Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there’s plenty to choose from!

Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

Reddit is different… I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

So I’m not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don’t give me something to read over breakfast…

I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I’m trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump’s account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

It’s a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

I still have my Reddit account, but it’s becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it’s to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it’s the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don’t unless I have to.

Same; I’ve been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can’t take it anymore. It’s all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can’t shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn’t quite do it just yet.

The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.

WHATS UP FUCKERRR

I’ve been free of Twitter, Facebook, insta, etc for years now and I promise it’s a lot more liberating.

Mood has been substantially better, sometimes you get dragged into arguments on here/Reddit too but it’s pretty unlikely to get riled up by the type of trolls you see around here given their immaturity

Twitter has become a toxic cesspit even before musks takeover. He just made things far worse to the point where it’s basically just attempted doxing and permanent ad-hominem barrages. It’s not worth any time.

I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

Twitter is alot more fun now though.

Welcome to the platform! Unfortunately, Reddit isn’t what it used to be, but we definitely can reignite the community that we all so fondly remember. Already loving it here and how friendly everyone has been :)

I can’t stand chaining comments (with one word in each comment). It’s fun to see them once in a while, but they appear as often as spams now.

Joined Lemmy last week and Mastodon today, feels good to be free, all looking good so far

Have not touched my Reddit account since June 30th 0:00