this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
638 points (98.6% liked)

Reddit

13627 readers
1 users here now

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm doing my part. I hope others do an exodus and not a hiatus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there’s a lot of us who are fed up. Reddit was an important part of my life but I haven’t been back since the AMA and I don’t intend to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For sure, but I am cynical about people's convictions when it comes to their sources of leisure and free time. I see it in all places. Folks are gonna watch the new flash even though doing so will help Miller's career. Activision/Blizzard has proven to be horrendous and for those that don't care about that, they also underdelivered on overwatch 2. Diablo 4, however, is the best selling game in the series. Even back in the day folks had wanted to boycott left 4 dead 2 only for them to end up buying it anyways.

Things like that make me hopeful, but my optimism is tempered.

[–] kane 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's enough content here on lemmy to scratch my itch to scroll

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure. I'm enjoying it, but reddit's downfall really depends on how many divest from it and can join us here. I think it'll be fine because people are coming and there will be guides to help folks navigate, but only time will tell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there will be no "downfall" and i think that attitude will make things harder for a place like this to thrive

it needs to be kinda its own thing. we need more than one place for this type of shit. Reddit is fine honestly. they are a business (maybe a shitty one) but thats the game

it just sucks that there isint another option, so when people started jumping ship i joined em.

i just dont want one mega corp to own the data on the internet as much as i can help it (which admittedly is not much) so this seemed like a real easy way to try

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Downfall was definitely the wrong word to use. I want this to be impactful and make Reddit change course, but that can only happen if enough people leave.

[–] Tragic 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s like 2% of Reddit, needs more adoption and to be more user friendly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for reddit to send me my personal data, so I can make my comments unuseable for anything, I guess they either are wise of it or there are a lot more requests than usual, but I'm done with reddit. And there is more and more big name sites i'm just... not wanting to interact with anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah same i just want to backup my stuff before getting rid of it all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and I want to completely destroy my history so it hurts anyone using reddit for AI Training, just replace all my comments with markov chain nonsense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago