Their complete disregard for users, mods, and devs has completely shifted my interest away from Reddit. Even if they weren't shafting third party apps, spez has completely burned any goodwill they had.
Reddit has, in not so few words, stated clearly that it doesn't give two shits about us and is purely chasing profits at this point while monetizing user generated content.
Lemmy may be in its infancy still, but the memes are dank and the posts have genuine engagement. Also the little Lemmy rat is cuter than Snoo. 🐀
It's been a while since I made the above comment, and I'm surer now. There's got to be some corporate raiding at play with regard to IPO. Really bad optics that seem almost deliberate.
Since moving to Lemmy a few weeks ago I genuinely didn't realise just how many ads I was being served via Reddit which weren't guised as actual paid ads. I legit can say after weeks of trawling Lemmy, I don't think I have seen a single brand or image of a brand being posted anywhere.
On Reddit it was every few posts....
I haven't been back now for at least 4 weeks and at this point, no longer miss it. Between Lemmy, Chan and couple of other sites I get news from, the void of no Reddit has been filled.
Really enjoying my time with Lemmy.... It reminds me of early web :) I hope it doesn't change!
I really don't understand why more sub-reddits are not trying to rebuild or move their community elsewhere.
Then again, tons of mods are just as corrupt as the admins of the site. That doesn't excuse all the users who continue to stay on that platform though.