I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.

/s

Edit: Wow this blew up!

Edit 2: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Edit 3: RIP my inbox! I can’t believe this made /r/all!

Edit 4: We did it Reddit! Lemmy!

  • 🕷️ Spider Tax 🕷️
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the exact same boat. Granted, I did patch the reddit app with revanced manager to get rid of ads (just for shits and giggles tbh, and to see “what I’ll be working with” if my addiction is so strong)… but it’s still a slow app experience with a lot of bloat. So, meh…

    Way back in the day, I used Digg and reddit about equally, before Digg V4 made it totally unusable and then I made the switch. I imagine any transition I make will go something like that. i.e. I dual wield reddit and Lemmy and/or Tildes for a while, and then they nuke old.reddit or something equally smoothbrained, and then I’m done forever. Nuking the API is pretty bad as it is, but I’m primarily a desktop user, so me participating in the blackout and boycott is more on principle, because fuck that slimy shithead spez.