I am also an 11-year Reddit vet making the move. Welcome! This isn't my first Fediverse experience, but definitely my most promising (I don't really tweet, so Mastodon is kind of whatever to me). This and kbin have been great.

I was also part of the Voat migration. I never left Reddit, as I didn't mind them cracking down on some of the more questionable content, but I did check Voat out. I wasn't part of the cesspool that showed up there, but I did enjoy participating in some of the smaller communities. I think what didn't work was that it just got stale. Same reason I didn't like Snapzu or some of the other "Reddit alternatives." Even larger communities were just... dead. What made Reddit work was that everyone was there, and even small, niche communities had active users.

Honestly, if the key smaller communities that I'm in on Reddit don't migrate away to another platform, then I don't know that I'll even fully leave. Assuming the site doesn't completely implode at this point, of course. For as many subs as I subscribe to, I really only find myself on a handful each day.

That said, spez has really soured my taste for Reddit with the AMA. I only really use old.reddit on desktop, but I've used mainly third-party apps over the years, like most people, I would assume. Even if they lowered API costs to be more reasonable AND third-party app devs decided to come back, they're still limiting NSFW access to third-party app API calls anyway, so a lesser experience either way.

At the end of the day, I'm going to be where the community is, be that here, kbin, or whichever one rises up and has staying power and growth over the next couple years.

Can you elaborate? Genuinely. I've seen this take a few times now.

I came in on Oblivion and loved it. For as much of a mess as Skyrim was, I enjoyed it. I've found it very, very hard to go back and play Morrowind (or earlier games) as a newcomer without a pair nostalgia goggles. I agree, like all Bethesda releases, it will be a buggy mess. But I'm still looking forward to it. I just want another entry in the series to get lost in, but that's probably just my depression and me looking back at more than a decade ago with my own nostalgia goggles.

I've joined both in hopes of seeing which one thrives the most in terms of users in the niche communities that made Reddit worth visiting for me, personally. So far, they seem largely similar. Points to Lemmy for having an Android app ready to go. Kbin has one in early, early beta that is (according to the GitHub) lacking in certain functionality.

Lemmy is promising, and I'm here to stay. I haven't nuked my account on Reddit yet. But as others have said, I don't plan on posting much there anymore. Unfortunately, I'm going to be slightly tethered to wherever the smaller, more niche communities that I like end up.

Joined kbin today. Been on Lemmy for a few days. I just want to be where the community is. :')

All the alternatives I've tried in past exoduses have been mostly fine as far as platforms go, just seriously stale and lacking due to lack of users and interactions. One thing I loved about Reddit was there always being enough people that even super niche communities had active users.

This is going to sound silly, but Clicker Heroes. There's nothing necessarily "comforting" about it in the classic sense, but I have ADD, depression, and anxiety. Putting that on and just mindlessly clicking and resource-managing allows me to focus just enough on that, without it needing my full attention, to be able to also sort through my otherwise incoherent strands of thoughts.

But going by art, music, experience, gameplay, etc, I guess I'd have to say Bastion from Supergiant Games. It's definitely up there as one of my favorite games of all time.

Thanks for the in depth links. I appreciate it. That's unfortunate. With that, that's the beauty of open source and having different options for instances to join. I know Beehaw doesn't subscribe to those uh ideals. I'm also on kbin, which can interact with Lemmy and everything. I don't know - I'm still brand new to all this.

As for YouTube, Odysee exists and has a mirroring for YouTube uploads for content creators, but it's mainly just tech and crypto people at the moment - yes, there's others, but most everyday people have never even heard of LBRY or Odysee.

That's the issue with having so many potential places to migrate to now - people are scattered across different platforms. Reddit worked because that's where everyone went. Millions of users means a greater potential for an active community with your niche interest. But I guess maybe there was uncertainty at the start - I came in a little after, but long before most "everyday people" had even heard the word.

From my understanding, you can interact between the different platforms. They are a little different in their approach, and I don't fully "get" kbin just yet, but you can post to and interact with Lemmy from a kbin account.

I'll believe it when I see it. I don't doubt it's gone through extensive testing. But every Bethesda title needs a good patchin', which may come sooner or never, in the case of community patches decades later. That said, I expect bugs, but hope it's nothing game breaking.

That was suggested for the official announcements: Beehaw Yeehaws. 😂

KOTOR is one I've wanted to try, but worry it'll be a Morrowind experience for me. I was excited to hear about the remake, but that seems like it could be in limbo at the moment.

Oblivion was far more vibrant and fantasical-feeling while out and exploring. Skyrim felt very dull and depressing, but that was also the vibe they were going for. I don't fault anyone for not liking something. Hell, Witcher 3 should be right up my alley on paper, and I just didn't end up enjoying it, even after giving it several hours at a friend's recommendation.

It looks like someone is making an extension to handle subscribing to Lemmy communities easier from kbin. I'm still trying to figure it all out myself though.

I haven't seen that personally - for me, that experience was on Rumble. I think that's where a lot went. My experience on Odysee has been largely tech/crypto, DistroTube, The Linux Experiment, Linux and privacy stuff. But I guess everyone's experience varies. I went in subbing to those channels, so maybe I got served more of the same.

The Pandemic Years just feels like a singular lump of time, somehow feeling like infinity and a singularity at the same time.

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