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      Some people are really annoying about it or don’t see other good stuff, but the open-source movement is a serious force for freedom imo.

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        I’m sure I’m not alone feeling like all these corporations slowly stole the whole internet from us like we were frogs in a boiling pot. And we let it happen because it was convenient, but now the facade is crumbling and we’re reaching late-stage.

        It’s high time to seek refuge on better shores, and while I just got here it feels like Lemmy and the Fediverse more generally might be it.

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        Yeah, it’s extremely refreshing to find online spaces that are non-extractive again where one can exist without entities trying to sell you something. You start to realize the awful way that most tech treats its users. We’ve been getting boiled alive, slowly.

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      I’m the same. I signed up to Mastodon and really liked the concept but I was never a huge fan of the Twitter format and never actually used Twitter. I wanted a Reddit equivalent and ended up here.

      Some parts, especially the apps, need a bit more polishing and I’m only saying that because I’m coming from using Infinity for Reddit. If I came from the official Reddit app the new lack of ads alone would help me ignore those quirks.

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          I tried Lemur but I had a lot of issues with it. It hasn’t been updated for 9 months now and that might be why it stopped working entirely? Jerboa works most of the time but showed a few cracks when the instance I’m on was returning errors and logged me out completely a few times.

          I’d also like to see Infinity adapted for Lemmy and I wonder how easy it would be? Even if it needs to be forked, which is probably a better idea anyway, it’s a pretty great base to start from. It’s been pretty flawless for using Reddit and it’s the only reason I didn’t give up on the platform a few years ago.

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    Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).

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      Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can’t wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like ‘cassette_futurism’ or ‘liminal_space’.

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        Be the change you want to see :)

        Even just creating those communities, then populating them with a few of the top posts from reddit, would be a good start.

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          That’s a good idea. Is there a certain way you’d recommend doing that? I don’t necessarily want to give Reddit the satisfaction of my traffic lol I’ve seen some people mention ways to browse it anonymously but I’m honestly not very familiar with those options.

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          Might as well ask here since it’s relevant, but I’ve been thinking of spinning up a beefy lemmy instance and “mirroring” some of my favourite reddit subs across into custom mirror communities. A kind of archive but which you can browse from any lemmy UI. For example, there are some news and sports threads I enjoy following. Would this be a good or bad idea? Would it needlessly flood the other instances?

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            There’d be nothing wrong with that, because people could block those communities if they wish.

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            I had a similar idea but wouldn’t you need to use Reddit’s API to grab the posts, or is there another way?

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              Yes, but apparently private apps & usage is still free (for now). You just can’t create an app id for use by thousands of users. From https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates :

              Our Reddit Data API will still be open for reasonable and appropriate use cases and accessible via our Developer Platform, which is designed to help developers improve the core Reddit experience.

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      Absolutely, the API changes breaking 3rd party app support are the line for many users including myself.

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    Reddit’s new API rules for third parties. Unfair and I’m not happy. Hoping Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy if the audience is here to support it.

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    I’m trying to move as much of my online activity as possible to the Fediverse, mostly because the internet sucks now, but also because I’m excited at the idea of users forming communities and sites of resistance on their own terms, free of capitalist meddling and surveillance.

    Edit: don’t forget that even decentralization isn’t free! Put aside a few bucks each month to support your instances!

    Another edit (sorry, I’m just brimming with advice today): if you’re a US resident and reading this before joining, consider joining an EU-based instance. They have much more rigorous privacy and data protection laws.

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      This is a good point, and I hope each instance feels comfortable asking for a little bit of help on that front every so often. I imagine lots of people would be willing to donate a little to keep their Lemmy server alive.

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    Hearing about the Reddit api stuff over the horizon gave me the kick in the rear to finally do it, but I also just wanted to explore the fediverse more and do my part to help it grow. These days news about advancing technology is usually bad news, but the fediverse is a genuinely exciting idea that’s improving our lives and giving us more agency, with no real tradeoff. With Lemmy in particular hopefully only at the beginning of a massive user surge, this is for me at least the most exciting corner of the fediverse too

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      I am same. I’m generally opposed to social media for the most part, but I made a Mastodon and a Lemmy account today. I dislike social media because I think it has a mostly negative effect on its users, but I’m hoping to be the change I want to see in the world. 😊

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    Well originally because I want to have a place in case r/piracy gets banned.

