For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
I think it will hit harder when I want to search for something on google and have to avoid adding reddit onto the end.
It’s so frustrating that I often have to do this just avoid getting a lot of spam sites from google when I’m searching for something niche. I feel like the internet is getting progressively worse for user experience.
I would like to say we could just use another search engine, but what made Google top dog was because it hadnt succumbed to advertisers in a bloatware way until now. Everything on the internet is just bloat now, unfortunately.
Everything on the internet is just bloat now, unfortunately
Weirdly, Microsoft is the one company that seems to be trending in the right direction (granted, with many, many missteps along the way). Or maybe they’ve just kept walking while most other tech companies race to the bottom
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Yes, I’m really upset about it. It feels like i’ve had so much taken away from me over my life and I was always willing to accept it and move on, but to see something so simple and innocent get taken away seems just so pointless and depressing. Like why am I not allowed to just have my little shitposting community? is it too much that I get to smile without some capitalist coke rat getting a payday? I hate this so much and there is nothing I can do about it. I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.
Capitalist coke rats rule the world.
undefined> I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.
Felt this many times and you couldn’t have expressed it better. Sometimes I thought “maybe I’m getting old and you tend to idealize how the world was in your younger years” but the current situation with reddit is a clear example of this not being the case.
As a reddit refugee, happy to start becoming a part of the fediverse :)
Kinda. But I don’t care about Reddit itself. I care about a few communities and the people from there. I know a couple of them are here. But we are scattered and trying to figure out this site.
Time will tell if this sticks or not. I pretty much hope so.
If someone finds a Lemmy equivalent to r/Grimdank or r/40klore please let me know.
Yeah same. I have no real love for Reddit itself, but it has so many subreddits dedicates to very specific interests. They’re so easy to find and they can turn into such a treasure trove of information. I’ll stop using Reddit as my “main” social media, but I’ll probably still use it just for certain subreddits.
I also am looking for a replacement Grimdank. May the Machine God guide us to a new grimdark shitpost repository.
I’ve only found minipainting so far, but I’ll look out for 40k specific too
I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won’t force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn’t include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add “reddit” to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or are completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.Reddit has answered almost every question I’ve ever had for years. The potential loss of all the knowledge is my greatest concern.
I think this is honestly the biggest issue. Web search has been garbage for years, with legit the only saving grace being Reddit users sharing their knowledge. This is gonna have a horrible effect on producing good search results.
Totally agree. I feel like this is the equivalent, to some degree, of Stack Overflow just suddenly going away. The history needs to be preserved, somehow.
It’s valuable knowledge with how-to’s that made me create an account there. I learned plentiful with the people that cared to share.
Most i implemented into my daily life & conditions have become favorable for me.
It’s unfortunate that Reddit Company have refused to collaborate with its users, since years back. Otherwise we would have seen their web & mobile app develop/ innovate in great ways. But they have chosen one limitation after the other. Slowly over the years.
Subreddits are still private but there data isn’t lost so the knowlege loss isn’t irretrievable mods from the subreddits will be able to transfer knowledge from Reddit to Lemmy
That assumes the mods do. I fear reddit will turn into another tinypic situation. even if it isn’t an image host there will be pages of answers on forums and stack exchange pointing to dead reddit links. The fustration of finding a 10 year old forum post of someone having the same issue as you only to have the only answer point to a dead link is incredible.
The Archive Team has been working on reddit for a while now. I’ve had six workers running since imgur slowed down. If you can spare a little bit of computing power we could use your help! You can learn more here:
how exaclty does this pushshift work? I downloaded some zsts from it but what do I do with them?
The file you downloaded is a compressed JSON file, it’s not something you can really just look at. But it contains all the data needed to build a nice UI around.
I don’t know what OS you are on but on linux you can runzstd -d -c file.zst | jq .and it will print everything in the file. It’s not really readable though. Also it doesn’t have any of the media content, only the text
I think a lot of us are going to be going through reddit-withdrawal/detox over the next month. It’s going to be tough.
