Asklemmy

Sure. In the same vein, I'll go back to twitter if elon musk somehow restored it to the way it was before before his purchase.

Neither scenario will happen, of course. But if we're talking about hypotheticals, I wouldn't have an issue returning.

RIP, my autocorrect changes “expectations” to “expeditions”.

How will I ever live this down in this community? This will be the canon event that sends me back to Reddit.

If Apollo came back and Christian was happy, yes I think so. I gave up a lot by not using Reddit since 6/12 but my boycott will continue indefinitely if I can’t use Apollo anymore.

Honestly no, I didn't realise until getting out how bad Reddit has become over the last few years, and this place really has me enjoying my time again, vs doom scrolling and getting slightly cranky at toxic people on Reddit.

Lemmy is still new and I think its UI will catch up with Reddit's. Reddit's UI frankly suciks and will get worse rather than better, though Reddit's might still have some advantages here and there.

Reddit will likely keep having some communities etc. that Lemmy doesn't, so I might re-engage to some extent, though probably just passively.

Reddit will always be less trustworthy than before, even if they keep the API open. Spez getting fired and replaced by Stallman (lol) or similar, would be about the only thing that could help witht hat.

I deleted my 17 year old account. There's no going back, even if Reddit did backtrack it would be temporary. The enshitification has started and can't be stopped.

Day to day, definitely not, as I’m very happy here. Even if Lemmy doesn’t end up working out, I will look for something else that is open source…. Will I ever look at Reddit again, yes. Same way I will once or twice a year look at FB.

Simply returning to the status quo from a little over a week ago wouldn't be enough. I'd need to see a real commitment to making the platform better.

Step one would be spez stepping down.

I will probably still use it occasionally, but honestly I'm super excited about federation. I have been interested in it for a while, and have casually switched to mastodon, but I didn't think it was ready yet and that enough people were adopting it to completely replace my reliance on other social media. But now that people are essentially forced to take it seriously, I think it is finally starting to feel populated enough to have a good time.

Mastodon kind of already started to feel great like that, but honestly I never really used twitter that much.

No.

There are two medical subs I care about and that have been reluctant to keep protesting or moving people over to Lemmy. For those I will probably compile Infinity with my own API key. But I will unsub from everything else.

Well, I already didn't like Reddit. Or really use it much. But I will likely use it the same way as now, which is check Genshin Impact subs for new leaks and such. Genshin community hasn't really jumped to here.

I think i would just use both. There are some niche communities on Reddit that probably won't be on lemmy for a while, and i will miss them if spez follows through..

I am very hopeful for the future of lemmy, and i think the fediverse is a great solution to the problem of corporate greed infecting social media. But I'm concerned that if spez backs down, then people will conclude that we won and it's safe to go back to Reddit.

i'm interested in a easy to use forum-styled social media, not a site named reddit. Or lemmy for that matters.

Unless reddit changes how they manage the site I see no point going back

It'll be a cold day in hell that I go back there. If you look in a dictionary under the word 'Evil', there is a picture of spez.

Yes, but only to the more niche subs. I've really missed some of them, lime r/stunfisk or r/mapporncirclejerk. I'll stay away from the mainstream subs; I've had enough of the toxicity.

If RIF survives or returns, then I will probably go back to reddit occasionally. But I haven't missed it since the blackout, so I will probably only use it for a reference and not a community to comment in.

What problems are you facing?

I'd probably go to my hobby subreddits and ignore /all

And then i'd also check the fediverse's site to see if they have anything different.

I'd imagine the content would grow more and more over time until either things went back to the way they were or reddit no longer had anything worth visiting for.

I'm not sure. I think I want to stay here.

Of course not. The people here are nicer.

Maybe. I'm on the fence too.

The learning curve for Lemmy is a little steep and there are several quirks (or bugs) that need to be addressed sooner than later. But I can't really trust Reddit to do the right thing anymore.

That's a negatory Ghost Rider.

I don't know. I have a hard time replacing it news wise. I've started trying to collect a bunch of news site to replace it but there really is something about getting the hive mind's opinion on what's important.

(Of course it had its own problems and there was a risk of only being exposed to hive mind approved opinions but you know... You had all your news in one place and the upvote functionality did a decent job at presenting you with them news your community was interested in the most).

An active Lemmy would of course fill the same purpose. I'm just afraid we're seeing an initial spike and that people will start moving back when the initial hype is over...

No.

I'm on the fence because, like it or not, reddit is still a useful resource. At least, for now, it is.

I used Apollo. This situation opened my eyes. It's time to find a new place to call home, so to speak.

It will take a minute to learn Lemmy. I'm always into exploring a new site, tho!

If reddit implemented an ActivityPub interface, I would consider commenting there.

No, Spez showed his true colors, I would never go back to reddit ruled by that elon wannabe, the fediverse seems like a good option, and hopefully will grow more.

No, they’ll just try again later with a different approach.

I'd probably download infinity again for when I inevitably have to visit reddit to follow through on a search query.

As far as actual regular use, I'm on lemmy for the long run.

Nah. That ship has sailed. I enjoy learning new things, and was never a reddit power user, so I'll just get more and more familiar with lemmy and stay here.

No, this whole thing has made me understand that the incentives of the corporations and the interests of users are fundamentally conflicting. I feel like I knew that subconsciously before, I left facebook years ago but could never quite articulate why I hated them, but now my eyes have been opened and I just can't see going back.

I think it's time for the next thing (Lemmy, Kbin, anything else) to take the spotlight.That being said, there's a lot of useful information back at Reddit. When RIF shuts down, i'll be using Lemmy via Jerboa as my daily driver until a better third party app with better ui (to my liking) and/or more features appears. Reddit fucked up bad for me, a platform led by a lying misleading and disrespectful jerk as Spez is not for me. I'll use Reddit with full adblock power to find old threads with solutions to specific problems, but i really hope someone creates a browser extension that redirects Reddit traffic to Teddit or something like that. -- edit: found a extension, it's called Privacy Redirect. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb]

Not giving them more traffic, just the baaarest minimum

FUCK YOU U/SPEZ

No, they showed their hand and they will not change their attitude. They got caught in their lies and their malicious intentions. I do not mind them behaving like a business, I mind that they are becoming unethical in the way they are pursuing their goals, because they think we are passive enough that will accept such type of conduct without batting an eyelash.

UI's can change. CEO appointed companies can not. And communities can grow :)

I would probably try and advertise the fediverse over there.

I think (see: hope) that reddit has shown where its goals are aligned. Any backpedaling they do at this point can only ever look like damage control.