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If Reddit were to revert it's changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?

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[-] caffeineplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I fully support all the reasons for ditching Reddit altogether, but if I can’t use Apollo, I’ll only ever use it on desktop, and even then just to look stuff up via Google.

Installed Mlem and have committed to making this place a good one.

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[-] Vivi@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I haven’t been a daily Reddit user for a long time, if Apollo stayed active and useable I’d keep it loaded on my phone but I’m into the vibe on lemmy and want to be part of it.

[-] gabuwu@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is too good to leave. I don't think I'm alone either. I was wanting an alternative for a while.

[-] milkytoast@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll use both then. reddit is still unparalleled for support, simply because of its sheer size

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I probably won't permanently boycott them if they revert, but won't leave here either.

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[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit showed their hand and I'm just done with all these corpos. Reddit is my last hold out and I'm slowly leaving that too. I'm moving to the decentralized FOSS future that I believe in where we the people have the power.

[-] Kurumatron@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I plan on sticking to lemmy and only using reddit on the pc for specific things that I can't find here for the time being

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, congrats Reddit you've become StackOverflow for me. Searching for weird answers and taking them. I'm no longer contributing, I have Sync on my phone out of respect, but will not participate there. Not that karma matters, but I see tons of posts here of some super high karma users all leaving - which does mean that they pissed off their largest contributors.

As Facebook before them, let them drive out their content creators and let themselves fall into the corporate ad-riddled hellscape they want.

[-] notsorryforpartying@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.

I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.

With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up

[-] starrox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Reddit is absolutely, 100% certainly not going to step back on these change. They've made up their mind long ago.

But just for the hypothetical: I think they lost a LOT of trust with the two most essential parts of the community - users and mods. Also the company (or rather, its CEO) may have taken significant image damage due to the "AMA" spez did.

I think business will go on as usual, but the decline will be more and more noticable over time. It will go the way of Digg. Unless of course reddit decides to hire moderation themselves. But we all know they probably wont want do do that. The course seems set to selling the data they have already accumulated.

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[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Reddit is doing a tumblr so I don't think is gonna recover that easy. Reddit is not gonna allow NSFW subs to be seen outside of the official app, who the hell watches porn from the official app? So many people is gonna drop it.

I think is still gonna survive IF subs like askreddit, amitheasshole or entitledparents are still up and have a lot of people posting, because they so many YT channels read from those (and I hear them daily as podcasts) but if the mayor subs go dark or shutdown is not gonna affect reddit only, but also so many people who works reading those.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

[-] goddamnpipes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don't intend to go back nearly as much as before, even if the changes are reverted (unlikely, imo). A lot of the aspects of Reddit that I didn't like - but tolerated - are generally not found here, at least so far. While Lemmy still leaves things to be desired, it just feels better to engage with.

However, I may still add " reddit" to the end of a search query to avoid all the bloat articles that crop up in a search. There's still a wealth of useful information on Reddit from all those years for even the most niche questions / topics.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Personally I doubt I'll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I'll happily let my account gather dust unless there's a support question or something for a community that hasn't taken off here.

Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I'm supposed to be a writer, I would probably get more actual writing done.

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, I’m not looking back.

[-] treagod@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I’ll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application

[-] lightrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?

Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.

[-] WarMarshalEmu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I will admit that I'd keep RiF on my phone just to doomscroll in airports and whatnot. Though I think I'm going to stop my desktop use (90% of my use) of Reddit regardless. The writing is on the wall for old.reddit.

[-] Pavidus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They have already tipped their hand and shown that money is what they are actively after. My trust is gone. If they were to revert changes at this point, I would simply read that as "We have delayed our plan until we come up with something else."

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren't any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.

The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I forgot all about SRS, back in the day one of the first times a Reddit comment I wrote got a bunch of upvotes some SRS folks came after me and it was super confusing. I got really bizarre messages from angry people who seemed completely unhinged.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. There were sometimes... excesses.

[-] biff@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure I’ve found it.

[-] Subito@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

They've made it clear they won't. And since most subs are only going dark for a measly 48 hours they have no incentive to. It's literally like that "Oh no, anyway..." meme.

And think of it this way: even if you they revert the changes (or you just decide to please /u/spez and only use the official app) do you think the platform will continue to get better or worse? He's shown his hand it's nothing good for the mods or the users.

[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 2 points 2 years ago

What if your SO stops beating you?

[-] a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I think I'm on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we'll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

[-] BitR1ot@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

I rally hope that Lemmy instances allow themselves to be indexed. Reddit had become a great source of information - I hope Lemmy instances can too. That information needs to be discoverable to be useful.

[-] Adi2121@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.

[-] Cevilia 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It'd be too late. I nuked my account, overwrote my comments, and uninstalled my apps early this morning. I don't intend to return.

[-] grin@grinnit.grin.hu 1 points 2 years ago

People would go back.

[-] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I would probably stay here. I deleted my Account on Reddit and i do not forgive spez for the decission he has done.

[-] toodazed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not going back, epescially since Apollo will be shutting down. I'm looking forward to what the dev can do with the Mlem iOS app, and I'm very interested in the community that is being built here.

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