Apollo WAS Reddit for me. Saying goodbye to both was bittersweet and like losing a dear friend, but life goes on, and the only thing constant is change.
Time to move on. There is no drop in replacement for Reddit and there never will be, IMO, and whatever springs up will have many rough edges for a good long time.
I'm hoping to stick around kbin as I'm enjoying exploring this place but a big part of me sticking around depends on whether some of the communities I followed on Reddit come to kbin.
Subeta / Neopets [thru the McDonald's merger] -> Tumblr [through the female presenting ban] -> Twitter [til 🇺🇦 news stopped showing up in Top] -> reddit [til Spez's ego trip AMA].
I'm used to seeing the moment my internet reveals itself to be profit driven and deaf to its userbase; I'm bored with the changes that come from commercial interest superceding usability.
Yet, also: the internet I loved is well and truly dead. Randomcore is cringe and everything wants my main audio channel or to serve video content. I'm not interested in creating low effort memes or writing long form internet-personality posts; I prefer simping irl. I'm desperately hoping the Fediverse is the vessel I'm comfortable in because I feel like I'm jumping ships without a destination in mind.
I don't think I will go back. I've moved on from reddit for good. Even if they take back the API change, they are still a corporate company and will still try to make money off us.
Whether I'll stick to Kbin or not, I don't know. But I'm definitely sticking with the fediverse. I've already replaced Twitter with it and other, better sites outside of fedi (e.g. Itaku for artists). I'll replace Reddit too.
Nope.
I’m liking it here and I also discover Mastodon which I enjoy too.
I don’t see the point of using Reddit anymore considering the stance of the CEO.
It’s never gonna be better, we are at the enshitification phase of Reddit.
I am a Reddit addict, but i think kbin is growing on me. If they still don't reverse their decision about API pricing it looks like I will be doing less browsing on mobile. that being said I been wanting to scale down the time I spend on reddit, so using kbin helps as it works best on desktop
There's been a couple of times in the last few years that I've looked into Reddit alternatives. My willpower to figure out a new system had never overcome the clunkiness of the alternatives. But now, given the clunk inherent in new.reddit and its first party app, I've forced myself to look into alternatives. And the alternatives are much more polished and active than they were before. Obviously I have to grant a bit of leeway to these nascent sites, but it really does feel like the internet back around 2005-2012. In fact, it's brought up a bit of nostalgia on my part and some re-evaluation of whether endlessly scrolling Reddit (or anything really) actually made a positive impact to my life.
I've forced myself to use Kbin, Lemmy and Mastodon, and ventured over to Tildes and Bluesky as well. It's exciting to see so many promising alternatives to Reddit. The userbases are also very manageable. I don't feel like I'm typing in the void, but still feel like there are enough people to have a good variety of voices.
All that said, I'll still use old.reddit for some niche communities, but will try to be more and more active in the alternatives.
I'm keeping my feet in two shoes for now, at least until they kill old.reddit for good - already I won't use it on mobile as Apollo will die soon.
One thing is for sure - I used to do efforts to produce good quality posts or comments on Reddit and help/support the communities/subs I was part of, but now I'm reluctant to do so and relinquish such IP to Reddit.
I'll be read-only there and contribute here in kbin.social and the fediverse as it grows.
I'll likely continue using Apollo while I still can until the API token is deleted. I plan on fully switching to fediverse sites for the most part. Unless I really need to lookup something specific and reddit seems to have the answer. I'm enjoying Kbin a lot though so I plan on staying for a while :)
I'd assume most of the hordes hitting fediverse equivalents will go back to reddit tomorrow. Same thing happened with Twitter migration back in Nov -22.
Personally I don't have reddit accounts anymore, so nothing to go back to.
I saw Digg die. I’ll watch Reddit die. And one day I’ll see Kbin die but for now, I know it’s got some growing pains to work through. Reddit has turned into post after post of “deleted” and I’m done with it.
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