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.
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.
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.
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
I did the same too yesterday, felt good to properly let it go.
It’s way easier to get people to move by just showing screenshots or a link to a lemmy instance
Have you been on join-lemmy.org? No one is hearing about lemmy for the first time and deciding to join based off of it. The entire website is all tech speak, and literal lorem ipsum with zero screenshots that actually show off the platform, and zero screenshots of any of the apps (which is how a ton of people browse reddit)
90% of redditors who go there will be confused and never go back. It says “a link aggregator for the fediverse” in big which, 99% of people will just be confused because whats a link aggregator? And for most people, whats “the fediverse”? Join a server? Run a server? What?
Then it says “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform” people know what some of those words are but definitely not in that order.
Then its screenshots of some code on github? Then its more code saying lemmy is open source?
Then it says “blazing fast” with a screemshot of lorem ispum
Then a bunch if paragraphs and then a small screenshot of more lorem ipsum with teeny tiny vote buttons and more tech words
https://lemmyverse.net/ might be a better alternative for now, with the explanation that it all goes to the same conversation.
Yes, that’s not always 100% true, but new users can learn about the nuances of defederation and other blocking after they get their feet wet.
You guys are way too attached to Reddit.
if the topic is contained, it is easy for you to ban so your eyes don’t burn
