It seems to be working for me. Fediverse apps don't need to nessesarily be popular with the general public in order to be useful to us in nichie communities.

Damn, where the hell should we go?

Eh, I've left other sites. Reddit has been going downhill for years.

Be the change you want to see. Start a community, advertise it, start bring the reddit folks over here.

We need to make fetch happen!

agree with all the sentiments here.

but imho think we'd have to agree that the dangers of one corp entity controlling a whole social media platfor (with twitter first and now reddit) are pretty clear.

our communities will coalesce again somewhere but until then we should adopt the spirit of curiosity and just enjoy these new experiences ❤️

I'm sad too. What's with these tech companies making the shittiest changes lately? I thought I'd be fine deactivating my Discord after their horrendous username change since I'd still have Reddit but now Reddit is going to become lower quality. I'll be active on here and Twitter since its fandoms are similarly, like Reddit, seperated by subtwitters (communities)

If former redditors join here, it's not like actually leaving.

I've been on Reddit for almost 15 years and it's just gotten too big and too moderated for me.

It's how the old saying goes: out with the old in with the new!

Glad to see it go. It was not as useful as it once was and the community had grown very angry and bitter.

Same, I've been there since 2012. It's my go-to site for mostly everything and it's difficult to not click on that Reddit bookmark in my browser. This place is a bit empty right now but I'm hoping the blackout and people leaving Reddit will increase the traffic. I also joined Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, so I'm all aboard the Federated train!

At least this place is easy to use if you are already familiar with Reddit, just have to adjust to using different servers instead of having everything in one central place.

I remember Digg before Reddit.

I just logged out of my account and uninstalled the app (Sync) for the protest, only to realize that I needed an ELI5 30 minutes later... Hopefully my favorite/most useful subreddits manage to join Lemmy as well!

I'm going to miss Reddit

Reddit hasn't been the same in years. I've been thinking about leaving for a long time now. Ever since subs started banning people for participating in the "wrong" subreddits, things have really gone downhill. People shouldn't be expected to do a background check on every post they want to comment on.

I’m a late adopter of Reddit but it has been the only form of social anything on the web for me, so I will miss it. But I’m also really excited for the stuff here and being apart of something small. I was a longtime lurker on Reddit just because it was so intimidating, felt like it was easy to get put on blast if you accidentally did something wrong.

Really? I'm excited. Its a wish come true.