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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually I feel excited, because Lemmy has sparked a new interest in news aggregators and the fediverse and I'm enjoying my time here a lot.

[–] Acetamide@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I agree, it feels a bit like the internet in the early days, where you can find mindblowing new things just around the corner with a single click

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! And without being called names for asking questions or interacting with people.

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[–] fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I joined Reddit during the digg exodus. Before digg I was into fark and before fark, something awful.

It's good that things die. it's where new mediums come from. It also keeps the power with the user. It's an important part of the internet life cycle.

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[–] r4tzt4r@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A little bit. What I hate is losing the communities related to my hobbies. Reddit is/was very very helpful for me. Finding new music, finding new games, discussing movies and TV, learning about weird movies or cult shows, sharing my stuff to people that find it cool... It was 11 years of that. I needed that site, so many very helpful posts. I hope whatever comes next is better. For now I'm here, waiting to see what happens.

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[–] Luminance6716@lemmy.one 31 points 1 year ago

I went from digg to Reddit during that mass exodus and will be doing the same from Reddit to Lemmy. It is a little bittersweet seeing what Reddit was 10+ years ago to what it’s become, but I’m excited for the future and to see what becomes of Lemmy, kbin, etc.

[–] noisy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think it will hit harder when I want to search for something on google and have to avoid adding reddit onto the end.

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[–] moonleay@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. I loved Reddit for a LONG time. They started to crumble in my opinion when the added these Snooavatars, which later turned into a NFT scheme. I never bothered with these. The promise of the website was awesome though. Being able to follow interests and communities instead of people was a completely new concept, which I had never seen before. Now it feels like the corporate greed has finally completely taken over.

Time to jump ship.

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[–] supermario182@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Reddit hasn't really been the same for a long time anyways. I liked the feel of Reddit in the old days better, and this kind of has the same vibe

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (22 children)

12 years of reddit. It will take some time to adjust but I also switched from google to duckduckgo years ago after decades of google, and then too never looked back. Lemmy does need a LOT of work, still, but so did reddit in the early days..

To those working on Lemmy, please don't fuck this up for us. Don't be a spez.

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[–] thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.uk 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won't force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn't include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add "reddit" to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or on completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.

[–] FaygoBoozer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think this is honestly the biggest issue. Web search has been garbage for years, with legit the only saving grace being Reddit users sharing their knowledge. This is gonna have a horrible effect on producing good search results.

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[–] carlyman@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I actually feel more relieved. It has become toxic and dominated by bots. As soon as a real person posts anything, it's immediately down voted

I'm enjoying Lemmy much more. Reminds me of the internet of old.

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[–] PitzNR@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No, actually, I used reddit just to pass time, never really engaged in the community, and without this whole debacle I wouldn't have found out about lemmy and the fediverse as a whole, which is really exciting and a new part of the internet (for me) that feels like a breath of fresh air after years of everything being so centralized around very few companies, I'm getting a vibe of the internet from 15-20 years ago, exploring the wild west of the internet.

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[–] Captain_Pieces@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I'm really upset about it. It feels like i've had so much taken away from me over my life and I was always willing to accept it and move on, but to see something so simple and innocent get taken away seems just so pointless and depressing. Like why am I not allowed to just have my little shitposting community? is it too much that I get to smile without some capitalist coke rat getting a payday? I hate this so much and there is nothing I can do about it. I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.

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[–] Brad_Brace@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess I'm still in the denial phase. I haven't technically left reddit yet. I guess during the blackout, then I'll really know how I feel without it. I'll definitely have to leave once RIF stops working.

I'm just having a really hard time getting used to kbin and Lemmy.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I view this as a fresh start. Cut off the old and grow a new one. Just like a gecko. I spent a lot of time on reddit but I can't say I ever actually connected with another person on it, there were just too many people on even the small subs I joined. Maybe lemmy will bring back the small internet forum feel and we'll actually be able to stand out from the crowd better and actually get to know each other.

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[–] thefloatingpoint@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Kinda. But I don’t care about Reddit itself. I care about a few communities and the people from there. I know a couple of them are here. But we are scattered and trying to figure out this site.

Time will tell if this sticks or not. I pretty much hope so.

If someone finds a Lemmy equivalent to r/Grimdank or r/40klore please let me know.

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[–] GilloutineBreast@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

More than anything else, I'm going to miss the easy access to reliable answers by appending reddit to whatever I'm searching for in Google

[–] SavvyWolf@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I'd love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y'all don't mind if I vent a bit.

Firstly, there are a lot of "niche" communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don't see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they'll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.

Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there's a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.

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[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, im actually excited about exploring the lemmy verse. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Reddit was starting to feel stagnant.

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Man, I'm grieving a little. Anger, denial, the whole gamut really.

Mostly anger tbh. We all knew it was coming, once they started moving towards an IPO, but I think we hoped that it wouldn't be this bad. The way spez handled it all makes it even worse. Just shitting on all the mods and users that made the IPO possible in the first place.

It would not surprise me if there's something in the news about a bunch of angry ex redditors going project mayhem on him. The whole "do not fuck with us" thing kinda fits here, and there are some crazy people on reddit

[–] bjwest@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.

