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I had heard of it, but was like “that’s dumb, just use Reddit, there’s no reason not to”

They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider

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Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.

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Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.

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I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.

But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”

Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.

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That’s exactly what happened to me too. It was in the background until something disrupted my status quo and then there was no looking back.

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Yup, I saw the paltry userbase and didn’t bother. Other alternatives like lobste.rs and Tildes were a bit too closed, so I just stuck with Reddit. When Reddit decided to be stupid, I tried out lemmy and haven’t looked back.

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