I thought about this comment, and realized that somehow, I just don't care so much anymore. Instead of worrying about what I left behind, I'm looking forward to what's ahead of us.

I think it's because even before the whole 3d-party-app drama, there already was this undefined feeling that Reddit's best days are behind it. Maybe it's the effect of ad money and monetization, or it's the inevitable trend towards low quality content that comes with mass adoption, probably it's both.

Whatever the cause, in most subreddits, the old Facebook-style rot had already set in. Once-cool subs now being an endless barrage of tired memes, bots farming karma, and people being assholes. The things I joined for years ago, the engaging discussion, random encounters with amazing experts, the cutting-edge internet anarchy, it's all already long gone.

When I opened the app (Baconreader in my case), I only did it out of habit, to then spendy time scrolling through an endless list of things that made me slightly go "heh".

So, maybe most people will stay on Reddit for now, and probably I will have to leave behind certain communities instead of finding direct replacements. But I see that as a good thing. As long as even just 2% of Reddit's users make it here, I'm excited it will grow into something much better than what I left behind.

before leaving as in before switching to another community while browsing? or as in when you unsubscribe? and what if I never leave

then we'd better get started!

I honestly think it's ok to do this. Segregating instances that serve different goals in the Fediverse is not always a bad thing. As an example, the Mastodon creator having the same experience led to him implementing this very feature over there in the early days.

Yes, it does create inconveniences, especially now to all the new users that are already struggling with the concept of instances in general. I remember I did, and I was wondering, isn't that looming threat of defederation, taken together with the decision paralisys when being forced to select a home instance enough to make the whole service unusable for most users?

But thinkig a bit further ahead, I'd honestly still MUCH prefer this to the other outcome, which is those other, offending communities inevitably ending up being banned because the one big, overly cautious, profit-driven company under which all non-federated content lives has to sanitize its content for the advertisers.

So, yes, it might be cumbersome for some users who expected to use the service by cross-federating, for example by creating an account here and then subscribing to something like noncredibledefense on sh.itjust.works. They did both in good faith, probably being driven here because the sensible policies and promise of the protected stewardship on Beehaw seemed like a good home base, but also subscribing there because it's the best replacement community of the popular subreddit, and it sucks.

But to those we can say: The equivalent of a kiddy pool is not the same place as the deep ocean, so don't expect to access both with the same account! So to alleviate that, just go over to those instances and create another one – I know I did just that right when reading this post, because I definitely plan on subscribing to communities over there as well.

And yes, it would be nice if a more long-term solution was found to the above-mentioned problems of federation. Conceptually, I doubt it ever will, and I also don't buy the argument that federation of different instances is "just like email", because obviously, problems like this don't manifest with your email inbox.

But practically, these issues will be less impactful once things have stabilized a bit and the inevitable culling of instances sets it, eventually there's gonna be a couple big, established "standard" instances (some of them maybe even run by profit-driven companies!) that people know what they stand for and what to expect when signing up, and the federation as well as the paralysis will not be so important anymore.

Just keep in mind that, for most of us, these are the very early days on Lemmy, and hiccups along the way are to be expected, it's all (along with the whole Fediverse!) still very much "in beta" right now.

Ultimately, we'll probably have to learn to getting a bit more flexible with our instances and accounts on them, just like alt accounts on singular websites.

No hard feelings!

yeah it's great isn't it‽

or we could just all stop caring about the vote count instead! why even pay attention to that? I'd honestly rather have two good comments on a post than 300 upvotes, or view counts, or whatever. couldn't care less about any of those.

I thought about this comment, and realized that somehow, I just don't care so much about what happens to Reddit anymore. Instead of worrying about what I left behind, I'm looking forward to what's ahead of us.

I think it's because even before the whole 3d-party-app drama, there already was this undefined feeling that Reddit's best days are behind it. Maybe it's the effect of ad money and monetization, or it's the inevitable trend towards low quality content that comes with mass adoption, probably it's both.

Whatever the cause, in most subreddits, the old Facebook-style rot had already set in. Once-cool subs now being an endless barrage of tired memes, bots farming karma, and people being assholes. The things I joined for years ago, the engaging discussion, random encounters with amazing experts, the cutting-edge internet anarchy, it's all already long gone.

When I opened the app (Baconreader in my case), I only did it out of habit, to then spendy time scrolling through an endless list of things that made me slightly go "heh".

So, maybe most people will stay on Reddit for now, and probably I will have to leave behind certain communities instead of finding direct replacements. But I see that as a good thing. As long as even just 2% of Reddit's users make it here, I'm excited it will grow into something much better than what I left behind.

same here, I'd be happy about an invite too!

and smaller screens? 145 x 65 mm would be perfect! and anything larger than 150 x 70 is too big.

hoping for baconreader, personally

whatsapp's killer feature was "no killer features, just a messaging app with number-bound IDs and good UI that even my grandma can use with minimal setup". for anything like that again I'd change, but the minute they think they need to add something like numberless IDs, or stickers, or a social media feature, or a payment system, they can fuck right off.

baconreader here. best media display behavior, hands down.