• markr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

    • zeriah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.

      Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.

  • Saintpaul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

  • Sonemonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

  • Pizzareca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

    • bl4ckblooc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

  • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

    Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

    I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.

  • rakara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I’m checking things out.

  • Bisque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I’m on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

  • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.

  • Poggers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Stopped using reddit after 12 years when the blackout began, and kept up with the developments through the tech news. Removing the mods and screwing around with things just because they’re mad about a protest was the last straw, so now here I am!

  • dgilluly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

    I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

    • Salvo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.

      With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.

      The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.

  • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.

  • Aax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…