• patchymoose@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Awesome. The Linux community should be among the vanguard of this whole effort given our philosophy.

    Honestly I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days and I don’t anticipate going back to Reddit. I’ll probably use Reddit for IT help queries periodically but that’s it. I like Lemmy quite a bit more.

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    1 year ago

    It’d be even better if all these subreddits indefinitely go dark. As someone who grew up using the “old” internet with Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists for discussions, I am happy that decentralized way doing things might be adopted again.

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      1 year ago

      I mean… The plan to go dark was originally to protest the API pricing and policy changes. And as far as I understood, they’re all going dark until Reddit backtracks those announcements

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        1 year ago

        Initially at least, the subs I saw were talking of going dark only for a couple of days, with only a few stating that they will go dark indefinitely. If everyone is on board now for indefinite darkness then that’s great!

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    1 year ago

    Good. Also good to see a lot of other subreddits are going dark. Been using Lemmy for just a few hours, and I do not miss Reddit one bit anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy can be a bit slow, especially with remote communities.

      But damn, if Reddit’s only option is the new UI there’s no way I’ll ever use it.

    • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I’ve made the transition from Reddit to Lemmy so much more seamlessly than I did from Twitter to Mastodon. The percentage of Lemmy users that post high quality content & comments is much higher than Reddit, and a forum-based platform doesn’t really need many users to be useful, it just needs users who post content and interact meaningfully with one another.

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    1 year ago

    Hell yeah! I wondered when it would start. Anyone know what time the other subreddits are going dark?

    • KNova@links.dartboard.social
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      1 year ago

      Someone else pointed out they were going to use their 3rd party app til the day it got turned off to very explicitly show Reddit the reason they stopped showing up.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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        1 year ago

        Reddit 100% know how much traffic is coming in through their API. They can also 100% track how much of your usage in via what method. You don’t need to wait until the last day. They know that you’re using Apollo or RIF. They’ve already calculated that cost and either assume that you’re a sheep that will simply migrate to their app or don’t care about you in specific. Either way they’ve already written you off. No reason to drive any additional traffic to their platform.