• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think there’s a lot of us who are fed up. Reddit was an important part of my life but I haven’t been back since the AMA and I don’t intend to.

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        1 year ago

        For sure, but I am cynical about people’s convictions when it comes to their sources of leisure and free time. I see it in all places. Folks are gonna watch the new flash even though doing so will help Miller’s career. Activision/Blizzard has proven to be horrendous and for those that don’t care about that, they also underdelivered on overwatch 2. Diablo 4, however, is the best selling game in the series. Even back in the day folks had wanted to boycott left 4 dead 2 only for them to end up buying it anyways.

        Things like that make me hopeful, but my optimism is tempered.

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        1 year ago

        For sure. I’m enjoying it, but reddit’s downfall really depends on how many divest from it and can join us here. I think it’ll be fine because people are coming and there will be guides to help folks navigate, but only time will tell

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          1 year ago

          there will be no “downfall” and i think that attitude will make things harder for a place like this to thrive

          it needs to be kinda its own thing. we need more than one place for this type of shit. Reddit is fine honestly. they are a business (maybe a shitty one) but thats the game

          it just sucks that there isint another option, so when people started jumping ship i joined em.

          i just dont want one mega corp to own the data on the internet as much as i can help it (which admittedly is not much) so this seemed like a real easy way to try

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            1 year ago

            Downfall was definitely the wrong word to use. I want this to be impactful and make Reddit change course, but that can only happen if enough people leave.

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              1 year ago

              I think the best case scenario for a place like this one here is of people stop thinking about Reddit at all.

              It’s kind of breaking up after a long relationship: as long as you’re still thinking about what your ex is doing right now, you’re not over the relationship.

              I think this place will find its groove once people will have stopped comparing features, communities, apps, etc. to how things worked or looked like on Reddit, and once people will have completely stopped caring about whatever may or may not be going on over at Reddit.

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              1 year ago

              ya i get it but i still think the better way to think about all this is that Reddit will probably not change anything, they probs wont loose that many users over this specific thing

              but if the people that are here now, just stay here and contribute, that can only be a good thing

              we need more spaces on the net. diversity and all that shit. its not good for the internet i want to exist to have only one front page. we need more

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      1 year ago

      I’m waiting for reddit to send me my personal data, so I can make my comments unuseable for anything, I guess they either are wise of it or there are a lot more requests than usual, but I’m done with reddit. And there is more and more big name sites i’m just… not wanting to interact with anymore.