Reddit Migration

Loving how raw this all feels too.

Even if all this ends up being a niche thing, I’ll still get my social fix with likeminded randoms on the internet, hopefully with less doomscroll.

I’ve certainly been more interested in commenting here vs Reddit, just because it seems far less toxic, the slight wrong thing posted on Reddit and the pile on was a real danger.

Seeing many, many posts where simple questions were asked by newcomers seeking help with the obligatory blind downvote is awful for newbies.

Interested to see where all of this leads to and very appreciative of what Earnest has achieved.

It might be rough but I’m sure ready.

It didn't sink in until reading your words, but, yeah, 100% agree. It gives me the good vibes tingle thinking about being in the thick of a possible move from stagnation into something new and exciting for internet communities.

This is SUCH a good post. I love the energy of embracing the new, even with its inconveniences, and perhaps especially with them.

I’ve felt for years that this drive for convenience at any cost not only helps create bland societies and exacerbate environmental and economic destruction, but it also makes each of us that much less adaptable every year.

I’m weak as fuck, but I still believe there is essential value to be had in some discomfort and inconvenience on a somewhat regular basis, and this also goes for community-building, which I feel very fortunate to be witnessing in real-time.

Recently I couldn't get a single piece of information out of reddit. Whatever the message was, it was buried under a load of one-liners overused jokes. I spent more time hiding one-liners rather than reading anything useful. There are the specialized subs of course, but most of the tool is just noise. And you can feel that the posts are not genuine, it's so annoying.

Some subs celebrated the fact that they've reach a milestone in term of subscriptions (2 millions subs, wooo!). Well, seems like there is a thing called oversubscriptions. Yep.

I've been on reddit for more than a decade and it was my social network. Not FB, not IG, not Twitter. I must have visited almost daily and I learned about so many thing that I would have not come across otherwise.

What's happening there right now is more than sad but I'm definitely feeling the excitement of a fresh start. Consuming less and contributing more, checking out magazines that I have never hear of before and mainly helping to build a new community.

Thank you for the warm welcome here!

Almost 13 years since the last migration, feels strange to be washing up on a strange new shore again

Hear hear!
I never really contributed much to reddit, as usually you had the people that perpetually watched twitter / news sources / new reddit posts getting in first, to the point where there wasn't a whole lot of point getting involved outside of voting, because someone else has already said whatever you were about to.
Here though, I'm itching to contribute and get the ball rolling on magazines. Just a shame the performance issues are hampering that, haha!

For my part, I've only participated in the whole reddit thing under protest. I'm involved in some open source projects, and I felt it necessary to get involved there, just to fight the FUD.

I never liked it. Even before this whole API hullabaloo.

I've got my popcorn, and I'll be happy to watch reddit die in a fire. (One can only hope.)

Me too, I think reddit is going to keep enough bootlickers to stay running but I hope the fragmentation will result in a better and more interesting internet. Anyone here old enough to remember the days of TOTSE?