Asklemmy

I feel like I’ve been evicted from a house I loved and I’m kinda struggling with this feeling

It's complicated. joined in 2018 right before they introduced new reddit and even back then there was a stigma reddit was "getting bad". However, reddit has been the best place for me to discover new things and the niche communities and interests were really great. I use an extension (that will surely die alongside the 3rd party apps) to find reddit comments associated with any youtube video that made my browsing really great.

The thing that makes me most upset is how they pulled out the rug from so many people and then acted like it was the people on top of the rug's fault it was pulled.

I don't really care... Reddit is constantly spamming me with follow bots from Only Fans, and I have never posted in a NSFW sub.

I'm also hopeful the way this is structured we will see a bit better moderation of servers/subs.

I’m more upset about losing Apollo than anything. That app was the best thing to happen to the Reddit experience for me, and losing it will be weird for a while.

Haven’t been on KBin too long, but I’m glad to have found it.

Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.

Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let's rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.

Open-source is the future, and I'm willing to invest my time on it.

I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love

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.

A little bit, there's a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I've been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there's no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).

I like that it's back to small communities. Like Reddit once was.

Had an account for 11 years but lurked for a few before. Yes. I been expecting it for years since its been declining but still going to miss it.

No. All I got from reddit was negative interactins and videos of decapitations... I think this is a good time to get away from that place.

yes absolutely, found so many new hobbies just browsing/wasting time on reddit, let's hope that carries over to lemmy.

I'm excited to be diving into the federated side of things, but yeah. I've been an avid user of Reddit as a discussion board since the old days. There are some great technical communities there. Love the platform, but am struggling to deal with it any longer.

Honestly not really. I am not fully abandoning reddit either but in my case it's less about a boycott and more the fact that I almost exclusively access reddit on my phone and I find the official app genuinely too frustrating to use. This isn't even like an anger thing, I literally can't figure the piece of shit out. So once Relay is dead I am just going to be visiting reddit way, way less. From my perspective this wasn't my choice, reddit has forced me out. But for a good few years now I have been looking for an excuse to branch out. It's been a toxic cesspool of fascist enabling for some time so I am actually a little grateful this is happening now. I needed a little push to get myself off their platform for the most part. And so far the Lemmyverse looks pretty promising to me.

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.

Eh, good content was less and less common in a sea of low effort fluff and reposts. Once I started actively blocking subreddits I didn't care about, I got deeper into the fluff much more quickly.

There will always be nerds pooling quality content. Reddit was the best place for that for a while, but like all pools it had grown stagnant. I'm excited to witness the revitalization afforded by migration. The site is just a site. It was nice, but all things must pass, and metamorphize in passing.

No it's long since passed it's prime when it stood for something nows its just a cash grab.

As Ivan Drago says if he dies , he dies

Nah, this is exciting, like getting out of a mildly abusive relationship that all your friends and family knew was bad and had been trying to get you to leave the jerk for years and now you’re finally out the door. And you feel that spark in your chest, the stirring of anticipation you’ve not felt in a long time.

Get into it, you fucking hedonist