Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it’s pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i’m not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
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I think I’ll stay here. I like the prospect of building this ting together and shaping it the way we want it. Just that they caved in this one time doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. I would rather invest my time and effort into something I can stand behind and agrees with my believes. I like that it’s open source and decentralised.
Same. The API changes are a symptom of a larger change in direction, and even if Reddit backs down from this now, it’s not going to change the fact that decisions about the platform rooted in how to maximize profits are never going to be good for users. I’d rather contribute to a place where the goal is to build something worthwhile, not just something that’s going to line investors’ pockets.
Yeah, Reddit cannot be trusted anymore, even if they revert the API thing (which they don’t even acknowledge as a bad thing), their goal is to please the potential investors and not their community.
The Fediverse is refreshing, made by passion and not for profit, I like Lemmy and I will still stay here even if Reddit backtracks on their decisions.
On Android, Jerboa is pretty ok right now, and the influx of new contributors is a great thing, the development of Jerboa will be way faster now.
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Both. Even if Reddit step back this time I think this action is just another on the road to their demise. But Lemmy/Fediverse still needs the critical mass shift to become the true alternative.
I probably will, because I know the communities I was part of there will never be as big and succesful here. Let’s face it, Reddit is far simpler. Lemmy takes a little effort to figure out how to navigate, and many casual internet users won’t want to put in that effort.
Probably not besides looking up old posts and info. After the past week or so of not using Reddit, can’t really say I miss it. Lemmy reminds me of the pre-social media days of web forums and I love it.
I’ll stay.
One of the reasons is that I don’t think Reddit will step back. They might do some changes, and revert some of the decisions, but I’m pretty sure those would be temporary. I don’t trust their CEO and I don’t trust their intentions.
But most importantly, I like the Fediverse. I like hosting my own services, so I don’t depend on a big company which will inevitable change their terms of service, close their APIs, or do something that is not in the best interest of the users, but of the investors and share holders.
If Reddit isn’t destroyed, and I don’t think it will be, I’ll likely keep using it for the main function I use it for. Using a search engine to search “technical problem I have Reddit”.
While there’s many online resources to find the answers to my technical issues, Reddit typically has the highest quality discussions on average or serves as a jumping off point to the answers at least.
But I will continue to use Lemmy for browsing and adding in my 2 cents when I feel the need. I’ve become a somewhat recent enthusiast of FOSS, Linux, and the fediverse.
Reddit burning its bridge with Apollo’s dev probably sealed the deal for me. Beyond handling things poorly, most of my time on Reddit was on my phone via Apollo. I highly doubt Christian ever works with Reddit again even if they did completely pull everything back.
Things have been pretty good here, I don’t see any reason not to stick around, and there isn’t anything to make me go back. I’ll probably check hockey news on Reddit occasionally, but I can’t see myself being active.
Came here to say this. If there’s no Apollo, I will not have an account with Reddit. I’ll still do Google searches with Reddit at the end, because there’s just such a wealth of information, but I won’t participate other than that.
I’m going to stick around on lemmy and see what happens. I’m enjoying it more than reddit already and am posting/commenting a lot more than I used to.
There’s a couple of places that I’m not sure will be replicated here any time soon that I’ll really miss, but hey whatever.
Saying that I’ve only logged out of reddit, not deleted anything yet 😬
Lemmy is still new. But that’s a boon ; it has plenty of room to grow and already it is teeming with life and a plethora of new ideas.
I was thinking of deleting Reddit before the fiasco because I just wasn’t enjoying it anymore. It was the same with 9GAG many years ago, whose era came to an end when I discovered Reddit.
I find pleasure by browsing Lemmy, so… Now is the time for change. I am not looking back.
If your girlfriend/boyfriend hit you with a baseball bat but then said sorry didn’t realize you would leave me I wont hit you again. Would you go back?
I would go back, but only because reddit has so much niche content I enjoy. But I am also going to actively support sites like this to bring those communities over here.
I’ll stay. While lemmy, at least for now, is a bit harder to use than reddit, and also lacks content, I see both of those as temporary issues. This feels nice and fresh, and i’m excited to see how it evolves. That applies to the entire Fediverse.
If reddit took a step back I will definitely use it, but the fact that you can ask a question without being flooded with bad jokes makes this platform have value for me. I’ll happily use both.
Exactly. About time reddit has some real competition. Also it’s scary how much important info you can get only on reddit, I hope we can get backups.
inb4 sorry, long wall of text.
I’ll stay across multiple fediverse instances, likely including lemmy.ml. I won’t be back to Reddit, not even if Reddit rolls back all the third party app changes, and if spez is fired.
There’s a reason my Lemmy account is two years old, not new: I am already extremely displeased with Reddit, for years. (More than two, by the way.)
It is not just the admins and the businesses. It’s also the moderation system:
I don’t think that the users becoming moderators in Reddit are intrinsically bad people, I was myself a moderator there, but the whole moderation hierarchy boils down to “everyone competent will eventually leave, and the top mod will be eventually a clown with too much time at hands, too little reasoning in his head, and too much power hunger in his stomach”.
It’s also in large part the userbase. Users there behave like braindead morons: they’re assumptive, context-illiterate, they don’t even see what’s wrong with “X said it so it’s true/false” and prone to oversimplify complex matters, in a way that boils down to “u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is 0? dats dumb lol lmao”. And they are extremely disingenuous.
I don’t think that it’s due to inability to reason; I think that it’s the environment of Reddit dictating how you should behave there. What I described about the Reddit user might potentially apply to myself, too, when I’m there. And I don’t want to feel disgusted with myself.
It should not be a surprise that the userbase is like this, when the admins set up the example. A site that launched itself by expecting users to be stupid enough to notice “this place is empty, it’s all sock-puppets” is bound to attract stupid users.
Unless this place becomes as dead as before the exodus again, I don’t think I’ll be spending much time on Reddit anymore. I’ve been meaning to browse less anyways as it’s often a giant waste of time. I don’t expect that to be much different here but it might be less of a waste due to the smaller scale.
I’ll still google for Reddit when I need to find some actual answers though; no way around that for now.
