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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[–] MRPP@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think that loosing access to great communities like OSR, Boardgames, RPG, Horror and horrorlit will hurt, but I'm hoping to find new ones too, with fresh new people and new ideas.

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me, I'm mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who've just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.

But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I'm kinda glad to be moving on.

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[–] Sabata11792@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Had an account for 11 years but lurked for a few before. Yes. I been expecting it for years since its been declining but still going to miss it.

[–] Herbstzeitlose@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it’s a really weird feeling. I discovered Reddit in 2011 and it’s been a not-insignificant part of my life ever since.

Now I’m here, on this new thing that feels really small and inactive in comparison. All the subs I’m used to reading just aren’t here. Many of them will probably stay on Reddit. I really hope Lemmy takes off, and I don’t end up caving in and downloading the official app a week later.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not much. There's so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there's a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.

[–] Vorthas@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

A little bit, there's a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I've been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there's no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).

[–] Batbro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm excited, I've been fediverse curious for a while. This gives the power back to the people

[–] kinobe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sad, as my account is many years old since digg days. But I hardly comment or post, and dgaf about karma, so I am considering deleting in total rather than just stop using. At the same time, I'm interested to know how it'll play out.

Like Netflix, despite the public outcry, we may well see that reddit is still alive and well after this. /shrug.

[–] Shasha2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The people who remain are the people who dont understand whats happening or dont care

[–] prosopopeia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, i do. I just deleted my main account using the PowerDeleteSuite, I am (was) used to log in every morning. I will miss it, but it was inevitable; eventually, al social media platforms die off due to "enshittification".

I hope for a long stay with Lemmy! I deleted Facebook in 2011, Twitter when Musk bought it, never jumped on Instagram, Tumblr or Tiktok. Stumbleupon for me died when the VCC capital forced the site to redirect to advertised pages. Popurls is now upstract.com, a shadow of its former self....oh well. I guess I am getting old and starting to yell at clouds LOL.

[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Here’s hoping this is just the beginning of something better

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[–] relaxdontdoit@masto.ai 1 points 2 years ago

@Acetamide This has been coming for a long time, I'm glad the community is being a chance to move on to spaces which aren't just trying to suck blood.

[–] ARNiM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A bit heartbroken, but I always wanted decentralized forum like the old days. Having it federated makes it better and I hope Lemmy can succeed as an alternative. Using something that is too centralized make it hard if something like this happens.

Though I hope I can still search for x topic + lemmy (instead of x topic + reddit) for when I want to find some opinions on x topic.

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