I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
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Yeah for sure. I was on reddit for 13 years, there were users I recognised by name, people I was friendly with, people I’d have intense debates with, many, many, many subreddits I loved.
But nothing lasts forever, and this place seems nice so here’s to new beginnings 🍻
Same exact situation here. Been on reddit since digg v4 happened. Reddit was far from perfect, but for the most part I enjoyed my time there. If this is the end of reddit, then so be it. Lemmy/Beehaw looks like it can grow into a good replacement.
Us old timers! 14 years on Reddit, from digg
Heres to new beginnings!! 💖🥳🥳
I mourn what it was, yes.
There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech issues and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after a tech resource post was made.
And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. Not only that, but it’s one of the few places that exists on the web where cohesive and coherent discussions even exist. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge. I sincerely hope lemmy can take its place, but there are going to be some major growing pains if we get big influx of “redfugees.”
It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.
___Yea kinda. I think Reddit in general is quite amazing. People harp about toxic social media etc, but there’s something truly great about being able to find people of common interests from all around the world.
In general… This is what internet was supposed to be, right.
Plus nobody forces you to deanonymyze yourself. With that comes some pretty cool culture.
Although admittedly I’ve noticed the mood on the whole site being more sour in the past months to a year… But maybe that’s me more than anything.
It’s a shame such a model is apparently not sustainable as a business. Maybe it’s true that there should be public services fulfilling this purpose.
Yeah, I’m slowly becoming convinced that actually useful social media is incompatible with being for-profit.
There were times you would find a small community with a few people and it would be really good.
I’m mourning the communities i found, but not reddit itself. Spez has been a turd forever. I saw him at a tech inclusion conf like 6-7 years ago and they knew then he was such a shit they didn’t even allow questions from the audience. He said nothing useful and basically said “we keep the donald because both sides” and not so subtly that they keep everyone for add views.
He sucks ass and is only concerned about IPO and will likely just change the r/all to whatever is left and declare the IPO a victory as users bleed away.
Hoping to find more of my old communities around lemmy with hopefully less bigots.
What’s happening is so clearly a money grab. Spez has decided he wants to cash out and there’s no one who can stop him. RIP, Aaron Schwartz.
Honestly, yeah. Reddit has been part of my daily routine for 12 years now. Sure, a lot of the content is junk food for the brain, and reddit has changed a lot during that time, but I’ve also learned a lot of cool things and had a lot of interesting conversations there. Lemmy looks promising, but it’s still very nascent. The userbase is small, it’s missing a lot of the niche communities that you can find on reddit, and the tech is glitchy. Overall it feels a lot more like tinier than reddit (which duh, of course it does).
Reddit is also a bad habit that I’ve wanted to reduce for a while now, so maybe this is the shove I needed.
Lemmy did not have the same amount of work as Reddit. I guess it’s like day 1 reddit. But it has potential to grow. Maybe
Honestly, I feel disappointment. What reddit was, or at least how I saw it, is not what was on display for the past few weeks.
But my excitement for new things is awesome! I miss the days of stumbling across new, exciting, and weird sites instead of 1 all powerful site. The feeling of starting something anew is fun, and I’m looking forward to learning how to use and defining what this site is with y’all.
I was part of the Digg migration. I’m part of the Reddit migration. I’ll be part of the next migration.
The impermanence of life.
It’s migration all the way down!
Kinda. I’ve been a part of it so long, and it has exposed me to so much new stuff. Reddit got me through some tough times as a kid, and I definitely would’ve been a different person if I hadn’t found reddit.
But the site has been dying for a while now. Hivemind is bigger than before, so many more teenagers, no one is following rediquette, and admins are actively trying to 9Gag-ify the place. I’ve been finding myself disliking the place more and more for a while, sinking time into it more out of habit than anything else.
The only things I’m gonna miss is the ease of access to expert opinions - I could just go on the trees or bugs or any other niche subreddits and get someone really knowledgeable to answer it.
That, and discussions about my city and country - not many folks joining sadly
I feel like reddit dying could be a positive thing for me. For years now I have felt the negative influence that its toxic environment - fueled by impersonal, discordant interactions - had on me. Not to mention the complete destruction of my ability to concentrate caused by the micro dopamine hit targeting of social media UX. I’m hoping that moving to a smaller platform will help with some of that pervasive anger I feel as a result of constant reddit usage.
Really digging (no pun intended) the fediverse vibe so far, so no mourning, but excitement.
Absolutely, me too.
There were good things about Reddit, but I recognized a while ago that it was having a negative impact on my mental health. I had already been trying to use it less. On the other hand for the last few days when the Reddit drama has picked up I’ve found myself scrolling through lemmy more, and not necessarily in the positive participatory way that I’d prefer.
