I wish there was an alternative to leaving Reddit

  • godless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At this point I’m wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can’t be trusted.

    • Extrawurst@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Really hope people leave it to a great extent. Reddit doesn’t deserve the users if they lie like they do, and while reddit was easy and fun, a federated way of communicating seems more robust

  • rarkgrames@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know it’s funny, I thought I would be sad to see Reddit go but I’ve been lurking here on Lemmy for a day or two and I’ve realised that Reddit actually was a pretty toxic environment a lot of the time.

    I will miss some of the long running in-jokes (broken arms, coconuts etc.) but overall maybe moving on from Reddit is a good thing.

    I hope Reddit doesn’t die entirely though. It does have some uses, particularly if you need help on a. particular topic. The specialist subreddits have a large amount of knowledge available through their subscribers and I’ve often turned to them for help on a tech issue when I have something I can’t answer with a quick Google search (for example, a weird issue with Sonarr which wasn’t covered by the *arr wiki) and it would be great if this doesn’t go away.

    What I am sad about is seeing the demise of some great 3PA (I was an Apollo user). The amount of work put in by the devs is huge, and this is their livelihood being destroyed. So for folks like Christian I do feel bad.

    I’m interested to see how Reddit comes out of the other side of the blackout. Wait and see I guess.

  • byuns~ ♡@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m sad too. What’s with these tech companies making the shittiest changes lately? I thought I’d be fine deactivating my Discord after their horrendous username change since I’d still have Reddit but now Reddit is going to become lower quality. I’ll be active on here and Twitter since its fandoms are similarly, like Reddit, seperated by subtwitters (communities)

    • notun@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What was so bad about the Discord username change? I literally just dropped the number they had forced on me.

          • amki@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            The bad thing is that people are forced to give up their username to make it a unique token with people they will never meet and care about.

            Question for most people is: Why? Where is the good reason to force this upon everyone?

            And even as a techy guy I have no clue to be honest.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I prefer non-corporate alternatives, like lemmy or mastodon. However, if it’s going to last, users are going to have to contribute what they can to keeping the lights on, otherwise, if lemmy grows, they’ll have to resort to things like ads to cover their costs and it will become reddit all over again.

    • player1@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Honestly I’m fine with some amount of ads as long as they are unobtrusive and inoffensive. Either that or there’s a free tier with some minimal ads and a paid tier with no ads. Nothing outlandish though.

      No instance admin should have to bear the cost.

      • EonNShadow@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately with the current structure of things, that’s probably what will have to happen for a bit.

        Lemmy is decentralized and federated and there are pros and cons to that system. One of those is that users expect a completely free experience. However, I have a server at home, but I have no way of scaling it. So despite there being a community I’d love to spin up, I can’t because I have no way of scaling it.

        Most people are going to have to go through Cloud providers for that, which can get pricey.

        • amki@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Just like people share the cost for a Netflix account they could probably share the cost of their fediverse access. IF people really wanted that is.

    • 15Redstones@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      At least with Lemmy there’s lots of different servers, each with their own running costs.

      Each could try a different way of keeping the lights on. Some could run on donations only, some could use small unobtrusive ads on the side, some could do lots of ads. If any server does too little they’ll go down due to lack of funding, if any server does too much the users will migrate elsewhere, as it’s quite easy to make a new account on another instance and keep following the same communities.

      Even if we end up with some large-scale instances with big servers, millions of users and serious money involved, they won’t have a monopoly on all the content like with reddit, so the competition should keep them from doing anything stupid.

  • nlm@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The biggest thing I’ll miss isn’t actually being on reddit but the fact that basically any time you needed to look up somthing you could just google it and add site:reddit.com and find some good threads about it… it’s been a valuable knowledge base.

    • elauso@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I also do this, but even before the recent turmoil I started losing confidence and trust. Brands know about this trick and they know how much consumers trust honest reviews by real people.

      Generative AI like ChatGPT makes it easier than ever to flood subs with search-engine friendly posts and comments how awesome product X is…

  • Proud Papa@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m glad to be a part of something new. Still confused a little bit that’s part of the excitement lol

    • Grizzlywer@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Im just a few minutes in but I really like the layout in the comments that let’s you see which comment someone replied to on the mobile app Jerboa.