I remember I was among those that migrated to Mastodon after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and the situation right now with Reddit and Lemmy looks very similar.

One thing I noticed is also a lot of rage (for lack of a better world) and meta-conversations. In this case, it's about Reddit, the subs going private etc.

Don't you find all this funny? I find it also interesting, because people understand when something is wrong and vote with their feet.

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[–] MoistKinkajou@lemmy.tf 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Twitter is dumb so I never had an "oh shit I also think Elon is dumb and need to leave" moment.

I now definitely relate to what people went through, as Reddit was my single online "social" presence, and I can't in good conscience continue to support them in any way, shape, or form because of the blatant shady attacks against developers.

All that aside, I am super impressed with lemmy (and the fediverse) and kind of bummed it took me until "the big migration" to look into it. I already prefer lemmy 1000% to Reddit after only a couple of days.

I would also MUCH RATHER donate to random cool folk keeping uptime on lemmy instances than, something like, pay reddit monthly for no ads.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Hell I'd rather donate or pay for my own hosting than just give my data/attention span on a greedy corporate platform.