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Yes. I plan on using lemmy over reddit from now on. There are enough similar communities here. I'll have to keep using reddit if i'm searching for something and it comes up, but i don't plan on actively using reddit anymore. They showed their true colours: a company's whole business model built around collecting and displaying user content and then has the nerve to pull that they did on 3rd party developers?
They didn't want app competition because they needed to serve ads in their app.
Exactly, greed is a turnoff and ads are a bigger turnoff. I don't mind ads if they're necessary to keep developers working and prosperous, but serving Steve Huffman's bottom line isn't what I'm looking for. Lenny can have my dozens of clicks each day.
I only ever used third party apps to go through subreddits anyway, so it makes it a hell of a lot easier to switch.
Same here. The switch is much more enjoyable.
I'm pretty much in the same boato but a lot of the communities just don't have critical mass on lemmy yet :/
Give it time.
For sure, if I've found my way here I'm sure loads of others will too.
Exactly. Reddit was once new compared to their competition, stumbleupon or digg. This time why not opt for the Foss alternative.