It almost doesn’t even feel real. Like, in a few weeks I won’t be using reddit almost at all anymore since RiF will be gone. And yet, I’m still browsing Reddit just as much right now as ever and seeing almost no difference other than salty posts about the API changes on a few subs.

It kinda feels like this whole mess is giving me permission to leave. Like when you know that you are in an unhealthy relationship but don’t know how to get out of it and suddenly your partner says that maybe you should start seeing other people.

Yeah for sure. I was on reddit for 13 years, there were users I recognised by name, people I was friendly with, people I’d have intense debates with, many, many, many subreddits I loved.

But nothing lasts forever, and this place seems nice so here’s to new beginnings 🍻

I’m really fucking pissed because reddit is the only forum for a lot of topics. Realistically, I can’t say I’m going to stop using it totally. Like, you can clearly see it is at risk of a tumblr-esque descent. The CEO has repeatedly said they are “fighting” for nsfw content to remain, but I trust 0% of what that guy says considering he’s repeatedly lied, slandered people and freely admits to just trying to get profitable as soon as possible (see latest ama, for the IPO so he can cash out, presumably). If this really is a Tumblr level decline which it remains to be seen if it is, they’ll be in desperate need of more VC cash so porn is as good as gone.

Anyways, I hope some communities start coming over. The blackout is a good protest, but meaningless if there’s no actual action apart from that. Regarding the blackout, I don’t even really give a shit about “saving” Reddit anymore, as they’ve made it very clear they are beyond saving. I just want the same experience with the same level of community somewhere else (fuck capitalism and centralization though)

Yea kinda. I think Reddit in general is quite amazing. People harp about toxic social media etc, but there’s something truly great about being able to find people of common interests from all around the world.

In general… This is what internet was supposed to be, right.

Plus nobody forces you to deanonymyze yourself. With that comes some pretty cool culture.

Although admittedly I’ve noticed the mood on the whole site being more sour in the past months to a year… But maybe that’s me more than anything.

It’s a shame such a model is apparently not sustainable as a business. Maybe it’s true that there should be public services fulfilling this purpose.

Not so much. I’m an early adopter, so it’s not like I haven’t been through this fifty million times already.

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.

Reddit was a part of my life for almost 11 years. I am 22 and some of my first posts on Reddit were short stories I had written and posted to r/movies for opinions on whether they would be good as full length films… lol Back then it felt so tight knit and close, like a community. It felt like you had to have some savviness for tech and computers to use it, and really it was like a home to me. A place where I could talk about the weird niche things that i found interesting, and find people like me. What Reddit has become is so far from that, it might as well be twitter or something. Just a billion people all throwing shit around, no community, no friendships, just posts with comments. The magic died and it is sad. This site seems like it might recapture some of what I loved about early Reddit, though. I hope

Oddly enough I feel like I’m going to miss the UX from boost more than the subreddits themselves. Even the better ones have so much negativity in the comment sections that there’s no point in participating in the conversations, even with the wealth of content compared to Lemmy currently.

Looking forward to the growth from Lemmy apps such as Jerboa and Mlem.

I’ve been using Reddit since around mid-2009 (pre-Digg exodus). In my honest opinion, the signs of decline on Reddit have been bubbling for a while, and that’s forgoing any consideration of operational/executive decisions that have been made along the way.

Don’t get me wrong, Reddit even in 2009 wasn’t a consistent bastion of quality, productive, insightful discussion, and a good amount of posts on the frontpage on a given day were memes (not to say those are inherently “bad” posts; peak f7u12 anyone?). But the discussions that were had were, for the most part, friendly and/or constructive in some meaningful way. Over the years though, as the userbase grew and the site became increasingly “mainstream,” I noticed there was an uptick of either one or both of two things: 1) low effort posts/comments and 2) sheer vitriol in discussions.

When you combine those two things, you get what – in my opinion – is a social media platform with high levels of “engagement” that VCs/execs love to tout and leverage (see Reddit’s recent IPO ambitions), but ultimately, a platform that’s merely a shell of what it once used to be.

As that happened, I found myself using Reddit less as a “fun” social media platform and more as a tool – using it for discussions and/or information about niche hobbies, interests, news topics, etc. While the dominance of forums in that area may have been overtaken by subreddits over the years, I don’t think there was anything particularly unique about what Reddit as a platform was doing to help these sort of communities exist, and I really doubt that Reddit will be the last place these communities can thrive.

Honestly, I feel disappointment. What reddit was, or at least how I saw it, is not what was on display for the past few weeks.

But my excitement for new things is awesome! I miss the days of stumbling across new, exciting, and weird sites instead of 1 all powerful site. The feeling of starting something anew is fun, and I’m looking forward to learning how to use and defining what this site is with y’all.

This morning, I was mourning it. However, I made a post asking a really simple question earlier but was instead attacked. It was truly such a simple question about something related to my house. So, not anymore.

Yeah. Reddit has been my internet home since 2012. It’s surreal and depressing to see it so far gone. Still unsure where I will go next, but lemmy feels familiar at least.

I feel like reddit dying could be a positive thing for me. For years now I have felt the negative influence that its toxic environment - fueled by impersonal, discordant interactions - had on me. Not to mention the complete destruction of my ability to concentrate caused by the micro dopamine hit targeting of social media UX. I’m hoping that moving to a smaller platform will help with some of that pervasive anger I feel as a result of constant reddit usage.

I’m not really “mourning” it, but I had a weird feeling, like the end of a great book (series) or movie, like I wish it would have continued more.

Hiwever after switching to lemmy, the community here seems way more active and friendly, and even though there are less overall users, I get more interaction with my posts and comments, maybe also because they aren’t drowned in a sea of other comments.