Curiosity at first after it was mentioned a few times by others. This was back in 2007, and I’ve been off and on with it over the years and being pleasantly surprised with the amount of progress it had made each time I used it.
I switched for good when I built my new PC last year. I didn’t actually mind Windows until it began to get filled with crapware, which has really gotten out of control more recently. It’s just as well that Proton has eliminated the last reason I needed to use it.
Been here since the blackouts started and it feels much more chill here.
Just pulled the plug on my 8 year old account as soon as Sync stopped working. I had already made my decision a few days ago once mods were being forcibly removed so this was merely a formality. It was still a sombre feeling watching it burn, but I’m glad that I can move on now.
Anyway, welcome and here’s to a new era without corporate enshittification.
Sync is so good, it’s what I use(d) Reddit with. Good news is that Sync isn’t dead, it’s being reborn with support for Lemmy.
https://teddit.net/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14ee1ul
Edit: Redirect link to old Reddit for sanity.
Edit2: Redirect link again to avoid Reddit altogether thanks to aidenxy’s better solution.
Nothing will change my decision now. The trust is permanently broken and the damage is irreversible.
They’ve shown that they won’t hesitate to kick out mods at a whim even when it goes against the community’s wishes. Even if the API changes are walked back, Spez resigns and the company apologises, that’s no longer enough to undo what they’ve destroyed. Reddit is done.
I was originally going to simply delete my Reddit account on the 30th. After seeing the farce unravel, I’m also going to nuke all content I’ve created on that platform at the same time. Scorched earth seems to be the only answer now and it’s the least I can do after the continued disrespect they’ve shown to their users, mods and especially the third party app devs. They’re nothing without the communities and the content that they’ve produced.
Yikes! That will only render the Reddit self-sabotage to be irreversible. It really has become morbidly entertaining watching Spez’s overly fragile ego result in that site burning itself to the ground in such spectacular fashion over the last few days. If it wasn’t for the third party app devs getting screwed over financially in the process after the rug was pulled from under them.
This place looks to be a silver lining to this whole saga at least. It definitely feels more homely over here with its throwbacks to how forums used to be. It feels like people can actually have a proper conversation again.
I’ll try again once Nvidia’s 555 series drivers are released which should support explicit sync. Right now it’s too unstable under Wayland even though I gave it a shot once KDE Plasma 6 released.