I joined Reddit mostly because of one specific game focused community. When they went private during the protest and migrated to Lemmy, I followed suit. While Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of the functions Reddit had, I like it here more and want to stay.

After reading a bit about the protest, it resonated with me and in an attempt to support it I deleted my 7 year old account with all the content on it.

Now, I found out the said community will be opening their Subreddit again in a few days. They will keep their Lemmy instance open but I feel like the majority of people will return to Reddit because there’s years of content there already while they would have to build everything from scratch here.

I respect their decision but I feel fucking betrayed and need to went. Sorry if I chose the wrong place to do so.

Update: Not that anyone cares but it all went pretty much as I predicted. As soon as the subreddit re-opened the Lemmy community completely died. Even the mods don’t bother posting latest patch notes.

  • @rbhfd
    1•1 year ago

    I’m not a big football fan, but I am from Belgium so I was getting ready to subscribe to support your efforts and our national team.

    I wasn’t aware Red Devils is also the name for ManU. Does that often lead to confused fans?

    • @RamesesKnibs
      2•1 year ago

      Not sure if it ever happened on Reddit, though it’s the first I’ve heard off on here 😀 guess you’re a United fan now 😉

      The reason for using Red Devils is because r/ManchesterUnited was a bit of an unmoderated shitstorm, so r/RedDevils was created with more stringent posting rules. That’s why I went with it, so those coming over from Reddit could find it easily

      • @rbhfd
        2•1 year ago

        I can only accept my fate. Is it a problem that the last game I watched was City winning the CL?

        Thanks for the background!

        The official subreddit for the Belgian team is apparently BelgiumNT. I only checked that now, that’s how invested I am in the sport.