I am a reddit user from the Great Digg Exodus of 2008. Fifteen years of content and over a million karma that I’m going to overwrite at the end of the month. I’m going to bring as many people with me as I can before I go. I hope all three of them enjoy lemmy.
Yeah, this feels a lot like a bad breakup. I’ve explored reddit alternatives before, but this time it’s for good.
I’m also a Digg Exodus user that came to Reditt in 2008. I have very few posts and little karma as it was more of an aggregator of content for me and less about the interaction. And at the same time reading the comments was some of the best part of the experience.
The move from Digg to Reddit took a bit but who remembers Digg now? And Digg crumbled for the same reasons, management not listening to the users. This sucks but it too will pass.
I’ve been on Reddit for 11 years. I have looked for alternatives in the past - I tried voat for about 10 minutes before realizing how terrible its userbase was.
Reddit’s quality started noticably dropping in like 2018 for me, mostly due to the massive number of repost bots. I’ve really enjoyed being forced to find new forum style sites… assuming you’re a tech nerd, there are a ton of good options out there. And Lemmy/kbin (plus whatever else people make) have huge potential in my opinion.
I’ll probably still occasionally use old.reddit until they kill that and/or RES. But I don’t think I’m really a redditor anymore
Not Reddit but I feel sad for Aaron Swartz. What a monster his creation became. Thankfully Lemmy exists to fill Reddit’s place.
I cared more about the niche communities than I did about Reddit as a whole. Once those move over here, I’ll be just fine.
There’s already a few retro game communities but it was nice to have difference branches for different consoles and eras. So many other little things too, like city subs, ones for specific bands, shows, etc.
I’m really going to miss my local subreddit. They were a moany bunch, but they were my moany bunch.
im gonna, miss it, I don’t wanna leave, I don’t wanna go, It feels like reddit is breaking up with me rather than vice versa. As much as reddit sucked, it was the one thing consistent in my life that I could always go back to when things were rough. I just hope that the people and culture of subreddits that are closing down are going to migrate here.
really sad about this. lemmy won’t be the same. we’re also losing 15+ year of history with all the people purging posts and comments…
yeah, we can have reddit as a historical archive, and make this for the new stuff
Yeah, Reddit had a lot of communities that I loved interacting with and finding advice with. I do hope Lemmy gains enough traction to replace Reddit.
This.
It’s very sad what has transpired the past few weeks but it’s clear where Reddit’s priorities lie.
Let’s hope Lemmy takes off/gains a stable user base that we can all call our new home.
I saw a thread on a niche sub, where the question was if the user was gonna leave reddit. The vast majority replied with “stay”. I’m sure our numbers will continue to grow, but I’m afraid it will take a long time to replace Reddit. Maybe it’s better we take our time to build good communities here. So far, all interactions I had were great
I wasn’t too cut up about it until 20 minutes ago when I realised I can never go back to a specific subreddit and will lose all the information there. I’ve copied some basic stuff but I’ll really miss asking a question about this fairly obscure subject then getting a detailed answer in minutes/hours. Really going to miss that 😭
Wonder if it would be possible (technically and legally) to make a lemmy instance that is just a read-only mirror of reddit.
All we’d need for that is a nice API, possibly free or reasonably price :-)
I wonder who’d screw that up for us 🙄
I believe yes for both. Would take a big server though.
I’ve been meaning to get off Reddit and social media for a while, just not happy with the posts on there and the way things are handled. I have a stuffed animal manatee named Manny and I love him dearly, and all other manatees to keep me happy and hopefully everyone here. Love to all !
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I really hope so
Not really, im actually excited about exploring the lemmy verse. Feels like a breath of fresh air. Reddit was starting to feel stagnant.
It does, but it’s so small and fragmented at the moment. Hopefully it grows, but I worry the learning curve might be too steep for some.
