I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn’t the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.
I share your opinion. I’m optimistic about the migrations away from twitter, reddit, and facebook. This is a great opportunity for the improvement and democratization of social networks. The more that people move to open source platforms and the more that people demand control of their data, the better!
I can post on the Lemmy website (typing this on my desktop right now), and I have downloaded and installed a couple of the apps listed above on my Android phone, but I can’t log-in into any of them.
I have tried many times over a couple of days now so I don’t think it is because of the Reddit refugees swarming this site or those apps, but maybe I am wrong.
One rather confusing thing is that when I try to log into wefwef for instance (but I think the other apps have something similar), it asks for Account’s server. I don’t know. I pick lemmy.world but I am only assuming that is correct. Then the next screen asks for username or email. I’ve tried “Hazdaz”, I have also tried the email this account is tied to. I have tried all lowercase. I have double and triple checked my password. But everytime it says “double check your credentials”.
I’m here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it’s gone, but I’m super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!
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