I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.

/s

Edit: Wow this blew up!

Edit 2: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Edit 3: RIP my inbox! I can’t believe this made /r/all!

Edit 4: We did it Reddit! Lemmy!

  • New_account@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 years ago

    From June 14 to June 30, the RIF Android app will mostly work as normal providing access to most of the same subreddits I’ve been visiting for the past decade+. A few will shut down permanently, but other than that, it’ll mostly be the same as before, so I’ll probably use Reddit during that period.

    However, effective July 1, that option disappears completely. If I want to continue using Reddit, I’ll have to download an entirely different app and get used to an entirely different user interface providing an experience much worse than RIF. If I have to learn something brand new anyway, I may as well try an entirely different platform like Lemmy. No idea if I’ll stick here long term or not, but the power of Reddit was the community. If the community migrates over here, I’m all for staying here. I suspect one of the Redsit alternatives will attract a critical mass of people at some point.

    As every internet platform has shown, the enshittification is inevitable. Eventually, Lemmy too will become an unusable mess of ads and feature creep if/when enough money starts flowing in. However, I’m perfectly fine using the site for the next few years until that happens.

    • arcturus@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      But doesn’t the federated instance-based nature of Lemmy mean that enshittification is more difficult to creep in? Like if an instance (or several instances) start being like that, we can just leave to a different one that isn’t doing that, yeah?

    • 🕷️ Spider Tax 🕷️
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m in the exact same boat. Granted, I did patch the reddit app with revanced manager to get rid of ads (just for shits and giggles tbh, and to see “what I’ll be working with” if my addiction is so strong)… but it’s still a slow app experience with a lot of bloat. So, meh…

      Way back in the day, I used Digg and reddit about equally, before Digg V4 made it totally unusable and then I made the switch. I imagine any transition I make will go something like that. i.e. I dual wield reddit and Lemmy and/or Tildes for a while, and then they nuke old.reddit or something equally smoothbrained, and then I’m done forever. Nuking the API is pretty bad as it is, but I’m primarily a desktop user, so me participating in the blackout and boycott is more on principle, because fuck that slimy shithead spez.