I’ve been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a “they can’t make me use their shitty app!” while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away from a platform long term?
I have a feeling that most folks are more loyal to their communities than they are the company themselves - meaning that no matter how bad the corporation is, sacrificing what they truly care about is not really worth it no matter how poorly they are treated.
If the community goes away, THEN reddit goes away.
But if the only way to access their community is through some shitty app, I don’t see it stopping many people.
I much rather use a platform that tries to offer the best possible user experience but isn’t fully there yet than one that had a decent user experience in the past but decided to make it much worse because they can. Especially if platform A is based on free (as in freedom) software and doesn’t run on servers controlled by a single entitiy.
I would have switched earlier but there wasn’t much content on lemmy, so this was just a great opportunity to do it. Apart from that I have to say I don’t really miss much functionality after the switch (using jeroba).