If I want to still be able to look at the works of my favorite artists, photographers and animators, I will unfortunately have to use it to some extent. Some of them also post on other platforms like pixiv, which allows you to look at content without an account. If there is any other way to look at their content, I do, but some are Twitter exclusive unfortunately.

People will naturally follow their favorite artists and will want to interact with them. If you could somehow convince the creators to post on a free and open alternative, I would not have any problem completely deleting my Twitter account.

In the case of Reddit, I would delete my Reddit account if I knew that all the rock hounders, bug identifiers, mineral photographers and crochet enthusiasts were here.

So, what now? If you are able to, create content that people are interested in and post in exclusively on free and open alternatives. If you have any useful skills or know-how, help people on free and open alternatives with their questions and problems. That is how I got into Twitter and Reddit at least. Maybe it will work for others too.

And most importantly: be nice. Don't downvote people's comments and posts for no reason. Don't leave toxic comments. Say Thank you, give people compliments, provide constructive criticism and try to be helpful.

Yes unfortunately Twitter did that yesterday. Hopefully they will be able to scrape the content somehow anyway (apparently Twitter still allows googlebot to crawl their Tweets, so maybe Nitter will just disguise as a googlebot)

I agree with exec

Why not spend your time on a Japanese platform? We got anime ~

I don't think this is about donations. Did you try registering again with more information about why you want to join?

Inside the home even.

Actually funny Memes are rare and precious

Maybe they have some little niche communities they do not want to just abandon.

That is why I still use reddit - when you have a really niche hobby or interest and finally discover a community of people that you can share the joy of that interest with, that feels great - you do not want to lose that community that you have longed for for so long.

I am part of some niche communities that have an activity level and a user base that is hard to beat on reddit. I am doing my part here on Lemmy and created local c/dolls and c/denpasong communities on my home instance, but of course nobody is interested here on Lemmy. I am giving Lemmy some time of course, but I am afraid that I will stay lonely with my little communities here on Lemmy unfortunately.

Hello SDF Japan

Reddthat here ~ we are alive and well too

Why summon Baphomet if you can buy a doll?

I think we should leave it as it is. I dislike the downvote button because in my experience it leads to many valuable opinions and content disappearing or not being posted in the first place, because users rather not be downvoted. We all have different opinions about all kinds of topics, lets have a little bit of tolerance and respect for each other and not downvote.

EDIT: Ironically, I would have never given you feedback on Reddit in a thread like this, because it seems like in this comment section there are a lot of people with opposing opinion to mine - which would probably lead to this comment being downvoted to hell on Reddit.

I just thought the same thing. This cannot be true. I refuse to believe it

It is a great time to be alive

Welcome

Skip and Loafer

Welcome!

I am glad having you as an Admin and I think you are making the right decision allowing for different opinions to exist. In the end every user has the ability to block communities and users for themselves.

Looking forward to finally being able to block whole instances. Will it come with a future version of Lemmy?

Welcome!

Thank you for your answer. I thought so too - I will have to find a different solution. If you have any suggestions, feel free to share.