1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

  • Episode2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    I support Lemmy but people saying Reddit is dead as of today and everyone is moving over is just way to hopeful or straight up delusional. If Lemmy does take off it will be years before it reaches anywhere near the amount of users Reddit has. Most of the people who said they will leave Reddit also won’t commit.

    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      As far as I’m concerned Reddit is dead(to me) a bit like a bad breakup. They still exist, I might bump into them every now and then, but I’ll neither acknowledge its existence nor be interested in staying any longer than required.

      • Episode2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Well said. I’ll just use both. I see no reason to completely abandon reddit until it stops serving its purpose to me. I just think it’s a bit silly how early people are saying Lemmy is taking over and Reddit is dead. If people are more realistic right now then they won’t be disappointed later on. I’ll be around for both websites and I hope to see Lemmy grow into something special.

        • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          I won’t be using both because I don’t feel comfortable with that plan for myself, but I totally understand your reasoning. My life choices followed a different path when it comes to social media. I just like this environment so much because there are really cool people to interact with. Even if I get in an argument with somebody, it’s good for me because we’re having a reasonable argument. On Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, social media et al you can’t do that. I feel more me on here.

          • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m still on reddit, but it seems like the only place I’m going now is /r/SBCgaming, as it’s one of my interests that hasn’t seen much traction here. I made a post suggesting people move to lemmy.world, but it was near unanimously panned, people weren’t interested.

            If and when I have anything interesting to post I’ll do it here on lemmy and link it probably to the subreddit. The main thing I notice though is I spend much less time on reddit now. Since there’s no reason to stay outside of a niche interest subreddit, I’m not browsing around different subreddits or hitting up the front page anymore. Which in hindsight is actually kind of nice, it no longer feels like an endless distraction.

    • rckclmbr@lemmy.world
      English
      12·
      1 year ago

      And all I have to say is… enjoy it while it lasts. Once all the users come, so do all the trolls