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Why waste energy building tools to support a company that actively hostile to their own users. Might as well spend the energy building for something else, e.g. to support fediverse, which in the last few weeks got a surge of new apps and tools made by developers abandoning reddit.

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Exactly this. I used to browse Reddit everyday, using one of these third-party apps (the official app and website being close to unusable).

When that app shut down, it just felt natural to leave Reddit behind.

I opened an account on Twitter instead, having never used it before.

The leadership of Reddit always seem to have been hated by the users, but I feel this might be the final straw that sends it the way of Digg etc.

About time it kicks the bucket.

Twitter is not the ship to be jumping to now, though. It's also on fire.

The demise of Twitter is greatly exaggerated.

Whether you believe it'll be fatal or a phoenix-like rebirth, you can't deny it's burning right now.

As a person that's never used Twitter, it's as on fire as it's always been, the people yelling about it just changed but none of them are leaving.

It feels a whole lot like people who threaten to move to Canada every 4 years.

Canada's on fire too

Well doesn’t matter where one stands then, if all is in flames.

I'm just using it for sports news, and it's been great for that (i.e. "wojbombs" for breaking NBA trade news). It's also a great place to get fanarts (anime, gacha games, etc). I don't engage though, only passively use it.

Meh, I just use it to follow certain people who share good content.

Well, I myself am building fediverse things since 2019, so... :)

The thing with centralized social services though is that network effects exist. You can't just switch from Reddit to Lemmy or Kbin the same way you can switch between Windows and Linux.

At the time I still had the habit to never use my real name, email or address. (Well I was still going to school/studying anyway) I think the assumption was that services were simply there for the creator's benefit. Maybe it's good to remind oneself that a service that is given for free always has a catch unless it's from a non-profit.

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