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Overall I'd say it feels bittersweet. It sucks that reddit is being screwed over, but it could be really good for lemmy as a whole as long as we get through the growing pains. I like our community but it could use more people posting/commenting and driving up the engagement. Some communities are just too sparse right now.
I'm both excited and terrified to be quite honest. While I expect the fediverse to grow quite a bit as a result, I also expect plenty of bad shit to happen as a result and I hope we can survive the load.
I'm excited for it to grow, but as an instance admin I know what's coming. I can have community creation turned on right now and feel fairly safe in it, but it's only a matter of time until assholes start coming in
Yeah, I have the day off so I plan to be browsing the whole day to help report people not be(e)having
I really think we need like a one image description of how to make an account. Something that could be posted and cross posted to Reddit, all the steps, what an instance is, what the communities are, how to sign up for the iOS and Android apps!
I was thinking about this last night; maybe a sort of phone-scrolling poster-style guide (not dissimilar to the API changes effects banners on Reddit the past week) with a quick guide to Lemmy/Kbin. I’m not totally new to the Fediverse having used Mastodon on and off after the Twitter migration, so I’m no pro when it comes to writing the content for one though.
Should probably be under a Creative Commons license as well.
I wouldn't necessarily say excited myself, it feels more bittersweet. On the one hand it like sucks for folk on a personal level who might have really enjoyed being part of a certain community, or all the work people have put into moderating, posting content or their work on a third party app is just going up in smoke in a snap.
But on the other, it feels like sweet sweet delicious karma for the stupid bullshit Reddit's leadership have done over the years and getting to see the birth of something new and better to come out of the ashes. Hopefully this place sticks around because its felt like a breath of fresh air honestly.
I've been looking for an alternative for a while, and the communities follow the people.
Yeah I was pretty much a mega lurker by the time of the great migration, just using Reddit more as the most tolerable site I was willing to put up with compared to the others rather than out of love for it. Was pretty much itching for something new and better and well here I be now :p