Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it’s pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i’m not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
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I think I’ll stay here. I like the prospect of building this ting together and shaping it the way we want it. Just that they caved in this one time doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. I would rather invest my time and effort into something I can stand behind and agrees with my believes. I like that it’s open source and decentralised.
Main thing that needs to be addressed with Lemmy/kbin is the mobile app situation which is well…not great at the moment
Same. The API changes are a symptom of a larger change in direction, and even if Reddit backs down from this now, it’s not going to change the fact that decisions about the platform rooted in how to maximize profits are never going to be good for users. I’d rather contribute to a place where the goal is to build something worthwhile, not just something that’s going to line investors’ pockets.
Yeah, Reddit cannot be trusted anymore, even if they revert the API thing (which they don’t even acknowledge as a bad thing), their goal is to please the potential investors and not their community.
The Fediverse is refreshing, made by passion and not for profit, I like Lemmy and I will still stay here even if Reddit backtracks on their decisions.
On Android, Jerboa is pretty ok right now, and the influx of new contributors is a great thing, the development of Jerboa will be way faster now.
Apart from the pains of being a relatively new thing (with very barebones alpha mobile apps) I’m already enjoying Lemmy more than Reddit.
I think they’ve made it super clear the direction they’re going. Even if they back down on the third party API cost, the fact they keep trying to push NFTs, Talks, their own video hosting service, their own little emoticons no third party app can support, the idea of selling all users comments to AI firms… No thanks.
If reddit took a step back I will definitely use it, but the fact that you can ask a question without being flooded with bad jokes makes this platform have value for me. I’ll happily use both.
Exactly. About time reddit has some real competition. Also it’s scary how much important info you can get only on reddit, I hope we can get backups.
Both. Even if Reddit step back this time I think this action is just another on the road to their demise. But Lemmy/Fediverse still needs the critical mass shift to become the true alternative.
I’ll stay.
One of the reasons is that I don’t think Reddit will step back. They might do some changes, and revert some of the decisions, but I’m pretty sure those would be temporary. I don’t trust their CEO and I don’t trust their intentions.
But most importantly, I like the Fediverse. I like hosting my own services, so I don’t depend on a big company which will inevitable change their terms of service, close their APIs, or do something that is not in the best interest of the users, but of the investors and share holders.
Yeah. Spez is still a piece of shit and my old accounts with massive gobs of post history are still banned. My “familiar reputation” that was well respected in a few car groups is long gone, and I can’t get it back via alts without running afoul of the “no ban evasion” policy, so fuck 'em. Lemmy has been working just fine for my light, casual browsing needs. Why would I go back now?
I’ve been hearing a lot about the “fediverse” and just haven’t had any motivation to bother looking into it. But here I am now.
If your girlfriend/boyfriend hit you with a baseball bat but then said sorry didn’t realize you would leave me I wont hit you again. Would you go back?
I would go back, but only because reddit has so much niche content I enjoy. But I am also going to actively support sites like this to bring those communities over here.
I probably will, because I know the communities I was part of there will never be as big and succesful here. Let’s face it, Reddit is far simpler. Lemmy takes a little effort to figure out how to navigate, and many casual internet users won’t want to put in that effort.
That may be a positive though. Early Reddit was better (in my opinion) before all the new users and bots and advertisers. Lemmy feels like that and I prefer the more chill atmosphere.
inb4 sorry, long wall of text.
I’ll stay across multiple fediverse instances, likely including lemmy.ml. I won’t be back to Reddit, not even if Reddit rolls back all the third party app changes, and if spez is fired.
There’s a reason my Lemmy account is two years old, not new: I am already extremely displeased with Reddit, for years. (More than two, by the way.)
It is not just the admins and the businesses. It’s also the moderation system:
I don’t think that the users becoming moderators in Reddit are intrinsically bad people, I was myself a moderator there, but the whole moderation hierarchy boils down to “everyone competent will eventually leave, and the top mod will be eventually a clown with too much time at hands, too little reasoning in his head, and too much power hunger in his stomach”.
It’s also in large part the userbase. Users there behave like braindead morons: they’re assumptive, context-illiterate, they don’t even see what’s wrong with “X said it so it’s true/false” and prone to oversimplify complex matters, in a way that boils down to “u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is 0? dats dumb lol lmao”. And they are extremely disingenuous.
I don’t think that it’s due to inability to reason; I think that it’s the environment of Reddit dictating how you should behave there. What I described about the Reddit user might potentially apply to myself, too, when I’m there. And I don’t want to feel disgusted with myself.
It should not be a surprise that the userbase is like this, when the admins set up the example. A site that launched itself by expecting users to be stupid enough to notice “this place is empty, it’s all sock-puppets” is bound to attract stupid users.
Lemmy is still new. But that’s a boon ; it has plenty of room to grow and already it is teeming with life and a plethora of new ideas.
I was thinking of deleting Reddit before the fiasco because I just wasn’t enjoying it anymore. It was the same with 9GAG many years ago, whose era came to an end when I discovered Reddit.
I find pleasure by browsing Lemmy, so… Now is the time for change. I am not looking back.
I will. No Apollo no Reddit. Easy as that.
Probably not besides looking up old posts and info. After the past week or so of not using Reddit, can’t really say I miss it. Lemmy reminds me of the pre-social media days of web forums and I love it.
ATM my intro Lemmy experience doesn’t have any desirable content. I can deal with new uis, slower loading, etc. But using Lemmy this morning instead of reddit is distinctly a worse experience than normal… Notably because every single post is about reddit lol
Like most of the other people around here, I will definitely stay at Lemmy. But I will also use Reddit as long as it has viable subreddits for me, that I cannot compensate with a Lemmy alternative.
But I hope, that Lemmy will have the same impact than Mastodon had and that many cool communities will rise from this!
I already deleted my reddit account, so there is no going back.
Haven’t deleted mine yet but I did mange to delete all my posts and commemts with Power Delete Suite. Unfortunately for me the “Save local backup” feature didn’t work as expected and I lost 95% of my comments. Oh well
