• Kerrigor@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I had heard of it, but was like “that’s dumb, just use Reddit, there’s no reason not to”

    They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider

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      1 year ago

      Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.

      • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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        1 year ago

        Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.

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      I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.

      But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”

      Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.

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        That’s exactly what happened to me too. It was in the background until something disrupted my status quo and then there was no looking back.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Yup, I saw the paltry userbase and didn’t bother. Other alternatives like lobste.rs and Tildes were a bit too closed, so I just stuck with Reddit. When Reddit decided to be stupid, I tried out lemmy and haven’t looked back.