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Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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First time this happens since a few months

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[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

I converted 3 friends. I'm doing my part.gif

[-] uhN0id@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My friends seem to prefer tolerating the official Reddit app because "there is more on Reddit". I'd rather have less for the time being and not lose my mind with that POS app not to mention fuck Reddit for what they did to 3rd party devs and users alike with that API change.

I refused to install the Reddit app out of principle other than just to check it out one time out of morbid curiosity. Without the 3rd party app creators that made apps long before Reddit did, back when Reddit wouldn't, Reddit probably wouldn't be anywhere as big as they are today. They brought new users in that likely wouldn't have used Reddit anywhere except on a mobile device and certainly not in a browser when even retail stores had their own apps.

When my 3rd party app (Boost) officially stopped working the other day I officially stopped being a Reddit user in the process. Not doing another hacky workaround to make the app work again. Time to make Lemmy my new social/forum and ditch Reddit except for when I need to do a Google search because Reddit is still a great archive of knowledge.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

You’re not wrong. I do have the app because the mobile site shits on my browser (I have anti tracking, cookie blocking, ad wiping defences), and there are a few niche communities I find important that stick around (and r/sysadmin, while not exactly niche, is really useful for me)