- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
I support Lemmy but people saying Reddit is dead as of today and everyone is moving over is just way to hopeful or straight up delusional. If Lemmy does take off it will be years before it reaches anywhere near the amount of users Reddit has. Most of the people who said they will leave Reddit also won’t commit.
As far as I’m concerned Reddit is dead(to me) a bit like a bad breakup. They still exist, I might bump into them every now and then, but I’ll neither acknowledge its existence nor be interested in staying any longer than required.
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Well said. I’ll just use both. I see no reason to completely abandon reddit until it stops serving its purpose to me. I just think it’s a bit silly how early people are saying Lemmy is taking over and Reddit is dead. If people are more realistic right now then they won’t be disappointed later on. I’ll be around for both websites and I hope to see Lemmy grow into something special.
I won’t be using both because I don’t feel comfortable with that plan for myself, but I totally understand your reasoning. My life choices followed a different path when it comes to social media. I just like this environment so much because there are really cool people to interact with. Even if I get in an argument with somebody, it’s good for me because we’re having a reasonable argument. On Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, social media et al you can’t do that. I feel more me on here.
Glad you feel that way. Hope to see you around.
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Absolutely. I’m not trying to shit on Lemmy or anything. It’s a cool idea.
I’m still on reddit, but it seems like the only place I’m going now is /r/SBCgaming, as it’s one of my interests that hasn’t seen much traction here. I made a post suggesting people move to lemmy.world, but it was near unanimously panned, people weren’t interested.
If and when I have anything interesting to post I’ll do it here on lemmy and link it probably to the subreddit. The main thing I notice though is I spend much less time on reddit now. Since there’s no reason to stay outside of a niche interest subreddit, I’m not browsing around different subreddits or hitting up the front page anymore. Which in hindsight is actually kind of nice, it no longer feels like an endless distraction.
And all I have to say is… enjoy it while it lasts. Once all the users come, so do all the trolls
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Oh god you sound like my miserable father in law that’s estranged from the family because he’s an alcoholic that has this kind of weirdo mindset.
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Yeah, that’s something he would say.
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Hmm turns out that many of those those that enjoy feeding trolls, also are trolls themselves. Who woulda guessed!
Also sounds a lot like someone heading toward the second half of their life and doesn’t have to worry about vitamin D deficiency.