Absolutely, and it's been very refreshing to see discussion get broader and be filled with memes and other interesting content.

It will take a while to get somewhere close to Reddit, but if we talk about how it feels, I see it getting closer and closer day by day.

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

Step 1: Announce very unpopular changes

Step 2: Ignore backlash, go through with the plan

Step 3: Predictably, lose users and advertisers

Step 4: ????

Step 5: Why advertise on reddit?

I really don't get this trend of turning everything into a video. Is it supposed to be easier to consume?

I would much rather read an article and get the information I want at the pace I want.

Exactly, we're not defined by our relationship with Reddit.

Gain a monopoly, get users addicted and reliant, then change the rules of the game and hope they stick with you. It's happening now because of the economy for sure, but it's not like it's surprising.

Thanks for the heads up, fuck this bloat/spyware shit.

You can absolutely feel how much bigger it got, and it feels more and more populated every day.

I've been here only one week and the change has been so obvious.

Over the years it gets tiring, it doesn't help that there's a huge technological illiteracy issue even though we depend on it and use it every waking moment.

The whole doctrine is nonsensical and full of contradictions, but you're not supposed to ask questions, or use logic..

Apes together strong.

If the attention this post is getting isn't a strong indicator of what our communities want, and the direction that the fediverse and all instance admins should follow, then nothing will be.

Especially now, because of the extra obstacles of joinin the fediverse, users are on average more aware of the implications of such a thing. We should listen our people.

It's a bit of a dated stereotype, thank Hollywood and the "nerd vs jock" trope.

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Same, I tried to move to Signal a couple years ago, but I couldn't get anybody except one friend to follow, so I gave up on it. I would try again, but I know it wouldn't go any different, yet.

This hurt to read, good job.

I kept reading of this so I went and had a look. It's a bit worse than usual, and I saw the Doordarsh posts, but nothing else: this isnt a catastrophic end, it's just continuing on its slow decline as it has already bean for a while now.

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Meta sucks and they don't respect their users privacy, but really the United States are falling backwards so hard, it's incredible.