[–] privetmoshi@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I do. Started using reddit in 8th grade and now I'm finishing my masters. So it's been a while. Over the years, it has changed a lot and I've been pretty dissatisfied, to say the least. It used to be a great place for insightful and more-or-less friendly conservation, there was a sense of community. It hasn't been that way in a long time, so I'm ready to move on. Still sad but it's for the best.

I'm hoping Lemmy will have the same spirit as reddit had when I created an account all those years ago. I'm staying optimistic.

[–] treagod@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel just a bit heartbroken but at the same time I really love the concept of lemmy.

I'm just a little afraid that lemmy is just a short-lived alternative and the people go back because not everything is working perfect right now.

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[–] -spam-@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to sound sad but I'm a more than a bit bummed.

Outside my family and my job, reddit and the community was a massive social outlet for me. I don't have as much contact with friends any more and being part of some of the communities there made it not so bad.

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[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im just mad 4chan survived reddit. And will probably miss some of the smaller communitys i was active in.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

4chan should survive IMO. As long as there is a city, there needs to be a sewer. And from time to time, it can be pretty funny to poke your head in the sewer and see what the morlocks are up to.

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[–] thatonedude1210@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I cared more about the niche communities than I did about Reddit as a whole. Once those move over here, I'll be just fine.

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[–] maccam912@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My biggest worry is a fracturing of some communities. For tech support for various companies, different niche academic communities, etc. that had a free and easy place to have discussions instead of running their own forum. If we end up with those groups splitting and half staying on Reddit, half coming here, that's a bummer all around for someone who previously knew where they would find the best info.

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[–] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am a reddit user from the Great Digg Exodus of 2008. Fifteen years of content and over a million karma that I'm going to overwrite at the end of the month. I'm going to bring as many people with me as I can before I go. I hope all three of them enjoy lemmy.

Yeah, this feels a lot like a bad breakup. I've explored reddit alternatives before, but this time it's for good.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, I mean, yeah, my equivalent reddit account is 15 years old, is karma rich, one of my comments was added to reddits filing to the FCC in favor of net neutrality (hey, how does this new policy comport with net neutrality BTW?), and I've been added to a bunch of the special/high karma subs...

But what it boils down to is reddit has become hostile to me as a user. They don't want my traffic? My top 1% of karma accounts? That's cool. ~~Fark~~ -> ~~Digg~~ -> ~~Reddit~~ -> Lemmy or something else.

When your business model is user supplied links to user generated content in user created and moderated forums, that means your business model is INFINITELY replaceable.

Just getting my feet wet with Lemmy and Jerboa, let's see how this shakes out.

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, I'm mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who've just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.

But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I'm kinda glad to be moving on.

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[–] lhx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] IanM32@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the idea of ditching Reddit after so long is daunting. I'm tentatively liking Lemmy as a replacement, though it took a hot minute for me to understand how it works. I imagine it'll be a barrier to entry for many, but maybe that's not the worst thing. I just hope more people migrate.

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[–] ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, over the years I have seen many discussions sites rise and fall, and you tend to get over it. Slashdot, Fark, Digg, and countless PHP-based boards for instance. I am happy that there is a real possibility that a decentralized mechanism for discussions is catching on again. To me it's somewhat like Usenet back in the day, but prettier.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, because you're all here, and hopefully together we'll start building healthier, more tight-knit communities.

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[–] saluer_lorque@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Quintus@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not Reddit but I feel sad for Aaron Swartz. What a monster his creation became. Thankfully Lemmy exists to fill Reddit's place.

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[–] Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sitting here having lunch and out of habit I went to open Reddit. Got confused for a moment and realised there's no more reddit for me. Was sad for a few seconds, opened Lemmy and now I'm happy again.

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[–] imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ganbaro@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] l_one@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do. Reddit was this awesome super/meta community of darn near any specific, niche, rare subject you could think of - and that thing would have a community of its own in a subreddit.

The amount of utility, the breadth of concentrated access to subject matter experience on anything, was utterly unmatched anywhere else.

This is, in my view, the dying of that resource, that super-community, and there isn't going to be anything that can replace it quickly. That will hurt in the short and medium term.

On the other side of things, it will lead to a diaspora of sorts, with other communities such as this one (kbin), various instances of the Fediverse, Tildes and others seeing a significant period of growth, and, probably, an infusion of resources to speed and improve development for the better.

It sucks right now, but I do have hopes for what will come from the ashes.

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[–] Accidentaladult@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Speckle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 😭

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[–] Bucket_of_Truth@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I think it's exciting witnessing this platform take off almost literally overnight. The past few days I've been trying to figure out how lemmy actually works with little success. Tonight though it's actually clicking, there's actually content and discussion.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sad about where it's going. Been on Reddit since 2011, and I think it's such a great thing in many ways - so of course it had to be ruined by greed.

I'm genuinely enjoying Lemmy though as a pretty good alternative, albeit one that's a bit quiet for now. Usebase is ticketing though I think, so hopefully we can achieve critical mass.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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..

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[–] flamingseaturtle@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 πŸ˜†

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