After 15 years of using Reddit, I was finally getting comfortable with Boost.
I knew this time would come, because corporations got to corporate... but it's still annoying.
I hope enough people come over to give Lemmy critical mass.
Been using Lemmy for a few hours and I'm already getting the hang of it. I don't know how big it'll get because general audiences don't understand how it all works, they don't understand FOSS in general, and it's new and unfamiliar and people always prefer familiarity. Also, I think users are going to want an app. I think you have to cater to the iOS crowd if you want serious growth.
I think if you're unfamiliar with something, the best way to learn is to dive right in. It's how I figured out how to use Reddit. It's how I learned Linux and Bash. It's how I got good in Excel. It's how I got good at most of the things I'm good at.
Reddit will act to protect itself. It can't force users to use it, but I get the feeling dissenting mods will be removed and the blackouts won't last. I hope they do, but I'm not holding my breath. And I'm not going back, even if the blackouts do end on user-favorable terms. Fuck Reddit. Fuck the IPO. Steve can get rekt.
Boost was a spectacular 3P Reddit app. But I'm already liking Lemmy. So I'm sticking around for the long term. And I'm pretty certain I'm deleting my Reddit account at the end of the month.
If we build it they will come...
I'm witnessing a slow death of my beloved RIF. If they're killing it, I'm going down with that ship. I think spez solidified my choice with the Q&A.
I went back to see who was participating in the blackout and who wasn't. A lot of subreddits aren't that I had followed. I have been slowly but surely unsubcribing from all subreddits that still have posts barring things like the Ukraine subreddit where it's obviously really important for that one to still be active.
Once all that is done... I'm not going to have a reason to go back. I think this is the best way. I may salvage some of my old posts and repost them here where relevant. Then deactivate my account forever.
I don't agree with the direction of the internet. I think I need to practice what I preach and this in my opinion is the right way to go about it.
I'm with you, I've been using RiF around a decade now. I'll probably occasionally use old.reddit if I need help with a google search, but it won't be something I reflexively check anymore. I hope all the fragmented communities can find each other again on here.
It's pretty simple. Reddit as a company seems to have been on a path for years where they have done everything they possibly can to make the site more corporate at the expense of Reddit as a community.
I've been on Reddit for years (I deleted at least two accounts before sticking with my now 14-year-old account). To put it in context, my Reddit account is older than my child, who has his own Reddit account.
There were a lot of things on Reddit that I found annoying but it was easy to ignore. I was saddened by the way they fired Victoria and unfairly blamed it on Ellen Pao, and the effects of those decision s including the noticeable degradation in quality and corpoatization of AMA posts.
I also hated how blatant advertising and astroturfing kept showing up more and more and did not like the way practically everything turned into politics and divisiveness in a more recent era.
But again, most of that was pretty easy to avoid and I could just stick to my little niche subreddits that I liked, ignore the rest of the content, and view the site and a format I like because I could use a third party app. I never really cared for new Reddit and especially hated the official Reddit app, and with that being gone and ads and chat being forced on me, I'm done with it.
I agree with you on all these points. I'd also add that the amount of bot interaction and manipulation has increased to a point where it felt a lot of the communities were meaningfully less real over the last couple of years. Makes it a lot less fun.
Haven't left reddit yet, I am waiting to see how the blackout goes.
I am more in a situation of dipping my goes in both ponds. I very much like Lemmy but I am still skeptical about its future. I have hope and am trying to be active here and participate in making it alive.
Ditto -- I haven't left reddit yet (although I'm going to make a genuine go at using primarily / only Lemmy for the next couple of weeks to support the blackout).
With enough scale, Lemmy could give reddit a run for its money in terms of content. At the same time, Lemmy still has a lot of work to do on UI, tools and features to be apples to apples with reddit. We'll need to make a lot of progress quickly here for a lot of us inbetweeners to come over fully.
Came here to post the same. We'll see what will happen.
I don't like how reddit it shifting to be a corporate monitored discussion site. I'm okay with reddit being a company, it takes money to run the servers, but they have begun to hinder the accessibility of the users for their own benefit. I'm sure they have done it in the past, but this time shows how little they care about us and how much they are in it only for the money. Now they are censoring and manipulating posts to look better. I don't stand by that.
I figure reddit is going to get real shitty with the mass exodus, and I wanted to familiarize myself with a new social media app rather than watch my time waster from the last 6 years go down the toilet
Also I struggle with an eating disorder and continually got ads about intermittent fasting that were extremely triggering. I kept reporting them and they kept appearing in one way or another. So it really wasn't hard to convince me to delete that shit
I noticed that I'm not bound by any social media in specific (just WhatsApp and Discord for family and friends), just by the need to scroll something and see some things of interest. And I would rather scroll away at this site. It is calmer and people are more friendly.
I wanted to join Reddit this week, and found it was going into "interesting times". So I joined Lemmy instead.
