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I don't want to nitpick, but I used the default reddit app and have switched Lemmy based on principal. I don't think most or even many people are like me, but there are a few of us out there that just don't like supporting companies that clearly don't have users interests in mind, and this has been the wakeup call needed to get us off the platform.
The official app is so terrible. I've tried it a couple of times. I think once people are forced to use that, we'll see more folks move away from reddit. Looks like they are already killing browsing on a mobile browser to force you to use the app.
Honestly, I'm almost glad their doing this. Gives me a good reason to leave and stay gone. Reddit as a whole is circling the drain with the constant AI and spam posts.
I hat an account on reddit since 2006 but only started using it 3 years ago and only ever used the new app and website and I think it was fine. At least I could send my comment by pressing Ctrl+Enter which I can't here on lemmy. I still am switching (even installed my own one user instance) because I think the internet will be better when more people use the fediverse. But I also half agree that reddit will just keep going even though it will be worse, mostly because there is no clear contender for a successor like reddit itself was back then with digg.