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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Feels like a lot of users there are more for the performative changes (Oooh look I bought a pair of adidas trainers & an off brand cola) rather than actually steering away from major US owned services such as FB, Insta, Reddit

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I thought about chiming in on that discussion, but the majority of people focus narrow-mindedly on commercial X/FB/Insta/TikTok competitors instead of available solutions (fediverse). It is a lost discussion from the get-go and OP even dismissed fediverse-solutions as not appealing enough for his grandma.

So instead of building a better place or improving on things, folks start having a wet dream of a big money grab with new ad infested services.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

maybe they tried the fediverse when it was bad or didn't have apps, I think before lemmy my experience was mastodon many years ago and I was confused because I thought it was supposed to be like discord the way ppl talked about instances not twitter, and even when I joined I didnt realize they interconnected til I joined lemmy years later lol, thought it was so weird having mini worse twitter that doesnt connect.

And in lemmy's case I weirdly associated it with voat and lag, then I joined and was suprised at the left leaning (significantly lol) userbase that actually provided helpful suggestions instead of telling me to google and actually getting replies for most posts/comments instead of them being lost in to the void.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's unfortunate. Hopefully a few people will still see Lemmy mentioned and give it a try

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It'd upvote it instantly, but sadly, I deleted my Reddit account last weekend, after I made a lemmy account ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Wow that was frustrating to read

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The want good alternatives. Lmao