For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
Actually I feel excited, because Lemmy has sparked a new interest in news aggregators and the fediverse and I’m enjoying my time here a lot.
I agree, it feels a bit like the internet in the early days, where you can find mindblowing new things just around the corner with a single click
Exactly! And without being called names for asking questions or interacting with people.
F u, you son of a… (I’m just joking. Are we doing /s here?)
Yup and no big corps were tracking us.
@mrmanager @Acetamide excited for this decentralization of user information! Is Lemmy.today accepting registrations?
Absolutely, I would be happy to get more users. It’s a decent server too with nice speed.
Agreed! Reddit was just becoming a karma farming center. Honestly, it’s been nice to burn it all to the ground and start over
Fully agree, I’ve been TOO excited since I found out about Lemmy’s existence. I can’t wait to see how it progresses with so many people joining. :-)
Yes but I think more from a familiarity standpoint (10 year old account). I had my routine of subreddits to visit. I also liked the centralization on content.
This new federation of sites is going to take a bit of time for me to figure out. I used the reddit app and was ok with it. What actually pissed me off the most was the callousness of the admins. Fuck that.
I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won’t force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn’t include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add “reddit” to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or are completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.A little bit. What I hate is losing the communities related to my hobbies. Reddit is/was very very helpful for me. Finding new music, finding new games, discussing movies and TV, learning about weird movies or cult shows, sharing my stuff to people that find it cool… It was 11 years of that. I needed that site, so many very helpful posts. I hope whatever comes next is better. For now I’m here, waiting to see what happens.
I joined Reddit during the digg exodus. Before digg I was into fark and before fark, something awful.
It’s good that things die. it’s where new mediums come from. It also keeps the power with the user. It’s an important part of the internet life cycle.
Nah, I’m mad as hell, they had years to sort this crap out. They can burn.
I’m more upset about losing Apollo than anything. That app was the best thing to happen to the Reddit experience for me, and losing it will be weird for a while.
Haven’t been on KBin too long, but I’m glad to have found it.
For me it’s like moving to a small town. Instead of a whole scene into each if my weird interests it’s just a few cool people. But thats just a function of population.
Reddit has gone downhill for a couple of years. I am glad it will die.
No, not heartbroken at all. Maybe you can call it the R-word? Ha!
Sure, but here’s the thing. If we all just moved to another centralized system, we’d just be setting the timer for the next heartbreak. It’s a matter of when, not if.
Lemmy’s growth will be slow. It may even stagnate. But, unlike Orkut, Friendster, Google+, etc. it can’t be taken away from us. lemmy.ml might even shut down, but the Fediverse will always be here in one form or another.
I think it’s exciting witnessing this platform take off almost literally overnight. The past few days I’ve been trying to figure out how lemmy actually works with little success. Tonight though it’s actually clicking, there’s actually content and discussion.
@Acetamide I don’t understand why though. We live in a capitalist system, and therefore Reddit has to make money in order to survive. On the current path, Reddit won’t exist AT ALL. So we either get a Reddit with some fees that devs don’t like, or no Reddit at all.
I don’t care that mutch about Reddit Inc, but rather about all the communities I was once part of.
Oh yeah, I mean I find my self wanting to check it right now even, not checking reddit is giving me a huge sense of FOMO but that is reason enough alone to make me want to leave it lmao
A bit heartbroken, but I always wanted decentralized forum like the old days. Having it federated makes it better and I hope Lemmy can succeed as an alternative. Using something that is too centralized make it hard if something like this happens.
Though I hope I can still search for x topic + lemmy (instead of x topic + reddit) for when I want to find some opinions on x topic.
