple weeks, and just revert to reddit. Everyone just wants to go back to how things were.

There's gonna be a bunch of abandoned accounts here.

I hope I'm wrong.

I'm used to the layout of RIF and my niche subreddits NCD/Ukraine Conflict, NBA but I'm posting here and trying to add to the community. Hoping for a better mobile app one day though:X

I'm mostly sad about losing the communites i loved, for which I have not yet found a comarable one on lemmy. r/cars and r/cartalk mostly

Personnellement je ne viens pas sur Lemmy à cause des mauvaises décisions de Reddit, mais tout simplement parceque je pense que Lemmy est une meilleure place. Le fediverse est pour moi une révolution de l'internet actuelle et je me sens tellement plus confortable sur ces plateformes qui respectent mes valeurs. Donc non, je ne vis absolument pas mal le fait de quitter Reddit

It is just sad to see another good thing, build up collectivly by people in their spare time comes down due to cooperate greed.

I will use reddit as long as the subs I'm mainly engaging in haven't migrated and as long as there is a secure & a/tracking free way of accessing Reddit, even if it is desktop only

Bit then again I'm happy that truly free and non commercial alternatives get the attention they deserve

No. I am very happy at discovering a new place. I also miss the social media, pre 2010s. like in 2005, it was amazing and people felt much closer. One had a feeling that everyone is genuinely here to help and enjoy while socializing, rather than karma farming.

I am talking before Facebook grew big. The time of Orkut, Gazzag, old reddit, Slashdot. or even yahoo messenger, mIRC, before all those websites became a thing. I was not afraid of posting something, and wasn't looking for votes, or afraid of down votes. Main aim of contributing to a post of joining in the discussion.

Absolutely. I had 86k karma, and wasted 3-4 years on there...

Not that much compared to some people but I like to think that I contributed a lot of content to the site.

Now I saw this crap and decided to move.

I'm excited to be diving into the federated side of things, but yeah. I've been an avid user of Reddit as a discussion board since the old days. There are some great technical communities there. Love the platform, but am struggling to deal with it any longer.

Oh yeah, I mean I find my self wanting to check it right now even, not checking reddit is giving me a huge sense of FOMO but that is reason enough alone to make me want to leave it lmao

Nah, this is exciting, like getting out of a mildly abusive relationship that all your friends and family knew was bad and had been trying to get you to leave the jerk for years and now you’re finally out the door. And you feel that spark in your chest, the stirring of anticipation you’ve not felt in a long time.

Get into it, you fucking hedonist

No it's long since passed it's prime when it stood for something nows its just a cash grab.

As Ivan Drago says if he dies , he dies

I feel excited because I see the potential here. It's not just another app, it's another internet if it becomes very popular.

A little but it's not like we didn't know this was coming. I mean, Lemmy was made because they recognized that centralized platforms all follow the same cycle.

I feel like I’ve been evicted from a house I loved and I’m kinda struggling with this feeling

Absolutely! I was able to find so many communities and started new hobbies there. Any random thing I can think of, you can probably find a sub there. But I just have to remind myself that I was there for 12 years so it just takes time to find that elsewhere.

In some ways, absolutely. I have distinct memories of finding the perfect solution to a problem I had, discovering a major headline, and more.

Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.

Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let's rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.

Open-source is the future, and I'm willing to invest my time on it.

I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love

A little bit, there's a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I've been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there's no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).

I don't really care... Reddit is constantly spamming me with follow bots from Only Fans, and I have never posted in a NSFW sub.

I'm also hopeful the way this is structured we will see a bit better moderation of servers/subs.