For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
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.
This comment gives me hope. Lol.
Wise words fomo_erotic
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 agree, it feels a bit like the internet in the early days, where you can find mindblowing new things just around the corner with a single click
Exactly! And without being called names for asking questions or interacting with people.
Yup and no big corps were tracking us.
@mrmanager @Acetamide excited for this decentralization of user information! Is Lemmy.today accepting registrations?
Yes please!
Fully agree, I’ve been TOO excited since I found out about Lemmy’s existence. I can’t wait to see how it progresses with so many people joining. :-)
As far as news goes - I hope that the “news” sites can’t help but stick to Reddit where they can steal content more easily. News aggregation is great imo, but businesses should not be able to feed on that.
Agreed! Reddit was just becoming a karma farming center. Honestly, it’s been nice to burn it all to the ground and start over
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Same feeling I guess. Created the Lemmy.ml account few days ago and installed Jerboa, this is my first post. Still haven’t done any cancelation of my old reddit, waiting for my RelayForReddit to stop working properly… My 99% fruition of reddit is through the 3p app sigh.
I know the feeling. I’ve been using Apollo since the beta and at the end of the month it’s just going to be gone. An app made with care and attention for years, just deleted because it has now served its purpose and it now gets in the way of the IPO. I won’t be going back.
I don’t know if the fediverse is the answer but it feels like a good place to start.
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.
I feel you - reddit was my daily staple for more than 15 years. Can’t remember exactly, since my account is 15 years, but I browsed without it for a long while before that. And I will miss it, dearly. I’m super sad and angry that spez and the rest of his merry band of morons decided to screw it up this bad. I’ll miss some local communities, some gaming ones, some silly video ones, and just the general feeling that any time I go to the bathroom there’s going to be tons of new content for me to browse through.
Sure this place will grow too, I’m sure of it, but it will take a lot of time. It’s pretty damn hard to change my habits after 15 years - RiF is my most used app BY FAR, and I’m super sad to see it die like this…
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.
I think you’re right that trying to figure out how it all works will be a barrier for some and they won’t bother. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, we’ll just have to wait and see what kind of user base this grows into!
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 on completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.I think this is honestly the biggest issue. Web search has been garbage for years, with legit the only saving grace being Reddit users sharing their knowledge. This is gonna have a horrible effect on producing good search results.
Totally agree. I feel like this is the equivalent, to some degree, of Stack Overflow just suddenly going away. The history needs to be preserved, somehow.
Is there anything in the Fediverse that is like a Stack Overflow clone? Might be time to start working on the backup plan for those big websites that do not show a sign of going away yet to avoid the rush when they inevitably do.
People have been joking lately about productivity suddenly increasing as a result of the Reddit blackout, but honestly? That loss of information is probably going to result in a loss of productivity in some cases.
Because yeah, in the nightmare scenario where both Reddit and Stack Overflow were to disappear, a lot of programmers would be at a complete loss.
It’s valuable knowledge with how-to’s that made me create an account there. I learned plentiful with the people that cared to share.
Most i implemented into my daily life & conditions have become favorable for me.
It’s unfortunate that Reddit Company have refused to collaborate with its users, since years back. Otherwise we would have seen their web & mobile app develop/ innovate in great ways. But they have chosen one limitation after the other. Slowly over the years.
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 do. Reddit was this awesome super/meta community of darn near any specific, niche, rare subject you could think of - and that thing would have a community of its own in a subreddit.
The amount of utility, the breadth of concentrated access to subject matter experience on anything, was utterly unmatched anywhere else.
This is, in my view, the dying of that resource, that super-community, and there isn’t going to be anything that can replace it quickly. That will hurt in the short and medium term.
On the other side of things, it will lead to a diaspora of sorts, with other communities such as this one (kbin), various instances of the Fediverse, Tildes and others seeing a significant period of growth, and, probably, an infusion of resources to speed and improve development for the better.
It sucks right now, but I do have hopes for what will come from the ashes.
I cannot wait, and I hope to everything that the viable replacement turns out to be this decentralized network. For all the same reasons you mentioned. Reddit was my Google, because Google search has been trash for years now.
This video about Google really sums it up well and talks about Reddits role in all of it.
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
So many times in the past few months I would open reddit, stare at rhr uninteresting front page and close it. Especially the past few years it has taken an astronomical nosedive, and that’s coming from someone who joined in 2013 which some consider too late.
It has felt pretty toxic more recently. Often I’d see something and end up just leaving to do something else, I’ve been describing it as the “two-minutes hate” internally for a while now.
There are some good communities and I’ve done a good job of trimming what I subscribe to, but that “popular” button is too tempting.
Honestly, mainstream social media as a whole is practically a two minutes hate. There’s a reason why “doomscrolling” is a term. While I do miss the occasional upsetting posts on r/iamatotalpieceofshit or r/facepalm, honestly having them gone for me is better in the long run.
I’ve been thinking that for a while. I really miss the old feel of reddit. I recently opened it up in archive.org and the content just had a different feel back when I first joined. Also fun seeing the old news stories.
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.
That’s definitely a risk. The main way of avoiding that is to stay active :D
