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Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This seems like a good place so far tbh

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes. I plan on using lemmy over reddit from now on. There are enough similar communities here. I'll have to keep using reddit if i'm searching for something and it comes up, but i don't plan on actively using reddit anymore. They showed their true colours: a company's whole business model built around collecting and displaying user content and then has the nerve to pull that they did on 3rd party developers?

They didn't want app competition because they needed to serve ads in their app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly, greed is a turnoff and ads are a bigger turnoff. I don't mind ads if they're necessary to keep developers working and prosperous, but serving Steve Huffman's bottom line isn't what I'm looking for. Lenny can have my dozens of clicks each day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only ever used third party apps to go through subreddits anyway, so it makes it a hell of a lot easier to switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. The switch is much more enjoyable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty much in the same boato but a lot of the communities just don't have critical mass on lemmy yet :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give it time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For sure, if I've found my way here I'm sure loads of others will too.