I would consider myself an average Lemmy user. However I followed the R****t collapse closely from May onwards. ‘Cast it into the fire’ yes, but not just because third party apps all-of-a-sudden shut down.
There are many reasons to leave. Can I also just say the number of advertisements designed to imitate user submitted content really got under my skin. I’m not even talking about onlyfans accounts posting in various subs, but actual “promoted” advertisements that used common memes or are made to look like someone took a screenshot and reposted it. Not sure how many people noticed these. This kind of deceptive advertising angers me and I blame Reddit as much as the advertiser because they take the money and serve up this garbage.
It’s real hard to break a habit that’s been ongoing for almost 12 years for me. I’m trying to do my part by contributing, upvoting, etc
The only thing that’s getting me is the server instability. I assume those waters will eventually still, but in the meantime reloading and dropping replies is really aggrevating.
It is annoying, but at least it makes sense considering the few orders of magnitude growth they’ve experienced in two days and given that we are not the customer nor the product. Nobody is making money from this. Instead, we are benefiting from the generosity of those who host the service, much like Wikipedia.
I mean… sure… but compared to where Reddit was 10-12 years ago, and also considering that lemmy and the fediverse have handled a multiple orders of magnitude increase in users more or less overnight, and I’d venture to say that lemmy is doing pretty damn well, and it’s only going to get better - and get more traction - as time goes on.
I read a LPT on here saying to choose a smaller instance for better performance. The most popular instances are overloaded by the influx of users, smaller instances not as much. And using the federated system you can still suscribe to different communities, comment on posts… all while having a more stable user experience :)
Literally haven’t gone back since. Fuck any service that thinks it’s the “end all be all”.
I sometimes wonder how it’s going over there, but than I remember that I can’t check, because I have no app to acces reddit. For a second I feel loss, but that quickly turns into acceptence and I feel a calming peace come over me like I had just recieved a cumshot from jezus himself.
