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[–] polarpear11@lemmy.world 78 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out. I'm not a "techy" type person (that seems to be some kind of prerequisite) and I barely know how to explain the fediverse to the layman, but I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app) and read enough to give reddit the middle finger and never look back. It's been nice, really. I spend more time outside of the internet now. But I believe in the fediverse, I think it's the right thing to do. I still check up on lemmy daily, but I get much more value and human connection and only spend the time that is appropriate on lemmy instead of endlessly scrolling. Most days I end up in some Wikipedia rabbit hole. Just like the good ol' days. Learning new things, meeting new people. That's what I love about the internet.

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

left when i saw too many reposts and way too many story-comments i was sure i'd seen before

which led me to realise reddit has been completely astroturfed

[–] polarpear11@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Oh yes, good point. That's a big part of my problem when it came to my reddit experience in the end. I mean shit, I was a redditor since 2009. It was hard to leave but also not.

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