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If Reddit were to revert it's changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren't any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.

The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I forgot all about SRS, back in the day one of the first times a Reddit comment I wrote got a bunch of upvotes some SRS folks came after me and it was super confusing. I got really bizarre messages from angry people who seemed completely unhinged.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. There were sometimes... excesses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing could convince me to go back, we need decentralization.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.

I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.

With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Iโ€™ll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iโ€™m not looking back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I probably won't permanently boycott them if they revert, but won't leave here either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Depends on the details of what that reversal looked like. They won't reverse though. At best I expect an extended timeline to implement, or modifications to the pricing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit showed their hand and I'm just done with all these corpos. Reddit is my last hold out and I'm slowly leaving that too. I'm moving to the decentralized FOSS future that I believe in where we the people have the power.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'd probably use both in that case, if it's a complete reverse course. Still would probably not use reddit as much as I used to tho due to divided attention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy fixes the fundamental problem with Reddit, so I don't see the point in regressing back to that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There's loads of small communties on reddit that haven't migrated yet, so I'll probably keep using reddit a little even if they don't revert... But a lot less.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'd probably return to using Reddit through the Infinity app, but I'd mostly use Lemmy. There are some communities there that just don't have equivalents here yet

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, I'll probably keep using it. I like the scale of the community and the resulting coverage of subject matter, and without something major pushing people away that's going to be on Reddit.

Have any other social media sites backed down? IIRC Tumblr, Digg and of course Twitter just went straight off the cliff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enormous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What kept me at reddit was the content, not the company. If the content moves here, then this is where I'll stay. If most content remains at Reddit, which would be unfortunate. Then I'd probably try to juggle both, depending on how my time goes here.

So far, it's been rather positive. I've got most of my daily dose of community conversation, but I'm missing that video streak at the moment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think I'm on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we'll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The last time reddit pulled some shit, I found tildes and expanded the sites I visited regularly/ semi-regularly (and reducing how much time I spent on reddit). Reddit reverting the latest changes will only minimize the damage on my end, as I'll be spending time here that I could otherwise be spending over there.

This stunt reduced the already diminished trust I have for reddit. Having migrated to reddit due to the digg v4 fiasco, over the years, reddit's decisions have been like digg v4 in slow motion. Each fuckup just causes me to further reduce the amount of time I spend using the site. One of these days, they'll cross too many of my red lines, and reddit will become completely useless to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy reminds me of early Reddit and I like that. The mask is all the way off now. Reddit was pretty fun 10+ years ago but that time has come and gone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They have already tipped their hand and shown that money is what they are actively after. My trust is gone. If they were to revert changes at this point, I would simply read that as "We have delayed our plan until we come up with something else."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll use both then. reddit is still unparalleled for support, simply because of its sheer size

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?

Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Personally I doubt I'll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I'll happily let my account gather dust unless there's a support question or something for a community that hasn't taken off here.

Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I'm supposed to be a writer, I would probably get more actual writing done.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iโ€™m not looking back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I plan on sticking to lemmy and only using reddit on the pc for specific things that I can't find here for the time being

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yep, congrats Reddit you've become StackOverflow for me. Searching for weird answers and taking them. I'm no longer contributing, I have Sync on my phone out of respect, but will not participate there. Not that karma matters, but I see tons of posts here of some super high karma users all leaving - which does mean that they pissed off their largest contributors.

As Facebook before them, let them drive out their content creators and let themselves fall into the corporate ad-riddled hellscape they want.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Reddit is doing a tumblr so I don't think is gonna recover that easy. Reddit is not gonna allow NSFW subs to be seen outside of the official app, who the hell watches porn from the official app? So many people is gonna drop it.

I think is still gonna survive IF subs like askreddit, amitheasshole or entitledparents are still up and have a lot of people posting, because they so many YT channels read from those (and I hear them daily as podcasts) but if the mayor subs go dark or shutdown is not gonna affect reddit only, but also so many people who works reading those.

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