I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

    Reddit is different… I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

    So I’m not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don’t give me something to read over breakfast…

    I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I’m trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

    • majere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

      • kobra@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.

    • basskitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.

    • decus@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn’t see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I’m going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform