Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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I haven’t and I won’t. As much as I hate the API changes and as much as I hate being forced to use the terrible official app, there are communities on Reddit that won’t be going dark indefinitely that I am an active part of and wish to remain part of.

Lemmy is a great concept in theory, but in practice it leads to what was a single community on Reddit being spread over several instances. A community with tens of thousands on Reddit might find a few communities spread over a handful of instances and because a community doesn’t show up in the Communities list under All until someone does the !community@instance.domain command for that specific community (meaning they physically went to other instances to find that community on that other instance and then in practice manually added it to the list)

This also means that as the amount of instances grows, specific communities will become even harder to find as the instances themselves become more obscure and hard to find.

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Agree, the decentralisation will lead to smaller but possibly more tight knit communities.

There’s pros and cons to this, depending on how niche the subject is.

I’ll definitely stop using reddit on mobile though. Old reddit will be my go to.

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