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Reddit fucked up pretty good. Not only they shot themselves in the foot by scraping 3rd party devs (and ofc the userbase attached to it), but also pissed the mods (which are making slave labor for free) so bad, that if they leave, the site pretty much becomes the Wild Wild West of spam and scams, which, if you acknowledge the piece of shit app they made, will at worst hurt and make them look so bad to their investors, which hopefully will trigger a domino effect which will ultimately lead to its demise

I'll stick around in both reddit and lemmy until enough communities move over here or reddit just dies.

I'm not using reddit again unless to lurk some info here and there if it is needed to find information I couldn't find on lemmy. I won't participate in the Reddit community anymore even if reddit is backing down. The federated philosophy is just much more alligned with my values. If anything, this whole blackout situation accelerated my innevitable switch.

I would really like to stay here, but I mostly used reddit on my phone and I've found the mobile experience so underwhelming that I have already given up on it. The MLem app crashes on me after ~60 seconds every time I try to use it, too.

If we could entice the developer of Apollo or RIF or Sync or any of the big platforms to make a really slick app for Lemmy, I might never go back to Reddit.

I'll be staying for sure and use it as my main, but I will still visit Reddit just for my cute kitty video fix.

One thing about Reddit that has the edge over Lemmy is the ease of posting/watching videos. Though, I totally get why it's not as feasible on here.

I'll stay. I've been looking for a reason to move off reddit for a long time. But there didn't seem to be a non political based exodus, until now. The TD stuff and voat seemed too political charged and only people of a certain political leaning left. As a result voat and the others were just all about American politics. This feels much more across the board, and so far I'm loving the Lemmy community.

Nah man what Reddit is doing is ridiculous. I'm staying with Lemmy. I just hope the user base can grow.

I share the same fear, but I plan to stay I really enjoy lemmy, more than I have reddit in the last year or so. The atmosphere is great, and I feel more of a connection with the people and the community.

I’m staying. This may not be the Big Thing, but in my eyes, it’s a worthy contender.

Reddit simply isn’t anymore, if it ever truly was.

The reaction from spez has moved me from “just don’t go back” to “learn enough about scripts to run that salt the earth thing I saw from GitHub.”

I'm mostly a lurker, but certainly plan to stay. I probably will use Reddit occasionally, but that usage will be significantly reduced and limited to desktop use only as I have no interest in installing the official Reddit app. Too many web searches lead back to Reddit posts for me to drop Reddit completely.

I'm planning on staying, interacting here is a lot more fun than Reddit in my opinion.

Lemmy is promising, and I'm here to stay. I haven't nuked my account on Reddit yet. But as others have said, I don't plan on posting much there anymore. Unfortunately, I'm going to be slightly tethered to wherever the smaller, more niche communities that I like end up.

Idk if I'm gonna stay, but I won't return to reddit.

I'll be staying. Lemmy does what I used Reddit for fine enough, which is aggregate news links about various topics I'm interested in and provide a platform to discuss said topics with like minded people. The community is smaller, nicer, more personable too. Overall I'm enjoying it a lot. Some glitches and bugs to work out but nothing platform breaking. Can't wait to see how Lemmy progresses along! And Kbin, I made an account there today and have been checking it out too. I like Lemmy's UI a bit more, while Kbin has a lot of cool features Lemmy doesn't. We'll see how it shapes out but I'll be here for the ride.

There wasn't much to Reddit when it first started. Users built it over the years, including myself. I'd love to see Lemmy do the same, but it'll take work and commitment. Should it happen to become as large, I do wonder if it will eventually face the same woes as Reddit.

I think I'll stick around. I never posted or commented on reddit before so there's really nothing for me there aside from the small communities I follow. All of which have a decent discord presence now. So anything related to news in those circles I can keep up with there. I am hoping more will move away from reddit after the blackout so we will see.

I'm not sure the communities that I most care about are not very active.

Staying for sure.

Lemmy feels so much more exciting than Reddit, finding all these new communities and instances is a lot of fun.

I am not expecting the blackout to be over to be fair. Reddit is not backing down. While I will miss it, I am prepared to use only Lemmy for quite some time perhaps even indefinitely. And it's not difficult in fact.

I was one of those weird Redditors that liked to browse "all" as almost every subreddit offered some interesting posts for me. Because of it I am not too worried about staying only at Lemmy as most conversations or post peak my interest.

Not going back. Here to stay for sure. No matter what.

Definitely staying here. I haven't erased my post history yet, but I plan to within the week.

Other than transitioning the subs I moderate to other people, I'm done with active reddit use. I won't turn down search results from there, but I'll be fucked if I give them anything ever again.

Already cleared my comment history and deleted my reddit account. I'm here for good. It's pretty clear to me that federated content and social networks are the future of aggregated news sites like Reddit.

Staying for sure, I really like it here.

There are some things I miss about reddit, I just noticed spoiler tags don't seem to work (at least on Jerboa), and sometimes the image display is way too small. That being said, I'll be sticking around here more because I genuinely think it can be better than reddit in the long run if it picks up enough steam.

Definitely won't be deleting my reddit though, as I'd like to believe some of my comments/posts were actually helpful for niche questions. As an example, A few weeks ago my several-year-old post got a comment describing a solution for my 2012 HP server that wasn't detecting more than 1 core in Proxmox (a server OS). Regardless of how bad reddit is, it saved me in weird problems like that multiple times, so I'm personally against giving up all of that information just for the sake of protest.

I'm definitely here to stay. One among many. And not for a kind of reddit bis. For what's different from reddit here.

If RIF goes, I don't see myself spending any meaningful time on reddit. We'll see if I stick around here.

I'll definitely stay. I like the idea that it's run by individual people rather than a huge corporation, and I love that the smaller user count gives it a greater sense of community. It made me realize that I don't enjoy using mainstream social media due to how lonely it makes me feel.

Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain't waiting around to see reddit turn into "myspace after tom"

Lemmy is one of the sites that I'm checking out to try and replace Reddit. Unfortunately, so far, I can't find a replacement for my porn needs, but I think that'll help resolve a bigger problem I have.

I haven't deleted my reddit account and I'm not sure if I'm going to, but I do not plan on going back or logging back in. Many times I've googled some obscure thing and the only solution to my problem was a 10 year old reddit post. With everyone deleting their accounts all those posts will change to [deleted] and I think that's sad. I've never posted anything that I think would help anyone, but I'm torn between letting my account stay up in the spirit of that and deleting it because fuck reddit.

Now that I've managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i'm pretty firmly here rather than there. There's one community I'll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I'll manage.

I dunno, man. I sorta like it here. I'm on here and Squabbles, but my one sub is still sitting there for approval. Reddit was like a default itch scratch. Maybe fuckem but idk. We'll see if this kicks off cuz I'll stick around.

Just created an account to check out Lemmy. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of this, but time will manage, I guess

right now, it's a little hard to say. it depends a lot on increased activity in my interests

I have been permabanned from both reddit and twitter so i'll stay here

In the short term I'll probably still be on both, but in the long run I am probably not going to stick around on reddit with the progressively shitty decisions being made.