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Boost was Reddit for me
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.
Baconreader or bust
Hell yeah brother!
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.
One of the first things I did on joining lemmy.world was set up a recurring subscription.
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.
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.
I’m 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 it’d be a prime option to look into.
I’m definitely taking to this one quicker than I did Mastodon.
The trigger point for Mastodon for me was losing Tweetbot on Twitter and Ivory coming out. From that point onward I’ve spent more time on Mastodon than I have Twitter. I was a very light Twitter user but so it was a pretty easy jump to make, especially as a fair few people I followed also went over.
I’ll see how this one plays out. I’m an Apollo user so in a similar boat where I have an app that’s been orphaned, however I’m realistically not going to find anywhere with as mature an app unlike that Ivory scenario where TapBots were fortunate enough to have almost completed their Mastodon app when Twitter unceremoniously killed their API access overnight. From memory they had a beta at the time already.
Enjoying things so far so even if I don’t go all in, I think I can see my usage growing over time, hopefully alongside a broader growth of the community.
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.
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.
They were stupid and thought they could fuck with 3rd party apps. Infinity actually still works but I already switched.
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.
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!
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 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.
Because we shut it down.
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.
