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  1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let's own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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[-] jcb2016@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The real reddit migration has started! the blackout migration was nothing to what's going on right now!

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Is that really true? I navigated to the Reddit page just a minute ago and there is a ton of activity in the subs I was using before I deleted my account. There are new communities on here that were created to mimic subs over there and it's pretty telling: Little to no activity on the communities over here but a lot of activity on the Reddit subs that are being mimicked. I'm asking myself if the people that are leaving Reddit are mostly tech people, that either work in an industry related to technology or are super enthusiastic about tech. My go-to subs were humanities related on Reddit. Those are still super active over there.

[-] EmilyInept@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I’m one of the many who kept using Reddit throughout the blackout, but once third party apps were killed, I would have to go out of my way to download the official Reddit app and relearn all the muscle memory browsing habits anyway, so why even bother? WefWef is great and I kinda despise the shit a Reddit pulled with their abrupt price hike.

My daily browsing on Reddit went from probably 1-2 hours of day to … well it’s not been long enough to tell but so far I’ve only viewed the site once from my laptop. My mobile use is now completely Lemmy.

[-] henfredemars@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's really, really smart that it looks like Reddit in terms of page layout. It satisfies the brain that likes its patterns and routines. I even put my favorite Lemmy app right where I used to launch from to satisfy the muscle memory. I really hope this sticks.

[-] Sgarcnl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] henfredemars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Connect for Lemmy. It's not perfect, a few bugs, but it seems to run acceptably well.

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