Have you left reddit forever? Have you deleted your account and posts? Just curious
I’m moving here permanently and never looking back, but I’m leaving my accounts because that’s 11 years worth of comments that someone may find useful in the future. I hate the idea of losing all the good comments and discussions that have taken place over the years but I understand why people wish to delete their stuff regardless.
Also decided to move permanently. Running Power Delete Suite now to mass edit all my comments/posts there so they can’t monetize my effort.
That’s the problem with reddit at the end of the day. It profits off of other’s knowledge and hard work. The only problem with Lemmy is its difficulty getting into it. I don’t think this will ever be as big as reddit but one can hope.
Depending on the community, big is not always better though. Especially for technical communities, a smaller and knowledgeable community is preferable.
I honestly do not say this in a ‘gate-keeping’ sort of way, but see the Linux-related communities on Reddit for instance – they have all devolved into “I successfully installed <distro_name> and I am never going back!”, “Look at my shiny new themed desktop”, “Update broke my installation. Help!” etc. This is in stark contrast to the Linux mailing-lists of yore, where users discussed actually interesting stuff.
Oh absolutely. I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit. I hate this being labeled as a “niche website” and I want the plethora of information reddit has to offer over here instead where it can’t be profited off of and manipulated. Sadly in order for that to happen I must show you my new PC with a small debian based distro you probably haven’t heard of, Linux Mint. I can’t and won’t ever go back to stinky windows. But for real I had to recreate my Lemmy account since I forgot my login its been so long since I found no actual personal use for this site.
I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit.
I would very much like that to happen too, and I hope we do manage to strike a nice balance between too niche and too, well, Reddit-like. I am old school, and almost exclusively use a browser for web content, but I think a good app for Lemmy will help attract and retain more users. After that, if the crowd who doesn’t even want to climb the small hill of getting used to decentralized way of doing things is still not pleased and doesn’t want to come here, or wants to go back to Reddit or wherever, that’s fine by me.
Cheers :)
I’m not planning on going back…
I sincerely hope the Fediverse catches on. It has a few hiccups and limitations, but I love the concept and it so clean and devoid of clutter vs Reddit.
I feel the same. I’m also finding myself mindlessly doom scrolling less. Here is to hoping it takes off!
I’m going to stick around here. I’m not letting the official reddit app anywhere near my phone.
I’m still on the fence. I’d very much like to jump ship API changes or not, Reddit is only going to become more and more corporate over time and I think that goes directly against what a platform like that should be
I’m trying it out and if it takes off like I’m hoping I’ll stick around. Like the idea of a more decentralised internet, matrix too but much harder to get people to move from discord without some big catalyst like this
I only use my phone so I’ll bounce between both until Relay stops working and then stop using Reddit. If Relay keeps working then I’ll keep using Reddit. Simple.
same. when reddit is fun goes dark ill probably quit using reddit. I figure once the api changes happen old.reddit will be on the chopping block to and i refuse to use reddit’s new format.
I’ve been increasingly frustrated by reddit for years. The API issue was the final straw. I had 3 accounts and deleted all 3 just before the blackout. I left some posts because I didn’t know how to nuke it all without doing it manually. But I doubt anyone viewed anything I posted as valuable, so I’m not bothered. I’m just glad to be rid of reddit, to be honest.
BIG same. I was frustrated with a “use our official app plsz” taking up half my screen on the mobile browser, along with other… shenanigans, let’s call them. Killing 3rd-party apps (which are the only way I use Reddit on my phone) was something I wouldn’t handle. Deleted all my comments and posts after the site went back up and left only an announcement of my departure along with my lemmy handle.
Well, I’ve been here since before the blackout. I’ve been following the Fediverse for a while, registered on Diaspora, Mastodon and others.
The only reason I wasn’t really using Lemmy much, or at all, is because there were not many people to interact with. But look at it now!
I have indeed already left Twitter for good, using only Fosstodon, I might as well leave Reddit for good.
I’ve deleted my 10 year-old account and I’m considering deleting the others I don’t use just to drive a point. I only have a particularly naughty account on the Snoosite and the Birdsite each where I get source material for the Fediverse, though. Tee-hee.
I do. My sole account there is actively promoting migration and boycott, 90% of the posts/comments is in Reddit Alternatives and 10% in ModCoord (throwing gasoline on the fire).
Isn’t the main obstacle for people migrating to Lemmy is the “signup”? Would it be impactful if someone creates a dummy proof guide, including a list of equivalent communites <-> subreddit?
Would it be impactful if someone creates a dummy proof guide, including a list of equivalent communites <-> subreddit?
I think that it would, specially if hosted in some third site (preferably a popular platform) and/or spread across Reddit.
Something important however: we should invite people to the Lemmyverse as a whole, not just this instance. This instance is already overburdened, and even if I’m myself staying here (I like it), everyone sticking to the same instance defeats the purpose of decentralisation.
What is the actual impact of which server you join? Seems like different servers advertise to different communities but as far as I’m aware it shouldn’t really matter which server you join
For the end user, acting on good faith (that is: not trolling, not trying to annoy everyone, etc.), the major impact of the server is the following:
- some servers don’t communicate with each other. For example, you won’t see content from Beehaw in Lemmygrad and vice versa, and you won’t be able to post in one using the account from the other*. But you can still post in both from a lemmy.ml account, for example.
- if your server is down, you probably won’t be able to post/comment. And if another server is down, but yours is up, you won’t be able to access the content of the server that is down.
- each server requires you to follow different rules. The admins of that server might ban your account for not following them.
- I’m not so sure on what I’m going to say, but I believe that each server can customise its own interface.
- some servers (like Federotica) allow you to post NSFW content, and federate with NSFW content elsewhere. Some (like lemmy) don’t.
*it makes sense because Lemmygrad allows you to be rude, and Beehaw isn’t focused on a single political “category”. So mixing both demographics would lead to pointless fights.
Of course I’m staying. I’ll also stay on reddit until June 30th, after which I guess I’m only coming back on computer once in a while to check the more niche subs. I’m also thinking of using that time left on reddit to organize with people of those subs who would like to create a Lemmy community together, and to help the less tech-savy join.
gone for good - today was a good day without reddit sucking my soul out. happy to be part of something that does not make me feel like a serf on a corporate plantation.
I had a 13 yo account. Used Redact to delete my entire history, and then deleted the entire account. So I can’t go back! Lemmy/kbin/mastodon is where I’ll stay.
I deleted all accounts except for one that I‘m still emotionally attached to. I downloaded a copy of my data and then… well I‘ll use Lemmy as my main platform for now and see how it goes. Then when my Apollo is dead, hopefully I‘ll have no reason to look at Reddit much at all.
16 year account.
I’m done. Puring my comments and deleting on June 30th.
Reddit that it is now isn’t the Reddit I signed up for.
