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        1 year ago

        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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        In my experience, I have never needed an app on Lemmy or Mastodon the way I have for Reddit or Twitter. It turns out you can actually make a web interface that is lightweight and responsive when it isn’t bogged down by a long list of arbitrary conflicting demands for data collection, advertising, and inflating corporate KPIs.

        It’s still nice to have some good apps, but it is not essential and website-ending the way it is with Reddit.