Asklemmy

I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren't any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.

The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.

I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure I’ve found it.

Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.

I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.

With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up

It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

What if your SO stops beating you?

Personally I doubt I'll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I'll happily let my account gather dust unless there's a support question or something for a community that hasn't taken off here.

Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I'm supposed to be a writer, I would probably down more times actually doing that anyway.

I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.

People would go back.

If they allow me to browse porn on a 3rd party app I'd probably use it exclusively for that. I'm incredibly doubtful it will happen since on top of the API fee they also stated the API would not process NSFW requests

everyone is saying "i'm never going back", but that's just jingoism.

I participated in the voat migration ~6 years ago. Realistically, even if reddit remains stubborn, I'm estimating that half the folks who migrated will quietly move back over the next month.

I'm definitely going to try and use lemmy more, and i may or may not lurk on reddit if they continue to be stubborn. If they revert their changes, I'll probably try to use both.

Base on my couple hours of experience, nope, I don't need that huge amount of unrelated content that I am not interested in. It does take sometime to customize and filter lemmy but it would be the same like early reddit anyway, won't take long to tune it to what you like.

It'd be too late. I nuked my account, overwrote my comments, and uninstalled my apps early this morning. I don't intend to return.

I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, I’m not looking back.

Honestly, I'll probably keep using it. I like the scale of the community and the resulting coverage of subject matter, and without something major pushing people away that's going to be on Reddit.

Have any other social media sites backed down? IIRC Tumblr, Digg and of course Twitter just went straight off the cliff.

And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?

Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.