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We should move. Even if we did a longer blackout, the admins can just replace the mods of the bigger subs and ignore the smaller ones. Even if the blackout is effective, they will pull something like this again.

I’ve lost trust in them. I’m not going back except maybe for information if I really need to.

I saw that. That’s honestly stupid, imo. I mean, they can still track you and force feed you ads. Sure you can have an adblocker but that’s the same for mobile.

Idk why they’d do that, tbh.

Idk. I enjoyed it when it’s done well. I subbed to subs like r/redditsings because of it.

I’m really interested in running my personal instance. Can you point me to a tutorial on how to go about that?

This is why I’m hoping people stay even after the blackout. Lemmy has potential but a big part of it is the community. I already like it here and I’ve seen it grow despite being here for only a week. It’s honestly amazing to watch.

I mean, reddit’s CEO used to mod that sub. Reddit and redditors were still fine after it blew up. Why are there different standards? The sub may have been banned already, but I doubt spez has changed much. Reddit admins have gotten away with a lot like editing comments, refusing to ban certain subs until there was media coverage, etc. Personally, I haven’t encountered any censorship due to political affiliations (yet). And if it happes, I’ll change instances.

They don’t control the fediverse just as much as they can’t control which instance I join/create.

Have you tried a chromium browser? I haven’t tried browsing lemmy on FF yet, but I never had that issue on chromium (Brave).

Yes. Definitely. I don’t mind the sub but don’t surprise with that crap on r/all.

Honestly, Jerboa in alpha is already better than the official reddit app for me. It’s no TPA reddit app, but the number of contributors (in github) has risen by a lot so I’m expecting/hoping development will pick up and it’ll get better fast.

I appreciate the community the most in here. They’ve been very welcoming and minimal, if any, toxicity.

Like someone has said, we’re in a privacy-oriented sub so it’s natural (expected even) to expect the hate. Edge/MS really is bad in terms of privacy. So I get the hate.

With that said, privacy concerns aside, I have to agree that its reputation is worse than it really is. I was pleasantly surprised when I tried it, but my standard was IE so it wasn’t really saying much lol. It’s getting bad with unnecessary features, though.

As for being better than FF… well, of course in terms of privacy FF is still better imho. However, I rely on chromium-based browsers for work. Some internal sites I use for work simply don’t play well with FF. I do have Brave, but I sometimes use Edge as well.

Is there a good chromium browser anyone can recommend? Is Brave the best privacy-wise? Vivaldi?

I used power delete and it sent me a backup. Idk what to do with it yet.

Mlem for IOS. Jerboa for Android. These are the only 2 that I know.

I also like lemmings. I saw someone somewhere suggest “cliffs” as a name for subs/communities because of the (unfair) connection to lemmings.

I just don’t understand why they (or just spez?) is intent on badmouthing the Apollo dev.

Tildes is the only other alternative that I know besides lemmy. It’s more focused on discussion, as you probably know. Personally, though, I doubt it can scratch my reddit itch. I do enjoy discussions, but I also need my “nonsense stuff” fix like memes. I do like what they’re trying to do. I think they’re a good complementary site to lemmy if someone is ditching reddit altogether.

An app would be very helpful to get more people on kbin.

I have to agree about many users from a certain group/type of people affected enough by the reddit fiasco are those that are here rn. I’m biased as well, but I appreciate the compliment. Tbh, I’m just going with the flow. I saw a recommendation from reddit and was curious enough to check lemmy out.

But many of the users here (most probably you included) are here because they actually give a crap. Some are pretty active. Some are already starting communities and posting. I’d love to see the fediverse grow but I’m afraid it’ll end up like reddit.

For me, the way Fediverse is set up just highlighted the dangers of centralization, at least for social media. It’s hard to have all your eggs in a basket controlled by a single entity that has virtually unlimited power to do what it wants with it. Fediverse isn’t perfect, but in some aspects it’s just better.

It’s certainly more about discussion here. I’ve made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.

If I did that on reddit I’d probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.