I think I’ll stay here. I like the prospect of building this ting together and shaping it the way we want it. Just that they caved in this one time doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. I would rather invest my time and effort into something I can stand behind and agrees with my believes. I like that it’s open source and decentralised.

Both. Even if Reddit step back this time I think this action is just another on the road to their demise. But Lemmy/Fediverse still needs the critical mass shift to become the true alternative.

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I probably will, because I know the communities I was part of there will never be as big and succesful here. Let’s face it, Reddit is far simpler. Lemmy takes a little effort to figure out how to navigate, and many casual internet users won’t want to put in that effort.

I’ll stay.

One of the reasons is that I don’t think Reddit will step back. They might do some changes, and revert some of the decisions, but I’m pretty sure those would be temporary. I don’t trust their CEO and I don’t trust their intentions.

But most importantly, I like the Fediverse. I like hosting my own services, so I don’t depend on a big company which will inevitable change their terms of service, close their APIs, or do something that is not in the best interest of the users, but of the investors and share holders.

Probably not besides looking up old posts and info. After the past week or so of not using Reddit, can’t really say I miss it. Lemmy reminds me of the pre-social media days of web forums and I love it.

Reddit burning its bridge with Apollo’s dev probably sealed the deal for me. Beyond handling things poorly, most of my time on Reddit was on my phone via Apollo. I highly doubt Christian ever works with Reddit again even if they did completely pull everything back.

Things have been pretty good here, I don’t see any reason not to stick around, and there isn’t anything to make me go back. I’ll probably check hockey news on Reddit occasionally, but I can’t see myself being active.

Lemmy is still new. But that’s a boon ; it has plenty of room to grow and already it is teeming with life and a plethora of new ideas.

I was thinking of deleting Reddit before the fiasco because I just wasn’t enjoying it anymore. It was the same with 9GAG many years ago, whose era came to an end when I discovered Reddit.

I find pleasure by browsing Lemmy, so… Now is the time for change. I am not looking back.

Yeah. Spez is still a piece of shit and my old accounts with massive gobs of post history are still banned. My “image” that was well respected in a ton of car groups is long gone, and I can’t get it back via alts without running afoul of the “no ban evasion” policy, so fuck 'em. Lemmy has been working just fine for my light, casual browsing needs. Why would I go back now?

I’ve been hearing a lot about the “fediverse” and just haven’t had any motivation to bother looking into it. But here I am now.

Unless this place becomes as dead as before the exodus again, I don’t think I’ll be spending much time on Reddit anymore. I’ve been meaning to browse less anyways as it’s often a giant waste of time. I don’t expect that to be much different here but it might be less of a waste due to the smaller scale.

I’ll still google for Reddit when I need to find some actual answers though; no way around that for now.

If Reddit isn’t destroyed, and I don’t think it will be, I’ll likely keep using it for the main function I use it for. Using a search engine to search “technical problem I have Reddit”.

While there’s many online resources to find the answers to my technical issues, Reddit typically has the highest quality discussions on average or serves as a jumping off point to the answers at least.

But I will continue to use Lemmy for browsing and adding in my 2 cents when I feel the need. I’ve become a somewhat recent enthusiast of FOSS, Linux, and the fediverse.

inb4 sorry, long wall of text.

I’ll stay across multiple fediverse instances, likely including lemmy.ml. I won’t be back to Reddit, not even if Reddit rolls back all the third party app changes, and if spez is fired.

There’s a reason my Lemmy account is two years old, not new: I am already extremely displeased with Reddit, for years. (More than two, by the way.)

It is not just the admins and the businesses. It’s also the moderation system:

I don’t think that the users becoming moderators in Reddit are intrinsically bad people, I was myself a moderator there, but the whole moderation hierarchy boils down to “everyone competent will eventually leave, and the top mod will be eventually a clown with too much time at hands, too little reasoning in his head, and too much power hunger in his stomach”.

It’s also in large part the userbase. Users there behave like braindead morons: they’re assumptive, context-illiterate, they don’t even see what’s wrong with “X said it so it’s true/false” and prone to oversimplify complex matters, in a way that boils down to “u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is 0? dats dumb lol lmao”. And they are extremely disingenuous.

I don’t think that it’s due to inability to reason; I think that it’s the environment of Reddit dictating how you should behave there. What I described about the Reddit user might potentially apply to myself, too, when I’m there. And I don’t want to feel disgusted with myself.

It should not be a surprise that the userbase is like this, when the admins set up the example. A site that launched itself by expecting users to be stupid enough to notice “this place is empty, it’s all sock-puppets” is bound to attract stupid users.

If reddit took a step back I will definitely use it, but the fact that you can ask a question without being flooded with bad jokes makes this platform have value for me. I’ll happily use both.

Depends if enough people move to make it fun.

If your girlfriend/boyfriend hit you with a baseball bat but then said sorry didn’t realize you would leave me I wont hit you again. Would you go back?