• @Nurgle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good for them, but the damage is already done. They seeded this place with a lot of users. Will it be enough? Who knows. But Lemmy is probably a looooot further along than if they didn’t shoot themselves in the foot.

    This place obviously needs to continue with good content and active communities, but at moment I don’t really have the urge to open Reddit they way things are.

    • @acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world
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      1141 year ago

      Absolutely. I had never even heard of Lemmy or anything Fediverse prior to all the 3rd party API shutdown. Once Apollo died, I stopped using Reddit.

      • Kerrigor
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        401 year ago

        I had heard of it, but was like “that’s dumb, just use Reddit, there’s no reason not to”

        They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider

        • @Meltbox@lemmy.world
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          241 year ago

          Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.

          • TheSaneWriter
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            211 year ago

            Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.

        • livus
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          1 year ago

          I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.

          But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”

          Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.

          • @fuzzzerd@programming.dev
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            11 year ago

            That’s exactly what happened to me too. It was in the background until something disrupted my status quo and then there was no looking back.

        • Yup, I saw the paltry userbase and didn’t bother. Other alternatives like lobste.rs and Tildes were a bit too closed, so I just stuck with Reddit. When Reddit decided to be stupid, I tried out lemmy and haven’t looked back.

      • @Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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        121 year ago

        That, and Reddit was getting pretty fucking annoying. The little annoyances had really begun to pile up for me personally and I know I’m not alone.

      • @Dragontre@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        When RiF died I deleted my accounts and found my way here. I still open a couple of niche subreddits from time to time just to check on updates but otherwise my time on Reddit is done. 2010-2023 (damn I hate to admit that).

      • @Ganrokh@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        The host of a tech podcast I listen to has had a Mastodon instance for years. I knew of the Fediverse because of that, but I always thought of it as decentralized Twitter and not necessarily a way to decentralize all types of social media platforms.

    • Good News, Everyone!
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      231 year ago

      I lurked on reddit for years. I was lurking here for a couple weeks now but thought I should make an account to contribute. Reddit has gone down hill and I’ll never go back.

      • livus
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        21 year ago

        Me too. Can’t even remember who mentioned Kbin but it’s perfect for me.

    • @Polydextrous@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      Yeah, even when I’ve had the urge to check Reddit for something I’m trying to figure out, I will do everything I can to avoid it. And if I can’t, I try to determine how much I care about what I’m searching before I even give them a single click. It’s a small, insignificant protest, but it’s a forever protest, for me. I’m happy on lemmy, I don’t browse as much, I interqct with more of the community and want to help build it. On Reddit, I felt dirty because of everything they’ve been doing the last 5 or so years. Tencent, killing third party apps slowly and then in one fell swoop, etc. fuck ‘em

      • Hey_Bim
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        21 year ago

        I’ve had to visit Reddit twice since the protests started, to get information from a specific user. Both times, I used Brave browser in Private mode. They didn’t get to count me as a login, they couldn’t serve me ads, and their trackers were blocked.

        I don’t anticipate needing to go back to Reddit ever again, but for anyone who can’t avoid it, I recommend that method.

    • FartsWithAnAccent
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      101 year ago

      Lemmy, Kbin, Raddle, Tildes, etc. - there are definitely more alternatives that are becoming increasingly popular.

    • monsoon
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      51 year ago

      I’m glad to have moved to lemmy. It feels raw and real, vs reddits polished curated feel. As if I’m actually reading posts by people. And I like that is doesn’t get me scrolling too much.

      • Sinnerman
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        21 year ago

        It feels raw and real, vs reddits polished curated feel. As if I’m actually reading posts by people.

        Because on reddit we were reading posts by bots.

    • squiblet
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      1 year ago

      I went to reddit every day for over a decade, and now, I don’t. Zero desire to and in fact desire not to, same as Tweeter.