For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

  • flamingseaturtle@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Oh man I’m so heart broken about it, and slightly anxiety filled since I spent a lot of my time on there. It just feels off to me and I’m not sure how these next few weeks are gonna go but I will not Go back after the shit u/spez pulled during that AMA which is no surprise. I’m happy to be apart of this website, it’s just going to feel so weird to me for a while. Spent 14 years on that site. I slightly feel like a piece of my heart is dying with it 😆

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      I’ve been using it daily for 13 years and sporadically before that, and frankly Lemmy feels more like the platform I joined. Wave by wave, Reddit got watered down even as its essence spread to niche communities. I’ve spent years unsubscribing to big subreddits and finding smaller ones - on some level, it’s kind of nice to sub to everything that seems remotely interesting again

      But I definitely get you. It just feels like the end of an era, I left other social networks because they were sucking up my time and giving nothing back, even up to now Reddit has been more good than bad (thanks to my carefully curated feed that the app likes to add to)

      I spent a lot of the last week using it one last time, then this weekend started looking at solutions moving forward. On one hand, the replacement has been a step down… On the other, it’s improving where Reddit has long been in decline

      It’s been an emotional week