We’ll see how it all shakes out in the medium to long term I guess.
I agree that Lemmy could end up filling the same negative voids that reddit does. I suppose my hope is that by restricting the conversation and limiting bad-faith arguments, there will be less toxicity here relative to reddit.
In the end, addicting us with anger and outrage in order to drive participation and clicks is the end-stage of all social media, and that cat is out of the bag. But perhaps there’s a little temperance that can be found if we don’t see social media foremost as an opportunity to harvest data but as a way to interact and share ideas.
At least Lemmy doesn’t employ secret proprietary algorithm pitting, ad injection, dark patterns to funnel people to the bloated battery draining mobile app, shadowbanning or session tracking techniques. Even if I disagree with the politics of this instance I do appreciate a space to actually discuss without corporate interference in a federated platform. I really really hope this kicks in.
I’m not really “mourning” it, but I had a weird feeling, like the end of a great book (series) or movie, like I wish it would have continued more.
Hiwever after switching to lemmy, the community here seems way more active and friendly, and even though there are less overall users, I get more interaction with my posts and comments, maybe also because they aren’t drowned in a sea of other comments.
I have the same feeling - I feel welcome here even though I spent years on Reddit lurking. I’m not mourning Reddit however as I’ve watched its slow decline over the years. Here’s to many happy years on Lemmy!
Reddit isn’t so much killing itself as rather being killed for money.
This is why I hate capitalism. It ruins everything, including the planet and the future.
Pity we can’t have a social media site that’s a public service!
Run by who, your friendly neighborhood local government?
No thank you. I think Lemmy is great. Hopefully it catches on sufficiently for niche communities to really develop.
The fact that it’s a teeny tiny bit more technical than reddit is a nice barrier against utter stupidity.
Governments are at least answerable to the people, or should be. Corporations are answerable to no one except their major stockholders.
As for the learning curve for Lemmy, I think that’s been overemphasized. People can learn. And at the same time feedback from the increasing number of users will help the devs to smooth out the rough edges, making Lemmy easier to use.
I remember when practically nobody knew what the internet was. Now everybody’s walking around with the internet in their pocket, using it all the time.
I don’t mourn Reddit, I mourn the people and ideas I enjoyed engaging with through it. But, I’m glad people chose to find another way to engage (such as Lemmy) vs. staying in that toxic system. :)
Exactly. I’m definitely gonna miss some of the meme subs and topic-specific subreddits but honestly I’m not going to miss the platform itself or most of the content there.
I really should have moved on from it a while ago like I did with twitter tbh. Life is so much better with less social media, and when the stuff I engage with is genuinely more positive. I don’t have forever to live and don’t need to waste time in a toxic relationship of any kind, especially with reddit
I think, at a fundamental level the Reddit I am mourning isn’t Reddit as it exists now, but perhaps how I imagine it did ten or so years ago, the so called “Early Days”. We’re all here now because Reddit at is now is unsustainable and actively hostile against it’s users. The contradiction between the need for monetization of the userbase and the userbases disgust at being monetized. This isn’t a recent occurrence but sometimes we need to get a bit of a kick to realize how bad its been, in retrospect.
I do know, as many fellow tech people do, whenever I have to look into a problem I haven’t encountered before, appending “Reddit” to the search often leads me closer to an answer. I will miss that, as it had become so well indexed. Lemmy isn’t there yet in terms of being indexed.
There’s definitely some stages of withdrawal going on for me. Having relied on that site for many years as a source of information, commentary, and just plain ol’ entertainment scrolling on my lunch break, I definitely feel the sense of loss.
But that AMA yesterday with Spez really enforced that the site’s not going to be at all what it used to be.
I’m definitely going to miss using Apollo, as well as the subreddits I frequented. What I won’t miss are the subs dedicated to misinformation and intolerance that have been allowed to fester for way too long. I have high hopes that Beehaw will do a good job at keeping that crap out.
I don’t mourn Reddit, but I am sad that it’s another example of the commoditization and corporatization of the modern internet.
Hopefully federated networks, P2P protocols, and FOSS software/frameworks are able to provide a robust and healthy web going forward into the future. The era of the free general internet is over, has probably been for a long time honestly. Now if massive companies want to stay afloat in that space, they will need to make huge profits. Everything as you are seeing nowadays, is being monetized and centralized.
Maybe this truly is late stage Capitalism and the collapse of it all is on the horizon, idk. But as long as I have an internet connection and things I am interested in doing on there, I will be trying to resist the corpos as long as I can.
Long live the free and open internet!
(PS, power to the users, and I can and do contribute to the products and services I use from these wonderful people in our communities <3)
