Fuck /u/spez and all of that. It would be my 13th cake-day on July 7th 💩and I won't be on Reddit to celebrate because the account will have been shredded and deleted.
I'm glad we finally have an alternative (seemingly)decided on. I guess there isn't much else to talk about until 7/1 when a lot of blissfully ignorant reddit users realize they can't post anymore on their favorite app, when I think we'll see the biggest surge of new users. It feels as though the lack of conversation and "low" userbase - compared to reddit, is prompting users to ask if they made the right choice...
"Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on >Lemmy than Reddit?"
"POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?"
"let’s cut the “Reddit” circle jerk and start actually making >content"
It's too early for those questions and of course people are going to be talking about Reddit, it's our old home. I was a user on Digg before Reddit, the big difference was that Digg V4 blindsided us, we knew a change was coming but had no idea it would be that bad. /u/spez was so nice as to tell us we were fucked a month or so in advance.
The point is, chill out, explore this community and others if you're inclined and don't stress, the rest will follow along in time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk
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For those that don't know, you can only disable the footer signature on the desktop or mobile web client(in desktop mode). It's kinda of tucked away but once you login, at the top right there's a settings menu at the top right(with a cog icon) -> open the drop-down -> settings ->