I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
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Yeah for sure. I was on reddit for 13 years, there were users I recognised by name, people I was friendly with, people I’d have intense debates with, many, many, many subreddits I loved.
But nothing lasts forever, and this place seems nice so here’s to new beginnings 🍻
Same exact situation here. Been on reddit since digg v4 happened. Reddit was far from perfect, but for the most part I enjoyed my time there. If this is the end of reddit, then so be it. Lemmy/Beehaw looks like it can grow into a good replacement.
Heres to new beginnings!! 💖🥳🥳
It kinda feels like this whole mess is giving me permission to leave. Like when you know that you are in an unhealthy relationship but don’t know how to get out of it and suddenly your partner says that maybe you should start seeing other people.
And you actually hope your ex actually does start seeing other people so you aren’t tempted to return like you always do.
I mourn what it was, yes.
There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech issues and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after a tech resource post was made.
And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. Not only that, but it’s one of the few places that exists on the web where cohesive and coherent discussions even exist. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge. I sincerely hope lemmy can take its place, but there are going to be some major growing pains if we get big influx of “redfugees.”
It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.
___Oddly enough I feel like I’m going to miss the UX from boost more than the subreddits themselves. Even the better ones have so much negativity in the comment sections that there’s no point in participating in the conversations, even with the wealth of content compared to Lemmy currently.
Looking forward to the growth from Lemmy apps such as Jerboa and Mlem.
Also a boost user. Also mourning the UX it delivered more than the subreddits.
also redreader since that will be getting support for lemmy and other social medias soon besides reddit
Reddit was a part of my life for almost 11 years. I am 22 and some of my first posts on Reddit were short stories I had written and posted to r/movies for opinions on whether they would be good as full length films… lol Back then it felt so tight knit and close, like a community. It felt like you had to have some savviness for tech and computers to use it, and really it was like a home to me. A place where I could talk about the weird niche things that i found interesting, and find people like me. What Reddit has become is so far from that, it might as well be twitter or something. Just a billion people all throwing shit around, no community, no friendships, just posts with comments. The magic died and it is sad. This site seems like it might recapture some of what I loved about early Reddit, though. I hope
You started using Reddit at 11? That’s wild!
It’s up to us to make something good then! I’m certainly used to just lurking but my life these past few months have been all about change, time to make something new.
I’m really fucking pissed because reddit is the only forum for a lot of topics. Realistically, I can’t say I’m going to stop using it totally. Like, you can clearly see it is at risk of a tumblr-esque descent. The CEO has repeatedly said they are “fighting” for nsfw content to remain, but I trust 0% of what that guy says considering he’s repeatedly lied, slandered people and freely admits to just trying to get profitable as soon as possible (see latest ama, for the IPO so he can cash out, presumably). If this really is a Tumblr level decline which it remains to be seen if it is, they’ll be in desperate need of more VC cash so porn is as good as gone.
Anyways, I hope some communities start coming over. The blackout is a good protest, but meaningless if there’s no actual action apart from that. Regarding the blackout, I don’t even really give a shit about “saving” Reddit anymore, as they’ve made it very clear they are beyond saving. I just want the same experience with the same level of community somewhere else (fuck capitalism and centralization though)
I agree with you about the communities and forums. Those take years to develop, even with promising options like Lemmy. Reddit became so popular there was a niche community for literally anything you can imagine. I hope the enthusiasm carries over and develops elsewhere/here.
I really hope that Reddit never becomes profitable despite all of their best efforts–at least as long as Steve is running it. He is so unprofessional and does not deserve to cash in. I hope he loses money slowly but surely due to his incompetent decisions, just as Lowtax did at SomethingAwful.
Honestly, yeah. Reddit has been part of my daily routine for 12 years now. Sure, a lot of the content is junk food for the brain, and reddit has changed a lot during that time, but I’ve also learned a lot of cool things and had a lot of interesting conversations there. Lemmy looks promising, but it’s still very nascent. The userbase is small, it’s missing a lot of the niche communities that you can find on reddit, and the tech is glitchy. Overall it feels a lot more like tinier than reddit (which duh, of course it does).
Reddit is also a bad habit that I’ve wanted to reduce for a while now, so maybe this is the shove I needed.
Lemmy did not have the same amount of work as Reddit. I guess it’s like day 1 reddit. But it has potential to grow. Maybe
Honestly, I feel disappointment. What reddit was, or at least how I saw it, is not what was on display for the past few weeks.
But my excitement for new things is awesome! I miss the days of stumbling across new, exciting, and weird sites instead of 1 all powerful site. The feeling of starting something anew is fun, and I’m looking forward to learning how to use and defining what this site is with y’all.
I was part of the Digg migration. I’m part of the Reddit migration. I’ll be part of the next migration.
The impermanence of life.
It’s migration all the way down!
I’ve been using Reddit since around mid-2009 (pre-Digg exodus). In my honest opinion, the signs of decline on Reddit have been bubbling for a while, and that’s forgoing any consideration of operational/executive decisions that have been made along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, Reddit even in 2009 wasn’t a consistent bastion of quality, productive, insightful discussion, and a good amount of posts on the frontpage on a given day were memes (not to say those are inherently “bad” posts; peak f7u12 anyone?). But the discussions that were had were, for the most part, friendly and/or constructive in some meaningful way. Over the years though, as the userbase grew and the site became increasingly “mainstream,” I noticed there was an uptick of either one or both of two things: 1) low effort posts/comments and 2) sheer vitriol in discussions.
When you combine those two things, you get what – in my opinion – is a social media platform with high levels of “engagement” that VCs/execs love to tout and leverage (see Reddit’s recent IPO ambitions), but ultimately, a platform that’s merely a shell of what it once used to be.
As that happened, I found myself using Reddit less as a “fun” social media platform and more as a tool – using it for discussions and/or information about niche hobbies, interests, news topics, etc. While the dominance of forums in that area may have been overtaken by subreddits over the years, I don’t think there was anything particularly unique about what Reddit as a platform was doing to help these sort of communities exist, and I really doubt that Reddit will be the last place these communities can thrive.
Yea kinda. I think Reddit in general is quite amazing. People harp about toxic social media etc, but there’s something truly great about being able to find people of common interests from all around the world.
In general… This is what internet was supposed to be, right.
Plus nobody forces you to deanonymyze yourself. With that comes some pretty cool culture.
Although admittedly I’ve noticed the mood on the whole site being more sour in the past months to a year… But maybe that’s me more than anything.
It’s a shame such a model is apparently not sustainable as a business. Maybe it’s true that there should be public services fulfilling this purpose.
Yeah, I’m slowly becoming convinced that actually useful social media is incompatible with being for-profit.
Reddit isn’t so much killing itself as rather being killed for money.
This is why I hate capitalism. It ruins everything, including the planet and the future.
Pity we can’t have a social media site that’s a public service!
Run by who, your friendly neighborhood local government?
No thank you. I think Lemmy is great. Hopefully it catches on sufficiently for niche communities to really develop.
The fact that it’s a teeny tiny bit more technical than reddit is a nice barrier against utter stupidity.
Governments are at least answerable to the people, or should be. Corporations are answerable to no one except their major stockholders.
As for the learning curve for Lemmy, I think that’s been overemphasized. People can learn. And at the same time feedback from the increasing number of users will help the devs to smooth out the rough edges, making Lemmy easier to use.
I remember when practically nobody knew what the internet was. Now everybody’s walking around with the internet in their pocket, using it all the time.
I feel like reddit dying could be a positive thing for me. For years now I have felt the negative influence that its toxic environment - fueled by impersonal, discordant interactions - had on me. Not to mention the complete destruction of my ability to concentrate caused by the micro dopamine hit targeting of social media UX. I’m hoping that moving to a smaller platform will help with some of that pervasive anger I feel as a result of constant reddit usage.
Really digging (no pun intended) the fediverse vibe so far, so no mourning, but excitement.
Absolutely, me too.
There were good things about Reddit, but I recognized a while ago that it was having a negative impact on my mental health. I had already been trying to use it less. On the other hand for the last few days when the Reddit drama has picked up I’ve found myself scrolling through lemmy more, and not necessarily in the positive participatory way that I’d prefer.
We’ll see how it all shakes out in the medium to long term I guess.
I agree that Lemmy could end up filling the same negative voids that reddit does. I suppose my hope is that by restricting the conversation and limiting bad-faith arguments, there will be less toxicity here relative to reddit.
In the end, addicting us with anger and outrage in order to drive participation and clicks is the end-stage of all social media, and that cat is out of the bag. But perhaps there’s a little temperance that can be found if we don’t see social media foremost as an opportunity to harvest data but as a way to interact and share ideas.
At least Lemmy doesn’t employ secret proprietary algorithm pitting, ad injection, dark patterns to funnel people to the bloated battery draining mobile app, shadowbanning or session tracking techniques. Even if I disagree with the politics of this instance I do appreciate a space to actually discuss without corporate interference in a federated platform. I really really hope this kicks in.
I’m not really “mourning” it, but I had a weird feeling, like the end of a great book (series) or movie, like I wish it would have continued more.
Hiwever after switching to lemmy, the community here seems way more active and friendly, and even though there are less overall users, I get more interaction with my posts and comments, maybe also because they aren’t drowned in a sea of other comments.
I have the same feeling - I feel welcome here even though I spent years on Reddit lurking. I’m not mourning Reddit however as I’ve watched its slow decline over the years. Here’s to many happy years on Lemmy!
I don’t mourn Reddit, but I am sad that it’s another example of the commoditization and corporatization of the modern internet.
Hopefully federated networks, P2P protocols, and FOSS software/frameworks are able to provide a robust and healthy web going forward into the future. The era of the free general internet is over, has probably been for a long time honestly. Now if massive companies want to stay afloat in that space, they will need to make huge profits. Everything as you are seeing nowadays, is being monetized and centralized.
Maybe this truly is late stage Capitalism and the collapse of it all is on the horizon, idk. But as long as I have an internet connection and things I am interested in doing on there, I will be trying to resist the corpos as long as I can.
Long live the free and open internet!
(PS, power to the users, and I can and do contribute to the products and services I use from these wonderful people in our communities <3)
Yeah. Reddit has been my internet home since 2012. It’s surreal and depressing to see it so far gone. Still unsure where I will go next, but lemmy feels familiar at least.
