dvdnet90The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
NurgleGood for them, but the damage is already done. They seeded this place with a lot of users. Will it be enough? Who knows. But Lemmy is probably a looooot further along than if they didn’t shoot them selves in the foot.
This placeo obviously needs to continue with good content and active communities, but at moment I don’t really have the urge to open Reddit they way things are.
Absolutely. I had never even heard of Lemmy or anything Fediverse prior to all the 3rd party API shutdown. Once Apollo died, I stopped using Reddit.
KerrigorI had heard of it, but was like "that's dumb, just use Reddit, there's no reason not to"
They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider
livusI'd heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.
But it was way down on my list of "things I guess I should learn about but don't have time for."
Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I've never looked back.
That’s exactly what happened to me too. It was in the background until something disrupted my status quo and then there was no looking back.