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    I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

    Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

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        This is not the way. By using Reddit you are essentially giving money to the shareholders. You are fattening the rich. It is pathetic. Stop using reddit, fullstop.

        You are here on Lemmy. Help the community instead of trying to redirect traffic back to reddit…

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          Wtf dude!? How much time since you are on Lemmy, 1 week, 2 weeks?! How much time you were on Reddit? Probably years. Imposition is not the way, of that way you are not so much difference of Reddit’s staff with the API stuff, the unique difference would that you haven’t millions and a legendary community.

          I’m free to do whatever I want, using Reddit and Lemmy, share ways of still using Reddit to people who doesn’t know but they would like. Lemmy would not exists if weren’t for Reddit concept probably in a first place. You’re pathetic saying what is possible of do and what not. Luckly you don’t have power, because you would be even so much similar to Reddit staff.

          Stop saying bullshit, you’re in a federated community, and freedom is the rule here, you like it or don’t, idgaf. People will do whatever they want, not because you don’t like to use Reddit anymore, no one else can use it. I will be here on Lemmy making growing it and aporting my salt’s grain, and I will be on Reddit also with Infinity and my personal API: let people decides for theirselves!! They can use both. You’re no one for decide for nobody.

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      Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.

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    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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      Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

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          I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close

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            New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.

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    Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I’m on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

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    No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.

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          Well I took this info out of my ass. But it would be pretty smart to use bots to flood all the alternatives in order to fuck them up.

          Also using bots to make the people who still lurking in Reddit believe that not that many people left.

          Smart, make the instances like Leningrad top so people don’t know Reddit migrants are going to .world or beehaw

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    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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    Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.

    Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don’t have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!

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    Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

    Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

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      Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.

      Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!

      Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!

      Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

      No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

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        Malicious compliance at it’s finest! Screwing with the Reddit admins like that will always get a chuckle out of me

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      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.

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    In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

    Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

    I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.

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    it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.

    They are back now, but still

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      You could’ve always done this, infinity has always been open source. However using this just means that you and others will be paying reddits ridiculous pricing for their own api access JUST to use infinity. Which iirc is gonna be around $25 a month per user depending on amount of use. Everytime you open that app itll be charging you for data…

      This seems popular to some users now but I don’t see it going over to well when the bill comes due. Id rather take my chances going all in on Lemmy and helping support an instance with a community. Decentralization ftw.

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        I already know which this has been always possible, but an user published how to do not so much time ago. If you have unlimited plan data, like most people, that fact wouldn’t be a concern so please don’t spread misinformation just to scare people into not using Reddit anymore. The API use is free to regular users and with their limitation reasonable for just one user. And if not were of that way, which highly doubt it, would charged to the ISP then or no problems if you have unlimited data plan, or limitate their data usage with apps with a bunch of open source tools which allow that.

        And all of that which has solutions, only in case that this you said about 25$ would be charged for the current free API 100 request per minute, would be true, and I didn’t saw any official announce of Reddit. They plan to enter in stock market soon, I highly believe that they will not start to charge 25$ to every users by the use fo the current free API of 100 request per minutes, that would be so much having in count the last polemic with their abusive practicals, and people would be in a massive exodus, even higher than current happening now with a lot of people comming to Lemmy, which is great and I love that fact. They have to care about for their users, because the users decisions as a colective affects to their inversors, and they will take care about them more, we already saw it…

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          I’ll admit I wasn’t familiar with the free tier. But if it gains any kind of traction though it’ll go away too. They’ve vehemently shown through their actions that they want 3rd party apps gone, nsfw content gone and ads served.

          Personally I’m much more excited for Sync for Lemmy.

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    This is my first post, I just signed up. I was on reddit from the early days. I liked it then a lot more. This has that feel. I also like that it is open source - hopefully that will bring more developers.

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      I was there for the digg to reddit switch in 2010, and this drama feels just like déjà vu.

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          And before that, bulletin boards and chatrooms. I had online sex in Bianca’s Smut Shack! Or I tried to - it flopped (literally) because I can touch-type with one hand but the poor fellow I was sexting with was a hunt-and-pecker.