…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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    I’ve been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I’ll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.

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      I think I will stay, I’m a 15 year redditor, I’m really pissed at the management. They’ve never been great. The community has been doing all the work for so long, posting, commenting, moderating, developping apps and tools. And these guy think they are better? They are even saying it will calm down.

      Remove this guy as CEO, cancel this API nonsense and we will see.

      But in the meantime. I’m here and the more time passes. The more comfy I get.

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        ya right

        like i have no social media loyalty. reddit was a habit. a time waster. the only thing that sucks about moving away from reddit is im not sure how to find old posts and shit here but im sure either i or someone much smarter will figure it out. in the end, i just want more places to go on the net

        maybe im old, but i wax nostalgic for the forum days. and this feels like it

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      Same, and I’m hyped for something new and better. This absolutely reminds me of early Reddit and I’m totally here for it.

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      It’s open source so anyone can contribute. With how much feedback everyone is giving, hopefully that means things will continue to get better.

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    Definitely here to stay. Even deleted app from my phone and put a bookmark to lemmy where the app used to be. Now I access lemmy as much as I used to Reddit purely because of muscle memory / force of habit and don’t miss Reddit one bit.

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      There are apps for Lemmy! I’m finding the app much nicer to use on my phone than accessing lemmy thru a browser, which is what I’m guessing you’re doing based on your description of using a “shortcut.”

      https://join-lemmy.org/apps

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        Thanks for this comment. Was considering programming my own app though (especially in the spirit of the latest news), so if I find any issues with the android version I might still go through with that

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          https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

          Jerboa definitely has some issues, so i’m planning on seeing if I can figure some of them out. Also some stuff i’m not a fan of, but seem to be intentional deaigns so I might just make a personal fork. Never worked with jetpack or kotlin, so we’ll see how bad those are to pick up

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          The apps are also open-source in case those issues can be added/fixed in the existing apps! App diversity is also great!

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    I’m mostly a lurker, but certainly plan to stay. I probably will use Reddit occasionally, but that usage will be significantly reduced and limited to desktop use only as I have no interest in installing the official Reddit app. Too many web searches lead back to Reddit posts for me to drop Reddit completely.

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    Reddit has been the third party apps for me for years, so shutting those down means I’m gone for good.

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      Same, on reddit it felt like someone was just waiting for you to post so they could pick it apart.

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    I’m not using reddit again unless to lurk some info here and there if it is needed to find information I couldn’t find on lemmy. I won’t participate in the Reddit community anymore even if reddit is backing down. The federated philosophy is just much more alligned with my values. If anything, this whole blackout situation accelerated my innevitable switch.

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      The Fediverse does certainly seem like “social media done right”, even if it may be a bit more tricky to use. It addresses many of the criticisms I’ve had of the mainstream social medias.

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    Don’t forget that until the end of this month that reddit will change a lot of stuff. I won’t be surprised that new lemmy users will migrate here on July 1.

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      Yeah, in a way its kind of good to have this 2 stage migration, that gives server operators an opportunity to iron out some kinks.

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    I’m definitely staying. I know there’s gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.

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    I haven’t deleted my reddit account and I’m not sure if I’m going to, but I do not plan on going back or logging back in. Many times I’ve googled some obscure thing and the only solution to my problem was a 10 year old reddit post. With everyone deleting their accounts all those posts will change to [deleted] and I think that’s sad. I’ve never posted anything that I think would help anyone, but I’m torn between letting my account stay up in the spirit of that and deleting it because fuck reddit.

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    Now that I’ve managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i’m pretty firmly here rather than there. There’s one community I’ll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I’ll manage.

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      Wait… Can you log in here with a mastodon account? I knew you could reply to comments and follow from mastodon, but the experience is pretty clunky.

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    I plan to stay unless Reddit makes their third-party terms a lot more reasonable. The way these API access fees were announced on such a short timeline and the fact they are so high does not make me want to support Reddit any longer by participating in it. I’ve got 249,000 post karma there.

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    Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain’t waiting around to see reddit turn into “myspace after tom”