I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

  • mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    1 year ago

    I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

    Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.

    • Herb@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy in it’s current state feels very similar to reddit did ~14 years ago.

      I am just smitten. I’ll never go back.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      This describes me perfectly. Most of the alternatives I saw previously just ended up being coopted by the alt-right crowd who got chased off of Reddit. Lemmy (so far) represents what I want from an online community.

      • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
        0·
        1 year ago

        Its so weird that the alt right hasn’t tried to seize Lemmy yet from my experience it was always the immediate fate of Reddit alts in curious if the alt right is too busy over at truth social (or rumble) oh could we please get a youtube alt next that would be so great

        • JohnDumpling@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.

    • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      I have to agree with you on that I saw a comment earlier about the people who left Reddit being a loud minority but something feels off about that

      Lemmy’s community feels so familiar I sadly just can’t find the right words to describe it though

      • mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        1 year ago

        It feels oddly nostalgic. I think it reminds me of the fun I used to have when I first joined reddit.

        Rather than just mindlessly scrolling with a couple “hehs” or a blowing air out my nose slightly faster than normal.