• Zap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Ya know. The fact that active users was going down made me feel like part of the 1% of stubborn assholes but ever since RiF went dark the only time I’ve been on reddit is when a Google search took me there because fuck spez. I’m in it for the long haul. I won’t be going back. And ya know what? Fuck Google too. I’ve migrated to Firefox and DuckDuckGo since then too. Idk maybe it’s just cause I am stubborn but I refuse to be a hypocrite.

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      11 months ago

      Agreed. I may be principled to a fault, but I’ll never go back to Reddit. It has that corporate miasma to it now.

      Truth be told, it had the miasma long before the API changes, but that was the point where the boiled frog croaked for me.

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        11 months ago

        I joined !privacy@lemmy.ml and now I use GrapheneOS (instead of Android), Fedora (instead of Windows), Firefox (instead of chrome), Mullvad VPN, jmp.chat (instead of google voice), and Kagi (instead of google search).

        It’s a rabbit hole.

        Although Fedora was mostly because an update to windows 11 completely broke it and I didn’t feel like trying to fix windows so I just wiped my laptop and installed Fedora.

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            11 months ago

            it’s an android keyboard that specializes in thumb movements, and in principle anables one to type fast using a single hand. That being said it is devilishly difficult at first and it has no autotorrect or suggestioins as of yet, causing small misspellings here and there

            Search for com.dessalines.thumbkey in F-Droid

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      11 months ago

      Hello fellow stubborner!

      Just gave my windows PC to upgrade my kids gaming setup, Linux on a ThinkPad T490 for me now.

      It’s such a fresh feeling, no more crap everywhere.

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      11 months ago

      I assumed active users was going down partly because some of us created multiple accounts on different instances in the beginning to get a feel for it all, then ended up just using one

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      11 months ago

      i hardly use lemmy compared to rif but i was under the belief reddit content is just better but the app sucks. i was wrong turns out it all sucks. rif just gave the shit a tuxedo.

      nowadays i look at reddit and the content is asisine its all the same shitty headlines and weird ask questions “how much sex does the average woodchuck have during football season?”

      it feels like Facebook. lifeless and like everyone is pretending