• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Absolutely. I quit Facebook about a dozen years ago, Reddit was there to take its’ place.

    Then my final visit to Reddit was on June 11th I think it was, the moment the first protest started I quit Apollo for the very last time.
    Somewhere around this time, probably earlier, I did the same with Twitter.

    This time, it was Kbin/Lemmy that were there, the only viable options, still tiny and awkward, the sudden influx still only a fraction of what Reddit has, yet it flooded the system like a bucket of water falling on top of a fly.

    And yet here I am, and so are you, and many others. The variety and portions of content are still much smaller than Reddit, but this place has something that Reddit also had: a quality community, apparent from these discussions, or go look at the art in ArtPorn or TrafitionalArt, or sure, absolutely why not - the shitpostings.

    This place pushes that intellectual button for me. And now I also give myself time to do the NYT Crossword and watch physics/cosmology videos on YouTube.