Lemmy is still too obsessed with reddit, for as much as Lemmy loves to hate on Reddit they sure are very interested in it lol.

I’ve been saying it for days, when reddit went to shit everyone got fractured and thus all of the “replacement” platforms are just as bad as reddit for content right now.

I think social media is going to be in freefall for the next year or two until a new platform rises above the rest, and I don’t think it will be any of the current ones.

Lemmy, kbin, and mastodon are kinda crap and basically help up on a ideal that will equally hold them back. None of us want to be here, we just don’t want to be THERE either. The fediverse might take off, but these iterations are just a stopgap between more user friendly and successful platforms.

Tildes is a little light on content and somewhat elitist, it’s the most reddit-like platform but it’s also a walled garden and doesn’t want to be anything else.

Twitter is a dumpster fire but everyone is too entrenched to leave it, Threads is shackled to Insta and Facebook so most people don’t want to commit to that ecosystem and give Zuck more of their privacy than they already might have.

Reddit lost its soul, I think everyone is more wary of it now and just expect it to continue to get worse and farther from what we all used to enjoy it for.

I think the majority of people who spend a considerable amount of time online are going to bounce around between all platforms instead of primarily using one until a new Core platform pops up to fill the void.

It’s probably healthy for us to be fragmented for a while though.

It almost doesn’t even feel real. Like, in a few weeks I won’t be using reddit almost at all anymore since RiF will be gone. And yet, I’m still browsing Reddit just as much right now as ever and seeing almost no difference other than salty posts about the API changes on a few subs.

I’m the exact same way, and in all my time online this has seemed like the most likely event to topple Reddit. The exclusion of third party apps is the most tangible change to the average user, so unless Reddit can match Apollo or RiF in quality (or close enough for now), I think a lot of people are going to be leaving the platform on July 1st.

Time will tell though. I see a lot of talk about leaving Reddit but so far most of my subs haven’t made an effort to migrate over. This could be the next “Voat migration” and just as easily fade away.

yea it will be a while before individual band subs get moved over, and for some bands that have waned in popularity over the years they might never see the transfer over. even larger music subs for more niche genres are gonna be in freefall for a while. Shoutout to https://lemmy.ml/c/indieheads