Unfortunately, the time has come for me to leave Lemmy. Time will show where we all end up. I’ll see you in the future… maybe sooner than you think?

Edit: Follow up post is here. Don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easy. I’m just switching to piefed.world

    • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      I use boost on my phone too! Definitely waiting for implementation from Ruben. But I don’t mind waiting. The dudes a superhero as far as I’m concerned.

      Big big shoutout to Boost for Android. FANTASTIC APP and my favorite by far.

      • TheBluePillock@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        Oh please tell me it’s actually in the works. I want to switch to piefed but I’ve been a Boost user for years and every time I try to get used to something else I’m just reminded how much I like Boost.

    • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      Piefed has a few extra features that I like and I know that the couple features that are currently missing are on their way. The development team is pretty quick to respond which doesn’t affect me a ton but I don’t want to support a shitty dev team. Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes. If I’m going to be posting a lot then I don’t want to be doing it using what they made.

      Also Fxomt is convincing.

      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes.

        This is kinda a big deal for me too tbh. Do you happen to know, is there a good (android) piefed app, or is it website only for now? I imagine there’ll be some of their aren’t already, but my brief play store search wasn’t very fruitful.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    But will it continue to be your last post in the future? Or is it simply your last post at this moment?

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Is this merely switching from Lemmy to something else, or are you leaving the fediverse completely?

    If it’s the latter, then I wish you the very best of luck. I don’t know you very well, but I remember you having had some personal issues in the past. Hopefully those aren’t coming back and you’ve just decided to simply move on. Regardless, your memes and shitposting will be missed.

    Good luck to you! Or, as a wise man once wrote, “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          2·
          17 days ago

          I’m an idiot and it’s hard to explain but this announcement explains it pretty easily.

          It functions on the fediverse, just like Lemmy, but is a different platform/front end. They function damn near identically but Piefed has a more active development team that actually responds to requests and a dev team that isn’t transphobic as hell. That’s the selling point for me. I think the only feature that’s not available on Piefed that I use pretty often is being able to paste images into text blocks. Fairly sure they’re working on that too. You can upload them, there’s a clicky for it, but it just won’t automatically upload and paste the link like it does on Lemmy. Literally the only thing “missing” that I’ve noticed.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    16 days ago

    I thought federated meant people see your posts no matter where you log in. But if going to piefed means you’re “leaving” lemmy, kthxbye I guess. I don’t see the need for an announcement.

    • danhab99@programming.dev
      0·
      16 days ago

      If you’re using a 3rd party client like Boost or Voyager it might not recognize the pifed domain as an activitypub instance… our friendly devs are doing there best

  • Alchalide@lemmy.world
    0·
    16 days ago

    I’d be more than willing to throw them a couple of euros each month. But paying like 14 per month for something I get for free now is just too much.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
    01·
    16 days ago

    Meh, I decided to just pop for Premium. I realized that of the online streaming services, YouTube is the one I use the most. And Premium gives me access to YTMusic as well as GMM which was paywalled back when Premium started. And all for the same basic price as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu which I barely use and therefore dropped.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      16 days ago

      I’ve had it for years with a group of friends and even with the price increase, it’s still well worth it (maybe $6 converted).

      It’s the only media subscription I have and I use it every single day.

      I don’t get this extreme hatred for asking money for such a massive service. YouTube streams unfathomable amounts of video and there’s no way it’s a profitable business to begin with.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 days ago

        Well the hatred for the ads I get. Not just cuz people don’t want to deal with ads in their content. But YouTube’s algorithm or whatever it is that decides what ad you get to see too often targets the wrong people for the wrong things. Or you get a 2 to 4 minute unskipable ad for a 10 minute video. It can be frustrating.

      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I will try to justify the hatred. I have no issue with them asking for money for a service. My issue is them building and adertising it as a free service. For years they ran it at a loss bank rolled by unlimited google dollars. It was impossible to compete with a company that makes no money and has no intention of making money. Then once they have 99% market share they turn around and use that stranglehold to raise prices on users. Year by year the cost keeps going up, the ads get longer and more frequent. Because where else can users go?

        Its awful, I hate it and I cant support it.