- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
I think there is a lot of hype going on here about migrations tbh. Lemmy is cool and all but reddit is certainly still generating/aggregating way more content and its where most lemmy content is originating at this moment. I think for now the tech folks are here setting up, a few of us are bumbling around discovering this, and everyone else is still on reddit. I am not a very techy person myself and lemmy is a weird system to wrap your mind around coming from reddit and I can see how people may not bother, especially this early. Just choosing an instance and then finding communities is like an absolute mindmelter if you’re used to reddit and its’ easy to see why people on reddit would not be keen to move away.
Honestly there’s no reason to not use both if you wish. Just like Lemmy instances, you don’t have to choose a single one to base your entire online time around you can have accounts everywhere and enjoy it all.
I will say though there has been a noticeable difference in the discussion quality on Lemmy. I don’t get this vibe that everybody is attacking me and looking for opportunities to shit on me when posting on here, which is hella refreshing at least.
For me it’s old.reddit on my PC and wefwef.app for mobile.
Yeeeh. Reddit is unusable on mobile, and I only use it on my computer to look up old tips for like… dark souls.
Wefwef is stellar.
Well, I checked out Reddit yesterday without logging in and I was reminded why I don’t miss it. I should have taken a screenshot of what I saw, which disgusted me. It was a thread with very vile comments on a post by a person who was in an unfamiliar country asking questions about the hospital his teenage son was admitted to. As I scrolled down I saw another one in which a French waiter was complaining about foreign customers, particularly Germans and British tourists (he called Germans “Germs”) and what followed was a huge thread of people saying outrageous things based on stereotypes of nationality. That’s what I got when I opened the page not logged in, it just gave me “hot posts” based on my location (Western Europe). Reddit may have more content, but is it worth my time viewing? I don’t think I have time for that kind of stuff. Granted, I deleted my account, and the subs I was subscribed to didn’t have content like that, but on the other hand, if what I wasn’t looking at is actually more representative of Reddit in my region, perhaps it’s best I deleted my account and started using the Fediverse.