For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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12 years of reddit. It will take some time to adjust but I also switched from google to duckduckgo years ago after decades of google, and then too never looked back. Lemmy does need a LOT of work, still, but so did reddit in the early days…

To those working on Lemmy, please don’t fuck this up for us. Don’t be a spez.

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The nice thing about Lemmy that Reddit never had is that it can only improve in ways that the community wants! Not more putting up with asinine decisions from people who only see us as dollar signs.

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How is lemmy financed? Someone still needs to pay for servers, right?

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Not at all, I’m glad open alternatives are getting attention!

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Kinda. But I don’t care about Reddit itself. I care about a few communities and the people there. I know a couple of them are here. But we are scattered and trying to figure out this site.

Time will tell if this sticks or not. I pretty much hope so.

If someone finds a Lemmy equivalent to r/Grimdank or r/40klore please let me know.

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Yeah same. I have no real love for Reddit itself, but it has so many subreddits dedicates to very specific interests. They’re so easy to find and they can turn into such a treasure trove of information. I’ll stop using Reddit as my “main” social media, but I’ll probably still use it just for certain subreddits.

I also am looking for a replacement Grimdank. May the Machine God guide us to a new grimdark shitpost repository.

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Reddit peaked like eight or ten years ago. I am so ready for this. I have been doing everything in my power (completely ineffectively) to get the people and communities I care about to bridge to a libre network.

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Great, that’s exactly what we should do! Every single one of us can chance the future of Lemmy. At Reddit you were on of millions, it really didn’t matter what you did or didn’t do.

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I’ve been waiting for reddits death for ages, so no. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I actually really like the idea of the fediverse, keeps any singular entity from having too much power.

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You would think that but see what happened to E-Mail, the monopolies are slowly creeping in.

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