I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.
Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit
If ljdawson could port Sync to Lemmy, that’d be awesome. Lemme is nice, but the app is kinda meh right now.
Or at least, it would be cool if they could open-source it if he doesn’t plan on continuing development. That way, it could be used as a basis for a new Lemmy app.
Like many here, mostly because Reddit will restrict their API access and kill a lot of features (like the remind me bot) and beloved third party apps.
And I really dislike the direction Reddit is going… Adding a online status to your account, letting random people follow your account, rampant bot spam and I’m pretty sure they will go after the porn subs when they go public.
Escaping Reddit’s bullsh*t. I exclusively use Reddit using Infinity, Apollo and old.reddit.com. They are now killing the API (and 3rd party clients for that matter) and I don’t think that old.reddit.com will live much longer tbh and I cannot be bothered to use the new Reddit. It takes ages to load and is WAY to bloated. Add the NFT Profile pictures and RPAN into the mix and you have a dead website in my eyes.
Mainly because its libre and federated, what pushed me over the edge was the reddit api changes (R.I.P in advance infinity)
Same here man. Infinity is/was/has been fantastic!
Searched an alternative to Reddit after the news about API charges. Not because there shouldn’t be any payments but the way this is handled.
Also made good experience with Mastodon and like the philosophy of the fediverse.
To be early enough to not have to turn the lights off in my favorite Reddit communities.
The idea of having various communities of different sizes and all kinds of topics as we know it from reddit just fits so perfectly to the idea of the fediverse! No more big data companies - truly community owned places for discussion and sharing of information. I really hope lemmy will grow.
Its exciting seeing these few lemmy instances grow a LOT in the past few days. Federated services really give us a chance to break US tech’s stranglehold on world communications. Together we’re strong!
is there an easy way for me to see the growth of Lemmy or specific instances? 🤩
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ keeps historical active user counts.
great - thanks!
For all of lemmy you can check out the fediverse observer: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
great - thanks! 🚀📈
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Some people are really annoying about it or don’t see other good stuff, but the open-source movement is a serious force for freedom imo.
Yeah, it’s extremely refreshing to find online spaces that are non-extractive again where one can exist without entities trying to sell you something. You start to realize the awful way that most tech treats its users. We’ve been getting boiled alive, slowly.
Yeah it’s a sobering experience. Also freeing :)
