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.
No, actually, I used reddit just to pass time, never really engaged in the community, and without this whole debacle I wouldn’t have found out about lemmy and the fediverse as a whole, which is really exciting and a new part of the internet (for me) that feels like a breath of fresh air after years of everything being so centralized around very few companies, I’m getting a vibe of the internet from 15-20 years ago, exploring the wild west of the internet.
I’m getting the same retro vibe, for so long I’ve been missing how cool and simple things used to be, the fediverse sounds really amazing and a more futuristic way of engaging online.
However, I indeed miss the old reddit since I was an active member and also all the lost karma lol.
It’s probably unhealthy to have such an attachment to fake internet points that do literally nothing.
I guess for me Reddit lasted longer and grew bigger than I expected it to, so I see this as a natural progression. It grew much further than it had any right to, I think.
My only trepidation comes from the niche communities on Reddit that I loved and whether they’ll transfer over to the fediverse. /R/woodworking for instance has some of the most supportive, pleasant users I’ve ever interacted with.
Hopefully it won’t be long before such communities exist here too
I don’t exactly have such a huge attachment but for 4 years of using reddit as a silent lurker, I only ever started posting and gaining karma last month… i got about 9k since then so yeah… having to restart is draining a bit… but like you said, it doesn’t really matter.
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.
This is vet much the case for me atlest. I’ve posted/commented more in the last 2 or 3 days here than i did the the last 2-3 months on reddit.
Hey RickyRigatoni, nice to meet you :)
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.
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. :-)
Nah
Lemmy feels similar enough
I experienced Reddit taking over BBs, Facebook taking over MySpace, the death of Netlog…so much change and I’m too young to have experienced BBS and Usenet in their prime even
It always expected reddit going to shit at some point. Commercial platform without open standards = pain once management makes poor strategic decisions
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.
With how good the third party apps were, probably yes, to be very honest.
I love the browser version of lemmy but the app available simply isn’t good enough. I hope the third party reddit app devs make one for lemmy as well!
This is my hope too. For Lemmy to be successful we need third party apps that are just as high quality as the Reddit ones were. The desktop version is good, but most people want a great app, myself included.
Man, I’m grieving a little. Anger, denial, the whole gamut really.
Mostly anger tbh. We all knew it was coming, once they started moving towards an IPO, but I think we hoped that it wouldn’t be this bad. The way spez handled it all makes it even worse. Just shitting on all the mods and users that made the IPO possible in the first place.
It would not surprise me if there’s something in the news about a bunch of angry ex redditors going project mayhem on him. The whole “do not fuck with us” thing kinda fits here, and there are some crazy people on reddit
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.
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
Not really, I mean, yeah, my equivalent reddit account is 15 years old, is karma rich, one of my comments was added to reddits filing to the FCC in favor of net neutrality (hey, how does this new policy comport with net neutrality BTW?), and I’ve been added to a bunch of the special/high karma subs…
But what it boils down to is reddit has become hostile to me as a user. They don’t want my traffic? My top 1% of karma accounts? That’s cool.
Fark->Digg->Reddit-> Lemmy or something else.When your business model is user supplied links to user generated content in user created and moderated forums, that means your business model is INFINITELY replaceable.
Just getting my feet wet with Lemmy and Jerboa, let’s see how this shakes out.
I miss Fark. The Photoshop comps were incredible and the banter there was good, although hard to follow with the comment threads.
Not at all, I wanted to leave reddit since Tencent bought their shares. Lemmy seems almost ready now. Good enough not to look back.
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Meh, forums can be social, at least I’ve been in some that were. Reddit was special in this regard I think. I didn’t really check whom I was replying to and it didn’t matter. It was the topic and the discussion and the Monty Python jokes, never the person.
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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.
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.
I miss how easy it is to find everything, even things that are very niche. Yes i’m talking about porn stuff
The thing that’s missing here most is the niche communities (I’m talking about like the ended 10 years ago tv shows and people are still posting about them). On the other hand, I noticed while most countries have 1 or 2 communities, my country already has at least 7 for specific locations and people still want to make more so it feels very much like home already
