…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

89 points

I’ve been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I’ll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.

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14 points

Yeah bring here certainly doesn’t feel like 2023

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1 point

A bunch of popular celebrities died this year! Things will never be worse than this!

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10 points

I think I will stay, I’m a 15 year redditor, I’m really pissed at the management. They’ve never been great. The community has been doing all the work for so long, posting, commenting, moderating, developping apps and tools. And these guy think they are better? They are even saying it will calm down.

Remove this guy as CEO, cancel this API nonsense and we will see.

But in the meantime. I’m here and the more time passes. The more comfy I get.

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13 points

ya right

like i have no social media loyalty. reddit was a habit. a time waster. the only thing that sucks about moving away from reddit is im not sure how to find old posts and shit here but im sure either i or someone much smarter will figure it out. in the end, i just want more places to go on the net

maybe im old, but i wax nostalgic for the forum days. and this feels like it

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8 points

Same, and I’m hyped for something new and better. This absolutely reminds me of early Reddit and I’m totally here for it.

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1 point

It’s open source so anyone can contribute. With how much feedback everyone is giving, hopefully that means things will continue to get better.

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60 points

I became a Redditor during the Digg exodus… Now I’ll become a Lemming during the Reddit exodus.

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17 points

You probably just started something with the Lemming thing.

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12 points

We definitely have to stop calling communities subreddits though.

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Kbin calls them magazines

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1 point

Sublemmy? Slemmy?

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9 points

Same my dude. I wasn’t sure about this at first, but I have 2 12 year old accounts and am thinking of seeing if I can cash in on them somehow.

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I joined up in '06 but officially committed during the Digg Migration. Lemmy was been a much welcome refresher to the old days of Reddit.

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40 points

It breaks my heart to dump 15 years of Reddit, but yes, I’m staying.

I knew this would happen sooner or later, because every good company eventually put their bottom lines ahead of their users.

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27 points

I’m definitely staying. I know there’s gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.

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Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don’t think I’ve commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun

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This is exactly it. Beyond a couple very niche subs, I felt no desire to interact at all. It had turned into howling into the void of bots and memes. This feels like legitimate engagement with actual humans…or passable facsimiles.

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I’ll take ‘passable fascimile’ as a compliment! The real niche subs are hard to reproduce. I started a Nebula one, but that subreddit was only ~5k ppl with comment threads maybe 100 long, so probably will be hard to reproduce here

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