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When the reddit blackout was at it's height lemmy got a huge influx of users but I think a lot of people had some misapprehensions about how lemmy would grow as a result of that. A lot of people seemed to think there was going to be some huge exodus where half of reddit said, "fuck you, I'm out!" but the reality was the vast majority of people were participating in a temporary protest and the desire of their heart was simply for reddit to go back to the way that it was. But that doesn't mean it's for nothing.
I conceive of what happened as the sowing of seeds. Some people's attention was brought to this platform and we have to water those seeds with content, and give people the opportunity to give and receive interaction. Let people comment, and have their comments commented to in turn. And when enough of that is happening we can harvest that thing that we're all really looking for in all this: Community. And if we can do that, when the next set of bad moves from reddit drives the next wave of people to look for something else (third party apps ending at the end of the month, surely old reddit soon after that), we'll have created something organic for people to glom onto and really get the ball rolling. Something I think was missing in the first round of reddit refugees.
I'm one of the reddit refugees. To be honest I didn't think the protest would make it very far, although I was hoping it would. It looks like reddit got a black eye out of it but that's about it... nothing substantial.
That is fine by me. I was considering killing my two 10yr old+ accounts there anyway, and in the process I found this place, which I quite like to be honest. It's a little janky and rough around the edges to be sure, but any of you that remember how reddit was back in the day know it was the same thing at one point. Lemmy has serious potential to become great, lots of work needs to be done but it looks like a lot of talent is already here to fullfill that potential. Growth is great, but if things grow too fast problems do too.
I look forward to seeing the true potential of what Lemmy can become, and I hope I can be useful in some way to help that happen and be part of it.
The communities that exist on Reddit just need a place to congregate, and Lemmy seems to fit the bill. There are still a lot of scuff features but the plumbing is in place to be entirely decentralized and look to be working. I am very interested to see what content / biases get promoted in /c/Canada now that there is minimal corporate interference.
...and a great candidate for posting to No Context