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  1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let's own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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[-] EmilyInept@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I’m one of the many who kept using Reddit throughout the blackout, but once third party apps were killed, I would have to go out of my way to download the official Reddit app and relearn all the muscle memory browsing habits anyway, so why even bother? WefWef is great and I kinda despise the shit a Reddit pulled with their abrupt price hike.

My daily browsing on Reddit went from probably 1-2 hours of day to … well it’s not been long enough to tell but so far I’ve only viewed the site once from my laptop. My mobile use is now completely Lemmy.

[-] drivingcrooner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In truth if I’m being honest with myself, most posts, even in my beloved communities, were just turning into 90% bot ads; it’s gotten more and more obvious over time and I was ignoring it for so long but Reddit really is a husk if what it was and kinda has been for awhile. As a 12 year user, it’s hard to leave it behind but I’m slowly learning whatever the fuck all this is. Godspeed to everyone here!

[-] henfredemars@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's really, really smart that it looks like Reddit in terms of page layout. It satisfies the brain that likes its patterns and routines. I even put my favorite Lemmy app right where I used to launch from to satisfy the muscle memory. I really hope this sticks.

[-] Sgarcnl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] henfredemars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Connect for Lemmy. It's not perfect, a few bugs, but it seems to run acceptably well.

[-] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Same here. I lurked during the blackout, participated on reddit once business went back, and now I have yet to open it on my laptop browser

[-] know1@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Same here for the most part. I still browse reddit on my pc occasionally. I used sync for a long time. When they killed 3rd party apps I couldn't bring myself to download the Shit reddit app. Lemmy has replaced reddit on mobile for me. I did 90% of my reddit browsing on mobile, so it's significantly reduced my time there.

[-] Fezz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ditto, I said at the time, people are lazy including myself and I wasn't going to leave my account for a 2 day protest, spez was right when he said it would blow over. But once RIF stopped working, well guess what I'm also to lazy to download and navigate their shitty app, so here I am wefwef isn't perfect, preferred rif, but at least it's not bloated.

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