It’s not just ads though, it’s the tracking that bugs me

Agree 100% with this

Happy enough just to be here 🤣 Using Mlem for now.

Both. Even if Reddit step back this time I think this action is just another on the road to their demise. But Lemmy/Fediverse still needs the critical mass shift to become the true alternative.

thanks, I got there in the end!

when I searched for that text/link I’m saw posts that referenced !cats@midwest.social (hyperlinks), and when I was first trying it was going to the front page and asking me to login or create an account - fail

but one of the posts that came up in the search had a different link … hovering over it showed https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats@midwest.social when I clicked on that one I could see cats@midwest.social … I could also see that I was still logged in as me, and there was an option to subscribe

hopefully that helps others in this brave new world … long live Lemmy and so long Reddit!

Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?