Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
Exactly. The effects are not going to be instant though. I still use Reddit everyday. But they have lost my trust. I am now actively looking for other places and other networks. Hopefully Lemmy ends up being the answer. If it does, then my use of Reddit will drop sharply in the next month or two.
Who knows, maybe then reddits board of directors will realize that Spez just killed their golden goose.
I still use Reddit everyday. But they have lost my trust. I am now actively looking for other places and other networks.
Same here. My reddit account is now only for a select few communities that haven’t made much of a foothold in federated space yet here on Lemmy. But my reddit interaction is down, and I’m honestly considering deleting my account there given the total shitshow going on.
I don’t think it’s a place I want to go back to, especially given how hostile the place can be overall. Arguing is engagement. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in terms of civil and engaging discussion. It’s actually like what reddit used to be over a decade ago.
I still make about one post a day on reddit in communities I like, in a reply that says “there’s nowhere else to turn to” and make sure to mention the fediverse every time. Which is far less than I post on here, where it’s about 50/50 circlejerk about reddit, and the other half is actually engaging with (or even creating) content.
This is my new home. It’s small, but I like it that way. I mean, you can actually find out all communities on an instance, so I actually find a lot more relevant communities here than on reddit. They still gotta grow though.
Arguing is engagement. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in terms of civil and engaging discussion. It’s actually like what reddit used to be over a decade ago.
I remember that and miss that. Being a Redditor used to mean something- generally a Redditor would be liberal or libertarian, but always open-minded and accepting, with a strong sense of fairness. There were really GOOD discussions on the site, frequently- respectful debates on subjects of all kinds and people coming together to help one another.
That’s less common now. In a quest to grow the userbase the app gets advertised to a lot of idiots. The ‘new reddit’ site and mobile app push passive consumption and scrolling over in depth discussion. The really good conversations are fewer and farther between.
If the result of this is that the ‘reddit old guard’ and other intelligent folks like them moves to Lemmy and the TikTok scrollers stay on Reddit, that’d be sad for Reddit but I think we’d be better off…
Exactly. The effects are not going to be instant though. I still use Reddit everyday. But they have lost my trust. I am now actively looking for other places and other networks. Hopefully Lemmy ends up being the answer. If it does, then my use of Reddit will drop sharply in the next month or two. Who knows, maybe then reddits board of directors will realize that Spez just killed their golden goose.
Same here. My reddit account is now only for a select few communities that haven’t made much of a foothold in federated space yet here on Lemmy. But my reddit interaction is down, and I’m honestly considering deleting my account there given the total shitshow going on.
I don’t think it’s a place I want to go back to, especially given how hostile the place can be overall. Arguing is engagement. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in terms of civil and engaging discussion. It’s actually like what reddit used to be over a decade ago.
I still make about one post a day on reddit in communities I like, in a reply that says “there’s nowhere else to turn to” and make sure to mention the fediverse every time. Which is far less than I post on here, where it’s about 50/50 circlejerk about reddit, and the other half is actually engaging with (or even creating) content.
This is my new home. It’s small, but I like it that way. I mean, you can actually find out all communities on an instance, so I actually find a lot more relevant communities here than on reddit. They still gotta grow though.
I remember that and miss that. Being a Redditor used to mean something- generally a Redditor would be liberal or libertarian, but always open-minded and accepting, with a strong sense of fairness. There were really GOOD discussions on the site, frequently- respectful debates on subjects of all kinds and people coming together to help one another.
That’s less common now. In a quest to grow the userbase the app gets advertised to a lot of idiots. The ‘new reddit’ site and mobile app push passive consumption and scrolling over in depth discussion. The really good conversations are fewer and farther between.
If the result of this is that the ‘reddit old guard’ and other intelligent folks like them moves to Lemmy and the TikTok scrollers stay on Reddit, that’d be sad for Reddit but I think we’d be better off…