As someone signing up for lemmy.world, my reasons were:

• It sounds official or at least less obscure than ".ml" or "sh.itjust.works"
• It sounded inclusive (we're all part of the world, so to speak)
• It was in the list of default instances of Connect for Lemmy

Otherwise, I didn't give much though to which instance to pick.

For me it is lack of commercial interests (ads hidden in post), lack of bots, and lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts.

Or simply that prices have become insane. Good phones used to be around 400, taking me a few days to think about it and say yes. Now they are beyond 1000, so I will do my best to avoid having to upgrade and go with custom ROMs again. In the meanwhile, we also lost exchangeable batteries, external SD cards, and microphone jack, and we gained more Google spyware and bloat.

Couldn't agree more. I went from a Google fan boy to a Google skeptic during his reign.

So posts are going up, users go down. I know that millions have been purged, but the loss looks much more organic.

Honestly, once apps are improving (though current ones are actually pretty nice) and more users are here - what would I be missing from reddit? Nothing. When I need old content I use Google to get it from reddit, but for anything new there is not a single feature I miss dearly (might be different for moderators).

That is pretty fucked. Disgusting.

Pretty incredible. What happened in early 2022? It was not yet the time of GPTs, so?

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Copied that list.

Can you as a user "defederate"/ignore it? Then it should be up to the user.

Hhaa, what do you post about?

Verdammt krank, dass dessen Anhänger USD 100.000.000 an ihn (oder sein "PAC") gespendet haben.

Too bad as I just found it a week ago, but totally understandable.

For Search I use Duckduckgo (free).

For Mail, Calendar and Contacts I use Fastmail (free or paid, I use the paid version).

For file storage there's plenty of alternatives (Dropbox etc.)

For browser I use Edge, but it is also built on Chromium. I will make my choice once the recent Web Environment Integrity topic has become more clear.

Sehr interessant. Würde ich gerne mal in echt sehen.

edit: mao -> mal

Ha yeah, popping up everywhere. At least Office has it nicely integrated, many apps simply add a basic ChatGPT integration and charge $5-10 for it.

I had been on reddit since 2013. Didn't look back since they took away the API.

Ha, yeah. That's what's holding me back the most. Somehow it worked with Twitter.

Same, feels good!

If I could have one ask: Left-hand mode. Move pictures to the left as well as buttons to interact with posts, or allow up/downvote by dragging the comment.