Ask Lemmy

You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

I hope it will not become a "they" vs "us" thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that's not bad. Competition is healthy.

I'm staying, and I'm curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

The more time I spend on lemmy, the less I'm missing reddit.

Lemmy feels fresher, more positive, and faster. It's a bit rough around the edges, but things will only improve, and there seems to be a large number of people willing to get involved and help out.

Even if the current blackout amounted to nothing, at least Lemmy has had a boost in users and engagement. Lemmy and the fediverse will learn lessons, improve, and fix bugs, and will be here for the next time reddit fucks up, and gain even more users.

I think I'll be staying regardless, reddit has been pissing me off for the last couple of years. It was mainly the lack of a viable alternative that kept me there.

Sp*z has fucked up badly this time. And he will continue to fuck up.

I've read this on reddit. I think they, reddit leaders, keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.

The protests need to keep going. Apparently spez thinks everyone is gonna come back today.

My old Reddit (of 14+ years), because I used RIF, is gone forever regardless of the Blackout outcome. Not subjecting myself to the Reddit app (the integrity lapses highlighted recently underscore that Reddit will violate my privacy, will sell my data, will treat me like a piece of shit) and am not going back even once to enhance their revenue stream.

They caused this ... they can manage the consequences.

Read an interesting idea today. Let subs become unmoderated free for all so chaos would reign. Not gonna lie, I'd like to see what it would become hahaha.

You can use https://reddark.untone.uk/ to check which subs are still private. This morning it has been showing live notifications as many go public again. There are still some subs that are set to private or restricted.

I mean I’m trying to stop using Reddit in general because it pisses me off, but IMO the individual users protesting is unlikely to change anything. The real test will be how many mods stay and continue to work well once the change goes into effect.

I'm still using Boost until that app dies at least. It seems as though some of the protesting subs are coming back, some are doubling down. Every non-participating sub seems to be doing fine, although the upvote and comment numbers do seem lower than usual. The result is still kinda up in the air it seems.