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[โ€“] CosmicCat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, this exactly. I'm starting to suspect that either someone very misinformed or someone with an agenda started spreading this rumor.

It just takes one person to reaffirm that it really is "too much work to switch" and "you aren't lazy for not trying" to keep a lot of folks in place.

This kept me off Lemmy until the blackout. I was interested prior to that, but so many people said it was complicated, I figured I'd look into it at some vague point in the future when I had time to untangle the fediverse. Then the baclout happened, and what do you know I had time, and lo and behold it was easy. I'm now a bit annoyed I was dissuaded for so long based on BS about it being complicated.