• Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    Lemmy is my new home now and it’ll stay that way.

    I’m not going to be drastic on reddit yet, I intend to make a GDPR request to get all my data, but I’'ll immediately unsub from all the subs I’m currently in save for a few very niche that are hard to replace (for now).

    I’ll probably check in every now and then those niche but I’ll definitely stop posting.

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      Same here. I’ve already replaced my mobile app with one for lemmy and used these two days to take on the habit coming here instead of reddit. I’ve submitted a request as well. Will delete my account shortly after. I was using reddit to lurk mostly or get angry at trolls/toxic people anyway, it’s just better for me if I just forget about it.

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            Ahh, you’re on android I’m guessing? I’m iOS :( looks like Mlem is the only option rn, and it’s young & buggy :( but still using it! :) and I’m def sticking with Lemmy!

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              @Barack_Ollama If you don’t mind the interface you should go to lemmy.world on your browser/Safari . It takes about 1 day to get used to then you will be an expert. the only thing about the website since it’s still new is that when you reply comment or create a post it looks like its loading. give it about 30 seconds and it will post. it looks like its loading but it’s actually posted already. other then that everything is good

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                I’m using the browser interface mostly. There are still some issues, though. Like, I got the notification of your comment & the only way I can find to view it in the context of the other comments is to tap on the post name (going to the main post), then scrolling down to find my own comment & your reply. Manageable now, but certainly not manageable if/when Lemmy gets more popular :(.

                It would be great to be able to select the notification to take me to the post page, highlighting the comment from the notification, and only loading the thread that comment is in (basically what happened when I tapped on the notification in the Apollo App).

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      I went there for a moment to check if any of my subreddits were making polls and the amount of redditors against this strike was depressing. I’m happy that I left this shithole and those braindead people behind.

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          Yeah, I was going to say, anyone who’s creating polls on Reddit rn doesn’t know much about how to sample & avoid bias…

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            Reminds me of when Elon was making polls on how to run Twitter (although even with a biased sample people still wanted him out as CEO 😂).

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        People can have different views. No reason to call the braindead. I plan on using both but to be primarily here.

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          i likely do that too but i will never install the official app so i only access it when i need informations about something like programming. So i going to treat it more like an extension of search engines

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        Yeah I saw a similar sentiment on another thread that summarizes to: Lemmy being a little hard to figure out might be a feature, not a bug.

        I’m absolutely no elitist, but I think a lot of us can attest to the overall quality of reddit content decreasing over time. I browse r/all and so tired of seeing the constant reposts, many by bots etc etc.

        Remains to be seen how everything will shake out. But Lemmy does seem chill so far, and less vitriol in general

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      Idk. The lemmy.ml instance seems practically overrun with CCP/Russian apologists. From literally defending the Tienanmen Sq. massacre to just the tankiest tankies that ever tankied - I’ve definitely seen my fair share of shitheads in the past week here.

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    I’m gonna go back to reddit long enough to get the rules for important support groups I’m in to make them here on Lemmy. I’ll then post about it in the support groups before leaving Reddit.

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    16 year reddit veteran here. I’m gonna stay here, create communities, and submit content in the hopes that others do the same. Honestly, we don’t need even .1% of the users to make a great community, we just need the users we have to be active.

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    I’m all-in on Lemmy and hope you all will stick around too. I blew away my Reddit account and all my post history today.

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    I’m sticking to lemmy at this point because of the principal.

    I may only be one person out of millions, but I’m not giving reddit a lick of traffic unless Spez publicly acknowledges and apologizes to the dev for the false accusations, and to it’s communities.

    I figure, if my time on reddit is a just drop in the bucket, people should have no room to be angry with me if I leave reddit permanently. If the user base is so unimportant, reddit shouldn’t miss us when we go. If the CEO is going to imply that people will get attacked by us for wearing reddit merch, then I want NOTHING to do with that platform.

    People are hilarious if they think that reddit will suddenly stop it’s shenanigans at removing 3rd party apps. When they go public, you can probably kiss most of your favourite content goodbye.

    It’s ironic too, because certain specific communities who are angry at the blackout will probably truly lose free speech when reddit goes public. Everything will likely have to be very suitable to advertisers and whoever has a stake in ownership.

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      I agree. Reddit has been pushing me away since they did away with the one-time purchase premium account I had, then started implementing loads of ads into everything. Good riddance.

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    I’m here and I don’t have plans to go back to reddit. Regardless of what happens, spez showed his hand, and I don’t want to support that kind of bullshit.

    Also: FOSS is awesome, and that’s another reason in my view to stick to Lemmy.

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    I want to stay on Lemmy because it’s small, cool, and new. Reddit has shown zero repentance for their mistreatment of the community, and the rampant defeatism and pessimism of its users in response to the blackout is nauseating. People who are angry at having their routine distractions disrupted, and are entirely apathetic to things. Not me. I’ll take the extra jump even though it’s hard. I’m tired of tech companies doing whatever they want with impunity because they have a monopoly on their corner of social media.

    I’ll pop in occasionally on reddit, with adblock and without interacting with things just to see if there’s any changes. But when it comes to engaging with content, I’ll bring my attention elsewhere, Lemmy for the time being.

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    Gonna stick with Lemmy, but monitor Reddit’s activity.

    I expect a lot of subreddits will be left indefinitely closed as well, which the admins are probably going to take over forcefully.

    Lemmy is pretty nice to use so far.

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    I’ll be using both but I hope the strike goes on longer. Reddit mods have no idea how to strike or what a strike entails. Imagine if ghandi broke his hunger strike because he got hungry.

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      I’m not going back. I needed a kick in the pants and I got it. Just want to edit all my posts/comments and get my saved posts/comments from 10+yrs of research.

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    I’m no longer going to provide my services as a mod to reddit for free, though I may read some of my favorite subs again. I won’t be spending hours each week there, like I previously did. Fuck spez for what he did to Apollo (and other third-party apps).