I didn’t leave immediately, but then my account got banned and having started using lemmy made me not bother making a new one. I may have to eventually venture back to reddit for the occasional niche community, but otherwise lemmy is just as good for getting my posting and scrolling done.

I’m a heavy poster and posting things I read to the appropriate subreddit has been a part of my internet process for a long time, so it was key to have a new place to keep doing that. Though that has resulted in there being several subs on here where I have made a large majority of the posts… but I tell myself it’s more worthwhile to be posting things here where they’ll be seen by fewer people but will contribute to this community existing rather than giving free content to reddit.

I’ll forever be in mourning that Signal shot themselves in the foot and stopped functioning as an SMS app replacement

Wow it may get rid of those annoying alerts too? Win-win!

I need something in between this and a Kindle. I don’t want to build my own electronics, I just want to buy them from somewhere without sketchy ulterior motives for how they’ll use their control over my device.

There’s no paywall, you can just click “continue reading” on that pop-up.

Why is that?

There really is an upswing, and in particular a lot of high profile strikes that have gotten media attention, though not quite to the degree you’d think relative to the baseline.

Strike! Strike! Strike!

They really are like a government!

Yeah you can’t exactly take the subset of redditors still using the site during the blackout as representative of how redditors feel about it - anybody with any concern about it is not crossing the picket line.

I don’t understand how discord is even sort of similar - how can a live messaging app substitute for a forum?