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Absolutely. I was browsing Apollo tonight like I do many evenings for a decade+. And noticed it was June 12 GMT (I thought I had more time!). So, sadness, nostalgia, anger at reddit leadership, etc., but excited to find a FOSS substitute. And having it built at least in part on rust is amazing.

I used Reddit a lot, but I always thought a foss alternative should exist. The thing is most don't care about if things are foss or not, so I thought nothing was going to change.

Just like with Whatsapp, Youtube, Discord, Instagram... You name it. There are foss alternatives out there that do the same thing, but most people just don't care about this issue.

Honestly, I'm glad they fucked up. We can build a strong foss community where there are no crazy CEO's or overall people that you don't even know getting rich from advertisements and shit, and no tracking or obscure algorithms / code too.

Let's hope Whatsapp goes next!

Foss is the way to go.

I'm not 100% hating reddit right now, though I do hate them a lot. So not deleting my >10yo account or anything....but I do recognize that this is near the end.

The default app is garbage. I'm someone who likes my feed and interaction set up EXACTLY to my liking. So losing any customization, etc is just going to make me like it less, use it less, etc.

But I know that eventually, once they have control over how you interact with Reddit, it will only be a matter of time until it looks like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: ad-filled, "suggested content" GARBAGE. I honestly can't use any of those sites/apps anymore they're such cluttered wastelands, I don't know how people stand it.

So I guess less heartbroken, and more like dread as I know the enshittification of reddit is just getting started...

It's a bit devastating to lose such a good resource. So many communities for niche games and hobbies that I won't be able to comfortably access without my 3rd party app. I just hope Lemmy continues to grow and fill those niches for me again.

I've been waiting for reddits death for ages, so no. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I actually really like the idea of the fediverse, keeps any singular entity from having too much power.

Tbh I feel more heartbroken about the people that worked so hard to make those 3rd party apps for years just to get fucked by some dude who wanted a bit more money.

I wasn't too cut up about it until 20 minutes ago when I realised I can never go back to a specific subreddit and will lose all the information there. I've copied some basic stuff but I'll really miss asking a question about this fairly obscure subject then getting a detailed answer in minutes/hours. Really going to miss that 😭

Nah

Lemmy feels similar enough

I experienced Reddit taking over BBs, Facebook taking over MySpace, the death of Netlog...so much change and I'm too young to have experienced BBS and Usenet in their prime even

It always expected reddit going to shit at some point. Commercial platform without open standards = pain once management makes poor strategic decisions

I have this feeling of loss over several good spaces on the internet going down/changing for the worse recently. There was ADS-B Exchange getting sold to a company with a vested interest in certain planes not showing up on the tracker.

Twitter, while never good, was at least a good place for a lot of discussion especially news. From the world's biggest breaking news to smaller local journalists and reporters, you could find it all and talk about it there.

Then imgur wiping all nsfw and non-account posted photos. It was the second coming of photobucket. I can only hope that a lot of the pics posted on forums got saved and can eventually be redirected to the archived versions.

Now reddit cutting off the only good ways to access all of the information on their site. I know the world will eventually move on to the next thing, but I will always remember my time on reddit. I had a shitty home life and my escape on the site was the only thing keeping me going some days.

Okay, dramatic rant over. I need to get good at coding and shit so I can be the change I want to see on the internet.

Oh man I’m so heart broken about it, and slightly anxiety filled since I spent a lot of my time on there. It just feels off to me and I’m not sure how these next few weeks are gonna go but I will not Go back after the shit u/spez pulled during that AMA which is no surprise. I’m happy to be apart of this website, it’s just going to feel so weird to me for a while. Spent 14 years on that site. I slightly feel like a piece of my heart is dying with it 😆

I’m just a little frustrated that a lot of quick search solutions will only be on Reddit for a while. And asking people for help here might not be as effective as it was with Reddit. That said, like many others, I’m kind of excited about this new frontier.

9 years on Reddit and it actually felt quite cathartic to click the yes delete account! In the last 6 months that’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and now Reddit gone. I’ll miss some of the stuff but not enough to want to stay.

No, it was going to happen, reddit has been becoming horrible since 2015. It could not die fast enough, except now the problem is lemmy is not ready. There will not be another exodus, the center of mass shifts to lemmy, or it goes back to reddit.

Right now, yeah. It had become part of my daily routine, and it's challenging. With a little effort, I'll release myself from their evil grasp.

Yes but I think more from a familiarity standpoint (10 year old account). I had my routine of subreddits to visit. I also liked the centralization on content.

This new federation of sites is going to take a bit of time for me to figure out. I used the reddit app and was ok with it. What actually pissed me off the most was the callousness of the admins. Fuck that.

really sad about this. lemmy won't be the same. we're also losing 15+ year of history with all the people purging posts and comments..

Yeah I'd say so. I used Reddit for 6 years and Boost for around 4. Maybe 5. I dont think im heartbroken yet, I'm just angry. It's a ridiculous move on their part.

On the bright side though, I'm already feeling very at home here especially since a lot of people are pushing hard for Lemmy to become a better version of Reddit. I'll keeo pushing too. Hopefully moving away from Reddit altogether.

The many communities, discussions, and content I very dear and important to me.

Yes, I feel a bit heartbroken. It's tragic and depressing.

