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    the average Joe would download jerboa, then be in. he would browse anonymously, and eventually make an account at the instance he enjoyed the most content from. choosing instance might be complicated, but until then, as long as he is browsing, he is on the platform.

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      141 year ago

      The average joe probably didn’t even use a third party client for Reddit and absolutely is not affected by the API changes. They’re going to browse reddit as if nothing happened.

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        21 year ago

        Is that a huge issue, though? I always had a feeling that the 3rd party users might be more civil.

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          No, I don’t think it’s an issue. Lemmy certainly doesn’t need most of Reddit to migrate. But if the number of users is a lot less, there will also be much less content. For me, the ideal scenario is to have a decent numbers of users, but nowhere close to Reddit’s (I’m almost totally sure that it won’t actually replace Reddit for the general public but I’m just hoping for enough users to make it a nice community with enough content).

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Yeah thats fair. I think k when something gets too big, then it becomes like less of a nicer place. E.g reddit. Twitter, Facebook.

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              21 year ago

              That could be the case. But it can also go the other way lol, it could end up being a place where a smaller bunch of insane/bigoted/etc people get together.

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        21 year ago

        right, but I mean in terms of difficulty for one that wants to try lemmy out. since they don’t even have to choose an instance to browse, it is easy even for an average Joe. I’d say it is easier to join lemmy than for example mastodon, which also is easy in my opinion.

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          21 year ago

          I haven’t tried Mastadon, but I get your point. But I’m sure people would be confused about the instances and stuff. When you really want to try it out, then you typically have patience and see how things work. A lot of people just simply don’t care enough to try this when there was no issue with Reddit for them in the first place. I am trying to shift because I’m annoyed at Reddit, but someone who isn’t really has no reason to.

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        11 year ago

        @BackStabbath yes & no. Reddit had quite a few highly technical spaces.
        We instituted an org wide blacklist of Reddit the other day, so no more redditing over here.
        Now to find the fediverse equivalents to sysadmin net admin etc…

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          21 year ago

          Yeah, I’m not surprised that a lot of people in the technical fields used third party apps. I’m talking about the general public that would never know Lemmy exists and would be bored if I even talked for two minutes about a cool app lol (and there are plenty of them).