Just realized that the other day.

I had initially intended to feel it out and honor the blackout from 12-14, then figured, “I’m here now, might as well ride out the month if Reddit isn’t responding in any meaningful way to the community’s requests” and now I think I’ll just be in the fedi apps for the foreseeable future.

It’s different here, but it hasn’t been a struggle and it gets better and better with time. Feels nice to not support inhumane and user-hostile endless corporate greed.

  • Grimpen
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    1 year ago

    I was getting news from Mastodon and Lemmy during this last weekend. I still use Reddit (through Relay) for some Ukraine news. There are active enough communities/magazines covering world news. Mastodon is about as informative as Twitter is now (smaller, but most of the quality content is on there now).

    The best thing is that I’ve already seen Mastodon get better ever since Musk started mucking around with Twitter, and now I’m seeing something similar but even faster with Lemmy/kbin. Just the improvement in quantity and quality of content, in addition to improvements to the actual software over the last few weeks is impressive.

    I’m hopeful that come July 1st, and the casuals who try to log in with Apollo/Relay/RiF/whatever and get errors, that those who choose to try out Lemmy or kbin will have a great experience out of the gate.

    Sure there is a bit more complexity, with the instances, but the slight and minimal awkwardness of dealing with foreign instances is quickly being smoothed over on the client side.