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I'm not too worried either way. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559/Killing-a-giant-Reddit - basically whatever happens, happens, and just by being here and not there, the end will probably be accomplished given due time.

I think it's natural that reddit will be discussed a lot during the next few weeks. We might see a new spike around june 30th when the API get restricted (cost money). From then on it will slowly die down, I hope. As a topic it might never die completely. People still talk about digg, and true old timers bring up BBS's and such. Many of us, me included are reddit refuges, I think it's natural to help vent some frustration by discussing it with peers on this instance.

It’s been said before, but talking through it is a coping mechanism. Like it or not, a lot of people are/were heavily invested in that site, and talking through it is a way to help clear the air and start to move forward.

It’s drama is dominating social media right now, so it’s hard to NOT see it and hear about it, but we all need to let each other move on in the way that’s best for each of us.

A single daily (or weekly) thread would be nice. Get all the people to talk in there, let us discuss eh, how much we enjoy the silence! :)

As a transplant, my view is that the most productive discussion around reddit is how to replace the spaces people lose when they stop using it. I enjoy beehaw way more than reddit overall, but a lot of my favorite communities don't have equivalents on Lemmy. I didn't use it as a content aggregator, I used it as a community space, and that's much harder to replace.

I don’t mind it and it’s helping me who’s trying to transition off reddit feel more at home

The two biggest topics I keep seeing are questions on how a redditor can transition to this different format, and how reddit keeps setting fire to itself as it pretends everything is fine. I see no reason to stop talking about either. We can't pretend Reddit never existed and how its content that we provided is important to the internet. I'm all about moving on to the next adventure and trying to do it better, but we do have to remember examples of the past that both did and didn't do things well.

A change of relationships takes time. At first, the old relationship still has a persuasion-pull upon someone, but as time moves on that all changes.

Kinda feels like someone going on and on about their ex while on a date with a new person

It's to be expected during the transition period. Honestly if that's what it takes to get users over here, I say more power to them.

Even if a lot of us weren't on reddit before, it's such a big social media site that it's very relevant and for a while will definitely be an interest on any general forum/link aggregator.

Bruh seriously, I'm glad the community is growing and have been waiting for a good enough reason to leave Reddit, but half the posts here about how we're so much better than Reddit and Reddit sucks. I came here to lurk original and non-bot content, not to pat each other's backs

YES!!! It's lame. It's become obligatory to post some kind of thoughts on Reddit vs Lemmy. Take that effort and go find a link or something and post it.

Just think of it as an opportunity to watch something burn in the rearview mirror.

Word up, but it's still the beginning of this overall transition, it'll get better (hopefully within the next weeks). People just need to vent their frustrations. I just hope it doesn't become like VOAT.

Thoughts? Your time would be better spent creating new content/ engaging with content you like instead discussing the discussing of reddit…

There are a couple reddit focused communities that I am following but my goal is eventually to just focus on these new spaces and less on reddit. I think it will take some time, and the amount of time will differ from person to person.

I feel the vast majority of new people joining these federated sites are coming from Reddit, so having the discourse centered around getting them in, explaining how things work and so on is pretty important for user adoption.

I know there's an underlying feeling that these redditors are all going to flood the place but the more people using these sites and the more engagement can only be a positive

Honestly, I really like the idea of when somebody googles reddit, and they start seeing all of the lemmy posts popping up instead.

The discussion about reddit will naturally die overtime but it's probably going to get worse before it gets better.

I think it depends on how invested you were in that other site initially. I had been there over 11 years and used to doom scroll it about 30-45 minutes a day. It's not been easy, but I have deleted my content and my account and have completely committed myself to the fediverse and the content on here. I haven't been back to the other site in a few days, hopefully never will but we are all different. Ite been really refreshing to have actual discussion on here as well; been thoroughly enjoying myself.

I think many of us are coming from Reddit due to the actions of that one guy in charge, so it makes sense that there would be an increase of Reddit discussions. I do think that it would be great if we could eventually just forget they ever existed 😁

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It's the one thing that all (or most of us, I guess) have in common; we're all here because of what's going on there. It's natural to want to talk about it.

It'll pass; I'm already seeing a lot of non-reddit content on my home feed now, whereas day 1 it was probably 95% posts of the sort you're talking about.

It has been nice and have more free time… but I also do enjoy reading the dirt on what’s going on ngl.

This is a natural result of most of the influx of new users being from Reddit as they're still keeping an eye on it to see how the situation evolves. I expect it to continue happening until at the very least a week after the beginning of July, which I expect will also be a second migration wave since that's when the third party apps will stop working.

It'll settle down eventually. In the meantime, users seem to have been doing a good enough job of keeping those threads on the communities/magazines dedicated to talking about Reddit and/or the relevant migration, so it's probably best to unsubscribe from/block them if you are sick of seeing those in your feed.

Yes

It’s still fresh, is this thing. Mastodon was like that for a while; there was a lot of talk of twitter and angry posts and Elon Musk. People were still hurt and angry. It takes a while to work through that, so there’s likely going to be a lot of talk about it for a while. But it’ll stop on its own as people start moving on.

I'm just here for the general "news", I can't get on my reddit feed anymore, tech news included. To that end, I'm for it being talked about as long as spez is still stirring the pot. I think it'll die down over time as others say as well

I think there are two aspects to this...

1. The majority of people on federated message boards (lemmy, beehaw, kbin, etc) are former Reddit users who migrated specifically because of actions by Reddit, so it is natural to talk a bit more about Reddit at least for a short while. I believe this happened for quite a while on Mastodon (Twitter) as well.
2. It's kinda fun to watch a dumpster fire in action ngl and I don't think this will pass until Reddit finally figures something out themselves...