I have to go back tomorrow, because I need to see the state of the subreddit I moderate, and see if they want to continue the blackout indefinitely. But I've pretty much made peace with the fact that I'll be deleting my Reddit account at the end of the month.
Yes it'll be interesting to see which subreddits continue the blackout or not. But like you I'll be deleting my account at the end of the month as well.
I nuked and deleted my main account already. I have an alt with zero posting history that I could conceivably use if I wanted to try and get more people to shift away from reddit, but I have no interest in going back for any other type of activity.
I kind of like kbin because of the familiar layout, but I just don't really understand how to use lemmy, even with reading the instructions. I expect to probably stay here more and more once the cloudflare debacle gets situated and phase out my reddit usage over time.
I mod on an smaller medium subreddit (100k+) that didn't go private, so I will probably open a magazine here for it, although I am getting tired of modding...it's been almost 4 years modding, 8 years on reddit.
Over ten years on Reddit and I never was tempted to be a moderator, always seemed a thankless job.
I'm in the same boat as you, still figuring this whole thing out. But it's starting to feel like this Lemmy thing could be the future for Reddit-type websites.
If Lemmy and Kbin could get together and have some kind of combined offspring, that would be good I think. I know they are both a part of the fediverse, but interacting between the two is problematic at best.
Lemmy is still using websocket vs REST API, and is pretty buggy, even on the less populated instances. It has potential and they are making progress though.
We're kind of "here at the beginning" right now, I think it's exciting :) I've been looking into the kbin code for a bit now, may look at Lemmy as well then, as I code websockets professionally. I'm liking this whole fediverse idea.
I remember using that app at some stage or another and just getting spammed with useless push notifications even after I turned them off. Promptly uninstalled it.
Don't know if that's changed, but doesnt seem that way based on what i've read.
I'm not going back to reddit, except to delete my shit. I like the 3 alternate sites I've signed up for so far, and I'll be sticking with them and not reddit.
I like it here too. I'm still figuring out the whole Lemmy-verse thing, but I definitely like the idea of it rather than some of the other Reddit alternatives which are seemingly more centralised.
Only downside is, a lot of the ones I frequented were geared towards OC content. I'm not just gonna steal someone's work just because I really want m/macrophotography to take off, for instance, and it's not something I see myself having the time and stubbornness to ask permission of when the users are in the thousands and may have gone ghost five years ago for all I know. So my hands feel tied there.
I deleted my account already. posts are left behind but if anything some of them are technical related to problems I asked about or helped solve and may help someone. So I'll leave them be.
I was ready to jump ship already, but spez's comments in that internal letter really sealed the deal. Honestly Christian said it best, even Twitch, which has been making some pretty crazy decisions lately, has listened to the loudest of the complaints against them and made minor adjustments to their strategy. spez, and by extension reddit, clearly feels their position is too strong to bother caring about the concerns of their community.
i made the decision 10+ years ago to never use amazon again. it's been tough finding alternatives in some cases, but i'll live without reddit just like i've lived without amazon.
Me too, I've been enjoying it though. There's some others but I like the idea of Lemmy so I think I'll be sticking around here or somewhere else connected to it.
It's only after I gave it up I saw the hold it had on me. I removed the Sync icon from my home screen and have found myself instinctively tapping the blank spot where it used to be.
I love the idea of kicking Reddit and staying here but the huge userbase and subreddits get me information I need quickly. It’s hard to leave a place that provides such quick and helpful resources. I don’t want to use it, but it still serves a purpose well. I would love if this place got that sort of traffic.
Definitely stay in the fediverse. The only thing I'm missing is the porn subreddits I used to follow. Any recommended magazines or other instances for this?
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