Asklemmy

Totally agree. My reddit account is 12 years old, and I was only just now starting to gain confidence that there would already be a sprawling community for a new topic I found. I know it will take a long time to get that feeling again, but it's also refreshing to see the fantastic discussions on this platform.

Yes, I do. Reddit was a great source for troubleshooting and interesting knowledge. But without the drama and the resulting digital diaspora I would have never found out about lemmy.

It reminds me of when I tried switching to Linux (from Windows). Functional but lacking a lot of mainstream software, especially games. Lemmy feels way easier to use like a normal website, but there is a feeling almost akin to homesickness.

I'm used to the layout of RIF and my niche subreddits NCD/Ukraine Conflict, NBA but I'm posting here and trying to add to the community. Hoping for a better mobile app one day though:X

Nah, honestly this is great. I missed the old Reddit with less people and a more community feel. This is fantastic!

Nah, they were just a company after all. The strongest feeling I get is that it's just a bummer because I've grown to depend on the platform so much and now I've got to try and adapt.

At the same time, as this thing that was previously an interesting little curiosity on a corner of the web grew to be a big time suck and addiction, the dopamine hit returns and actually helpful interactions I was getting from Reddit were diminishing anyway so when there was finally a convenient push to make me try harder to either find an alternative or just ditch it, I was strangely grateful.

I do feel like I'm losing something that was very useful resource and which also filled a need, albeit one that it created in the first place, but at the end of the day, it's just a forum. I can't really feel betrayed or heartbroken by an entity that was only ever intended to make money and had no obligation to my approval.

I felt a little like that. I miss a few of my favorite subs. The “break up” feelings went away when I stopped lurking and started participating.

Hmm~ I guess I feel sad a little, yeah. Reddit was a pretty cool place. Still is if you hang in the right communities. But I do most of my browsing using a mobile app as of late and if they're killing off RIF and Apollo, I might as well look elsewhere. I also feel a little optimistic about this "migration" slowly taking place, since this time it's not out of some knee-jerk reaction to admins banning some problematic subreddits, spawning places like Voat.

And the federated, open-source nature of Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon reminds me of how a group of friends can create their own Discord server.

Yes, particularly for the more niche communities

No I don't get attached to things like social media sites.

I just keep thinking to myself, "it's the end of an era"

Reddit has been the only social network I've used for 12 years. I've watched it go through so much change over the years, but it always felt like even at its worst, it showed its users more respect and gave them more control over what content they saw than any other social network out there. I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Lemmy, but it makes me sad to watch RiF and Reddit phase out of my life.

A bit, yes. I'd been on Reddit for over a decade, and grew attached to the site and the many different communities that were there. I could find a subreddit for nearly anything.

But over time, one could see it begin to change. It started with "new" reddit, then NFTs, and it all felt like it started to move away from what it began as. It also became more toxic (though this may be more due to users than the site itself).

But now, we can plainly see that Reddit/Spez is all about profit and greed, nothing else. Gotta get that IPO for shareholders, right?

Though Lemmy is still small, I'm excited to see what it can become.

Not sad, just disappointed. They could have the perfect app and they ruined it, all just for more money.

A little sad and a lot salty, my main account got suspended by reddit in retaliation for actions taken as a moderator and got totally ignored by members of the mod relations team and their oh so smugly named "anti evil operations" drones.

I'm sad Reddit is no longer the site it was

I'm glad that Spez and the rest of the reddit execs get to see their precious cash-cow die in flames.

Definitely! I will miss my late-night reading and scrolling. Also, getting invested in comment sections and learning new things from strangers. I will miss Apollo so much.

In a way I'm a little sad but I'm also hopeful. I started on Reddit 13 years ago and it was a very different place than it is now. I liked it better then, and I think I'm sad and will miss it for what it was, not what it is. I'm hopeful for a fresh start here on Lemmy where it feels like I'm getting back to the actual conversation with other users, which is what I miss about the current Reddit. There's very little conversation there anymore, so much of it is just pictures and jokes and bots.

I've been on giant, corporate owned services for so long, I kinda forgot what it's like to be out in the cottage industry of small websites.

I guess I'm still in the denial phase. I haven't technically left reddit yet. I guess during the blackout, then I'll really know how I feel without it. I'll definitely have to leave once RIF stops working.

I'm just having a really hard time getting used to kbin and Lemmy.

I'll miss the r/place

Joining discords and forming alliances with complete strangers over a few pixels was quite a good time

I'm from the state of Kerala in India. We had 4-5 active n quite decent subreddits on the state, local memes n all.
People are moving into lemmy, but many might not. Some might stay away from reddit, even after the blackout ends. Overall, I think they were fun people to interact with and since it's not sure whether an equivalent community will be built up here, it's sort of a loss.

I'm mostly sad about losing the communites i loved, for which I have not yet found a comarable one on lemmy. r/cars and r/cartalk mostly

Maybe now I'll be abit happier lol seeing nothin but mad American politics and videos of nazi rallies just makes me lose hope for humanity, at least of it's more out of sight that'll be better for everyone's mental health

I do yes. I've been on that place for 4 - 5 years and moving out for the first time is quite a change.

Been on reddit for almost a decade. Watched it fall from a great website to the current day shithole. I'm relieved actually.

Yes and no. Reddit had become toxic and a shadow of it's former self. It was a good run for 11 years. Hopefull Lemmy can be an alternative. :)

I felt sad at first. When I saw that disaster of AMA it motivated me to just leave and delete my account.
I was a lurker on Reddit but here I get to participate and you really feel heard.

Absolutely! I was able to find so many communities and started new hobbies there. But I just have to remind myself that I was there for 12 years so it just takes time to find that elsewhere.

Not much. There's so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there's a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.

Absolutely. I had 86k karma, and wasted 3-4 years on there...

Not that much compared to some people but I like to think that I contributed a lot of content to the site.

Now I saw this crap and decided to move.