I use the Reddit website on my PC and Relay on mobile. My usage will likely shift, depending on the alternative apps and how the platform develops. I've definitely lost trust in the technical and organizational/directing of Reddit. We will see.

I've certainly found an alternative / an additional platform in Feddit / Lemmy.

What's happening to reddit right now actually opened me to a lot of possibilities. I started learning about the fediverse, what FOSS apps are, etc. I'm actually grateful.

To be honest, I was waiting for an alternative to Reddit to gain steam and I'm glad I found Lemmy. I don't really like what Reddit has become and the changes to the API is the push I needed to really be done with it.

I think a lot of us are going to be going through reddit-withdrawal/detox over the next month. It's going to be tough.

I've been trying to jump for a long time now, I used tildes for a while, but it just didn't have enough content I'm interested in. Now it seems lemmy is gaining enough steam to be my primary social media.

Reddit really peaked with the Obama ama. After that it was all downhill, the place grew too quickly to keep its culture.

I have been on Reddit for the last 10 years, and a 3rd party app user for all of it. It feels like the end of an era, and that will be sad no matter what. I won't miss the vast majority of subreddits, especially the bigger ones. It's the smaller more niche subreddits I'm going to have a hard time not returning to and I'm hoping to find similar communities elsewhere.

Nah, I'm mad as hell, they had years to sort this crap out. They can burn.

I honestly don't feel that way about Reddit but I do feel that way about sync... I'll miss sync, unless he ports it over, which he is giving consideration.

The thing that's missing here most is the niche communities (I'm talking about like the ended 10 years ago tv shows and people are still posting about them). On the other hand, I noticed while most countries have 1 or 2 communities, my country already has at least 7 for specific locations and people still want to make more so it feels very much like home already

Other than the niche communities I've been subbed to for quite a while. I don't miss the grifters and professional bullshit peddlers.

I've been a heavy forum user for well beyond half my life, and the social media boom ruined that whole world such that all I really have now is reddit, so I'm pretty upset about it honestly. I'm sure it'll eventually be fine, but the uncertainty sucks right now.

I'm used to the shit I do online eventually being replaced by something else that's better, as I eventually forget the old thing exists for a while. This is a much more harsh ending to Reddit, so I'm really hoping Lemmy becomes all it can be with a healthy community.

I've been meaning to get off Reddit and social media for a while, just not happy with the posts on there and the way things are handled. I have a stuffed animal manatee named Manny and I love him dearly, and all other manatees to keep me happy and hopefully everyone here. Love to all !

I'm a little sad because I met my partner of nearly 10 years on Reddit on that account. I will keep the account because our original DMs are on there and would like to preserve them. Will probably wipe all the content and contributions, and just keep those DMs

I wouldn't really consider myself a "refugee".

I've been feeling like the internet has been become a more isolating and nonconstructive place for a long time, and I have been following the fedverise & other projects for a while, hoping that we might be able to build something better.

I am interested to see where things go.

Yeah, I had 13 years on reddit so it was a nice run. Seems like every online platform dies at some point, so it was going to happen sooner or later.

Yeah, it’s a really weird feeling. I discovered Reddit in 2011 and it’s been a not-insignificant part of my life ever since.

Now I’m here, on this new thing that feels really small and inactive in comparison. All the subs I’m used to reading just aren’t here. Many of them will probably stay on Reddit. I really hope Lemmy takes off, and I don’t end up caving in and downloading the official app a week later.

I think because I have left reddit and returned to it so many times over the past 15 years I was looking for a reason to make it permanent. I'm more relieved than anything else. My religion also teaches me that who you are is a result of all of the actions you have taken in your life, and that we should not associate with those whose actions inflict harm on their own community (meaning spez)

No. I first joined Digg and Reddit around the same time, but I rapidly came to the conclusion that Reddit was the right choice for me. I just loved Reddit's simpler and less cluttered interfaced, and the smaller (at the time) communities. Then, one day, proper Reddit became 'old' reddit, and it became clear that the end was coming. I started my search for an alternative almost immediately and now, finally, I found one. So, no, I am not heartbroken. To me, Reddit has been dying for years. And honestly, even if reddit survives, I do not want to go back. The feddiverse is a much better proposition, it is the way forward.

I remember the "narwhal bacons at midnight" phase of reddit when the great digg migration took place. It took years for the geocities from the 90s vibe of reddit to turn into the community it became. Content posts were so few and far between, at first, that I wasn't sure the site would last. Over time the 3rd party apps and general openness of the original dev team made it worth using but slowly, the bigger the site became, the bots and meta comments (and truly awful mods) kind of took over the main subs. The niche subs weren't valuable enough for it to be worth that kind of manipulation, so they were great (at many still are to a large extent).

It's a sad reality that I've watched evolve having been online for the rise of the web. the enshittification of commons seems to be the trend in every network as far as I can tell. That's the problem with network effects i guess.. You need people to have a network, but people are greedy. The more people in the network, the more tempting it is to try and exploit, which makes it lousy for the network. Too far, and the value of he network sinks and the people leave (digg, tumblr, slashdot, etc.). I wonder though, if Aaron Swartz had been around, if he would have been able to keep reddit more aligned with the original vision? Tragic we'll never know.

*edit: an even better deep dive, I hadn't read until lately, the takes the history of enshittification back to the roots - https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start