    Now it’s because of reddit’s horrible decisions regarding their API

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      One tidbit about lemmy’s early history: I was originally going to contribute to another reddit clone called postmill (despite it being written in php) many years ago, but one of the things that turned me off to contributing to it, was that the creator refused to allow having torrent links. So one of my main motivations in starting it, was to allow piracy.

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    The Android client I use will quit working at the end of the month if nothing changes. Reddit is becoming a publicly-traded corporation sometime this year, and that will no doubt cause big and mostly negative changes based on past experience. And old.reddit.com I suspect won’t last long. So this is my redoubt, I can see it’s a viable place to fall back to even if I don’t completely understand Lemmy and whether it is sustainable if a huge number of Reddit users start using it.

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    I really need some stuff to read on my phone while on the toilet. And reddit is saying I might soon not be able to do that in the way I prefer.

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    Reddexodus due to them killing 3rd-party apps in a month. I’m weaning myself off reddit, as I don’t think I could go cold turkey.

    This place seems much nicer, inherently built to mitigate a lot of what I grew to hate about reddit-- namely the various bigotries, disinformation, and, well, the Nazis. And, frankly, I’m tired of the corporate-owned social media sites (even though Reddit managed to skirt that designation for a very long time), and the idea of FOSS, federated social media that’s inherently better-moderated by people with zero tolerance for hateful people really does appeal to me.

    So, I’m here checking the place out, and we’ll see how it goes and how it grows!

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      Missed opportunity to say Reddexit.

      Glad to have you here. People like you will make Lemmy a nice place to be.

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    I was tired of reddit continuing to push their IPO agenda, too many influences that changed it from being what it was to a ad ridden dumpster fire.

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    I like how Lemmy is open source and you can set up your own server/instance to connect it to other instances.

    I don’t like ads.

    It’s really cool how there are separate communities very similar to Reddit/Twitter/Instagram and yet each community can actually communicate across these services with the same account.

    Reddit has gone downhill over time and their API changes were the final straw that caused me to start looking for something new.

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    Obviously because RiF is shutting down.

    On the advice of someone else here I used Power Delete Suite to scrub all my posts and edit my comments to say why I’m leaving Reddit how I did it.

    I highly recommend doing it if anyone is leaving Reddit instead of just deleting their account. This way it leaves a protest message and removes content from the platform.

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    Was sick of the consolidation / enshittification of the net and everything that came with it and one of the ways I can contribute is to post on a platform like lemmy.

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    For me, if Reddit is trying to get rid of third-party apps, they’re trying to get rid of me. I tried their official app and found it to be not fit for purpose. Especially compared to the superior offerings of third-party developers. The Sync app basically IS reddit to me. That goes away and so does reddit.

    I’ll be interested to see if Reddit backs down from their current stance in order to avert a mass exodus, and also if ekought people will actually leave to force their hand. Time will tell I guess.

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      I did the same. I checked out the official reddit app, and it’s a steaming pile of garbage compared to Apollo on Android or Relay on IOS. Much like you, those 3rd party apps are reddit in my eyes. The official app is attempting to morph reddit into something other than what it used to be and always was in my eyes.

      That being said, I’ve been on Lemmy far more than I’ve been on reddit today, and I intend to continue that trend if the powers that be at Reddit Corp. proceed with their poorly veiled attempt to shut down 3rd party apps.

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      Doubtful, they have the data about how many users are through the API so while I’m sure they don’t expect everyone currently using through API to leave (after all they’re doing this to get users on their own app) they must be OK with “xx%” leaving.

      I think I saw someone post the share of users that were using the “standard” options (site and app) and it was the majority.

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        But someone made the point that it might be the 5% which are producing 90% of the content leaving. Don’t know if this is true, but there are a lot of 10+ year long redditors being vocal about the API issue.

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          That could be true, let’s hope for it and that it also means Lemmy takes off in the wake of it…

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          That seems likely. There is research that in online communities there is a 1/10 ratio of people who post anything to lurkers, and a 1/10 ratio of posters to “power users”

          Those 1% power users on Reddit are definitely not using the official app.

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        Given how bad botspam is on Reddit, I have to assume they don’t understand their active user stats as well as they think they do

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    I’ve been learning to hate reddit over the past few years between:

    -its awful redesign

    -it’s focus on more social media aspects like group chats, friend lists, follower count.

    -Shutting down third party apps

    -NFTs

    -WAY too many ads

    Basically everything that an alternative like lemmy solves