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[–] [email protected] 254 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Ya know. The fact that active users was going down made me feel like part of the 1% of stubborn assholes but ever since RiF went dark the only time I've been on reddit is when a Google search took me there because fuck spez. I'm in it for the long haul. I won't be going back. And ya know what? Fuck Google too. I've migrated to Firefox and DuckDuckGo since then too. Idk maybe it's just cause I am stubborn but I refuse to be a hypocrite.

[–] TrendigOsthyvel 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've done the same. Even installed linux on my gaming rig. Also moved everything to proton.

[–] 3ntranced 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Same here. Been using Ubuntu for 3 days now on my gaming PC.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I may be principled to a fault, but I'll never go back to Reddit. It has that corporate miasma to it now.

Truth be told, it had the miasma long before the API changes, but that was the point where the boiled frog croaked for me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've installed Libreddit to redirect any Google searches that lead me to Reddit. They're not getting my visit!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libreddit/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I hope you're donating to the respective libreddit instance hoster, because unlike Reddit, they're not a multibillion corporation with a steady ad income to pay for their traffic

If you're not, then I suggest you use old.reddit.com with uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice extension, I installed too 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Keep up the momentum! Install Signal, migrate to the Proton suite.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more. Like a yubi key? I haven't progressed that far yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it's an android keyboard that specializes in thumb movements, and in principle anables one to type fast using a single hand. That being said it is devilishly difficult at first and it has no autotorrect or suggestioins as of yet, causing small misspellings here and there

Search for com.dessalines.thumbkey in F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hello fellow stubborner!

Just gave my windows PC to upgrade my kids gaming setup, Linux on a ThinkPad T490 for me now.

It's such a fresh feeling, no more crap everywhere.

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

I assumed active users was going down partly because some of us created multiple accounts on different instances in the beginning to get a feel for it all, then ended up just using one

[–] sock 4 points 1 year ago

i hardly use lemmy compared to rif but i was under the belief reddit content is just better but the app sucks. i was wrong turns out it all sucks. rif just gave the shit a tuxedo.

nowadays i look at reddit and the content is asisine its all the same shitty headlines and weird ask questions "how much sex does the average woodchuck have during football season?"

it feels like Facebook. lifeless and like everyone is pretending

[–] SuckMyWang 2 points 1 year ago

Your comment warms my heart and gives me hope. Thank you

[–] MintyAnt 2 points 1 year ago