I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.

I’m staying. Lemmy feel like how reddit felt when I first joined, especially with all the cloooge

If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

I would be on both. I’m assuming that CEO isn’t long for that position but we’ll see. Reddit survives though. It’s really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.

I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.

I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.

I don’t care much for reddit as a whole. Since I joined lemmy have I used my phone so many more hours per day that it is scary. I was only on reddit for a few minutes per day… So reddit is maybe better for my health 😂 The only sad thing is that the niches subs I liked didn’t even seem to know about this whole thing and nobody seems to come over either… So no I won’t go back to reddit. But I am not as black and white either, for morals sake will I not use reddit until after July and after that may I check out my niched subs maybe once a week or less. But we will see maybe I don’t even care to have a look when that time comes. Just like fb I just logg in to see i don’t miss any major events maybe 4 times per year haha

The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.

My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.

Will reddit continue? Yes.

Will reddit ever make a profit? No.

I tried migrating when voat got popular and for awhile I used both. Voat started attracting worse and worse people though so eventually I left.

I would probably use both and hopefully Lemmy can avoid voats fate.

A chance…for me to still use it? Sure. I’ve always just had my list of niche subs, never used /all or /popular or whatever. It’s fine. It’s like french fries; not good for you yet appealing all the same. But it’s great to have an alternative where the goal isn’t “i want to be a complete antisocial goblin and spew hate everywhere”.

Taking some time to learn about the Fediverse, it almost feels like an IRC network. Individual networked nodes cooperating with each other to facilitate communication. It’s an old school idea with a very modern perspective. I love the idea and I hope it grows.

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I don’t think much good is going to happen until they fire their CEO. Which would require that reddit suffer some significant losses, not something that’s going to be accomplished in a week, but over much more time with increasing competition and content creators/managers moving out.

It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.

I have no loyalty to reddit and if there’s one thing I realized in the past week, it’s that I am completely fine not using it on a daily basis. If instances here continue being active (kudos to [email protected] for hosting their instance, promoting it on reddit and actively working to make it a nice cozy place here!) I have no reason to go back. I will miss smaller game subs, maybe go back sometimes to see them there but also do my best to support them here if they decide to move.