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How many users here do you think are going to get bored and end up back on Reddit as soon as the blackout ends? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I'm curious about people's outlook on this situation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to try my darnedest to not go back on Reddit. I'm sure I'm just a drop in the bucket for them, but it's the principle of the thing. Same thing with Netflix and their recent household bs. Even though I got a discounted plan / free plan for fewer screens with my phone plan, I canceled because I don't want to give them a single cent. I found myself habitually opening Reddit yesterday on my phone and then immediately closing it, so I forced myself to delete Sync :(

Still trying to get used to Lemmy but gotta rip off that Reddit band-aid and start using this more. The biggest thing I'll miss is just how widespread Reddit was. If I had a specific question, typically Googling my question and appending "reddit" at the end would do the trick lol. Hopefully engagement here can slowly build up to that one day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putting 'reddit' in a Google search is genuinely the only way to find a good discussion on most things nowadays.

Let's hope lemmy gets to this point in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit or Wikipedia.

Just today there was something I wanted to look up about tears of the kingdom. And I accidentally clicked a reddit link 😭

Seperately, I just recently bought a new doorbell camera (a POE one), had a question about the standards it used. Clicked on reddit 🤦