Seeing a lot of threads seeking validation for their choice to move from Reddit
Fuck /u/spez and all of that. It would be my 13th cake-day on July 7th đź’©and I won't be on Reddit to celebrate because the account will have been shredded and deleted.
I'm glad we finally have an alternative (seemingly)decided on. I guess there isn't much else to talk about until 7/1 when a lot of blissfully ignorant reddit users realize they can't post anymore on their favorite app, when I think we'll see the biggest surge of new users. It feels as though the lack of conversation and "low" userbase - compared to reddit, is prompting users to ask if they made the right choice...
"Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on >Lemmy than Reddit?"
"POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?"
"let’s cut the “Reddit” circle jerk and start actually making >content"
It's too early for those questions and of course people are going to be talking about Reddit, it's our old home. I was a user on Digg before Reddit, the big difference was that Digg V4 blindsided us, we knew a change was coming but had no idea it would be that bad. /u/spez was so nice as to tell us we were fucked a month or so in advance.
The point is, chill out, explore this community and others if you're inclined and don't stress, the rest will follow along in time:
I think some people just need to vent, it's understandable IMO, I too needed that before I stopped caring at all.
I kinda love the smaller population here and elsewhere. Reddit was too big a crowd, too centralized. I like being more scattered, and making genuine connections that aren't drowned in a sea of wisecracks and insults competing for 'karma'.
Make sure you have that GDPR archive before you use shreddit. If you don't have one yet, timelines are being updated on https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread
Or if you don't want to wait, there's another way, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than