Does everybody thinks that this migration is gonna change peoples mind about not using Reddit anymore ? Here’s hoping.
@ersanmartin Honestly probably not, but it doesn’t immediately have to either. In my opinion it’s already a viable alternative to Reddit, so that’s already a win.
Kbin & Lemmy (and others) can just keep developing and maturing as a platform, while Reddit keeps making bad decisions in the future because you know they will, and it’ll be there, for those who want to come over.
Nah its already transitioned from “hope this protest changes their minds so we can go back” to “im excited to see this place replace them completely”
A million or more people leaving will not have that big of an effect on its own, no. Since most of the people who left were the people who actually cared though will eventually make a difference. Everything that’s wrong with Reddit now is going to get 10 times worse. Popular subs will be overrun with trolls and spam. Mods won’t care anymore since no one apparently cared about the work they did. Eventually it will turn into a marketing tool for shitty bands to sell albums, and scammers to rip people off like Myspace did so long ago.
It might take a year or two or even 5 before it is unrecognizable, and that will be now Reddit ends. No one will care by then. It probably won’t even make the news
I just want this place to be a new home. Don’t care what others do as long as enough people are making content here.
This feels much more like what the internet should be. Not the realm of giant advertising companies.
Agreed. I don’t see it as an either/or issue. If this place becomes a cool place to hang out and find cool things and cool people, then that is a win.
Yea I didn’t join reddit because everyone was there, I joined because I found it fun and enjoyable. For me, the quality of the site had been on the decline for awhile but this latest mess was the straw that broke the camels back.
At the moment, lemmy seems to be full of people who care about genuine interaction.
🤷♂️… Let’s just make ourselves a comfortable place here.
Exactly. I don’t care if Reddit is used or not as long as the Fediverse remains a worthwhile alternative.
I suspect that it’s too early to tell as yet. i’ve noticed some instability since the lemmy.world update (my home instance) but have noticed similar weirdness on other instances of the same version of lemmy.
Lemmy is still young and at an early development stage. With the huge number of new users and content generated the code is being pushed to it’s limits and bugs are popping up.
But this influx of users brings also new people to help out with the development.
I don’t care.
I already like this place, so it’s done its job as far as I’m concerned.
all we need is the tech for reddit websites to be spread far and wide and easy for anyone to replicate. thus will end fascist censorship and will give rise to the New Internet Age!!! Somewhere along the way Covid26 arrives, tsunamis and geostorms, Elon dies horribly, China invades Taiwan, Putin fires off nukes and humanity’s extinction becomes certain. Then the Aliens invade.
I genuinely hope so. I think it’s a great foundation so far
Hopefully more people come over naturally over the next few weeks and months. It’ll probably never have the 400+m user reach that Reddit has, but getting 100k - 1m active users seems pretty attainable.
I think for a lot of us, it will be a long time before we fully abandon it. I’ll personally probably always use it as an information source.
I stopped logging in to my account though, I deleted the links from my bookmarks, I got rid of RES, and I obviously deleted the apps from my phone. It’s no different from something like Quora to me now. I’ll go there if it has the answer to the question I need, but I’m not scrolling when bored and I’m not helping anyone with problems on it or sharing useful/interesting items on it.
The important thing for me is that I’m not contributing to the platform. Maybe, others will do the same.
@ersanmartin I set up my account here during the shutdown protests because I was an Apollo user and before then Reddit was just getting worse. There isn’t anything there that I need and I didn’t feel like sticking around while f u/spez trashed the place so he can cash out and buy his island. On the one hand, I’m not anti-corporate per se but he can monetize someone else. Looking forward, I’m still figuring out Kbin and the fediverse but it feels very refreshing and new. As someone said, its like when the internet was new and great that there are communities that are being established from the ground up and people will, over time, be attracted to that.
For me it’s not about changing other peoples minds, it’s more about creating a viable alternative to reddit for the right people.
Reddit should deal with hateful people and those who are unwilling to challenge themselves to look over the edge.
I’ve been waiting forever for a viable Reddit alternative. Reddit started going to shit a very long time ago. Going to non-corporate internet is a breath of fresh air, bugs and all.
For older guys like me, this place is familiar, though it’s been a very, very long time. I’m wondering how younger users are reacting to it.
It really does feel like going back to a simpler time on the web (in the best way) but with a few modern twists.
I could not care either way. I came here to try a new site, but the constant barrage of meta-reddit posts is kind of ruining it.
Like, yeah, I get it. I had a lot of communities that I’m going to miss, too. But the way past that is to build new comunities here and forget about the old site, not obsess about its downfall like a clingy ex.
Agreed. I didn’t come here to prove a point or get back at Reddit’s CEO or change how people use that site. I can here to be a part of something that is hopefully better. What happens to other sites and anyone who chooses to use them isn’t really my concern.
I’m fucking stoked to see so many people like me (who are pissed at how corporations fuck their own product just to make more money) migrate over here. For once I feel like I actually have a way to “protest” corporations and their greed. I know the vast majority of Reddit users didn’t care, but I know many of us are here to break free from all of that tomfoolery. Just happy to be apart of it. Don’t know how long it will last, but I’m hoping that it does.
For once I feel like I actually have a way to “protest” corporations and their greed.
I’m poor AF and can’t afford to “protest with my wallet”, but leaving reddit because of their actions was a no brainer for me (even tho I never moderated or used an app).
I’m also sick of their bullshit algorithms and the whole engagement strategy of amplifying hate.
I’m just here. Cause Apollo is dead :(
me too, but i think im honestly done with reddit. i miss a lot of my niche communities but I created lemmy versions of some and I’m cross posting some top posts from reddit just to get things going a bit.
i see a lot of possibilities with lemmy, there are already some great apps being made (my fave rn is memmy, not quite native ios like apollo, but has a really polished look and gestures feel natural it’s easy to get the hang of)
Yea I’m using Memmy myself. I have never not hated the Reddit app so I’m also done with Reddit as a whole
their app is truly god awful
i downloaded that first after apollo died just to give it a shot, but it felt like a giant ad
sponsored posts everywhere, premium features plastered all over, i felt like there were micro transactions just to use it
the website isn’t too bad with adblocker, but after what they pulled with Christian and Apollo, I’m just done.
I thought I used Reddit a lot, but I’ve been rummaging around here waaaaay more than I ever did there.
It’s been driving me nuts for days, but I literally JUST figured it out…
It reminds me of freshman year in college. Everyone is turbo-social and extra considerate. Maybe that’s partly from not knowing who is who, or maybe even not remembering if you’ve met the person you’re talking to because you met so many new people. Everything was fresh and new, and there was that feeling of starting a new journey. Lots of confusion and chaos, but everyone was understanding (“Oh, you’re a freshman. Let me show you…”).
That’s a good way of putting it. It’s really refreshing for people to act polite and give benefit of the doubt. I know that the honeymoon period won’t last forever. But when the dust settles I hope it stays a happier place than Reddit.
