1y ago

I went to Reddit after 6 weeks to post a goodbye on my profile.

I know will not be seen by many, but if someone wonders why my profile is dead, they know why. Link sends to join-lemmy.org, if I get banned, oh well...

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I still haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo shut down. Feels good to stand up for what you believe in
- I haven't logged in since BaconReader shut down. I've gone over to lurk a little, but each time I do and drop into the comments, I last maybe 5 minutes and close it.
  That said, the holier-than-thou crowd is becoming more vocal here, and it's a bummer.
  
  Likewise.
  
  The commies with no sense of the historical irony of said label were here before I arrived. I’d say they were teenagers afflicted with black and white thinking but maybe that is not the case.
- RIF was working for about a month after the shut down (shit down?) but I was logged out and strictly lurking.
  Lemmy has been way more stable for me in the past 2 weeks as well.
  I'll use my browser to look at reddit without being logged in every now and then, but honestly 90% of the major news is on Lemmy anyhow and the memes and community are 10x better than anything on Reddit since about a decade.
  Only thing left for Lemmy is more local/provincial communities gaining traction on Lemmy, but I'm in no rush at all. I'd rather have a limited user base with genuine interaction than the shit slide botfest reddit feels like now
  
  You still can use it if you spoof the api key with revanced.
  I keep using RiF to check r/ModCoord from time to time and see the death of the platform.
- Agreed. I know that my leaving isn’t going to change the platform, get Spez fired, or have any substantial effect. But the key thing is I know that I’m not supporting it.
- My friend said that too, saying they'd never use the official app. Then they posted a link today that I couldn't open without the official app 🤦‍♂️
- I have. I added link to my Lemmy account.

It’s way easier to get people to move by just showing screenshots or a link to a lemmy instance
Have you been on join-lemmy.org? No one is hearing about lemmy for the first time and deciding to join based off of it. The entire website is all tech speak, and literal lorem ipsum with zero screenshots that actually show off the platform, and zero screenshots of any of the apps (which is how a ton of people browse reddit)
90% of redditors who go there will be confused and never go back. It says “a link aggregator for the fediverse” in big which, 99% of people will just be confused because whats a link aggregator? And for most people, whats “the fediverse”? Join a server? Run a server? What?
Then it says “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform” people know what some of those words are but definitely not in that order.
Then its screenshots of some code on github? Then its more code saying lemmy is open source?
Then it says “blazing fast” with a screemshot of lorem ispum
Then a bunch if paragraphs and then a small screenshot of more lorem ipsum with teeny tiny vote buttons and more tech words
- It seriously needs to be improved
- https://lemmyverse.net/ might be a better alternative for now, with the explanation that it all goes to the same conversation.
  Yes, that's not always 100% true, but new users can learn about the nuances of defederation and other blocking after they get their feet wet.
- I think they’re removing posts (and maybe banning users?) for posting Reddit alternatives lately

You guys are strange, who feels the need to write a going away letter on a reddit account? I doubt any of you had some sort of following on there. Redditors are a truly strange breed.
- It's all helping raise awareness, even if it's just in small increments.
- I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It's natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that's been such a big part of so many of our lives.
  I haven't been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.
- There's no harm in leaving a forwarding address when you leave a place.
  Additionally, it's a common practice for some users of reddit and things like it to click over to the profile of someone who posted something you find interesting; why not check out what else they post or are into? Now whenever someone clicks OP's profile the first thing they'll see is this, and that's potentially of value to someone over there who hasn't yet checked things out over here. Old reddit posts and commments still get new engagement coming in all the time even years after the fact, so something like this can actually reach folks.
  
  Exactly, OP showed his karma, even if he wasn't popular his posts and comments were liked enough. People might visit and be swayed.
- There's one obscure sub I was active on that I still feel bad not reading, as I was a fairly experienced in the topic contributor. There are most likely a few folks on there noticing my absence including the mods. I just haven't been back once since June. I knew feel like maybe I should have said something.
- I'll either delete my entire account or if possible replaceme all my posts (12 years worth) with "GOTO LEMMY!"
- my mom said i am special, like a snowflake
- Yeah. Fuck that place. I left and never went back (intentionally). No ones gonna miss me. No one over there cares that I left. Fuck em.
- They wanted an excuse to post their Karma
  
  lol conveniently cropped into the picture

Strong relationship status update vibes

I smell a ban there, spez will get very angy!! No lemmy allowed on reddit!!
- Is that for real?

OP is BASED as fuck, I went to go check out my Reddit account since I haven't used it since lemy and Reddit just felt so clunky and bloated in comparison
- I was researching something and there was a Reddit post that could have had the answer. I clicked it, it didn’t load. I left.

What do you mix?
- my original account got shadow-banned, so i created i_mix_stuff at a time i was active on r/photoshopbattles, where i would "mix" 2-3 submittons from r/new in a single picture and crosspost it. my original username was same i am using now on lemmy

I did the same too yesterday, felt good to properly let it go.

I did the same--with links to Reddit alternatives--back in early July when it became clear Reddit admin was going full autocratic on the situation. I didn't delete my content and I still don't plan to, as the discussions (and especially the Q&A) on Reddit are a public good that is a net positive for the Internet, and even the ugly acts of site leadership don't change that. I encourage anyone that still has a Reddit account to pin a similar message.
This post also reminded me that I'd recommended Squabbles when I first made the post, so I had to run over there and edit that out. Oof. 😬