I'm not 100% hating reddit right now, though I do hate them a lot. So not deleting my >10yo account or anything....but I do recognize that this is near the end.

The default app is garbage. I'm someone who likes my feed and interaction set up EXACTLY to my liking. So losing any customization, etc is just going to make me like it less, use it less, etc.

But I know that eventually, once they have control over how you interact with Reddit, it will only be a matter of time until it looks like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: ad-filled, "suggested content" GARBAGE. I honestly can't use any of those sites/apps anymore they're such cluttered wastelands, I don't know how people stand it.

So I guess less heartbroken, and more like dread as I know the enshittification of reddit is just getting started...

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!

Tbh I feel more heartbroken about the people that worked so hard to make those 3rd party apps for years just to get fucked by some dude who wanted a bit more money.

really sad about this. lemmy won't be the same. we're also losing 15+ year of history with all the people purging posts and comments..

Sure, but here's the thing. If we all just moved to another centralized system, we'd just be setting the timer for the next heartbreak. It's a matter of when, not if.

Lemmy's growth will be slow. It may even stagnate. But, unlike Orkut, Friendster, Google+, etc. it can't be taken away from us. lemmy.ml might even shut down, but the Fediverse will always be here in one form or another.

I have this feeling of loss over several good spaces on the internet going down/changing for the worse recently. There was ADS-B Exchange getting sold to a company with a vested interest in certain planes not showing up on the tracker.

Twitter, while never good, was at least a good place for a lot of discussion especially news. From the world's biggest breaking news to smaller local journalists and reporters, you could find it all and talk about it there.

Then imgur wiping all nsfw and non-account posted photos. It was the second coming of photobucket. I can only hope that a lot of the pics posted on forums got saved and can eventually be redirected to the archived versions.

Now reddit cutting off the only good ways to access all of the information on their site. I know the world will eventually move on to the next thing, but I will always remember my time on reddit. I had a shitty home life and my escape on the site was the only thing keeping me going some days.

Okay, dramatic rant over. I need to get good at coding and shit so I can be the change I want to see on the internet.

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.

9 years on Reddit and it actually felt quite cathartic to click the yes delete account! In the last 6 months that’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and now Reddit gone. I’ll miss some of the stuff but not enough to want to stay.

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

im gonna, miss it, I don't wanna leave, I don't wanna go, It feels like reddit is breaking up with me rather than vice versa. As much as reddit sucked, it was the one thing consistent in my life that I could always go back to when things were rough. I just hope that the people and culture of subreddits that are closing down are going to migrate here.

I do. Reddit was this awesome super/meta community of darn near any specific, niche, rare subject you could think of - and that thing would have a community of its own in a subreddit.

The amount of utility, the breadth of concentrated access to subject matter experience on anything, was utterly unmatched anywhere else.

This is, in my view, the dying of that resource, that super-community, and there isn't going to be anything that can replace it quickly. That will hurt in the short and medium term.

On the other side of things, it will lead to a diaspora of sorts, with other communities such as this one (kbin), various instances of the Fediverse, Tildes and others seeing a significant period of growth, and, probably, an infusion of resources to speed and improve development for the better.

It sucks right now, but I do have hopes for what will come from the ashes.

Yeah, I had 13 years on reddit so it was a nice run. Seems like every online platform dies at some point, so it was going to happen sooner or later.

Yeah, I'm pretty sad about where it's going. Been on Reddit since 2011, and I think it's such a great thing in many ways - so of course it had to be ruined by greed.

I'm genuinely enjoying Lemmy though as a pretty good alternative, albeit one that's a bit quiet for now. Usebase is ticketing though I think, so hopefully we can achieve critical mass.

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

I miss how easy it is to find everything, even things that are very niche. Yes i'm talking about porn stuff

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.

It's a bit devastating to lose such a good resource. So many communities for niche games and hobbies that I won't be able to comfortably access without my 3rd party app. I just hope Lemmy continues to grow and fill those niches for me again.

I honestly don't feel that way about Reddit but I do feel that way about sync... I'll miss sync, unless he ports it over, which he is giving consideration.

Not really. Fuck em. Been on Reddit for 8 years and I've been disillusioned for a while. I just hope this place grows and I figure out how it works well enough to not feel the need to go back.

