Asklemmy

Of course, change is hard. But I'm excited to scope out and learn new technology like Lemmy. Decentralization is the future, and it's pretty exciting.

Yeah, reddit has always been my favorite type of social media. Especially being able to choose your own communities and being free of most algorithm shenanigans is what made me love it. I hope they turn around, and otherwise I hope Lemmy becomes more active and popular. It would suck to lose such an unique type of social media.

Yeah a little bit

Yes I am a little sad. I just deleted my account(s) this morning. 7 years on Reddit, and it was my go-to platform. But it is clear that Reddit does not care about its users, so I won't be using Reddit anymore

Reddit peaked like eight or ten years ago. I am so ready for this. I have been doing everything in my power (completely ineffectively) to get the people and communities I care about to bridge to a libre network.

No. I am very happy at discovering a new place. I also miss the social media, pre 2010s. like in 2005, it was amazing and people felt much closer. One had a feeling that everyone is genuinely here to help and enjoy while socializing, rather than karma farming.

I am talking before Facebook grew big. The time of Orkut, Gazzag, old reddit, Slashdot. or even yahoo messenger, mIRC, before all those websites became a thing. I was not afraid of posting something, and wasn't looking for votes, or afraid of down votes. Main aim of contributing to a post of joining in the discussion.

Not really sad. I never found reddit inspired deep connections to communities anyways. It's not so bad to change things up now and again.

My main issue is all the useful information that might be gone with a decent chunk of people editing and removing their comments or even subreddits going private
Otherwise, I got perma-banned from Reddit for commenting the navy seal copypasta in a thread where people were clearly sarcastic so I don't care

I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love

I do feel some kind of sadness, but I feel... free. Reddit started becoming addictive to me some time ago and I have noticed that Lemmy seems to have less trolls, perverts, power tripping mods and just simply batshit crazy people. I do feel an urge to check out how Reddit is doing, but I'll soon go to a place without a proper internet connection so I think I'll finally be able to cure my Reddit addiction. My experience with Lemmy has been very positive so far.

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 just keep thinking to myself, "it's the end of an era"

Reddit has been the only social network I've used for 12 years. I've watched it go through so much change over the years, but it always felt like even at its worst, it showed its users more respect and gave them more control over what content they saw than any other social network out there. I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Lemmy, but it makes me sad to watch RiF and Reddit phase out of my life.

A little sad and a lot salty, my main account got suspended by reddit in retaliation for actions taken as a moderator and got totally ignored by members of the mod relations team and their oh so smugly named "anti evil operations" drones.

I'm sad Reddit is no longer the site it was

I'm glad that Spez and the rest of the reddit execs get to see their precious cash-cow die in flames.

Not going to lie. This all feels like Google+ to me. The communities and networks are all over the place

i'm sad that reddit is dogshit, but excited to watch lemmy grow and to have the opportunity to be a part of its growth

8 years of LTL on old reddit and RiF, and it's a weird mixture of grief and freedom at the same time.

It is just sad to see another good thing, build up collectivly by people in their spare time comes down due to cooperate greed.

I will use reddit as long as the subs I'm mainly engaging in haven't migrated and as long as there is a secure & a/tracking free way of accessing Reddit, even if it is desktop only

Bit then again I'm happy that truly free and non commercial alternatives get the attention they deserve

I'm permanently suspended anyway, there's no way back. They somehow find me if I create a new account lol

A bit. Reddit has been a big part of my life for over a decade. If I lost access to all of those communities, it would be really unfortunate and hard to accept. I'll miss being able to get amazing advice or insightful comments just by adding "reddit" to my google search.

I think the spirit of Reddit will live on though, I doubt that everyone will just vanish and we'll all be stuck on subpar platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tiktok.

I'm really excited about the possibility of the new "Reddit" being a federated, self-hostable platform like Lemmy, and solving these periodic exodii issues once and for all! No more dictators deciding the direction the community should go. I'm really impressed with what Lemmy has accomplished so far with its code and its community.

@Acetamide I don't understand why though. We live in a capitalist system, and therefore Reddit has to make money in order to survive. On the current path, Reddit won't exist AT ALL. So we either get a Reddit with some fees that devs don't like, or no Reddit at all.

I miss what I lack, but reddit was also going stagnant. Time to build something greater. Decentralized, but moderated, social media is an interesting idea.

Lemmys devs' political... "Leanings" sure concern me though