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If Reddit were to revert it's changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing could convince me to go back, we need decentralization.

[–] a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I'm on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we'll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, I’m not looking back.

[–] starrox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit is absolutely, 100% certainly not going to step back on these change. They've made up their mind long ago.

But just for the hypothetical: I think they lost a LOT of trust with the two most essential parts of the community - users and mods. Also the company (or rather, its CEO) may have taken significant image damage due to the "AMA" spez did.

I think business will go on as usual, but the decline will be more and more noticable over time. It will go the way of Digg. Unless of course reddit decides to hire moderation themselves. But we all know they probably wont want do do that. The course seems set to selling the data they have already accumulated.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I doubt reddit will hire mods, they've been crying the platform is not profitable, imagine having to pay several millions more, tho reddit without mods is dead.

[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 2 points 1 year ago

What if your SO stops beating you?

[–] biff@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure I’ve found it.

[–] toodazed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not going back, epescially since Apollo will be shutting down. I'm looking forward to what the dev can do with the Mlem iOS app, and I'm very interested in the community that is being built here.

[–] JayWalker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy reminds me of early Reddit and I like that. The mask is all the way off now. Reddit was pretty fun 10+ years ago but that time has come and gone.

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy. I actually kinda prefer this to reddit, content feels much more "local" and since I can't spend hours scrolling through it, it doesn't make me a mindless soul just being fed infornation. Also I already deleted my reddit account lol.

Stay! And participate less in their site, so they note the change.

[–] NebulaBC@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly think most people would go back just out of habit. Even if they don’t go back, once things calm down. I’d absolutely love people to move to fedi, but I just don’t think it’s gonna happen.

[–] treagod@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is too good to leave. I don't think I'm alone either. I was wanting an alternative for a while.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren't any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.

The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.

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[–] stonesimulator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer encouraging small communities grow to become as successful as corpo giants. It's not only about Reddit, it's about avoiding single points of failure.

The last time reddit pulled some shit, I found tildes and expanded the sites I visited regularly/ semi-regularly (and reducing how much time I spent on reddit). Reddit reverting the latest changes will only minimize the damage on my end, as I'll be spending time here that I could otherwise be spending over there.

This stunt reduced the already diminished trust I have for reddit. Having migrated to reddit due to the digg v4 fiasco, over the years, reddit's decisions have been like digg v4 in slow motion. Each fuckup just causes me to further reduce the amount of time I spend using the site. One of these days, they'll cross too many of my red lines, and reddit will become completely useless to me.

[–] Adi2121@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.

Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.

I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.

With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?

Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.

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

I plan on sticking to lemmy and only using reddit on the pc for specific things that I can't find here for the time being

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[–] grin@grinnit.grin.hu 1 points 1 year ago

People would go back.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit showed their hand and I'm just done with all these corpos. Reddit is my last hold out and I'm slowly leaving that too. I'm moving to the decentralized FOSS future that I believe in where we the people have the power.

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is doing a tumblr so I don't think is gonna recover that easy. Reddit is not gonna allow NSFW subs to be seen outside of the official app, who the hell watches porn from the official app? So many people is gonna drop it.

I think is still gonna survive IF subs like askreddit, amitheasshole or entitledparents are still up and have a lot of people posting, because they so many YT channels read from those (and I hear them daily as podcasts) but if the mayor subs go dark or shutdown is not gonna affect reddit only, but also so many people who works reading those.

[–] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I would probably stay here. I deleted my Account on Reddit and i do not forgive spez for the decission he has done.

[–] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Base on my couple hours of experience, nope, I don't need that huge amount of unrelated content that I am not interested in. It does take sometime to customize and filter lemmy but it would be the same like early reddit anyway, won't take long to tune it to what you like.

[–] Subito@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

They've made it clear they won't. And since most subs are only going dark for a measly 48 hours they have no incentive to. It's literally like that "Oh no, anyway..." meme.

And think of it this way: even if you they revert the changes (or you just decide to please /u/spez and only use the official app) do you think the platform will continue to get better or worse? He's shown his hand it's nothing good for the mods or the users.

[–] Vivi@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t been a daily Reddit user for a long time, if Apollo stayed active and useable I’d keep it loaded on my phone but I’m into the vibe on lemmy and want to be part of it.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I probably won't permanently boycott them if they revert, but won't leave here either.

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