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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 172 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

Good for them, but the damage is already done. They seeded this place with a lot of users. Will it be enough? Who knows. But Lemmy is probably a looooot further along than if they didn’t shoot themselves in the foot.

This place obviously needs to continue with good content and active communities, but at moment I don’t really have the urge to open Reddit they way things are.

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  • [–] 114 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Absolutely. I had never even heard of Lemmy or anything Fediverse prior to all the 3rd party API shutdown. Once Apollo died, I stopped using Reddit.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I had heard of it, but was like "that's dumb, just use Reddit, there's no reason not to"

    They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I'd heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.

    But it was way down on my list of "things I guess I should learn about but don't have time for."

    Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I've never looked back.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    When RiF died I deleted my accounts and found my way here. I still open a couple of niche subreddits from time to time just to check on updates but otherwise my time on Reddit is done. 2010-2023 (damn I hate to admit that).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The host of a tech podcast I listen to has had a Mastodon instance for years. I knew of the Fediverse because of that, but I always thought of it as decentralized Twitter and not necessarily a way to decentralize all types of social media platforms.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, even when I’ve had the urge to check Reddit for something I’m trying to figure out, I will do everything I can to avoid it. And if I can’t, I try to determine how much I care about what I’m searching before I even give them a single click. It’s a small, insignificant protest, but it’s a forever protest, for me. I’m happy on lemmy, I don’t browse as much, I interqct with more of the community and want to help build it. On Reddit, I felt dirty because of everything they’ve been doing the last 5 or so years. Tencent, killing third party apps slowly and then in one fell swoop, etc. fuck ‘em

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I've had to visit Reddit twice since the protests started, to get information from a specific user. Both times, I used Brave browser in Private mode. They didn't get to count me as a login, they couldn't serve me ads, and their trackers were blocked.

    I don't anticipate needing to go back to Reddit ever again, but for anyone who can't avoid it, I recommend that method.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lemmy is so much more fun than Reddit. It feels like the old school internet before corporations took over.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm glad to have moved to lemmy. It feels raw and real, vs reddits polished curated feel. As if I'm actually reading posts by people. And I like that is doesn't get me scrolling too much.

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