I visit Reddit all the time. And I visited Digg before that. In fact I was hooked to this mode of operation since Digg. Suffice to say, something about link aggregation tickles my ADHD brain just right. However with the recent blackout of a big part of reddit, I decided to start my own Lemmy [...]
I kinda get this. It’s not reddit that I need, I just need aggregated links of shit I’m interested in. A “front page” to my internet, so to speak. There are plenty of the smaller communities that don’t yet have much presence here, so I feel a little itch occasionally, but hopefully they’ll start to develop too.
As long as this place continues to grow, it could be really easy to just abandon that old site. I’m trying to contribute and help that process.
I agree. At this point, even if Reddit backed down for everything it seems like the future there is doomed no matter what. I got a lot of joy out of connecting with people and getting content out of Lemmy this weekend. Looking forward to seeing what this site grows into.
Even if they backed down on the API stuff, they likely would not back down on the intrusive ads stuff. I’m tired of the internet turning into ad hell. I’m not leaving lemmy/fediverses. The openness here means that my front-end can do anything I want it to do as long as it talks activitypub as a protocol. And if instances start pushing ads in the activitypub itself… just block those instances. This is a better solution that keeps me in power of what I’m actually consuming.