• w00tabaga@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    My time on Reddit died simultaneously with Apollo. I’m doing what I can by not giving that place anymore traffic from me.

    Found out about Lemmy yesterday. While it’s not there with niche interests at this point, it definitely cures the itch.

    You want to stick it to the man? Quit going there altogether people!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I feel the same way. I’m on here and it’s working but I also do miss my years and years worth of subs I joined that made my feed perfect to what I liked, especially the smaller ones that I hope make it over here someday. Right now my lemmy feed just mostly feels like meme after meme or some politics post which is not really what I like at all so I may have to spend some time and figure out how to narrow my interests more on here.

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        1 year ago

        That’s definitely the worst part for me too. But if people make the switch here and the user base grows and over time you curate your feed here, it could eventually be that again.

        I’m just ready to sacrifice that to say “screw you” to Reddit. Finding this platform has just been a pleasant surprise

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          This place is a lot better than I expected it would be tbh, and I’ve been here a couple weeks now. It’s encouraging to see.

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        1 year ago

        I’m lucky that my curated feed was mostly open source coding, AI tech and solar punk so I’ve been able to find even better communities than Reddit had. The less tech adjacent subs will take longer to build but you can see them starting to establish - I guess the best way to help that is to participate in them and to introduce other people to them.

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      1 year ago

      Welcome! You’ve probably seen it around already, but just in case, you can search at lemmyversenet/communities and may turn up some of those niche communities that are just difficult to find otherwise. Ofc, maybe they don’t exist yet, but always worth a look!

    • Josh@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      if you are on iOS, use Memmy. it’s really close to Apollo functionality :)

      there’s also many iOS clients in beta right now too