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[โ€“] Goodeye8@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you're mixing up "they don't work as a replacement" with "they don't work as well as a replacement". I'm sure you know the difference because Lemmy doesn't have all the niche communities as Reddit so Lemmy isn't as good of a replacement, but it is a replacement because otherwise you wouldn't be here.

[โ€“] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reddit don't work on mobile anymore. Lemmy is better for me.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

So you set individual preferences accepting certain pros and cons.

The claim "doesn't work as a replacement" hence only is inside your criteria.

Regarding the "social live", lets be real there is hardly anything social about Instagram aside from forwarding memes to your friends, which you can do in any messenger app. Regarding mail providers, the medium ones are not affected by the distrusting problems. Regarding office, you can switch for anything outside the office. I also have to use MS at work. At home i run LibreOffice and don't pay any more money to MS. Same for searches, where i definitely use search engines more at home than at work. But even at work you can get reliable results from other search engines.

Lets be real, how often do your searches end up being a shortcut to the specific page on the same half a dozen websites? You are a programmer? Chance is most of your search results you click will be stackoverflow, w3school or similar. Most people will have Wikipedia articles among the top 5 they click on after searching. Just going to wikipedia directly is perfectly viable.