I’ve never seen a company burn so much goodwill so fast and so unnecessarily.

  • Gnothi@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 year ago

    Me too. Even though I would make new accounts regularly on Reddit, this feels different. A true tabula rasa moment. We will write the future!

    And apparently that future starts with the word “Beans”.

  • Sev@feddit.uk
    11·
    1 year ago

    Welcome!

    I did delete my main account and have been mainlining lemmy for my enjoyment, it’s great here and the upvotes and comments are really kicking off now.

    I remade a Reddit account to only use for my googles for things (path of exile help atm)

    If I do find myself replying, I’ll be using chatgpt to write the most nothing shit. I literally can’t use Reddit on my phone thanks to that awful official app.

    Thank fuck for Memmy!

  • MrJameGumb@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    I have no intention of going back to Reddit, but I can’t bring myself to delete the profile yet lol

  • smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net
    7·
    1 year ago

    Reddit doesn’t make anything, the users make the content.

    It’s both hilarious and sad that Huffman would choose to alienate users. Seriously biting the hand that feeds.

    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      It has been much more of a slow burn on Twitter. Plus, more people used Twitter for real time news, which is a more difficult thing to replace than the shitposting and discussion that Reddit was used for more.

  • macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t, because boost somehow still works on it, but after finding the Jerboa app that feels so much like boost, understanding a little more about the instances and all, picking one that i liked, and seeing that the lemmy community is much more interesting. I am just scrolling here now.

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    It seems the somewhat community-oriented and non-evil impression many of had about Reddit Inc was a facade. Pretty much we didn’t realize how lame the ownership/management was because for the most part, they stayed out of everyone’s way. There were some clues over the years, though.

    Personally I am really happy to have broken the habit of going there. The cliches and overdone jokes have been a bit much for a while. I still might look at it for things like city news, until the Lemmy communities get large enough. On the other hand, some subs I read a lot over the past few years had been driving me sort of nuts for a while with the same thing over and over again every month or two. Also, the same contentious opinion wars - you’d have the community agree on one point one week, and the next week or next day, totally different attitudes and consensus and voting depending on who randomly showed up and how the post/comments were voted on in the first few hours. Pretty sure my mental health has been improving over the past few weeks due to not being on reddit.