Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝

Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.

    No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.

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        1 year ago

        My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time

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      The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.

      It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.

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    1 year ago

    It’s time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!

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      I found wefwef and it was the only thing making me less sad when I deleted Apollo. Basically feels like Reddit in 2010-2011 but with a modern third party Reddit interface. Better experience and I don’t have to support /u/spez? Sign me up.

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        1 year ago

        Since it’s browser-based, do you have a setting that auto refreshes your cookies, or are you using a privacy mode browser?

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      1 year ago

      Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif

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        I’ve been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren’t for Rif and Sync, I don’t think I would have become a Reddit user. I’m desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.

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    I’m dropping Reddit completely in a social aspect. I’ll definitely be using it for the treasure trove of information it contains.

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    Fuck Reddit and the bootlickers all over the site now. Enjoy brown nosing spez as you scroll through ads on the shitty official app

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      wild how they complain about the complainers, without realizing that the complainers are the ones who make the site good. Without them it’s going to be shitty. Reddit will be alive, but less great.

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        He just skipped a step. Didn’t miss much in the end.

        I want to believe they lived a life worth living in the meantime, and now has had enough of that.

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      Likewise… I was hoping Reddit would never get DiggV4-ized, but I can’t say I didn’t expect it.

      It started when they removed being able to see how many upvotes and downvotes people had. They started inflating and fuzzing numbers to promote corporate stuff. Then the influx of mobile users…

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    Hopefully we can help create new communities on Lemmy. Nothing will truly replace Reddit but new groups will be created and over time they will become great.

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      everything will be replaced eventually in time but whether lemmy will replace reddit (in this case) is the question.

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        I don’t think Lemmy will replace Reddit, just like Mastodon didn’t replace Twitter. But I think we can build them into great alternatives for people who want to avoid using the big corporate originals (like me).

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          I personally don’t want lemmy to end up as a reddit replacement. I’m scared the discussions will get worse like it did in reddit. Nowadays, people in lemmy actually discuss with you and not downvote-bomb or make a snarky comment for karma. I do hope we grow, though.

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            Much like Reddit was in the early days. I think bots are a real problem and presumably nobody is making bots for Lemmy yet if that is even possible.

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        Lemmy us only superficially similar to Reddit. In fact it is much more, or so much less, depending on what you need in your social networking.

        That level of control makes it more complicated for some people.