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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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Bye Reddit
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A memorial for the front page of the internet. If you have left reddit or is considering leaving then this community is for you.
There’s also a blog documenting the rise and fall of reddit as well as news and thoughts on the whole issue.
It serves as an archive for posts and topics in case reddit decides to delete anti-reddit posts within its platform.
https://byereddit.com/ <—- here it is in case you’re interested
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What I love here is that there's an old.lemmy.zip and it took me a bit to suss out how to subscribe to comms not on the .zip instance, but now I have a growing subbed list and am constantly finding new comms to join.
There's even a superbowl sub! Loves those birbs I do!
Can't wait to share my VintageApple and VintageIntelApple tutorials. I really hesitated on taking those down from Reddit, but at this point I decided it was time to be ruthless about it and lose the sentimentality. I'm here and haven't skipped a beat and it's so much friendlier.
This is what it was like on reddit before 2012.. just nice.
I feel like Im gonna miss a few niche subs but Im more than happy to return to a standard message board and i was surprised to see just how many migrated from reddit
Whats the bot situation like here?
Doesn't seem to be a big bot problem at this time. Then again, given the shitshow both of us just left, we'd be hard pressed to see it after the pot we'd been boiling in (like frogs)..
The sites are federated - which means the various lemmy instances are hosted by different people and the main one - lemmy.world - had admins that give out updates and say how they're working on this, that and the other and trying to deal with scrapers..
I signed up through lemmy.zip as that instance hosts more tech-heavy content and it's smaller than .world.
I think the entre fediverse is still small enough that the mods can deal with the bots easily enough.
There is one instance, lemmy.ml, that is apparently run by "tankies" who are pro-Russian Putin supporters. Ehhhh, no. Have read they have a tendency to make bad faith arguments and they ban people - which is sucky, so I decided not to bother with that. There is a post I found that offers instructions on how to ban the instance so I do not get anything from it. Don't need or want the political belligerence, thankyouverymuch!
The whole idea of the federated sites is really cool! I love how it works. Decentralized. There are multiple different servers that operate with the same cross-communication protocols for the messages, so from where I logged in and took a membership on the .zip instance I can sign up for communities on other ones. I have subscribed to communities on multiple instances.. music@beehaw.org is somewhat different than music@lemmy.world..
Start digging through the various instances, you may find the niche communities you're looking for are there, or there's something similar enough that you can start to put up your own posts and make it work.
There's tons of instances - piefed, sh.itjust.works, slrpnk.net, blahaj.zone, beehaw.org, lemmy.ca, feddit, mander.xyz (it's got a cool little star trek comm - totally am in there..) dbzero.com, midwest.social - so they're all different servers that link their content into a web.
I also like lemmy.zip because it DOES have the "old.reddit" style for the layout (of course it would, it's where the techies hang..) and all the comms I've subbed to display in the old format - even if the instance doesn't offer that UI.
Heck yeah!
It's non-profit so there's a donations page - I'm going to be throwing down some $$ because, well.. what beats no ads? It's delightful.
Oh damn thank you so much for all the links and the writeup, i was a bit overwhelmed with how the whole federation thing works and theres definitely a bit of a learning curve. Ill definitely be checking those out.