• jedichric@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Only reason I’m still checking reddit is because RIF is still working. After that, I’ll see how much I miss it.

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      1 year ago

      Yup, following up on some good comments and discussions I had, watching people migrate and just moving away from reddit completely over the next week.

      People are still replying to me, and good posts are still going up. But in 6 days I will no longer be able to access it so here I am.

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        1 year ago

        For me it is a different approach. I will continue to use old Reddit and RedReader (it got granted exemption, it is nearly identical to RIF, and I love using it) and keep extracting as much leftover value as possible. Some communities are just not going to migrate, like r/thinkpad or r/headphones. Also, the all time top posts on some subreddits have enough value from a decade plus of posting.

        However, I will be using it far, far less because most communities’ moderators have decided to let the subreddits rot with a lack of moderation, and then to simply quit their thankless, payless job if Reddit boots them out, or if they do not want to be associated with the wastelands. I think this should have been the modus operandi of the protest right from the start, and taken to infinite time until Reddit admins kowtowed.

        Most communities’ culture is formulated and fully understood only by a very few people in the world, even fewer of which can become moderators, even fewer of which can lead. Replacing them is going to be impossible. Every sizeable subreddit has years of culture and nuance behind it, not replaceable by any amount of money, unless existing ones were given bottom 6 figures yearly.

    • StingJay@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been slowly trying to transition to Lemmy with this in mind. After June 30th, RIF won’t be working and I don’t plan on installing the official app so I’m trying to get adjusted to Lemmy before then.