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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 nodsocket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

For my part, I am here to stay on Lemmy, and will be deleting my Reddit accounts. The quality of the content on Reddit has gotten pretty bad this past year or so. Too many ads, too many suggestions for SubReddits that I am not interested in -- but their algorithm "thinks" I would be interested on account of the fact that this SubReddit they keep recommending to me has a million subscribers and would likely keep me engaged with their platform.

I joined Mastodon last year and I love it so much, I swear I will never participate in a corporate-owned social network ever again. Mastodon has mostly satisfied my need for surrogate human interaction, but now that everyone is abandoning Reddit for Lemmy, I think I will join Lemmy too.

I am here to stay.