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I had been hoping for some reddit alternative to emerge just in case, but whenever that happened it would be due to hate groups leading the movement making the sites that opened up become unappealing.
But, then something that finally angered more mainstream audiences is leading the charge, and finally led to the reddit alternative filled with less deranged people. It won’t overtake reddit, but it doesn’t need to.
It really feels like there are already enough people here for me to stick around. Hopefully that is true for most new users.
Nailed it! Noone cares about who writes what but everyone cares about what is written.
I too realized how easy it is to jump ship, I started here before the AMA and even if it’s been only a few days, I already feel at home, lots of interesting discussions and news going and that’s all I need.
I don’t agree on going back if reddit backpedals though, I mean, of course everyone has to decide for themselves and I respect that, but being on a platform led by the most arrogant, disrespectful, blatantly lying, stupid, dangerous even individuals (let’s not forget spez editing user’s comments) is not for me.
I want to be on a service managed by smart people that I can trust, reddit lost my trust completely and they won’t get it back.
I agree about going back myself. Unfortunately I suspect most others would take the path of least resistance, especially if it means Apollo and other apps might come back.
I haven’t personally used Apollo (I’ve just used Joey on my tablet because the reddit app doesn’t support landscape), but it would be great to see the dev host a lemmy server and point the app to it.
@joyjoy testing a reply to my new Lemmy friend… 😁
I kinda get this. It’s not reddit that I need, I just need aggregated links of shit I’m interested in. A “front page” to my internet, so to speak. There are plenty of the smaller communities that don’t yet have much presence here, so I feel a little itch occasionally, but hopefully they’ll start to develop too.
As long as this place continues to grow, it could be really easy to just abandon that old site. I’m trying to contribute and help that process.
I agree. At this point, even if Reddit backed down for everything it seems like the future there is doomed no matter what. I got a lot of joy out of connecting with people and getting content out of Lemmy this weekend. Looking forward to seeing what this site grows into.
This is a fantastic point. On lemmy you follow communities and the people specifically arent as important. On mastodon its all about people as it was designed to be
That succinctly summarizes how I feel about Mastodon; I really want to like it, but I just don’t have the energy to join in on a constant flow of random thoughts, even from people I like.
