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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I miss the community and the excitement it brought me to discover something new. That faded a long time ago. I think it’s a good thing to just let it die.
I’m going to miss the Star Trek sub but I am hoping the Lemmy one will pick up.
Overall, Reddit has suffered over the years allowing blatant right wing build ups to take root. My old local sub was seeing dog whistles pop up and general quality of the sub sufferes, even more so when the local football people came over and brought their ‘banter’ with them along with shit posts. The mods didn’t really do anything to guide the quality of the sub and I left it last year. Today I deleted my account. No regrets.
Im hoping we get a lot more instances for various niches. Id love ones for particular niche fandoms, like Metroidvanias, or PC gaming, or particular entertainment genres, or animal gifs, that break down into further communities. For example, an pop-nerdy entertainment one could have c/startrek, c/marvel, c/starwars, etc, and only focus on that kind of content.
I dont think one particular instance like Beehaw should have anything more than what the default subs do on reddit
You know what? I’d not even thought of having a seperate instance for stuff like that. I may need to take a look in to how much it would cost and what the moderation effort would be like.
Beehaw posted their financials, not too expensive. As for moderation, you’ll be the admin of your little instance, but you can allow others to mod communities on it. Still considering setting up one instance for my interests (many of them, probably most of them, don’t have communities today in all of Lemmy), but I’m already on call at work and the idea of having to moderate something gives me pause…
Not any more than I mourned digg. Reddit is dying, just like Digg did and we collectively looked for a new home and found Reddit. I am hoping Lemmy takes off and we make our new home a decentralized version of the parts we liked about reddit, without the parts we didn’t like.
Will be a fun ride and I am glad I am on this train with Lemmy (Both Beehaw.org and lemmy.ml)
The issue is that sites have conglomerated in a way Digg could never have dreamed of. So many niche communities have collapsed into subreddits.
Eh, i’ve been on it for probably around 15 years. Not going to miss it, but still will append site:reddit.com to all of my search queries as its impossible to get a good answer anywhere else on the internet
I am a little. I already deleted Apollo to break the habit. One might as well dive into the deep end. I’m all in on Lemmy now. I mourn the critical mass of Reddit but I’m hopeful Lemmy will rise to fill the void.
I deleted RiF a couple of days ago. RiF is reddit to me. I have countless subs and bots blocked. Still, I was scrolling r/all and realized how repulsed I was by the content. It was just page after page of junk. I still have my account, but I haven’t logged in for days.
I am mourning the time I have wasted.
I’m still jumping over there occasionally but once Apollo shuts down I’ll probably be done. There’s some subreddits I love that I might just use those on desktop with Ad block on
It kinda feels like this whole mess is giving me permission to leave. Like when you know that you are in an unhealthy relationship but don’t know how to get out of it and suddenly your partner says that maybe you should start seeing other people.
I honestly doubt I will entirely stop using it, but I will likely entirely stop using it on mobile, and continue to use adblock on old.reddit. Some of the communities there are fairly irreplacable for me for now, especially hobby communities with their wikis and tutorials and years of answered questions you can search for.
It will most likely stop being my main time waster website on the net, though, and for that I’m not sad.
I’m in the same boat. There’s some smaller subs I like that I’ll probably go to with ad block on. If they kill old reddit i’ll be out though.
Yeah I will probably still use Reddit for my hobby communities. The knowledge amassed in those subs is too valuable to leave completely
I’m really fucking pissed because reddit is the only forum for a lot of topics. Realistically, I can’t say I’m going to stop using it totally. Like, you can clearly see it is at risk of a tumblr-esque descent. The CEO has repeatedly said they are “fighting” for nsfw content to remain, but I trust 0% of what that guy says considering he’s repeatedly lied, slandered people and freely admits to just trying to get profitable as soon as possible (see latest ama, for the IPO so he can cash out, presumably). If this really is a Tumblr level decline which it remains to be seen if it is, they’ll be in desperate need of more VC cash so porn is as good as gone.
Anyways, I hope some communities start coming over. The blackout is a good protest, but meaningless if there’s no actual action apart from that. Regarding the blackout, I don’t even really give a shit about “saving” Reddit anymore, as they’ve made it very clear they are beyond saving. I just want the same experience with the same level of community somewhere else (fuck capitalism and centralization though)
I really hope that Reddit never becomes profitable despite all of their best efforts–at least as long as Steve is running it. He is so unprofessional and does not deserve to cash in. I hope he loses money slowly but surely due to his incompetent decisions, just as Lowtax did at SomethingAwful.
I made a post this morning that I didn’t quite realize until afterwards was a “goodbye” post. I did get misty-eyed towards the end of writing it. :(
I don’t plan to stop using it. I’m annoyed by the changes but it is what it is. I doubt Lemmy will be the same level of resource that Reddit is. Lemmy is still great, don’t get me wrong, but to think that entire communities might migrate over is a bit farfetched. Most people are still very confused about how federation exactly works.
Not so much. I’m an early adopter, so it’s not like I haven’t been through this fifty million times already.
This morning, I was mourning it. However, I made a post asking a really simple question earlier but was instead attacked. It was truly such a simple question about something related to my house. So, not anymore.
I was there from 2009, when they welcomed me and asked me to do an AMA while Fark mods temp-banned me accidentally. lol. I spent a lot of the last 14 years on reddit creating some communities, moderating default subs, stepping away twice, but going back each time.
Well, this is finally it. I’m an old.reddit user, so not directly impacted by this, but it’s just a sign that reddit is dead. It’s been dying.
I got into tildes thankfully, as the discussion there is great. And now I’m over here, as I know there’s a large influx from reddit, so hopefully these two sites will fill that gap. :)
Sorry for the stupid question, but what is Tildes?
It’s another Reddit alternative, however I don’t think it’s federated like this is, it’s more straightforward. I got an invite if you want
That would be great! I’d love to try it out.
Hi. I would be most appreciative for an invite to Tildes as well as I’ve been interested in that community too. It and Beehaw look like two of the more promising Reddit alternatives I’ve come across.
I’d also love an invite to Tildes (for anyone reading this) I sent a message to the invites email earlier today but haven’t heard back just yet.
I’ve been mourning Reddit since the r/all porn ban. Content quality overall went downhill, and there were no distractions to the decline left.
For me, this past week or so has just been watching the death throes, and finally looking for something else to move to.
