One big difference I see, between email and various messengers on the on side and social networks on the other side is, that emails are me pushing my information at people while a social network is supposed to be them pulling information from my feed. This allows me—when it works—to share stuff with people instead of potentially sending spam. Not all communication is a digital postcard. Social networks allowed a new form of communication. I enjoyed OG facebook until the first big privacy scandal. It was a (mostly) good thing and it was very accessible even then. I‘ve never got such a large part of my tribe on a pull service since then. Sure we all have messengers and groups and what not… but it is not the same. I dream of self-hosting something from the fediverse but we‘re not exactly young anymore and I doubt my tribe will assemble.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain’t much–but I am commenting ;)

If not for BaconReader (the only client that was on iOS and Android when I looked) I would never have been on reddit at all. Right now writing this via wefwef. On my Android phone I am testing Liftoff. I would have been willing to pay for a subscription if reddit hadn‘t behaved like they did.

I stopped using reddit with the blackout and I can‘t say I miss it much. Especially not when my favorite subreddit equivalents are popping up everywhere.