That's me deleted my Reddit account along with all data as I do not agree with recent events that have been taking place. I'm going to concentrate on Mastodon , Lemmy and take a look at Kbin .

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[–] RQG@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I deleted Twitter without replacement. It felt like I didn't need micro blog posts in my life and I still don't miss it months later.

Reddit I will miss I believe. Once RIF stops working, if things don't get resolved, I'll stop using it and likely delete my account. So far lemmy is a lot of fun and feels a bit like old wild west internet used to feel. Currently it works good enough for the time being and it'll surely improve.

[–] dinosoup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have used Reddit for almost 15 years now... This is very reminiscent of Reddit from 2012ish, loved the homie vibe of subreddits then, now the site just feels like a megacorp. Loving Lemmy's direction so far.

[–] cookiecollision@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm getting the same vibes. I was in middle school when I signed up for reddit 11 years ago, and I still remember an askreddit thread that was, "Reddit, what do you look like?" and the comments were just selfies. It felt so tight knit, even when it was eclipsing a million subs at that point. These days that kind of community is only found in the most niche of niche subreddits.

[–] TorontoPolarBear@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my first post on Lemmy. Seems ok so far. I'm not going back to Reddit. For a Twitter replacement I'm enjoying Mastodon. It's got a different vibe, more like Twitter in 2008.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is all kinds of okay right now for my puroose. Still very rough around the edges but fun and informative. What value do you gain from using Mastodon (or Twitter for that matter)? I don't really see myself using it but I'm curious what other people get out of it.

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 7 points 1 year ago

micro blog posts

this right here, this is part of what messed things up IMO, reddit blew up with a focus on the link and the discussion, it was a link aggregation system that they pushed into a microblog system to try and monetize it. The number of links that link to reddit or a reddit controlled property these days is pretty high where originally there was rarely a link to reddit properties (aside from cross posts) aside from best of.

They changed the nature of the site after it gained critical mass, then they rode VC money, I'm not sure reddit in its current form ever "worked" they were trying to make it work, like "fetch", its not happening clearly.