Asklemmy

Eh, good content was less and less common in a sea of low effort fluff and reposts. Once I started actively blocking subreddits I didn't care about, I got deeper into the fluff much more quickly.

There will always be nerds pooling quality content. Reddit was the best place for that for a while, but like all pools it had grown stagnant. I'm excited to witness the revitalization afforded by migration. The site is just a site. It was nice, but all things must pass, and metamorphize in passing.

Not going to lie. This all feels like Google+ to me. The communities and networks are all over the place

I have used Deddit on and off for years now and whilst I miss the communities and the sheer mass of useful/amusing information, I am happy we can start a new on something like this.

i'm sad that reddit is dogshit, but excited to watch lemmy grow and to have the opportunity to be a part of its growth

Not at all, I'm glad open alternatives are getting attention!

I don't feel heartbroken for reddit itself. But I do think there are a lot of small communities on reddit which will either have terrible trouble trying to continue surviving there, or which won't be able to reconstitute into the alternate ecosystem.

I imagine trying to migrate a community would be quite difficult even if you did have some very tech-savvy mods, and many mod teams will have no idea what this whole 'lemmy/kbin/beehaw' thing is.

So there's a number of communities that I think just aren't going to make it, and that's sad.

And yet, if Reddit backs off enough for people to continue moderating effectively, I think the damage to them in the short run will be relatively low. In the long-run this debacle has done a lot to drive people to the larger 'lemmy' community. Since that has help grow the federated alternative community, that could have lasting implications for reddit as they move forward with... whatever they're doing.

Not really, I just miss some of the subs that I used to frequent. Most of them already exist somewhere in the Fediverse and just need to gain some traction. The other thing I miss is my app, RedReader, but the author has plans to extend it to support Lemmy or similar in the future so I'm good.

My Reddit account was turning 16 in August (that's older than some Redditors I'm sure!). It was a wild ride, back in the days where Reddit worshiped Ron Paul, and the entire front page was "Upvote if !", to today's mess. Kinda bittersweet yes but a change and some competition is long overdue!

no I fucking hate Reddit

I sucks but I did the same thing with Digg when it turned to shit.

I go by the thought that the Reddit I cared about died a few years ago. I was a very vocal/active membre of the french community, but once it reached its critical mass, it all went downhill. The recent efforts to hire powermods to create more content has been the last nail in the coffin.

Yeah. Here’s hoping this is just the beginning of something better

On one side yes, on the other side I see it as an opportunity to spend more time being active and or outside doing things that are truly good for myself.

I loved reddit for a few years at the beginning, but after that I became disillusioned and found myself waiting for a better alternative to come around for a long ass time. I even made an account on voat and the users were just terrible people.

But yeah, I spent a fuckton of time on reddit and I'm hoping to do the same on lemmy, with the difference being that I hope that lemmy will enrich my life and give me the opportunity to enrich the lives of others, whereas reddit was often a toxic cesspool that made us angry and miserable.

A little sad, but I am not as attached to specific communities online. I’ve seen subreddits rise and fall too, so this just feels like another chance to find something new.

@Acetamide This has been coming for a long time, I'm glad the community is being a chance to move on to spaces which aren't just trying to suck blood.

Ya. But I’m kind of relieved. Place has been pretty toxic and the content has been getting more and more lame. I’m excited to be somewhere new and start fresh. Maybe reverse some of the bad habits that are contagious with how I engage too.

Yeah Reddit has a lot of really valuable communities that are not ruined imo. For some of those niche communities the other option for discourse/information is Tiktok which I don't like because the discourse is super fragmented and hard to follow.