hotdogSad to see Reddit go
I'm glad to see genuine and honest posts. Seems to be a lack of robots (for the time being).
Beep. Boop. Reddit is great!
Kidding, Lemmy has been pretty awesome and I haven't even felt the need to look back.
I have deleted all my reddit bookmarks :(
For sure, but what makes Reddit special are the users, the content, and the discussions. The admins add no value.
We can recreate the communities in a distributed and federated way so that we never find ourselves in the same situation again.
Hear hear!
Convict45Pretty sure community admins add value in well run subs, but I take your point.
Those are moderators, not admins. The moderators add a ton of value, both on Reddit and here.
The admins (Reddit corporate employees) do not add value.
This. One thousand percent - this.
We are ground floor. Be active! Make this the community you want it to be!
I'm feeling pretty good about Lemmy, honestly. I wasn't sure how I was going to fill my downtime, but this and mastodon may just pan out for me
It’s still hard to transition ! Especially with a lack of good apps on mobile (at least iOS). It’s only the beginning
PS : It’s my first comment on Lemmy (yay!)
Exactly. Reddit had the most comprehensive and fleshed out (third party) apps of any other similar platform that I know of. But with the exodus, I'm really hoping we can all breathe some life into some of the apps that we do have access to that weren't getting as much attention
GreenCrushHave you tried using the mobile site? App selection on Android isn't the best but the mobile site is actually pretty good.
calhoon2005Jerboa on Android seems pretty easy to use so far.
ScaldartYeah! I'm still new to everything here, but nothing has yet broken to the point of un-usability. That's more than I can say for the official Reddit app. Lol.
Same here. If I can't use a 3rd party app to smooth over Reddit's shit-filled cracks then I'm done with it. Jerboa seems ok so far. I've also signed up for a Mastodon account, awaiting approval, so I may end up using Fedilab
You'll have to find me again sometime to let me know how Mastodon works for you! I've considered it, but I was never really that big into social media, except for Reddit. Twitter was never appealing to me, so I guess I may have some bias there, but at the same time I'd like to get more involved with the fediverse as a whole.
Best of luck to you!
SanguineParthe mobile site is actually pretty good.
It is, and I'm thinking about using it via the app Hermit - it's really just a wrapper for the site, but it gives you a bit more of an app-like experience (its own icon, a customisable sidebar, various visual customisations).
I already use it for a football forum I frequent, and honestly I sometimes forget that it's not a native app.
I'm writing this on Jerboa, and it's pretty good, but I'm going to see if Hermit can match or better it.
randomnickHello from Hermit. It works amazingly well, I'm liking it better than Jerboa
Nice one! I've not yet really tried it for Lemmy, Jerboa's still doing the job for me, but I will do at some point. Glad it's working out for you :-)
TugExcept for the constant pestering to use the app that has been going on since about September last year. It's why I went to Relay
A lot of former Digg users felt the same way when they transitioned to reddit back in the day. It was a new and scary ecosystem, but it quickly became natural to use.
Digg proved that the switching costs to a new link-sharing platform are incredibly low. Huffman is about to find out just how low those switching costs are. He's right in the storm-eye of his Digg v4 moment, and probably only his resignation and complete re-work of the API plans can save the Reddit that was.
Reddit is dead, long live Fediverse.
Are you using Mlem on iOS? I keep switching back and forth between the mobile site and mlem. Not sure which I like better at the moment.
I just started using it, obviously needs more features but I like it more than the mobile page, I kept getting weird little glitches and losing my place in the page
I’m using mlem right now (you need to TestFlight it), and while being rough around the edges, it’s got potential, and it’s already better than the mobile web ui of Lemmy
TalosSame, I've been there since 2012. It's my go-to site for mostly everything and it's difficult to not click on that Reddit bookmark in my browser. This place is a bit empty right now but I'm hoping the blackout and people leaving Reddit will increase the traffic. I also joined Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, so I'm all aboard the Federated train!
At least this place is easy to use if you are already familiar with Reddit, just have to adjust to using different servers instead of having everything in one central place.
agree with all the sentiments here.
but imho think we'd have to agree that the dangers of one corp entity controlling a whole social media platfor (with twitter first and now reddit) are pretty clear.
our communities will coalesce again somewhere but until then we should adopt the spirit of curiosity and just enjoy these new experiences ❤️
AstrealixThis is just the evolution of forums, ngl. We've moved from dislocated hobby groups to a consolidated place where anyone can find the forum they need, to realising the problem with pure consolidation.
If former redditors join here, it's not like actually leaving.
AdmiralSnackbarThe all-purpose contingency plan?
