I've been doom-scrolling reddit for a while and see this as a chance to kick the habit better than deleting and re-installing a week later
For real, I feel more confident commenting and posting on here than I ever did on reddit
Cheers to new beginnings. Hi everyone!
OH YEA! Love what I'm seeing
Yeah I'm pretty bad for that. 😬
yoo i heard ab the thing and i wont be usin Leddit for the next days. exited what to see what everyones up to.. on a different platform
Its so hard not to lurk...
Me too! I'm primarily a lurker as well. I'm really enjoying Lemmy so far and hope to see it grow. :)
I wish it didn't take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.
MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.
Not that bad projects shouldn't die off, but it's always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive "let's try this new thing because it might be better".
I think Reddit is an outlier in the sense that until now it has been a good service with fairly minor flaws.
FB is totally garbage and had been that for many years now and yet people are not seeking alternatives, maybe because that kind of social media is not that interesting anymore to the types that would care.
It's definitely been going downhill but by choosing good subreddits and using a 3rd party app that strips out all the new "features" it was still usable. Now it won't be usable.