I dont care for any change as long as I have a good community
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Honestly, no, not a chance in hell. But I left anyway for my sake in the hope something new comes along. I dont think this is it, but maybe in the future. I think if you leave, do it for you not to make a change. If change happens then great, it not you can stay sane :)
I think for a lot of us, it will be a long time before we fully abandon it. I'll personally probably always use it as an information source.
I stopped logging in to my account though, I deleted the links from my bookmarks, I got rid of RES, and I obviously deleted the apps from my phone. It's no different from something like Quora to me now. I'll go there if it has the answer to the question I need, but I'm not scrolling when bored and I'm not helping anyone with problems on it or sharing useful/interesting items on it.
The important thing for me is that I'm not contributing to the platform. Maybe, others will do the same.
Hopefully more people come over naturally over the next few weeks and months. It'll probably never have the 400+m user reach that Reddit has, but getting 100k - 1m active users seems pretty attainable.
@ersanmartin Honestly probably not, but it doesn't immediately have to either. In my opinion it's already a viable alternative to Reddit, so that's already a win.
Kbin & Lemmy (and others) can just keep developing and maturing as a platform, while Reddit keeps making bad decisions in the future because you know they will, and it'll be there, for those who want to come over.
I left reddit last night and I'm not looking back. Deleted all my posts and logged out.
@ersanmartin I set up my account here during the shutdown protests because I was an Apollo user and before then Reddit was just getting worse. There isn't anything there that I need and I didn't feel like sticking around while f u/spez trashed the place so he can cash out and buy his island. On the one hand, I'm not anti-corporate per se but he can monetize someone else. Looking forward, I'm still figuring out Kbin and the fediverse but it feels very refreshing and new. As someone said, its like when the internet was new and great that there are communities that are being established from the ground up and people will, over time, be attracted to that.