After years of using reddit, i finally deleted everything including my account there. Personally, i am not affected by the api prices, BUT, i couldn't live with me supporting people, who see their userbase, moderators and creators as nothing but noise. The point i'm making? Greetings Lemmy. I joined a few days ago and i'm here to stay so cheers everyone and, hi
It's paaaaainfully obvious that that's all reddit really is anymore... I know some people would disagree, but I think they tested how extreme people could get about the masks and stuff to test the influence of reddit and realized it could be used entirely for thought control.
I think the best thing for society is to move on from the platform.
It felt really weird to leave. I still have yet to delete my account but I am still getting used to the interface here. Once the learning curve is over, I plan to go back and delete.
You take it at your own pace. I mean, technically you are stepping out of your comfort zone by checking something new (which is a good thing imo) and i'm sure you'll getting used to the ui sooner rather than later. It's rally minimalistic and not bloated with hundreds of buttons. I welcome you as well on lemmy.
PS: If it helps you somehow, remember that there was a time where reddit was not a thing until someone made it and it was.
Things are going quite smoothly here (except for picture upload but i heard that it already gets worked on) and the content is indeed growing every day. Maybe the perfect opportunity to correct some things or have a better start. I'd take it as such and i'm glad to hear that the convertion over to lemmy is helping you out. Social Media sure does a good job on sucking you in until way too much time is gone, but with less busy shit going on on the screen and the platform relying on real social interaction (you know exactly what i mean by that kek), one might be less forgetting of touching some grass. Either way, glad to have you here and i hope it goes better for you as time continues. We live in times that are way too fast paced, to the point where we forget to just exist from time to time. I wish you luck with maintaining that part of life that you regained through this and a pleasant stay.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I love Reddit and I love the community. I'm a mod of a couple great small subs. But the site management has broken my trust. And that means it's time for me to 'grow up' and start putting serious thought into which networks I'm supporting with my participation. Decentralized is the future. 'Big Tech' platforms are the kiddy pool of the internet, it's time for us as a society to swim into the deep end and take back control of our content and consumption. It's good to be among friends :)
It is about time we take back OUR internet, as it once was OURS. I could not agree me on that part right there. Good having you put some thought into it and good having you here, so welcome to lemmy and have a pleasant stay. The future is Decentralized. The future is Open Source. The future is Ours.
It is about time we take back OUR internet, as it once was OURS.
Yes exactly!
I remember the days when 'online community' meant someone with a cable modem and a laptop would set up a 'server' with an IRC bot or a Shoutcast stream and people would gather on forums and the like. It wasn't as slick as the Facebooks and Reddits and Twitters and all that, and it took a >90 IQ to figure out how to make it work, but it was ours. There was no billionaire owner in California deciding what you could and couldn't do or say or post according to what his advertisers would tolerate, and no giant machine learning algorithm vacuuming up your every keystroke to show you more relevant ads.
Those were good days.
I also feel the same, though I am not savvy on the current changes happening, they don't make sense to be. I just find the mods and rules over there too stringent especially after getting banned for making a joke on a satire sub. Been on the search for a new site ever since.
Ayy that's the spirit. It is kinda weird with those instanced links, where you click on it and suddenly you're not logged in, but then you look at the url and realize, that you are but not on that instance, but other than that, it is way smoother than i expected. Glad to have you here and feel free to let me know if you encounter anything spicy :'D
Looks like we too are in the same boat here. I've read about them restoring deleted content and demodding moderators in order to open up the subreddits themselfs. Let'em burn.
I mean, i saw something like that coming, but it still renders me even more spiteful towards reddit. I hope their snapshots get nuked or something like that. Thanks for the input my guy
I was over Reddit when I saw the news from Christian (Apollo's dev), then Spez's AMA really cemented Reddit was a shit hole, then news came out that they were also laying off 90 staff members, and the final nail in the coffin for me was getting accosted by another user that I was "spreading misinformation and lying" about Reddit when I commented about supporting the black out.
Before you all leave Reddit, you should take your stuff with you, and then delete all posts and comments using one of the several ways to automate that.
Welp, I also just deleted my 9 year old account. Extracted what I could, checked some communities for the last time, deleted what I could using Power Delete Suite and Redact, and pulled the trigger. I have learned a lot there, found some interesting niche communities, and had interesting conversations, launched a lot, but also got angry at times at the stupidity of people. Bittersweet moment, but I can't continue supporting Reddit in any way. Fediverse, here I come!
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