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There's nothing wrong with using Reddit, Twitter, and other mainstream site still while being active on fediverse. (kbin.social)

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

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I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there's nothing wrong with that either.

Personally, I want fediverse to grow, and I post on kbin and mastodon constantly, and try to grow the communities on them. But I still pop over to reddit for r/splatoon, r/casualconveration, and my hometown sub, because either the communities haven't grown enough here yet for constant fresh content, or the content is different enough between both to justify me checking in.

I get many are here as a protest against reddit, Twitter, or where ever else you came from, and that's valid. But there are many of us who are simply casual users who want to include fediverse into their drives of other social media, and that's totally fine too.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 119 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some of the people who came here as a form of protest no longer want to support Reddit in any form, whether it be by creating content/comments or just seeing ads. "Nothing wrong" is very subjective; if a person believes that Reddit is detrimental and should die, then they won't agree that there's nothing wrong in going there. Realistically, Reddit isn't going to go away anytime soon, but this is an argument about principles and values, and we don't all share the same ones.

[–] entropicshart 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spot on. I don’t care if Reddit continues to exist or fades away; my interaction with it stopped with third party apps.
And with Lemmy, I don’t feel any need to engage with Reddit using their mobile site/app.

To each their own, but Lemmy has been far more interesting, even in smaller communities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly - there are many shades of grey here. Since I've been on Kbin I've rarely checked Reddit at all, but I've been on it once or twice to check a few of the health support communities I'm in which is something Reddit really does have the lead on at the moment until more people come over here