…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.
I’ve been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I’ll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.
Yeah bring here certainly doesn’t feel like 2023
A bunch of popular celebrities died this year! Things will never be worse than this!
I think I will stay, I’m a 15 year redditor, I’m really pissed at the management. They’ve never been great. The community has been doing all the work for so long, posting, commenting, moderating, developping apps and tools. And these guy think they are better? They are even saying it will calm down.
Remove this guy as CEO, cancel this API nonsense and we will see.
But in the meantime. I’m here and the more time passes. The more comfy I get.
ya right
like i have no social media loyalty. reddit was a habit. a time waster. the only thing that sucks about moving away from reddit is im not sure how to find old posts and shit here but im sure either i or someone much smarter will figure it out. in the end, i just want more places to go on the net
maybe im old, but i wax nostalgic for the forum days. and this feels like it
Same, and I’m hyped for something new and better. This absolutely reminds me of early Reddit and I’m totally here for it.
It’s open source so anyone can contribute. With how much feedback everyone is giving, hopefully that means things will continue to get better.
I became a Redditor during the Digg exodus… Now I’ll become a Lemming during the Reddit exodus.
Same my dude. I wasn’t sure about this at first, but I have 2 12 year old accounts and am thinking of seeing if I can cash in on them somehow.
You probably just started something with the Lemming thing.
We definitely have to stop calling communities subreddits though.
Kbin calls them magazines
meh, not my favorite
Sublemmy? Slemmy?
What about calling them “communities”?
Too many syllables
I’ve been using sublem
I joined up in '06 but officially committed during the Digg Migration. Lemmy was been a much welcome refresher to the old days of Reddit.
Definitely here to stay. Even deleted app from my phone and put a bookmark to lemmy where the app used to be. Now I access lemmy as much as I used to Reddit purely because of muscle memory / force of habit and don’t miss Reddit one bit.
There are apps for Lemmy! I’m finding the app much nicer to use on my phone than accessing lemmy thru a browser, which is what I’m guessing you’re doing based on your description of using a “shortcut.”
Thanks for this comment. Was considering programming my own app though (especially in the spirit of the latest news), so if I find any issues with the android version I might still go through with that
The apps are also open-source in case those issues can be added/fixed in the existing apps! App diversity is also great!
https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa
Jerboa definitely has some issues, so i’m planning on seeing if I can figure some of them out. Also some stuff i’m not a fan of, but seem to be intentional deaigns so I might just make a personal fork. Never worked with jetpack or kotlin, so we’ll see how bad those are to pick up
The Memmy app for iOS now has a beta up on Testflight, and so far it looks very promising. Well worth giving a go. https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don’t think I’ve commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun
This is exactly it. Beyond a couple very niche subs, I felt no desire to interact at all. It had turned into howling into the void of bots and memes. This feels like legitimate engagement with actual humans…or passable facsimiles.
I’ll take ‘passable fascimile’ as a compliment! The real niche subs are hard to reproduce. I started a Nebula one, but that subreddit was only ~5k ppl with comment threads maybe 100 long, so probably will be hard to reproduce here
I’m likely staying. I’ve gotten used to lemmy now.
3 days is all it took.
I didn’t come here because of the blackout though, I came here in protest; going back to Reddit while they haven’t changed their policy wouldn’t be helpful.
I’m mostly a lurker, but certainly plan to stay. I probably will use Reddit occasionally, but that usage will be significantly reduced and limited to desktop use only as I have no interest in installing the official Reddit app. Too many web searches lead back to Reddit posts for me to drop Reddit completely.
I was a just a lurker on reddit. It feels more welcoming here so I’m staying for sure.
Same, on reddit it felt like someone was just waiting for you to post so they could pick it apart.
Don’t forget that until the end of this month that reddit will change a lot of stuff. I won’t be surprised that new lemmy users will migrate here on July 1.
Yeah, in a way its kind of good to have this 2 stage migration, that gives server operators an opportunity to iron out some kinks.
I’m looking for something to fill the void. The enshittification of reddit isn’t going to stop any time soon, just the nature of chasing quarterly profits. I plan to keep my account though. There are some really valuable communities there, and cutting ties completely feels like it would be spiting the nose off my face. r/home improvement has helped me on so many occasions, for example. I am hopeful that lemmy can grow to be the spiritual successor of reddit though!
I’m definitely staying. I know there’s gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.
I plan to stay unless Reddit makes their third-party terms a lot more reasonable. The way these API access fees were announced on such a short timeline and the fact they are so high does not make me want to support Reddit any longer by participating in it. I’ve got 249,000 post karma there.
I like Lemmy. I think I’ll stay here, and I’ll wipe my Reddit account soon. It feels strange, but Reddit also feels super hostile now.
You’re not the only person I’ve seen saying that - it might be because all the nice people have stayed away during the blackout leaving the toxic sludge to rise to the top in their absence…
the sludge has been dominating for a while, reddit hasnt been cool for a while imo, just a lot of habitual hanging out
i was honestly looking for a reason to leave. i dont care about deleting accounts but if i comment ill be here as long as i keep getting replies
After the blackout, who knows, but once they paywall the third party apps I’m betting Spez and his “snoos” are going to feel it a lot more than a silly little 2-day blackout. For many, myself included, the official reddit app is not an option whatsoever.
I deleted my Reddit account, so I’ll stay here. Fediverse to me is how the internet should be, not owned by a corporation, I hope services like Lemmy and Mastodon get more popular.
I just joined out of curiosity and I’m rather baffled by how barely any of the reddit forums decided to migrate here or anywhere else, even if just symbolically.
Interesting you say that. I’ve had pretty good luck finding equipments of most of my subs (a few more niche ones are missing).
Perhaps check kbin too, I know the exodus split between kbin and Lemmy. Fortunately they can talk to one another now that Kbin reenabled federation.
