31 points

I feel like people are setting themselves up for disappointment

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23 points

This, most users who decided to make the jump to Lemmy will have already done so

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14 points
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Never underestimate herd-mentality. I put off the switch until today in hopes of a dialogue between mods and admins. Reddit doubled down on their stupidity so here i am switching with the early members of r/startrek

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Nah, i just arrived. Besides, reddit won’t fail suddenly for most, they’ll just like it less as time goes by. See facebook for example.

Also, i dont want ALL the redditors to join on here. there’s quite a few who enjoy over-politicizing every damn comment and subreddit, they can stay there.

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1 point

Idts, I mean it’s pretty rough on some edges but it will be fine eventually (until the hype goes down and people just go back to reddit)

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24 points

rip in peace, OG Lemmy

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7 points

He was a legend

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21 points

Idk, I feel like all the reddit users who are going to transition (of which I am one) have already done so

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12 points

The majority, yeah. Users didn’t go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.

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4 points

I think a lot of people are waiting till their preferred app stops working so there’s still a chance.

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2 points

I feel like I’m in the minority, but I’d be happy going back to reddit if

  • spez started be honest and transparent about his interactions with third party app devs
  • reddit provides incredible moderation APIs immediately
  • reddit stops (allegedly) “undeleting” posts

If that all happens, I’d stop being upset with reddit and instead be understanding of their situation… untill spez did something else stupid and then I’d be upset again

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7 points

That’s kind of the problem though, isn’t it? They’ve shown that they’re willing to do whatever they need to make reddit look good to shareholders, the community be damned. That’s never going to change regardless of whether Spez or another parasite is the CEO.

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8 points

I am principally opposed to what is going on with Reddit. But to be honest, I am much more practically opposed to using it without a third party app. Hence I have only just gotten around to join Lemmy now. If I wasn’t on vacation and had a bunch of time right now, I probably wouldn’t have joined until after the apps stopped working.

I expect that the practical reality of not being able to use your preferred Reddit app (which is still hours away) is going to be a big motivator compared to everything else leading up to this.

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6 points

Which shows you how little reddit invested in their own development for mobile. It’s a huge factor to have a good app that’s intuitive and fun to use

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3 points

I fully migrated but the vast majority of users won’t. In fact, a significant portion of users that try Lemmy will likely go back to Reddit.

This is what happened with the Twitter -> Mastodon migration: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

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2 points

As long as a few of the niche communities that I care about can hit a critical mass on a lemmy instance somewhere, then I’m happy. Like, photography or endurance sports. I haven’t seen much of those yet, but hopefully we get there soon! Even just a thousand actually-active members is enough!

Unfortunately I’ll probably still use Reddit for their historical data for a while, but not logged in or posting anymore on principal.

We’ll see!

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1 point

Third party apps just shut down a few hours ago. Apollo died at 4:45 mst. It’s just beginning.

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16 points

Might be one of the last “Reddit hug of death”

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4 points

reddit is done without it’s mods and content creators.

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16 points

Honestly feels like it’s already started. I’ve been having trouble commenting or making posts on specific instances

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5 points

I’ve had issues with even loading some posts

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5 points

It works for a few minutes and then stops. Clearly heavy server overload

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3 points

try to subscribe to new communities. its a bit laggy.

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