this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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Honestly glad I left. For now at least when I see that new message number I'm not terrified of what I'll find inside
Yup, I haven't even bothered deleting my account. I'll get to it eventually, but I just don't go to Reddit anymore. I've been hereb since the API announcement (didn't wait for it to take effect), and I've been reasonably happy here.
I will say that lemmy seems a bit more leftist than Reddit, at least in the communities I visit. On Reddit, you'll get Bernie bros and whatnot, whereas on lemmy there's a lot of literal socialists/communists. But at least there are fewer far right folks baiting people into one sided debates. I find the socialists and communists easier to detect, so I think lemmy so far wins.
Lemmy isn't perfect, but it at least doesn't have ads and I can use why client I want, or build my own. So I'll stay until I find or build something better (I'm working on an experimental, distributed link aggregator).
I'm a bit of a Bernie bro but some of the communities on here aren't just left but like extreme left which is.. different for sure. They're at least more tolerable than the "We support free speech but not leftist speech" Republicans and the communities that are too much I can just block and never interact with. While I'm sure I'd still enjoy Reddit if I logged on or went back to the subs I used to be on, I refuse out of principle. I even feel gross when I need to visit subs to get niche tech answers. I won't ever trust Reddit again and we've got some solid meme communities here. It does enough for what it is, I only hope we grow as Reddit continues to burn.
Yup, agreed on most counts.
I consider myself a left leaning libertarian, and I generally feel more welcomed here than on Reddit. I still get lots of down votes for mentioning libertarianism (apparently that's associated with facism somehow? Not my fault right wing nutjobs tried to steal the term), but I at least get decent discussion about actual policies, especially when I'm left of both major parties. That was a bit more rare on Reddit.
But even if lemmy was actually way worse than Reddit, I'm not going back, that bridge has been burned. If I ever needed to leave lemmy, I would pour more time into my decentralized link aggregator project.
if you're deleting your Reddit account, you should make your past content all garbage by using Powerdeletesuite
A ton of the info on Reddit is still relevant.
Imagine if all the people who solved niche problems did this. All the information and knowledge they dispersed was deleted because of a grudge against a platform.
That would suck so badly.
So no, I don't think I will.