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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso @ amoroso @lemmy.ml
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Be honest, do you still use reddit?

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  • I left Reddit in early 2022 and never looked back.

    • Is there anyone on here who isn't a Reddit refugee?

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  • I may qualify. Although I joined Lemmy a couple of weeks ago, I left Reddit around the same time I left Twitter in early 2022.

    • What IDE (Code Editors) do you use for programming?

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  • These days I write Lisp code using the Medley Interlisp development environment. It's a vintage but amazingly capable environment that's being revived and modernized.

    • Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?

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  • Yes, I replaced Reddit with Lemmy.

    • Why do so many tech companies, like Reddit and Twitter are making their platforms worse for their users all of a sudden?

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  • Because they realize they can get away with pretty much anything.

    • What was the main reason you left Reddit?

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  • I actually left Reddit in early 2022, I'm not from the latest migration wave. I left for a combination of these reasons, the first of which is the main one:

    • algorithmic feed designed to arise strong emotions, often negative
    • snark and noise in the comments
    • ads
    • impenetrable moderation rules that often make it difficult to figure why a post is rejected, even after carefully reading all the sub's guidelines and FAQs cover to cover, as well as reviewing past threads

    • People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

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  • I live in a major Italian city, I'm well over fifty, and I've always drunk unfiltered water straight from the tap without boiling. Some Italians apparently don't like the taste of tap water but it's still safe to drink it unfiltered and unboiled in nearly all the country.