There are simply some communities I can’t find on Lemmy. For example, I use subreddits based on admissions to specific colleges that would never be able to function on Lemmy due to its size. I’d much prefer to abandon Reddit altogether but the information I need is usually only there.
yes, without an account just for local/niche subs that don’t exist anywhere else
and that only because I have rif working via revanced.
if I am ever forced to see their shitty ads I’ll stop doing even that
not sure how it works really, I had to create an app API key and input that into revanced and it just worked. I just followed the steps it was pretty easy.
can’t log in, but participating there is pointless anyway
There’s a decent reader for Reddit via RSS feeds on fdroid called Geddit. I use it to browse some porn and also certain discussions, but of course you can’t interact with RSS so it’s just for observing.
No. I don’t use Lemmy nearly as much but I took it as an opportunity to reduce my doom scrolling. I left in the first week after Apollo made the announcement. I have honestly noticed a big improvement in my life overall.
I still have an account, and I still browse the porn. The porn in lemmy still isn’t very diverse, just basic T&A.
Nope.
Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.
You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.
Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.
