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I haven’t fully left yet. I’ll probably hang onto my account for a bit.
I liken it to a train wreck. I’m so pissed at /u/spez and the decline of the site, but I still KINDA wanna see where it goes.
I’m in a similar boat. Playing a wait and see game, but looking at what alternatives are out there and whether they jump out to me.
Heard about Lemmy maybe a few months ago as Mastodon started to gain more awareness and figured it’d be a prime option to look into.
The trigger point for Mastodon for me was losing Tweetbot on Twitter and Ivory coming out. From that point onward I’ve spent more time on Mastodon than I have Twitter. I was a very light Twitter user but so it was a pretty easy jump to make, especially as a fair few people I followed also went over.
I’ll see how this one plays out. I’m an Apollo user so in a similar boat where I have an app that’s been orphaned, however I’m realistically not going to find anywhere with as mature an app unlike that Ivory scenario where TapBots were fortunate enough to have almost completed their Mastodon app when Twitter unceremoniously killed their API access overnight. From memory they had a beta at the time already.
Enjoying things so far so even if I don’t go all in, I think I can see my usage growing over time, hopefully alongside a broader growth of the community.
Like many others in the past few days, because of their recent decisions. Plus i am a huge fan of FOSS, so knowing that Lemmy is a good federated open source alternative, it is a big plus compared to Reddit.
I don’t like how reddit it shifting to be a corporate monitored discussion site. I’m okay with reddit being a company, it takes money to run the servers, but they have begun to hinder the accessibility of the users for their own benefit. I’m sure they have done it in the past, but this time shows how little they care about us and how much they are in it only for the money. Now they are censoring and manipulating posts to look better. I don’t stand by that.
It’s pretty simple. Reddit as a company seems to have been on a path for years where they have done everything they possibly can to make the site more corporate at the expense of Reddit as a community.
I’ve been on Reddit for years (I deleted at least two accounts before sticking with my now 14-year-old account). To put it in context, my Reddit account is older than my child, who has his own Reddit account.
There were a lot of things on Reddit that I found annoying but it was easy to ignore. I was saddened by the way they fired Victoria and unfairly blamed it on Ellen Pao, and the effects of those decision s including the noticeable degradation in quality and corpoatization of AMA posts.
I also hated how blatant advertising and astroturfing kept showing up more and more and did not like the way practically everything turned into politics and divisiveness in a more recent era.
But again, most of that was pretty easy to avoid and I could just stick to my little niche subreddits that I liked, ignore the rest of the content, and view the site and a format I like because I could use a third party app. I never really cared for new Reddit and especially hated the official Reddit app, and with that being gone and ads and chat being forced on me, I’m done with it.
I haven’t left yet. I am sticking til the end of the month. My favorite 3rd party app is going to be no, so fuck Reddit. I am not going to be using their app. Maybe the website at first, but I am 99% sure that I am going to bounce on the end of the month.