• PsychoticBananaSplit
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    511 year ago

    This is why they need to link an alternative like Lemmy and encourage to share it around.

    Reddit doesn’t disallow mods from posting “Join us on Discord” and this will create a slow and steady move to a new platform.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      I’ve been posting about lemmy in r/modtools and a couple of the niche subreddits I follow that didn’t shut down. I’ll be sticking with lemmy no matter what happens over at reddit, the people in charge over there have shown utter contempt for the users and moderators.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        I was skeptical at first. Decided to give it a shot and, while obviously not perfect, I like it a lot so far.

        I think my biggest issue before is actually a feature rather than a bug. I used to think, “federation is too confusing for the average person, it’ll never take off”.

        But considering how hostile the average comment is on Reddit, keeping the “average” user away might be the best thing about Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          While the idea sounds great in the short-term, sites like this need a huge community to actually become useful. It’s cool as a little nod back to the old style of internet communities, but without a large following it’s too easy for stuff like this to just fade away. Losing a single server like lemmy.world wouldn’t shut down the entire system now, but imagine what would happen to the average user if their endpoint for news/media just disappeared and they were forced to make a new account and find all of their old communities again.

          It’s still neat, and I intend to give it as fair of a shot as I can, but we’re ultimately going to “need” an influx of non-contributing-cat-picture-lurkers to push a few of the top servers up to the levels of involvement needed to support a persistent community.

          • @[email protected]
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            81 year ago

            The idea behind this place is pretty cool but I’m with you. Neither this place, nor are the users, ready for migration “today” to flip from Reddit to this experience.

            It actually takes effort to understand what to do here. I deal with idiots at work all day, the first hint of effort or difficulty with anything, especially entertainment, people will walk.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          It’s like how the internet was great when it was mostly nerds. Sure, there are plenty of asshole nerds, but I’ll take a smart asshole over a dumb one - especially since a lot more of them are dumb than not.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Sadly, many people I have recommended it to have acted like it was the most difficult thing in the world to understand. The initial learning curve really wasn’t that bad, IMO but it seems like a lot of people want to be spoon fed.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        81 year ago

        It doesn’t matter that it’s not that bad, just that it’s harder than staying on reddit.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          It may or may not take off to the point of replacing reddit, but I think the exodus if people now and especially after the end of the month will lead to it having at least the same amount of users as Mastodon. Maybe more, since the average reddit user is probably more tech-savvy and more willing to migrate to a different platform than the average Twitter user (since they follow subreddits rather than individual users). And a roughly Mastodon sized lemmy is more than usable to replace reddit imo

          • R0cket_M00se
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            11 year ago

            Do you know what the user population of mastadon was before and after Elon’s takeover?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Before Elon, it was about half an million, now it’s about 4.5 million, though about a million of the new users made an account and then immediately went back to Twitter, so it’s more like 3.5 million

              • R0cket_M00se
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                11 year ago

                Still, nothing to sneeze at. Glad reddit is going through the same thing right now. If peertube or whatever other YouTube fedi analogue takes off I think we could see federation of social media take off and really become its own bubble.

          • R0cket_M00se
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            11 year ago

            Do you know what the user population of mastadon was before and after Elon’s takeover?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I’ve been considering recommending this to a few friends, but I’m worried about a response like this. I definitely recognize there’s a learning curve, and I’m still picking up a lot just a few days in, but man it took me maybe 15 -20 minutes max to figure out enough to sign up to an instance, find some communities, and post (I think all those words are right…).