I’ve been telling a lot of people about it, but everyone’s a skeptic. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’re just going to wait to see which Reddit clone comes out on top before switching. Most of them haven’t heard of the other parts of the fediverse like mastodon. I’d like to leave fb/instagram, but like many others, all my friends are on there. I’m not against defederation from meta to preserve the sanctity of what we have. (Although I know many of you might be for it as well.) But in a perfect world, I wish that meta would fall apart and all of my friends would switch from instagram over to pixelfed and we would have a great, non corporate internet again.
What do you think?
I’ve recommended it to my friends, but they’ve instead chosen to take the fall of Reddit as an opportunity to just… step back from the internet. One friend just… isn’t browsing Reddit at all on mobile anymore, and is instead just using old.reddit.com on desktop, and culled most of the subs he used to follow, keeping only some small communities.
I respect it, but still feel something like Reddit has a place in my life, but have no faith whatsoever in Reddit itself, and the apps are better here, so I’m completely switched over. I imagine they may still move here in time. Lemmy is a part of my life now, so I’ll continue to mention it and share links to things from it, but I’ve no desire to force the issue.