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.
Been using Lemmy for a few hours and I'm already getting the hang of it. I don't know how big it'll get because general audiences don't understand how it all works, they don't understand FOSS in general, and it's new and unfamiliar and people always prefer familiarity. Also, I think users are going to want an app. I think you have to cater to the iOS crowd if you want serious growth.
I think if you're unfamiliar with something, the best way to learn is to dive right in. It's how I figured out how to use Reddit. It's how I learned Linux and Bash. It's how I got good in Excel. It's how I got good at most of the things I'm good at.
Reddit will act to protect itself. It can't force users to use it, but I get the feeling dissenting mods will be removed and the blackouts won't last. I hope they do, but I'm not holding my breath. And I'm not going back, even if the blackouts do end on user-favorable terms. Fuck Reddit. Fuck the IPO. Steve can get rekt.
Boost was a spectacular 3P Reddit app. But I'm already liking Lemmy. So I'm sticking around for the long term. And I'm pretty certain I'm deleting my Reddit account at the end of the month.
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.
It's pretty simple. Reddit as a company seems to have been on a path for years where they have done everything they possibly can to make the site more corporate at the expense of Reddit as a community.
I've been on Reddit for years (I deleted at least two accounts before sticking with my now 14-year-old account). To put it in context, my Reddit account is older than my child, who has his own Reddit account.
There were a lot of things on Reddit that I found annoying but it was easy to ignore. I was saddened by the way they fired Victoria and unfairly blamed it on Ellen Pao, and the effects of those decision s including the noticeable degradation in quality and corpoatization of AMA posts.
I also hated how blatant advertising and astroturfing kept showing up more and more and did not like the way practically everything turned into politics and divisiveness in a more recent era.
But again, most of that was pretty easy to avoid and I could just stick to my little niche subreddits that I liked, ignore the rest of the content, and view the site and a format I like because I could use a third party app. I never really cared for new Reddit and especially hated the official Reddit app, and with that being gone and ads and chat being forced on me, I'm done with it.
I agree with you on all these points. I'd also add that the amount of bot interaction and manipulation has increased to a point where it felt a lot of the communities were meaningfully less real over the last couple of years. Makes it a lot less fun.
Haven't left reddit yet, I am waiting to see how the blackout goes.
I am more in a situation of dipping my goes in both ponds. I very much like Lemmy but I am still skeptical about its future. I have hope and am trying to be active here and participate in making it alive.
Ditto -- I haven't left reddit yet (although I'm going to make a genuine go at using primarily / only Lemmy for the next couple of weeks to support the blackout).
With enough scale, Lemmy could give reddit a run for its money in terms of content. At the same time, Lemmy still has a lot of work to do on UI, tools and features to be apples to apples with reddit. We'll need to make a lot of progress quickly here for a lot of us inbetweeners to come over fully.
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 didn't even realize there was a subscription. I will have to look into that. Thank you @Crackhappy!
I figure reddit is going to get real shitty with the mass exodus, and I wanted to familiarize myself with a new social media app rather than watch my time waster from the last 6 years go down the toilet
Also I struggle with an eating disorder and continually got ads about intermittent fasting that were extremely triggering. I kept reporting them and they kept appearing in one way or another. So it really wasn't hard to convince me to delete that shit
I noticed that I'm not bound by any social media in specific (just WhatsApp and Discord for family and friends), just by the need to scroll something and see some things of interest. And I would rather scroll away at this site. It is calmer and people are more friendly.
They killed Apollo, the standard Reddit Client on iOS is unusable and also I have an issue supporting a lying piece of garbage.
I wanted to join Reddit this week, and found it was going into "interesting times". So I joined Lemmy instead.
Thanks for coming! I just joined as well and am really enjoying myself. There's definitely enough for me here to entertain myself and it might only grow larger and broader. I think about it this way - I believe there's a higher chance that Lemmy will go through a "golden age" as opposed to Reddit which seems to be way past its own.
Yeah, the Reddit golden age was like 2010-2015ish imo. That's when they started with their current monetization direction from what I remember seeing.
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.
It's apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn't appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.
I totally agree with you, I don't see any reason Reddit shouldn't get paid for the usage of their API, but this draconian policy, along with all the other awful things they're doing to their userbase just makes it not worth supporting anymore. If there was some sort of negotiation or some form of compromise then at least there might be hope for the platform.
I only want to use third party apps to browse reddit, infinity is awesome. Also I read that reddit is trying to force people to use their app by blocking them from accessing reddit on their mobile browser. Fuck 'em.
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.
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.
I'm right there with you, I've been upset with Reddit for a long time, and finally pulled the plug after the straw broke my back with the ridiculous API decision.
Simple: They killed Apollo and are a bunch of lying asshats that have no sense left in them. Unless they come to their senses Iβm not using it anymore, as much as I loved the communities.
I haven't left Reddit. I'm here for now to see if there's any sense of community and if I can engage with Lemmy the same way I do with Reddit.
With third party clients gone, if I stay on Reddit I will be subject to their awful UI and ad experience, plus the experience designed to keep me scrolling for days. No thanks!
Lemmy seems pretty cool so far. I like that when I open the comment section, there isn't already three or four people saying what I was going to say