By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
I have partially retreated back to the message boards for my niche interests, which is nice in some respects. I do find myself craving the “mindless scroll without specific topic” experience, which lemmy is providing well enough (and I assume will only improve). My desire to discontinue reddit is 40% what is being done now and 60% what I fear/strongly suspect it will become. For me that’s enough to leave. If a search engine drops me there I might read a thread from desktop, but my days of browsing it like my father did the newspaper are over.
I have partially retreated back to the message boards for my niche interests, which is nice in some respects. I do find myself craving the “mindless scroll without specific topic” experience, which lemmy is providing well enough (and I assume will only improve). My desire to discontinue reddit is 40% what is being done now and 60% what I fear/strongly suspect it will become. For me that’s enough to leave. If a search engine drops me there I might read a thread from desktop, but my days of browsing it like my father did the newspaper are over.