We appreciate your hard work!

Lemmy ticles the reddit desiring part of my brain enough that it takes the edge off and I don't even miss reddit anymore. I go there to watch some war videos (and porn) but other than that I'm quite happy here and still sticking to my decision to permanently distance myself from there.

I am always afraid that will back fire and people will be like "look at this weirdo talking to themselves".

Besides, sometimes you protest not to change things, but so that shit doesn't change you

Great way to put it!

Whoa. That shit’s deep man. I’m totally stealing it.

The fact that massive protests don’t work proves it matters to everyone involved. QED.

This logic assumes logical thinking. While I think you're right -- there's some factor at play that has not been publicized -- this could still be nothing more than an ego trip.

I do think protests achieved so much. They made a lot of noise, put spez's terrible handling of the situation under the spotlight right before IPO.
And honestly, even if spez doesn't go back on the API pricing (which he probably won't), having subreddits protesting and fleeing to the fediverse puts the writing on the wall for other shitty platforms (current or to come).
Back when Elon started destroying twitter I did not get how mastodon worked, but I do see myself working around it now I figured out kbin (although Im not on twitter all that much to justify switching right now), can imagine is the case for anyone fleeing to the fediverse.

Thx alot aer This place feels like home

That's actually very infuriating.

I think it depends on the subreddit. I haven't spent much time beyond deleting and editing comments to reflect protest, but I did see a thread in r/tech with all the top comments supporting. Obviously the subs that voted to do malicious compliance are sympathetic to the cause, too.

Let's wait till July 1st, we might see 2nd wave of refugees :)

ive only been using it for roughly an hour or so now but it already feels like a place i can gladly call home. I'd love to host my own server at some point but being unfamiliar with linux really hurts. Thats what I think i love most about this whole concept, its like the shard from sword art online. So many "worlds" or "communities" can spring up with the software in place if one lemmy server gets too uppity.

As did I. Was sort of okay with third party apps being blocked, but the whole mod replacement thing is unfortunate and has caused my favourite subreddits to go down pretty much indefinitely.