Asklemmy

For me, they'd have to

1. Replace /u/spez
2. Implement some sort of publicly auditable accountability re: shadowbans and database-level comment editing
3. Open-source significant parts of their platform.

I have zero expectation that any of these things will happen. The most healthy way forward, for an open and free internet, is the meritocracy of the fediverse.

Trust is the hardest thing to reclaim once lost, and this isn't the first break. Big social is having problems, it's the natural course of things.

The CEO just tripled down and said they are not changing their intended API pricing regardless of how many subs and users go dark.

Even if they did, I think a lot of redditors have been fed up with some things with Reddit (both the company and the first-party app) for a while.

Of course, there will be people who just don't care and will continue to go about their redditing as usual, and those who will go back. A fair number of my close friends don't care at all as they use the first-party app, have no complaints, don't moderate any subreddits, and don't follow the Internet news.

I would love to see my primary communities move over to federated social platforms. It reminds me of the Web1.0 and earlier Web2.0 days.

I’ll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application

There's loads of small communties on reddit that haven't migrated yet, so I'll probably keep using reddit a little even if they don't revert... But a lot less.

Nah I think im done. The smaller size actually makes it less scary to participate. I'm much more willing to say something on a small forum, but on a big subreddit I'll sit there for an hour before posting a comment, knowing that somehow someone somewhere will find a way to misinterpret what I'm trying to say. Usually I just wind up deleting it too. This fediverse seems cool as hell - I should have looked into this earlier.

Lemmy fixes the fundamental problem with Reddit, so I don't see the point in regressing back to that.

I'm seeing how things play out.

I certainly like Lemmy and I could very well use both for a while. I'm mostly worried my favorite subs (especially my local City sub) won't migrate or be an active enough group here. Time will tell. I want to follow the community, not the platform.

I already like the community here more