Absolutely yes!
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Yes.
Lemmy currently requires a lot of work. By sticking around and providing feedback and support, we all can hopefully iron out those kinks and make it mainstream-ready.
Yes, without having Joey Reddit is dead to me.
Depends.
The stuff I usually go to reddit for has been popping up here, but the communities are still so small and so quite that it doesn't fill the void. There is also a lot of double posting in feeds because, while decentralization is very cool, multiple instances running the same or very similar spaces lead to a lot of community fragmentation - and if you want to stay part of the communities you have to kinda follow all of them and .. Suddenly you have the same post from 3 different communities because well, the poster also realize that the community is fragmented.
Also just a bunch of things are just extremely user unfriendly for seemingly no reason. Trying to subscribe or whatever to certain spaces or follow certain spheres or topics is just needlessly obtuse. Links not defaulting to opening a new tab is for sure a choice.
We'll see, if the spaces grow and become more lively and accessing the content I want becomes just a bit more straight forward, then yes, I'll stick around, but right now... eh, I'll check in but we'll see.
Yes
Yes.
absolutely. No reason to go back to Reddit, that sites dead.
Haven't really used reddit in years, saw the recent controversy and noticed this platform gaining attention, so I decided to check it out, and I like it. So, yes. Also really like the live comment feature as I'm trying this reply, so newer comments are able to get attention.
Yes.
It took me a couple of days to figure out how communities (subreddits) work, but I have crafted a pretty good lineup of things I am interested in. If anyone else does this, you might want to remember to look at the lists again in a couple of weeks or a month, because new ones keep forming.
Also post in a few communities you like so they don't die before new people can find them.
Yes, likely
Yes
Of course. Even the people who don't leave Reddit should still join Lemmy. To them it's just more of the same. To those of us who've ditched it this is a drag & drop replacement. Things are basically the same except that communities are spread over different servers.
I'll try my best, it'll be hard to break old habits but here's to lemmy!
Definitely! I was there in the early days of reddit and it was great, but it's been a steady decline since. Lemmy feels like the best parts of that with the right quality of life improvements and the guarantees that the communities can stay in control. This is the place to be!
I loved 2012 reddit. Small, tight-knit communities of generally good and intelligent people. Now the average user just... lacks self-awareness? Or a sense of community/culture? After a while the millionth person secretly promoting their blog, refusing to search past posts, flipping shit at mods, or trolling conversations just gets to you, and you start to feel like crap when you doomscroll through time-sink subs.
Yes! Annoyingly Reddit is such an archive of information for a tech in general and troubleshooting anything. Once the archiver's from datahoarders are done, why would I go back? Democratisation of the interwebs is just awesome too!
Absolutely Yes! this whole reddit drama was just what I needed to wake up and get out of my comfort zone and that shitty centralized site, who lost it's edge a long time ago but I was sleeping.
Yeah but my activity level will go way up when a good client comes along. I am super excited for Sync for Lemmy, it's a super clean experience on Reddit and the dev is awesome.
Yes. This is the future and I’m happy to be apart of it.
100% yes. Haven't even looked back.
I plan to stay. But let's see what happens in a couple of months after the shock of all these changes has worn off and see how those who are offended by reddit actually react. Reddit will remain the site with way way more content and active users for a long while
Lemmy still needs plenty of development and active contributors/engagers to have any long term chance.
I think you need to look at trajectory with these alternatives. For example, squabble is great in its design, but its growth is linear, so it's unlikely to take off. Lemmy can - if it can maintain a 1% per day growth rate for a year it'll be a solid 30-40 million user platform - but it really needs as much momentum as it can get early on, because it could still crash.
Yes, deleted all old posts and comments. Then, deleted the account.
Yes
Most definitely. Now that I'm getting navigation down, Reddit will be a foregone conclusion in a couple of months IMHO.
Just a yes. No comment
Yes, Sir !
Yes
yes
Definitely yes, the decentralized aspect of it gives me a feeling of more control and more freedom than the corpo driven social media like reddit.
At least nothing here is owned by a single entity. No single point of failure.
Yea, definitely