I went to Reddit after 6 weeks to post a goodbye on my profile.
I know will not be seen by many, but if someone wonders why my profile is dead, they know why. Link sends to join-lemmy.org, if I get banned, oh well...
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I know will not be seen by many, but if someone wonders why my profile is dead, they know why. Link sends to join-lemmy.org, if I get banned, oh well...
I still haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo shut down. Feels good to stand up for what you believe in
I haven't logged in since BaconReader shut down. I've gone over to lurk a little, but each time I do and drop into the comments, I last maybe 5 minutes and close it.
That said, the holier-than-thou crowd is becoming more vocal here, and it's a bummer.
Likewise.
I haven’t contributed to Reddit since Steve said that he wants Reddit to be like twitter….shortly before the API death
Now I only use Reddit for google tech support and I use the internet archive redirect plugin.
This is such a stupid decision. If people want a Twitter experience they'll join and use Twitter. Reddit is successful because it's reddit. Changing it to not be reddit just means they're moving against the current that pushed them to success. Facebook did the same thing, trying to make their website like TikTok and now everyone hates it. People weren't on Facebook to get a TikTok experience, they were there to connect with friends and family. Now that Zuckerfuck has made it impossible to connect with friends and family I have zero reason to visit his crappy website anymore.
The commies with no sense of the historical irony of said label were here before I arrived. I’d say they were teenagers afflicted with black and white thinking but maybe that is not the case.
Eh not even that, it's more of the "my thinking is right and if you disagree with any element of my ideology, you're a bigot/fascist/etc". When I first got here, conversations were pretty pleasant and opposing ideological conversations were welcome, but it's shifted pretty quickly into hivemind/groupthink.
No you're pretty spot-on. I would also lump in troll propagandist to the mix. There are quite a lot of communist on Lemmy who are a little more sophisticated than a teenager.
RIF was working for about a month after the shut down (shit down?) but I was logged out and strictly lurking.
Lemmy has been way more stable for me in the past 2 weeks as well.
I'll use my browser to look at reddit without being logged in every now and then, but honestly 90% of the major news is on Lemmy anyhow and the memes and community are 10x better than anything on Reddit since about a decade.
Only thing left for Lemmy is more local/provincial communities gaining traction on Lemmy, but I'm in no rush at all. I'd rather have a limited user base with genuine interaction than the shit slide botfest reddit feels like now
You still can use it if you spoof the api key with revanced.
I keep using RiF to check r/ModCoord from time to time and see the death of the platform.
Preach brother what new ritual is this "spoof the api key with revanced" that you talk about? May the god have mercy on us
You can patch rif application with a personal api key and continue using it. The instructions to do it are in ReVanced webpage (revanced.app). It does not require root.
Agreed. I know that my leaving isn’t going to change the platform, get Spez fired, or have any substantial effect. But the key thing is I know that I’m not supporting it.
I have. I added link to my Lemmy account.
My friend said that too, saying they'd never use the official app. Then they posted a link today that I couldn't open without the official app 🤦♂️