I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Hehe that’s kind of the same thing I am experiencing with Mastodon
If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.
But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I've already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.
So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.
The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it's understandable: they're a giant platform on the web, but they're unprofitable - they'd like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I've already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.
My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This "mass exodus" is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don't care. But I'm enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I'm just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.
Maybe if reddit didn't spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn't be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.
I won't go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.
It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.
"Ending up like Facebook" is framed as a bad thing here, but it's an amazingly great outcome if you're a Reddit executive or investor. Facebook may have fallen out of favor among the kinds of people who post on Lemmy, but it is massively profitable and is either the #2 or #3 most visited site on the Internet depending on whether you count YouTube as part of Google. Reddit would love to fail like that!
Nah, even if they reversed the bad changes they're making completely I still wouldn't go back. I'm over spez's attitude. Plus, reddit was toxic af--I'm excited to be exploring a new community instead.
Will reddit continue? Yes.
Will reddit ever make a profit? No.
A chance...for me to still use it? Sure. I've always just had my list of niche subs, never used /all or /popular or whatever. It's fine. It's like french fries. But it's great to have an alternative where the goal isn't "i want to be a complete antisocial goblin and spew hate everywhere".
Taking some time to learn about the Fediverse, it almost feels like an IRC network. Individual networked nodes cooperating with each other to facilitate communication. It's an old school idea with a very modern perspective. I love the idea and I hope it grows.
I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.