FalconTheBerdLet’s just hope the blackout works, spez sucks
Blackout needs to be longer than 1-2 days to really be effective. Fuck /u/spez.
Most of the subs I know of that are going dark are doing a week.
I've seen several going indefinite, a few going a week or so, and the vast majority only committing to 48 hours. Even then, though, many of those are open to extending it.
I suppose we shall see.
The problem will be that, at least for the major subs, Reddit may just kick the current mods off and install others who will not continue the protest. It'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.
The Reddit owners seem committed to their course, so I don't think it matters how long the blackout is on that front, but a 1-2 day blackout will bring the issue to the attention to more users, prompting more of them to move to other communities and giving those communities enough traffic to be active.
Reddit is doomed. Nothing will change that at this point. The focus needs to be on building the communities that will replace it.
0x4E4FIf the blackout works, Lemmy is fucked 😂.
Well, maybe. Maybe fucked for the time being. But part of me thinks the cat is now out of the bag. If Reddit doesn’t end up shutting in everyone now, surely they will at some point later down the line.
Exactly, this may not work. If it doesn’t, they’re gonna do something else that’s gonna ruin them for good.
I don't think that will happen. Eventually, it will trun more into a microblogging platform, like FB or Twitter and this wil cater to the needs of your average Joe. It will lose some of it's userbase, but most communities will stay on it.
CifrareVerbaAlready left Twitter for Mastodon when Elon Musk purchased it. I don't feel bad for leaving Reddit behind, nor do I feel sad. Spez has shown how incompetent he is both as a CEO and a person. I feel bad for the app devs, though.
I’m the same but still occasionally check Twitter because most of the people I follow are not on mastodon. There’s just not enough for me to engage there.
And Reddit was my main source of news so it’s difficult to leave behind. I’ve spent the past couple days browsing here to find similar things but again, not nearly enough engagement for me to fully drop Reddit. It will be a slow transition and I just need to remind myself that I was a Reddit user for 12 years and it was a similarly slow transition back then too
featureIt sucks for sure. My Reddit account just became old enough to get a learner’s permit, but it’s the users that make the platform.
namesare4squaresI dunno... I'm excited to be here instead of there. It's something fresh and new.
The content will follow. And frankly, I'd rather talk with a handful of people than a hive mind.
I remember what Reddit was like a decade ago. I'm excited to try something that -- at least in some small way -- feels like that did.
Agree with the hive mind thing. Im hoping this would be like smaller communities where you get to communicate with actual people and have moderate opinions rather than only extremes one way or the other upvoted to the top
How would people feel about posting their most upvoted OC from Reddit onto kbin/lemmy? It could be a good way to promote engagement for the first little while. We could have a tag for it or something?
earthlingI'm working on archiving and then removing my data from Reddit. I then plan to post that content in relevant... I want to say subs but that makes no sense anymore. I guess relevant magazines?
It is tragic. But on the plus side I think this transition will be a lot smoother than trying to leave twitter since here you don't have to individually find everyone you want to follow, just show up at the proper forums.
uhauljoeidk, i'm having kind of a hard time. i have a lot of niche subs on reddit that don't seem to be on lemmy. i feel like i did when i first started reddit and just saw all the default pics/music/gaming subs
Well it can't solve that stuff just not existing, but I think it's easier to find your preferred subs once they exist than all your old twitter contacts on a new site
SyoYou can still use Reddit, just now many users have a motivation to diversify their information platforms. Fediverse does that, and only ask that your new content, discussions, and questions be added in the fediverse instead. To help growth here.
For example, I curious about SFF PC building and, yup, Reddit already had a sub for that. If I have future questions I'll just post them on /m/technology instead.
All great things must come to an end, and reddit is no exception
All of the subreddits I frequent all stated they're closing the subreddits down and deleting their accounts so there's no reason for me to be on Reddit anymore and I can't justify staying on the platform when Reddit is acting the way it is.
It's sad still, but now I'm trying to learn about fediverse and try new things.
NepentheSame for me. If they follow through shutting down, I'll have one whole sub left out of dozens I've found over the years. And while it's nice, it's nothing I won't be able to find here. Feels super weird to have no reason to use Reddit anymore, but the end of an era always feels weird.
Worst part is all the subs I really liked but didn't participate in myself, so I'm stuck waiting for someone else to start them up because I have no content of my own.
cypsMan, Ive been on reddit since the beginning. Watched it grow and change. These things are always bittersweet but honestly I never thought it would last this long.
My internet history is litered with relics. All the way back to the phpbb web forums, irc servers, aim/aol chatrooms, and the BBSs before them.
CosmicSploogeDrizzleDamn, where the hell should we go?
You've already made the journey. You are here!
I remember Digg before Reddit.
I remember Slashdot.