Asklemmy

That's a difficult question for me. I'm a mod of a small niche subreddit over there. I don't like the idea of leaving that small community to die, and I'm not sure I could rebuild it here. But at the same time the enshittification of Reddit is progressing in a way I'm not at all comfortable with. I'm definitely in on the blackout, but I'm not sure what it'll take to make me stay or make me leave after that.

Reddit has been a dumpster fire for years now, I grab every straw that has even remote chance of becoming successful

Yes, I don't think the problem with Reddit is just a collection of recent poor decisions, rather it's a fundamental result of it being a centralized platform that aims to be profitable. Same as Facebook, Twitter, and other networks.

But I'd like (and hope) to see many UI/UX improvements to Lemmy on desktop and mobile in the following weeks and months.

If I can work out how to easily access Lemmy then I'll stay.

Yes, because the reddit admins have shown their true selves and I don't like it.

12 years, and my days of contributing to Reddit are over. It's obvious they're more interested in money than the communities. It's best to walk away and move on.

I'll participate on here for now, and we'll see how it goes.

I'm probably going to keep using both regardless, though I may cut back significantly on my reddit use.

I'll stay in the Fediverse. With reddit, the damage has already been done, even if they do backpedal.

A quick story.

I play Dungeons and Dragons. Wizards of the Coast (WotC which owns D&D and is in turn owned by Hasbro) tried to pull some evil things with the license that covers a lot of D&D content and tehre was a huge backlash and boycott and WotC eventually (mostly) backed down.

I took part in the boycott and when WotC backed down, I reasoned that the boycott would be for naught if I didn't end my boycott and "reward" WotC for (mostly) agreeing to play nice(r). So I ended my boycott.

Just a few weeks later, WotC sent armed mercinaries (literally the Pinkertons) after one of their Magic The Gathering customers over a purchase mixup on the reseller's part. No calling and nicely asking the customer to voluntarily help resolve what WotC saw as an issue. Just Pinkertons at the customer's door one day.

I've now learned the lesson I should have already known ahead of the D&D licensing debacle. What Reddit is doing now shows their true nature. If folks end the boycott and go back to Reddit, that will only empower Reddit and its parent company Conde Nast to pull something just as bad or worse in the future. (Not that they won't do something worse even if people don't come back.) And when that happens, the Reddit users who came back to Reddit after this API pricing situation settled down will be tired and more reticent to engage in another boycott.

So my philosophy is "if it's bad enough to warrant a temporary boycott, it's bad enough to warrant a permanent boycott."

No. I always get almost all of my Reddit use out of lemmy. There are some communities I want to see on lemmy but they are not worth keeping Reddit app installed.

I'm staying, but I'll use both. I use Baconreader, there's no other way I'll interact with reddit. But I'll go back as a lurker. Already overwote my comments and deleted my account. I don't trust them to not pull this shit in the future even if they did change their minds this time.

I'm really enjoying Lemmy though, been a great place to interact, especially with jerboa! A lot of similarities to baconreader, enough that the only "shock" was the less users so discussion is a little slower. But it's still a really great place in my opinion and I'll continue using it for the future.

Yes, I'll be staying. The writing is on the wall. I don't expect old.reddit to be around too much longer; I wouldn't be too surprised if RES is gone within the next few years, too.

On the one hand, I've gone to the trouble of setting up a Lemmy instance. I've invited some users. If they stick around, I'll definitely keep it up and running, and keep using it myself. That doesn't mean I can't use Reddit.

The point of the protest, in my opinion, has to be that if they accede to our demands, we'll do something they like. So if they make API access cost something reasonable, then it would only make sense to reward them. Otherwise, why protest at all? Why wait till now?

There's a massive inertia from reddit being the go-to social network for enthusiasts, it will need years if you want it to be fully replaced by something else. I will keep lemmy, but i believe going back to reddit is a smart choice... for now.

what's reddit?

If Lemmy really picks up I'd entirely switch, even if reddit fixes it's shit. But rn Lemmy and the fediverse is still pretty low on content, especially compared to reddit. Plus it's really clunky and unrefined. Rn I don't mind but Lemmy and the fediverse are gonna have to buckle down and improve things so people are more apt to make the switch and make the whole experience here more user friendly and enjoyable.

I don't mind the smaller communities of this platform. As long as it stays somewhat reliable without gateway errors I'm sticking around.