As an ex-redditor, my only reaction is

Lemmy users talking to Reddit users.

The redesign was garbage ux from the start and they ignored absolutely all feedback for years. It was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning and they buried their heads in the sand because they knew most people would still use it.

Most people seemed to use the official app anyway, which is even worse, so I don't see many people changing over this. I was one of the people who said when old Reddit was gone so was I, I just didn't expect them to do something worse before that time came.

So now there's a NewNew Reddit? That IPO is getting ever closer, guess they'll be thrashing around all the harder in the lead up to that to try to show some kind of path to profitability.

old reddit the only way to use reddit for me. When it's gone I will have to waste my time exclusively here.

The redesign would be bad if considerably improved. Because as it is now, it's simply awful.

Things that they did not get:

• People might not like a crammed interface, but they certainly don't like to unnecessarily roll stuff.
• Desktops typically have a horizontal screen. Vertical space is at premium, but horizontal space is cheap. That leads to "stripes" of content, not to square blocks.
• "Muh consisrency! Mobile n desktop inrurrfaces must look teh same!" leads to either a shitty mobile interface, a shitty desktop interface, or both. Never neither.
• If you can guess that a user is using a desktop interface (YES YOU CAN, you spam the shit out of the users if they dare to use the mobile interface), then you can also guess that desktop users won't "download your appz XD".
• Everything else.

Reddit is a dogshow but Lenny has issues too.

Maybe it’s my instance or some other config but when I open lennmy it’s just wall to wall communist/anti capitalist, open source wanking and musk hate.

Look, people, musk is a cunt, capitalism is ruining not only the planet but yes also the hearts and minds of people and proprietary software probably should be a little less pervasive than what it is but can we, just for one fucking nano second discuss literally anythingbg else?

In my experience (and again perhaps just with whatever I’ve been able to set up) lemmy is tiresome, parochial and very much a one-dimensional experience.

Can any of us remember when Reddit was actually fun? A little of the silliness that made it endearing? Dumb stories about Kevin, incessant nonsense about bacon, when AMA was a fucking legendary little nook of the internet? Surely some of those are the things this community would want to foster, a little light heartedness? Look at the popularity of the Trekkie stuff, nothing to learn there?

It’s cool though, I don’t have to come here and this has all helped me realise that. I’m literally only on here typing this because I’m taking a dump rn.

Why is anyone here still using reddit? What's the point of not using reddit anymore if you still use reddit? Whats the point in saying fuck u/spez if you keep using reddit?

I've been exclusively on lemmy since the reddit blackout, and it's been great.

Just give reddit up my dudes. Its shit

Any time Reddit makes a stumble is likely to generate at least a small exodus looking for alternatives. This is an example of such a moment.

In order to keep those users on Lemmy it needs to have activity. A community with no posts or only ancient posts is not attractive. Yes, Lemmy has politics and memes, but it needs more activity in other types of communities. People say as much constantly and it is obvious.

If you want Lemmy to thrive then I highly suggest you post in communities relevant to your interests.

Wait, there's a newer redisgn than new?

"Forced" is a really weird way to describe it. Companies redesign their physical and virtual spaces all the time and people [edit: usually] don't react like it's an act of violence.

I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, but the new design makes it look more like a social media site than a forum.

The Old Reddit Redirect addon for Firefox still works.

The day that breaks, is the day when I finally come to the realization that I will have to find someplace else for niche content that isn't available here. I'm not so sure that such a website exists. Reddit killed off all the competition.

Wow what a horrible day to have eyes

They redesigned the site again? old.reddit.com was literally the only usable design. No avatars, no ridiculous amounts of padding, no broken search results, no forced sign-in for NSFW-marked content.

..: there’s a redesign? I’m still using old Reddit. New Reddit was always shit.

Many won't leave no matter what happens.

Some have left already.

Everyone else is somewhere in-between.

What was keeping you there?