Reddit has its fair share of "repeat" subreddits. This isn't unique to a decentralised platform.

Personally, I think Spez is counting on users to think the way you do — make a big fuss, protest by leaving for 48 hours, and coming right back even if nothing has changed. Reddit has no reason to backtrack if they can just wait for the storm to blow over and everyone returns to business as usual after two or three days lol.

I'm not personally going back to reddit. I've had problems with them for a while now so I'm glad they finally forced me off their platform.

I understand what you mean though. Lemmy definitely has a way to go to be more user friendly but I think we'll get there at this rate.

In any meaningful way, I am done with reddit. I have been a daily user for 12+ years. It’s very clear that reddit is headed toward a future of catering to the lowest common denominator. They’ve lost their way and the site is continuing to head down a bad path with the IPO. Their leadership is already showing they can’t handle a negotiation between 3rd parties, I’m sure the creep crawl toward monetization will continue down focusing this lowest common denominator and remove all differentiation from their service.

Reddit has three uses - cultivated communities, niche information and scrolling.

I was very happy to find real connection and community here on lemmy over the last couple weeks. I read a thread earlier that was discussing reddit really has become a pretty unfriendly, transactional place over the years and I realized that resonated with me.

I’ll still have to surface interact with reddit via google searches for niche and specific information.

As for scrolling, it feels like Reddit is really only focusing on this as their future which feels really shortsighted. There are a dozen services and websites to scroll on from social media to news sites to honestly replacements like lemmy.

Overall, reddit is just one service and I am sort of grateful for this new opportunity to find a place online to connect and make a community. I don’t want lemmy to be “new reddit,” I want it to become its own thing. I’ll miss what reddit was but it hasn’t been truly good in a long time.

In my eyes - and I’m a 9+ year user - Reddit has shown that they do not care about their users or their users’ experiences on their platform and only want to exploit us for data and ads, and breaking my 3rd party app is the last straw. Assuming Alien Blue stops working for the last time on July 1st - and I’m pretty sure it will - I’ll be leaving permanently. I’ll be editing all my comments with a final message and deleting my account.

It is sad to lose communities, though it was already happening slowly with bots showing up more and more. I think our experiences online are more meaningful than we might think, and I’ve been feeling a bit of grief at what’s been a good part of my life for so long ending.

But, endings can lead to new beginnings and that’s what federation offers us, on Lemmy or Kbin. I think enough people will stick around here, and software will get updated, and kinks will get worked out, and if there’s ever another mass exodus once Reddit does something to drive off more casual users, we’ll have made a great place for them to land.

I would say we're still in the early adopter phase of Lemmy.

A core feature is that you can visit communities from other instances and sorta cross pollinate between servers, and in the long run I reckon it'll be a major advantage, cause it'll give more granular control over what kinda community you want to be dialed into.

But as of right now, the feature is much more of a hurdle, as it spreads thin the already super low user count.

Assuming the exodus away from Reddit causes people to permanently move towards a decentralized alternative, this should work itself out given time.

and you can have repeats of communities for the same things.

So can Reddit? You could have /r/tech and also /r/technology. How were users supposed to decide? One eventually wins and becomes the big sub.

Same will happen (and already is happening) here.

I was not a mod or 3rd party developer, nor am I blind. And I wasn't reliant on access to porn over reddit's API. Those are the users most affected by the changes reddit is forcing.

That said, I am absolutely not going back, and fully support the idea of all the subs staying dark and permanently migrating wherever they please. Although I do wish they move somewhere on the fediverse.

A thing I learned from having a Mastodon account for a while, even before the Twitter meltdown, was I can enjoy using it without needing to have everyone there. Lemmy feels like the same way. Yeah maybe I don't see all the good posts, but I don't care. Just Beehaw feels like Reddit maybe 10-15 years ago which I thought was fun too.

Undecided if I'll go back to Reddit, but there's nothing saying that I can't do both. Lemmy and Kbin both have a long ways to go, but I'm excited to see what happens. If I happen to find a few cool communities and/or make a few friends along the way then great. Always was a Twitter hater but actually having a bit of fun over on Mastodon right now (many Twitter users migrated there after Musk)

People are great at getting used to things, just give it a few days and you'll have figured out the fediverse.

I don't think reddit will backtrack at all.

To everyone that keeps perpetuating "there's too many repeat communities on Lemmy" - please give examples.

The only example I've been able to find is c/Technology on Beehaw and c/Technology on lemmy.ml

The latter is failing to federate today (or has been down entirely), which is proving why this "problem" is actually a good thing. We can continue to talk on Beehaw's c/Technology while lemmy.ml sorts itself out.

Do you have any other examples? I haven't seen any. I'm starting to wonder if this concern is being repeated by people who don't actually use Lemmy.

Out of anything, it's honestly the collapse of moderation that would do Reddit in at this point. The third party apps they're killing are essential to the moderation of most large subreddits, and without them enough spam may flow into these communities to kill them. We'll see, but ultimately it's always good to have a backup. Nothing lasts forever, so it's good to be prepared for something being gone.

I don't think Reddit will die and agree that the majority will return. I will browse my favored communities in both and favor participating here. That said, the Lemmy universe has been in rapid expansion for 2 weeks. It's premature to judge it for the fragmentation of communities at this stage. I strongly suspect the ergonomics of finding and subscribing to a community you want will improv over the next six months.

I got banned from one of the main subreddits i used on reddit for reporting somebody for calling me a slur. Apparently that's "report abuse." Figured that was a good enough reason to delete my account. On the way out I saw this place. It's a bit slow but I kind of like it that way. Gives me a reason to do other things instead of doomscrolling r/popular.

I'm probably done for good with reddit. Most of the site is overtly conservative punctuated by a lot of racism and sexism. The niche communities i frequented i loved, but regular brigading and harassment campaigns were awful. The nail in the coffin is the way reddit is treating its users and especially its moderators. It's horrible, and I don't want to support them in any way until they capitulate. I'm assuming that to be never. I also just outright refuse to use their garbage mobile app. Ive been using boost for a decade.

Lemmy has a much more moderated community, and is also from what I can tell a lot less hectic. And honestly I like that.

Personally I think reddit is a bad platform for many reasons, and the karma system and aggressive moderation is really making it into a echo chamber.

I would love for them to go away, and I feel the same for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter and all those platforms based on tracking users and becoming billionaries on users private data.

But it won't happen. They will be here and continue what they are doing. But i think alternatives will keep growing also.

Hopefully I'll be making kbin/fedia and the fediverse my new home. but I haven't exactly planned to delete my reddit account just yet. I've been itching for a reddit alternative for a while, and none really did the trick for me.

I think I’m done with Reddit. I just deleted all my posts/comments on Reddit, so I think I can quit Reddit for good if I feel like it. The thing about Reddit is that it grew too big, and I think all platforms become this way once they’re past a certain size. For all we know, Lemmy might end up becoming huge, and turn into another Reddit. However, 1. There’s still a long way for that, 2. Instances are extremely independent, and anybody can stand an instance. If one of the instances turn like Reddit, people can move to other instance and block the problem instance.

Look at the major instances (Lemmy.ml, beehaw, Lemmy.world). One is communist/anarchist, one is authoritarian, and one doesn’t seem to be political. They all coexist.