I joined Reddit mostly because of one specific game focused community.
When they went private during the protest and migrated to Lemmy, I followed suit.
While Lemmy doesn't have a lot of the functions Reddit had, I like it here more and want to stay.
After reading a bit about the protest, it resonated with me and in an attempt to support it I deleted my 7 year old account with all the content on it.
Now, I found out the said community will be opening their Subreddit again in a few days. They will keep their Lemmy instance open but I feel like the majority of people will return to Reddit because there's years of content there already while they would have to build everything from scratch here.
I respect their decision but I feel fucking betrayed and need to went. Sorry if I chose the wrong place to do so.
Update:
Not that anyone cares but it all went pretty much as I predicted.
As soon as the subreddit re-opened the Lemmy community completely died.
Even the mods don't bother posting latest patch notes.
r/RedDevils only committed to 48 hours, but I know my time on Reddit is done once RIF is gone so setup a new community here. There will always be people who go back because it's what they know, but there will be plenty of people who leave when the third party apps are killed off. Best thing to do in the meantime is advertise on the subreddit, especially if you see anyone criticising Reddit/mods for reopening/etc
I'm not a big football fan, but I am from Belgium so I was getting ready to subscribe to support your efforts and our national team.
I wasn't aware Red Devils is also the name for ManU. Does that often lead to confused fans?
Not sure if it ever happened on Reddit, though it's the first I've heard off on here 😀 guess you're a United fan now 😉
The reason for using Red Devils is because r/ManchesterUnited was a bit of an unmoderated shitstorm, so r/RedDevils was created with more stringent posting rules. That's why I went with it, so those coming over from Reddit could find it easily
I can only accept my fate. Is it a problem that the last game I watched was City winning the CL?
Thanks for the background!
The official subreddit for the Belgian team is apparently BelgiumNT. I only checked that now, that's how invested I am in the sport.
I liked the smaller subreddits because it felt like when someone posted it was for excitement or information. But since RIF will be dead, I won't be going back. I've kept trying to use their main app over the years and always end up deleting it and staying on RIF for a few more years before trying again. I'm sad, but I do enjoy it here. Just wish more people were here and posted in certain communities