Already left Twitter for Mastodon when Elon Musk purchased it. I don't feel bad for leaving Reddit behind, nor do I feel sad. Spez has shown how incompetent he is both as a CEO and a person. I feel bad for the app devs, though.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Iβm the same but still occasionally check Twitter because most of the people I follow are not on mastodon. Thereβs just not enough for me to engage there.
And Reddit was my main source of news so itβs difficult to leave behind. Iβve spent the past couple days browsing here to find similar things but again, not nearly enough engagement for me to fully drop Reddit. It will be a slow transition and I just need to remind myself that I was a Reddit user for 12 years and it was a similarly slow transition back then too
It was their crappy mobile UI and app that drove me to Relay for Reddit. Now that they're getting pushed out I'm done, it's going to hurt a bit but it's the right thing to do.
I joined in 2013, left in 2019. I remember watching what was foreign and corporate manipulation of threads via sockpuppet accounts increase over time. After that, every thread posted by an admin whose name was popping up as admin for several subreddits started eating at my impression that this was an "organic" community.
Signed off after killing my account in 2019. I lurked on and off without an account via 3rd party apps and the desire to rejoin the fray never returned.
I've happily been a part of the fediverse since on Mastodon and Pixelfed.
It is tragic. But on the plus side I think this transition will be a lot smoother than trying to leave twitter since here you don't have to individually find everyone you want to follow, just show up at the proper forums.
idk, i'm having kind of a hard time. i have a lot of niche subs on reddit that don't seem to be on lemmy. i feel like i did when i first started reddit and just saw all the default pics/music/gaming subs
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i miss the memes, the rest of it is toxic
I dunno... I'm excited to be here instead of there. It's something fresh and new.
The content will follow. And frankly, I'd rather talk with a handful of people than a hive mind.
I remember what Reddit was like a decade ago. I'm excited to try something that -- at least in some small way -- feels like that did.
Agree with the hive mind thing. Im hoping this would be like smaller communities where you get to communicate with actual people and have moderate opinions rather than only extremes one way or the other upvoted to the top
Yeah, to be honest, I used the reddit mobile app and I loved reddit and I'm also sad to see it go. However, nothing lasts forever.