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Reddit peaked like eight or ten years ago. I am so ready for this. I have been doing everything in my power (completely ineffectively) to get the people and communities I care about to bridge to a libre network.
Yeah Iβm honestly sad, but more sad about Apollo than Reddit. Seeing the big subs join the protest and seeing the activity here has been a nice silver lining though. I just donβt want to see the really specific/niche groups on Reddit die. So I hope they come here π₯Ί
I saw a thread over at Lemmy somewhere that a guy is working on some code that makes it possible for Reddit client developers to change the app to run on the Fediverse by changing a single line of code. Seemed pretty promising for both the clients and these communities.
Reddit has made me discover many things in 5 years of using it, and I would have never become a Linux user without it. Nevertheless, platform come and go, and it's time to move, as usually happens once in a while. It's not wise to get affectionate to websites
I feel excited because I see the potential here. It's not just another app, it's another internet if it becomes very popular.
more irritated than anything - mostly because there arent a lot of lemmy apps on android yet. it'll get better in ~6 months
Yup, I loved reddit. But they changed and idk if there is any going back to normal.
Annoyed, really. I'm reminded of how Usenet went to shit in the early 2000s due to major servers utterly failing at spam mitigation.
As they say, "this is why we can't have nice things."
It does suck a little, but I will say that once I had my main account on reddit banned, it felt like I realized I spent so much dumb effort trying to up my karma, that I took a step back and thought, wow I'm addicted to this and it's ultimately meaningless. I still post on reddit, but definitely more constructive, and the Fedeverse is much better since it's decentralized, and there's no central karma aggregate if that makes more sense.
Yeah, I think that loosing access to great communities like OSR, Boardgames, RPG, Horror and horrorlit will hurt, but I'm hoping to find new ones too, with fresh new people and new ideas.
No. Sites and communities come and go. Before Reddit, I was on slashdot and would occasionally use others like kuro5hin, fark, etc. Reddit had a lot more going on and was much better for comments when it came along. Then it got huge and only the small subs were any good for a sense of community or discussion. For a long time, itβs mostly been good for doom scrolling outside of some niche hobby subs. If anything, itβs kinda nice that some people are motivated to try other things like lemmy and kbin.
Honestly Iβve been looking for an alternative. I miss the days where there many places to go to now just some major player have the entire market share
No, not heartbroken at all. Maybe you can call it the R-word? Ha!
Um. Yeah. Taking a break from it for a few days during the blackout. Checking out the fediverse and am loving lemmy, pixelfed, and mastodon. Just joined kbin today but am a bit confused about it because I haven't found a mobile app that supports it. There are a ton of subreddits that I am missing incredibly, but you know it'll be all right. I'm hoping lemmy grows a bit, but not too big. I just enjoy a string of random posts.
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
I miss Relay haha such a great app
I had reddit filtered to the eyeballs to avoid the random drama and bullshit that seemed to infect the larger subs. I was hugely into Ruqqus before it imploded, and have always held out hope for an alternative to take off. The key now is for the blackout to actually be a lasting protest, and not just a "uwu we stopped for 2 days but we're all back now"
I like that it's back to small communities. Like Reddit once was.
Not at all. Probably because I was not a mod of any subreddit. I've commented every now and then, but that bit is the same here.
Not really. I didn't comment much, hell I've had an account over ten years and barely interacted with any community. Really, I'd just use it as a news source for my interests. Or to kill time on breaks at work and shit. Probably will miss some subs but my theory is they will pop up elsewhere. Perhaps not ran by the same people but that might be a good thing.
I think everything trends this way. I almost feel more excited for new opportunities in new platforms than disappointed at reddit.
My big fear right now is that Bandcamp will try to emulate Sp0tify instead of enhancing their unique strengths. Then I'd be seriously disappointed, and musically homeless.
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.