It seems to be working for me. Fediverse apps don't need to nessesarily be popular with the general public in order to be useful to us in nichie communities.

I’m sure it’s a pipe dream atm, but I’m just hoping fediverse will have a unified method to look up archived posts across all platforms. Unfortunately, it’s probably very difficult to set up because indexing would take forever given the exponentially increasing amount of content. I used to use Reddit to look up a lot of video game info/memes. Reddit’s search engine was garbage, but at least I could find info from older game guides from 10+ years ago. My main concern is that a lot of indie game devs are directing people to talk about their games on Discord, which is terrible for archiving information.

Eh, I've left other sites. Reddit has been going downhill for years.

We need to make fetch happen!

Be the change you want to see. Start a community, advertise it, start bring the reddit folks over here.

I'm sad too. What's with these tech companies making the shittiest changes lately? I thought I'd be fine deactivating my Discord after their horrendous username change since I'd still have Reddit but now Reddit is going to become lower quality. I'll be active on here and Twitter since its fandoms are similarly, like Reddit, seperated by subtwitters (communities)

Same, I've been there since 2012. It's my go-to site for mostly everything and it's difficult to not click on that Reddit bookmark in my browser. This place is a bit empty right now but I'm hoping the blackout and people leaving Reddit will increase the traffic. I also joined Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, so I'm all aboard the Federated train!

At least this place is easy to use if you are already familiar with Reddit, just have to adjust to using different servers instead of having everything in one central place.

agree with all the sentiments here.

but imho think we'd have to agree that the dangers of one corp entity controlling a whole social media platfor (with twitter first and now reddit) are pretty clear.

our communities will coalesce again somewhere but until then we should adopt the spirit of curiosity and just enjoy these new experiences ❤️

If former redditors join here, it's not like actually leaving.

I've been on Reddit for almost 15 years and it's just gotten too big and too moderated for me.

Glad to see it go. It was not as useful as it once was and the community had grown very angry and bitter.

It's how the old saying goes: out with the old in with the new!

Reddit hasn't been the same in years. I've been thinking about leaving for a long time now. Ever since subs started banning people for participating in the "wrong" subreddits, things have really gone downhill. People shouldn't be expected to do a background check on every post they want to comment on.

I just logged out of my account and uninstalled the app (Sync) for the protest, only to realize that I needed an ELI5 30 minutes later... Hopefully my favorite/most useful subreddits manage to join Lemmy as well!

I’m a late adopter of Reddit but it has been the only form of social anything on the web for me, so I will miss it. But I’m also really excited for the stuff here and being apart of something small. I was a longtime lurker on Reddit just because it was so intimidating, felt like it was easy to get put on blast if you accidentally did something wrong.

I remember Digg before Reddit.

I'm going to miss Reddit

Really? I'm excited. Its a wish come true.

Already left Twitter for Mastodon when Elon Musk purchased it. I don't feel bad for leaving Reddit behind, nor do I feel sad. Spez has shown how incompetent he is both as a CEO and a person. I feel bad for the app devs, though.