Thanks for coming! I just joined as well and am really enjoying myself. There's definitely enough for me here to entertain myself and it might only grow larger and broader. I think about it this way - I believe there's a higher chance that Lemmy will go through a "golden age" as opposed to Reddit which seems to be way past its own.
Yeah, the Reddit golden age was like 2010-2015ish imo. That's when they started with their current monetization direction from what I remember seeing.
Hoho cool dude , greetings:D
They killed Apollo, the standard Reddit Client on iOS is unusable and also I have an issue supporting a lying piece of garbage.
Boost was Reddit for me
Same for me, I loved Boost I hope they migrate to Lemmy or something.
API changes will probably kill Relay. Even if they don't, want to quit out of principal (principle?).
Anyway, nice to meet y'all. Hope this takes off.
Principle* - I always have to sit and think about it for a second, myself
It's apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn't appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.
I totally agree with you, I don't see any reason Reddit shouldn't get paid for the usage of their API, but this draconian policy, along with all the other awful things they're doing to their userbase just makes it not worth supporting anymore. If there was some sort of negotiation or some form of compromise then at least there might be hope for the platform.
A lot of reasons, but the third party apps was the final straw.
I only want to use third party apps to browse reddit, infinity is awesome. Also I read that reddit is trying to force people to use their app by blocking them from accessing reddit on their mobile browser. Fuck 'em.
Yeah that change to block people from using the mobile website is just evil.
I left Reddit after the hypocrisy coming from the leadership at Reddit and with their decisions. After the AMA from Spez, it was the final nail in the coffin for my decision to leave Reddit, instead of taking accountability and owning up to their mistakes, they had completely attempted to justify their actions and seeing the developers' work go down the drain was heartbreaking, and I stand in solidarity with them. Even though I might be some minor spec to the entirety of Reddit, I still feel it's important to stand up for the community, even if it doesn't matter to them.
Like many others in the past few days, because of their recent decisions. Plus i am a huge fan of FOSS, so knowing that Lemmy is a good federated open source alternative, it is a big plus compared to Reddit.
I'm right there with you, I've been upset with Reddit for a long time, and finally pulled the plug after the straw broke my back with the ridiculous API decision.
I haven't fully left yet. I'll probably hang onto my account for a bit.
I liken it to a train wreck. I'm so pissed at /u/spez and the decline of the site, but I still KINDA wanna see where it goes.
Iβm in a similar boat. Playing a wait and see game, but looking at what alternatives are out there and whether they jump out to me.
Heard about Lemmy maybe a few months ago as Mastodon started to gain more awareness and figured itβd be a prime option to look into.
Same here, although the more I use Lemmy, the more I like it, so if Reddit does somehow redeem itself I'll probably just end up using both. Not very optimistic about that though.
I was on Reddit for a long time. I think I first joined around 2006 and made the full switch sometime around the Digg migration.
The site has been in decline for years now so I stopped caring what they do awhile ago.
Simple: They killed Apollo and are a bunch of lying asshats that have no sense left in them. Unless they come to their senses Iβm not using it anymore, as much as I loved the communities.
I haven't left Reddit. I'm here for now to see if there's any sense of community and if I can engage with Lemmy the same way I do with Reddit.
With third party clients gone, if I stay on Reddit I will be subject to their awful UI and ad experience, plus the experience designed to keep me scrolling for days. No thanks!
Lemmy seems pretty cool so far. I like that when I open the comment section, there isn't already three or four people saying what I was going to say
Baconreader or bust
Hell yeah brother!
Havenβt left yet, but plan to once Apollo bites the dust. I dislike what spez said about Christian, as well as what heβs doing to 3pa.
Knew this was coming, so hopped over here for an alternative. Have had a bunch of communities been following for a couple years. I hope this takes off, love seeing all the different opinions people have on topics. This is my first post!
If you can't find a community that you love, create it yourself!
That's the things, the learning curve for a lot of reddit users I reckon most of us aren't creators or even comment much so now we kind of have to unlearn that and learn to be proactive. Is fun , is scary and I am kind of digging it so far. Being called a Lemmings is a cute bonus
I am about 75% off of Reddit. I'm waiting for a community that is equivalent to r/Ukraine and r/Ukraineconflict, and need to purge my posts and comments still.
Once the 3rd Party Apps are dead, I won't have much of a choice, since I use Infinity.
Haven't fully left yet, just waiting for data request exports to come in then I'm out since I already got the communities I'm in setup and wiped my posts, but pretty much what you'd expect.
I used Infinity as opposed to Apollo but same idea applies, I only ever used that or old.reddit, never the new site, so those going away was already a deal breaker for me, but their recent actions beyond that just further motivated me to go full speed ahead on this.
I'm still lurking in case of any interesting communities that could go here, I spotted about 5 different cat sub's I can list for that, and I'm still waiting on my data to get sent over, but after that then I'm gone for good.
I also haven't quite left yet, but I've been feeling for a long time that the quality of reddit is going down. I've been heavily using reddit since around 2011, and maybe this is just my rose colored nostalgia glasses, but I felt like pre-2016 and the T_D era, I was much more engaged in interesting conversation on various topics, and nowadays I mainly just mindlessly surf r/all looking at memes and what not, and only very rarely find those really interesting in-depth threads that I feel like used to be more common. Additionally, it feels like reddit is growing increasingly more corporate, I remember when you would often see r/hailcorporate links under anything that even vaguely hinted at astroturfed advertising, and now you see not so subtle ads disguised as posts everywhere (and I don't mean the ones coming from reddit). I'm hoping that I can find that old reddit feel here, and I'm currently really enjoying the excitement of discovering something new, even the apprehension of navigating a platform I don't fully understand. I don't want to sound elitist, but I'm hoping the barrier to entry prevents Lemmy from growing too quickly and becoming like reddit all over again, but not so much that this exodus dies like others have in the past.
Reddit is going to become the new Facebook. All the people that are sick of their shit will leave and the rest will stay there and rot with the platform. I don't particularly want those who would stay there anyway.
IΒ΄ve been feeling like leaving reddit for a while. It has been going down hill in almost every possible way. The main thing keeping me was that all the people and content were there but IΒ΄m hoping now enough people are leaving so that there is content and people elsewhere (here).
Recent API changes, of course. I don't think they would have affected me directly, since I only ever used Firefox on desktop or Android to browse the site (ublock made for a much more tolerable experience). But in principle, I'm much more on the side of users trying to shitpost in peace than I am on the side of a company experimenting with new and exciting approaches to wealth extraction.
If Reddit goes down, figuratively or literally, users will need somewhere else to go. I'm hoping that jumping ship early and trying to build community elsewhere will help make it easier for others to join in later. Network effect and all that.
I left due to the issues with using Apollo. i was a major fan of the app and knowing it will be going dark soon for use, I think it was time for me to leave. Plus I've noticed since cutting reddit out of my daily routine it has significantly improved my mental health.
Yup. The Apollo app was one of the best. Reddit did the devs wrong big time with their API shenanigans.
Iβve only been on LW for less than a day, and I like it.
Same here, it's made me realize just how often I would open Apollo. I remember joining the Apollo beta before it launched. I reflexly tap the spot where the app was on my phone and then I realize it's not there to scratch that itch. I hope I get that mental health improvement you got!
I haven't wiped my accounts of comments and posts yet, but intend to do so on June 30th, then delete them. I'll still browse old.reddit.com until that goes away, then I'm out. Their new UI sucks, their first party app sucks... I just want a link aggregator and comment section that is purely text based. Lemmy is that.
Because we shut it down.
Haven't fully left yet, but I'm definitely starting to look for alternatives with the ongoing shitstorm.
Less time on Mobile Reddit will likely be a good thing for me anyway.
I haven't fully left reddit yet, but I'm more wary about going there, not because I hate using the first-party app and new UI, I've become accustomed to them. But because of how Reddit is handling the API debacle right now. They're willing to make unsavory decisions and double down on them despite widespread user distaste, going as far as to (defame?) an indie developer, and that makes me distrust the future decisions reddit will make on their platform.
- π Con reddit: Buggy web page on desktop. It always asks me to use the app on mobile. No thanks.
- π Pro: Lemmy: fast loading web page, no banners. It works.
i like being at the forefront of new things
As someone who still misses newsgroups, because Lemmy is Reddit done right - decentralised social media where we can control our own data and our own servers, and where corporate fuckers aren't trying to "monetise" us by showing us ads or manipulating our feeds and emotions.
I haven't left yet. I am sticking til the end of the month. My favorite 3rd party app is going to be no, so fuck Reddit. I am not going to be using their app. Maybe the website at first, but I am 99% sure that I am going to bounce on the end of the month.
It was already going the way of Facebook and Twitter for years. I stuck it out because there wasn't any better option. Each time Reddit admins did something stupid and caused chaos, I considered leaving. But the API issue is another level. It's a death blow to anything that's good about the place, and locks in the dystopian future spez and current redditors are choosing.
I exclusively use Reddit through the Infinity app. However, Reddit will soon become inaccessible due to the API change, and I have no intention of using their official app. By the way, I love open source!
Corporate greed has got a real bad stench , and I am not about that life. I will be on reddit until one day I am so use to opening Lemmy instead , until then I guess I will never truly leave reddit.
I didn't leave reddit. I'll still be there after everything's all said and done.
However, I tried their app years ago. It was garbage. Once July 1st rolls around, I'll just use old.reddit.com or RES to use their site. I do most of my reading/posting using boost though, so I'll be using reddit less than before. Once those options go, then I don't see myself using reddit any longer.
I've been a tildes and hacker news user for a few years at this point. If this migration attempt means anything to me, it's to diversify even more. So I'm checking out Lemmy and kbin and I went back to slashdot.
They were stupid and thought they could fuck with 3rd party apps. Infinity actually still works but I already switched.
Smells of a crusting company trying to sit on its laurels and work for itself rather than support its communities.
I originally left back during the pedo admin stuff
Cos I am petty!
