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I sure want it to be

Federation and an open source code base should prevent one team's dumb decisions from being able to wreck a whole platform, like reddit, twitter, digg, and others before

Fedivwrse is scratching my itch, so I'll be staying

the only thing stopping people, is lack of content, which according to the stats, over 1 million posts recently, won't be an issue for very long

Maybe. Federated sure seems to be what I'm going to stick with for now. Hopefully more seemless interaction will happen (in time) between platforms... but I'm already fully converted

Lemmy is the most reddit-esque of the things I've tried. I might add other services on top of lemmy, but I feel like I've found (sever)a(l) home(s) here

I've just found "imsorryjon" group. This is my home now.

I want to try Tildes once /u/talklittle releases rif (TIF?) for it. But I'll keep using Lemmy too. I see no reason to limit my options.

Lemmy isn't THE reddit alternative for me. In fact, I don't think there can be a single reddit alternative that can fill reddit's shoes. This whole debacle was a reminder to diversify and try out different platforms.

Coming to reddit from digg, I found that I still visited slashdot after the move. Reddit's had previous issues that has prompted people to try to migrate to other sites over the years. I joined Tildes a few years back, and before that, I was on Voat until it became clear that it was a cesspool. I also lurk occasionally on Raddle.

This migration attempt, I picked up Lemmy, and I might try a couple of other sites like Squabble. I gave up using reddit on my phone, but I still use old.reddit.com when I'm on a computer. And I still lurk on slashdot after all these years.

Having used the web before any of these sites existed, I've found that what's past is prologue. There is no one size fits all, but rather a plethora of sites that host various communities.

Seems good so far.

My only concern is that the general infrastructure isn't 100% there when it comes to user friendliness/app support.

When I first tried Lemmy a few weeks ago, it was on mobile, and my only choice at the time was Jerboa (when it came to app options).

It felt pretty incomplete, and the user journey wasn't 100% clear (and heck, I'm a programmer myself). The login drop-down was hard to find, and user was expected to register manually on one of the instances. To anyone else, that would have been very unclear.

We do have alternatives now, like Connect for Lemmy (which seems good so far); and the likes. Connect in particular actually links to registration page and has some of the popular instances available for quick select out the box. That said, there is still more to be desired in terms of user journey. I feel like the community could do some work with improving that 'out-of-the-box' experience.

Federated approach is good, just gotta make sure there's no monopolies; so instances can keep each other in check.

I haven’t really explored any other options, I like it here. I was already on board with the fediverse with Mastodon since the end of last year

I'm here to stay. Just like reddit, only free and "community owned".

I have accounts on a few other sites, but ended up liking Lemmy the best. I'm sticking around. It's completely replaced reddit for me and at this point I don't miss reddit at all.

Waiting for third parties apps to pop up, but so far I’ve been pretty satisfied with “wefwef”. The future looks very promising!

1: Yep.

2: Nope.

I use both Reddit and Lemmy now.

Lemmy for general browsing and Reddit for more niche things that are dead on Lemmy.

Lemmy is it for me. I lost too much time to Reddit. Reddit was like a fire hose, way too much information coming too fast to be useful for anyone that did want make it their full time job to learn to handle it. I like Lemmy, it's like my garden hose, I can turn it on, get a nice flow of information and turn it off when I'm done. I look forward to the day when Lemmy is like a hose with the new fancy nozzle on it with 9 different flow patterns and a thumb control, but I have faith the aps will get there, in the mean time I can drink from the hose and not drown, it's nice.

I like it here so far, came from reddit and not going back.

I mean, I try and test drive all new social media platforms that don't actively make my skin crawl, but. I've really bonded with it super fast, and not the way I did with Mastodon where I really sat down to make myself adapt. Don't get me wrong, I love it and pretty much use constantly, but there's always an adjustment period; the very worst was tumblr's hellscapy postingness, but reddit was a very close second. My first social media was livejournal, so for me, everything is compared to that. When I went to dreamwidth, I had enough experience scripting and remembered enough from doing web design to build my own layout and theme straight from the available source, so my friendslist there (dw: circle) is literally customized as close as my skill level then could get to exactly how I want to read, and the right sidebar is customized to only want I personally want there that aren't distracting to me, which is basically a fancier and more idiosyncratic version of my livejournal friendslist. I do me, okay.

Back to Lemmy: from the first, it was super comfortable and familiar. Community posts to the left, right sidebar, almost the exact amount of white space I need, so it was effortless to follow along and add communities and post comments. No weird distractions, nothing unnecessary or fancy to take my attention from content, and I can open up pictures directly in my feed and close them there without having to go to the community or change my scroll rhythm much. Joyous.

I just went back to DW to search for one of my posts and while there, I paused on my circle page and took a moment to realize: oh. They are not the same, no, but Lemmy is basically a less idiosyncratic minimalist version of my specific reading aesthetic; the base elements of both are the same.

(The only thing I might want to change is coloring the post titles since I'm very trained to see plain uncolored black text as text and not links, but three entirely different colors on a general feed page like this one might be a dealbreaker for me; I can adapt to seeing 'post title is link even if black' but tossing in a green or something with blue and orange in close proximity feels like a nope and I do like the blue for user and orange for community very, very much.)

So tentatively: this may be my new community-oriented home.

Lemmy and Tildes are 2 sites I'm very interested in seeing grow. Lemmy is ahead of most, and I think the community here feels like the Reddit I joined back in 2011 or so. I'm sticking around, for now.

I want it to be, and it has a good chance too.

I really like it. The community is also really cool. More like a small town feel than a huge city like reddit. I hope I don't have to move anytime soon.

Been here 3 years already.

Seems like the best one right now, but the dust hasn't settled.

I can tell you I will NOT join another closed platform. I will join a different open, federated platform if it looks good. I never want to contribute to another corporate or bound-to-eventually-be-corporate social ecosystem.

Lemmy still needs a lot of work, particularly the apps. I'm switching between Jerboa, Wefwef, and Connect, each of which has some pretty big problems, particularly with media and link integrations. The third-party Reddit apps were very mature and well-designed. I'm sure we'll get there with Lemmy in time, but we're not there yet.

Tildes would be THE Reddit alternative for me. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the users, and it's invite only. However, the creator of RIF is currently working on a project for them, and that was my preferred 3rd party Reddit app.

So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.

I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.

The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.

I don't think it's a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.

So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.

I'm curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.

Kbin. It federates with Lemmy but I like it better so far.