The many communities, discussions, and content I very dear and important to me.

Yes, I feel a bit heartbroken. It's tragic and depressing.

I use the Reddit website on my PC and Relay on mobile. My usage will likely shift, depending on the alternative apps and how the platform develops. I've definitely lost trust in the technical and organizational/directing of Reddit. We will see.

I've certainly found an alternative / an additional platform in Feddit / Lemmy.

To be honest, I was waiting for an alternative to Reddit to gain steam and I'm glad I found Lemmy. I don't really like what Reddit has become and the changes to the API is the push I needed to really be done with it.

I'm a little sad because I met my partner of nearly 10 years on Reddit on that account. I will keep the account because our original DMs are on there and would like to preserve them. Will probably wipe all the content and contributions, and just keep those DMs

Totally agree. My reddit account is 12 years old, and I was only just now starting to gain confidence that there would already be a sprawling community for a new topic I found. I know it will take a long time to get that feeling again, but it's also refreshing to see the fantastic discussions on this platform.

Yeah I'd say so. I used Reddit for 6 years and Boost for around 4. Maybe 5. I dont think im heartbroken yet, I'm just angry. It's a ridiculous move on their part.

On the bright side though, I'm already feeling very at home here especially since a lot of people are pushing hard for Lemmy to become a better version of Reddit. I'll keeo pushing too. Hopefully moving away from Reddit altogether.

I've been trying to jump for a long time now, I used tildes for a while, but it just didn't have enough content I'm interested in. Now it seems lemmy is gaining enough steam to be my primary social media.

Reddit really peaked with the Obama ama. After that it was all downhill, the place grew too quickly to keep its culture.

The hardest part is finding a replacement application after using Apollo for so many years.

Kind of cautiously optimistic at this stage, Reddit has been going steeply downhill for the last few years - if the "blackout" does nothing for Reddit then maybe it could succeed in drawing attention to alternatives.

It reminds me of when I tried switching to Linux (from Windows). Functional but lacking a lot of mainstream software, especially games. Lemmy feels way easier to use like a normal website, but there is a feeling almost akin to homesickness.

I think because I have left reddit and returned to it so many times over the past 15 years I was looking for a reason to make it permanent. I'm more relieved than anything else. My religion also teaches me that who you are is a result of all of the actions you have taken in your life, and that we should not associate with those whose actions inflict harm on their own community (meaning spez)

I'm anxious to see what happens in the next few days and weeks. I think Reddit will bring the big subreddits back online with new mods if they have to. The smaller subreddits, though, may not be worth the effort to Reddit, and those are the ones I'll miss the most. I'm hoping some make their way here, but I suspect many won't.

I'm glad to be here, and I'm looking forward to see what this brings.

Not Reddit but I feel sad for Aaron Swartz. What a monster his creation became. Thankfully Lemmy exists to fill Reddit's place.

I used Reddit a lot, but I always thought a foss alternative should exist. The thing is most don't care about if things are foss or not, so I thought nothing was going to change.

Just like with Whatsapp, Youtube, Discord, Instagram... You name it. There are foss alternatives out there that do the same thing, but most people just don't care about this issue.

Honestly, I'm glad they fucked up. We can build a strong foss community where there are no crazy CEO's or overall people that you don't even know getting rich from advertisements and shit, and no tracking or obscure algorithms / code too.

Let's hope Whatsapp goes next!

Foss is the way to go.

Just deleted the Apollo app. Sad times. Hope this turns out to be a viable replacement

Yes but also no. I missed Digg when I left it for Reddit and I loved the earlier days of Reddit. Reddit was a lot of my college years from 2010-2012. Reddit felt like a very nice community back then, but it's been going steadily downhill for years and I'm not surprised it's come to this at all. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air, especially given that we're migrating off of corporate controlled media this time rather than just jumping ship to another proprietary platform with a limited lifespan. It hits different this time, in a good way. I'll miss the good times on Reddit and the communities there, but to be honest those communities were best in Reddit's heyday. I'll probably miss the vast amount of information that Reddit built up over the years most, that's over a decade of Internet history killed off by greed. I'm hoping moving to decentralized platforms will stop the cycle of corporate greed putting an expiration date on our Internet homes.

Nah, I'm mad as hell, they had years to sort this crap out. They can burn.