Fair

Maybe we should check your basement.

You’re on ProgrammerHumor… Why do you expect the jokes to cater to you if you’re not a programmer?

I’d imagine your standard for “fully dry” is just different for each of these.

Your position is based on your love for God

I know this is ShowerThoughts, but even two seconds of thinking is sufficient to refute this. Also, if we’re starting our scheduled hourly anti-crusades, shouldn’t we be claiming the opposite: that often the highest members of the Church / churches exhibit the most ungodly and unfaithful behavior?

You aren’t alone. I stopped posting to Reddit in the protest and haven’t posted/voted since, but old threads are just too useful to completely block it out.

The thing is, though, my Reddit usage from Google Search hasn’t replaced what used to be my time browsing Reddit. I now exclusively use it for informational old threads via Google Search.

If before API terms changes I spent 7 hours a week on Reddit, and let’s say 5% of that was needing Google search results from Reddit specifically and the other 95% of usage was scrolling through my Reddit front page; I am not now spending 7 hours on Reddit via Google search. I’m now only using that 5% of 7 hours/week = 21 minutes/week on Reddit, and maybe even less considering my newfound aversion to the website.

And I suspect that most of the people who stopped using Reddit after the changes—whether by lapse or by principle—are not gonna come crawling back to it if Reddit chooses to sever that tenuous metaphoric link.

Edit: clarified a subject

The game we see here is Russian Russian Roulette.

If Lemmy gets as popular as reddit

You do realize how big of an if this is? Even for Lemmy to reach a fraction of Reddit’s popularity. I want it to happen as much as you do, but let’s be real here.

The Fediverse is still a pretty big experiment. The first thing I thought when I saw that Ultra lifetime price was if Lemmy would even still be as relevant as it is today (which isn’t that high of a bar, mind you) in 5.5 years—the amount of time it would take for the lifetime purchase to pay off as a better deal than the yearly subscription.

Not only that, but it truly is a front end for Lemmy; not the service itself. I get that the dev has bills to pay and I guess that this is their only hustle (?), but $100 is a bit of an unreasonable ask in my opinion. If I were rich, I’d buy it. But I’m not, so there you go.

Not that anyone should care, but personally I’m waiting to see what Boost does, as that was what I used back in Reddit.

Buddy…

Least ignorant Redditor.

Well, there’s a principle of nature…

Instagram differs from Reddit in the sense that most people use Instagram because that’s where their friends and family are. You’re posting more personal things there. An alternative doesn’t really work for most users if no one they know is using it. Good luck with the push, though.

“To bitch about it?” Yes, I’m not a fan of the echo chamber of people’s feelings toward Reddit; but it’s still a situation that’s going on, so I’d like updates and conversation surround that.

Just this morning I was debating if I should go ahead and start using Connect and then switch to Boost when it releases, or instead to just wait and continue using my browser until Boost.