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.
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’ve been on reddit since the diggification. And to be honest, I miss the people. Reddit itself? I don’t miss it at all.
But lemmy is turning out to be a nice place. Reminds me a lot of the old days of the internet, which I hope that we can some day go back to.
Ive spent 98% of my time here in Lemmy vs. 2% since last night. I’m not deleting my reddit account just yet, but, overall like what I am seeing here. I’m also just trying to figure everything out here.
There are issues/worries about what happens when an instance goes away, where’s that content go? Duplicate/fragmented communities on multiple instances.
I’m more worried about losing the CONTENT that we created on Reddit, etc as a historic/research tool if reddit fails completely. Lot of content with people helping others.
I see/saw a lot of talk about wiping your data before leaving… I’m sure if that happened in larg volumes, they have backups of that content. No idea what legal ramifications there are with restoring them though.
I’m in a wait and see, but w/o RIF I’m gonna be hard pressed to use reddit on my phone, and if old. Goes away that might end it for me.
I’m more worried about losing the CONTENT that we created on Reddit
There are Reddit JSON dumps, I saw one yesterday.
I’m in a wait and see, but w/o RIF I’m gonna be hard pressed to use reddit on my phone
I’m using Jerboa, it looks pretty good IMO when you set the view to “list”.
FYI: A shitload of people started helping with the Lemmy codebase on GitHub, it was awesome seeing the community coming together.
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
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.
So many times in the past few months I would open reddit, stare at the 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.
Fuck technofascists
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.
Not going to lie. This all feels like Google+ to me. The communities and networks are all over the place
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
I’m permanently suspended anyway, there’s no way back. They somehow find me if I create a new account lol
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.
A bit. Reddit has been a big part of my life for over a decade. If I lost access to all of those communities, it would be really unfortunate and hard to accept. I’ll miss being able to get amazing advice or insightful comments just by adding “reddit” to my google search.
I think the spirit of Reddit will live on though, I doubt that everyone will just vanish and we’ll all be stuck on subpar platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tiktok.
I’m really excited about the possibility of the new “Reddit” being a federated, self-hostable platform like Lemmy, and solving these periodic exodii issues once and for all! No more dictators deciding the direction the community should go. I’m really impressed with what Lemmy has accomplished so far with its code and its community.
Just speaking for myself, I find absolutely no interest in those platforms you mention: they do not show any really depth if you know what I mean. I love going around various sublemmies (if that’s the word) and discussing these absolute niches.
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 have really been diving deep into a lot of niche hobbies and Redd** had such a great community for them. I have no problem starting over for the sake of justice, but it is going to take a long time to build them up.
Preach. I get that entirely.
I’ve been trying to jump for a long time now, I used tildes for a while, but it just didn’t have enough content I’m interested in. Now it seems lemmy is gaining enough steam to be my primary social media.
Reddit really peaked with the Obama ama. After that it was all downhill, the place grew too quickly to keep its culture.
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 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.
Hey RickyRigatoni, nice to meet you :)
