I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.
Yeah I’ll definitely return. I find myself opening Boost by habit way too much lol. Lemmy and Jerboa are also a bit janky and I find the default pages and algorithm weird. That said it seems like as a result, or maybe just because of the low amount of content, posts stay active for longer, whereas most 1 day old posts on Reddit are basically dead.
I used to use the official app for a long time before switching to Boost, which is more usable and customisable, and also ad-free after paying a one-time fee. Just after I switched the official app made some unpopular changes so I didn’t look back, but I recently checked it and it seems that there are a few new features introduced that I find useful, including being able to download videos easily which will be an essential feature if bots will stop working in the future. Playing videos are still janky though. If I’m forced to go back I’ll definitely use revanced to strip the ads.
As I understand it the changes will be even more painful for the mods though, even if Reddit promised to not touch bots that help mods.
That said I’ve created a Lemmy account and downloaded Jerboa so I’ll probably still use Lemmy occasionally just to see what’s here.