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It's real hard to break a habit that's been ongoing for almost 12 years for me. I'm trying to do my part by contributing, upvoting, etc
I would consider myself an average Lemmy user. However I followed the R****t collapse closely from May onwards. 'Cast it into the fire' yes, but not just because third party apps all-of-a-sudden shut down.
There are many reasons to leave. Can I also just say the number of advertisements designed to imitate user submitted content really got under my skin. I'm not even talking about onlyfans accounts posting in various subs, but actual "promoted" advertisements that used common memes or are made to look like someone took a screenshot and reposted it. Not sure how many people noticed these. This kind of deceptive advertising angers me and I blame Reddit as much as the advertiser because they take the money and serve up this garbage.
This right here. Pisses me off so much. I would be much happier to see an ad that’s up front and lets you know it’s an ad (different tile BG color, etc). I’d be much less inclined to even use third party apps if the ads weren’t so damned deceptive.
The third party app change was definitely the straw that broke the camels back
Man some subs there are irreplaceble for me at least.
some subs are irreplaceble for me at least
The only thing that's getting me is the server instability. I assume those waters will eventually still, but in the meantime reloading and dropping replies is really aggrevating.
I mean… sure… but compared to where Reddit was 10-12 years ago, and also considering that lemmy and the fediverse have handled a multiple orders of magnitude increase in users more or less overnight, and I’d venture to say that lemmy is doing pretty damn well, and it’s only going to get better - and get more traction - as time goes on.
It is annoying, but at least it makes sense considering the few orders of magnitude growth they've experienced in two days and given that we are not the customer nor the product. Nobody is making money from this. Instead, we are benefiting from the generosity of those who host the service, much like Wikipedia.
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