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Most people will go back to reddit in two day. I just hope the whole ordeal seeds Lemmy with enough of a community to grow so one day, it will have feature parity with reddit and an actual community. This probably won't be a Digg like migration, but maybe it's the beginning of a myspace to Facebook like migration.
Digg seems like it went down overnight lol.
Not those of us who exclusively used the 3rd party apps. Former RiF user here, reddit for 12 years. Not doing it on their app, you couldn't pay me to tolerate that experience. Using Jerboa right now and with a couple tiny improvements, I got no problem switching.
100%, I was almost 12 years and have always used RES and Apps. Reddit has been going downhill since they "had" to make money and this was the last straw.
Sowing the seeds is what I hope happens. I'm not moderator material, I don't normally post content and I normally prefer to lurk. Yet I'm going out my way to cultivate a successful migration so the real guys who know what they are doing can take over and allow me to once again doom-scroll lol.
yeah, i am doing my best to actually comment more, and make a few posts. probably more posts in the last couple of days than all of reddit'ing.
#rexxit
I too posted more, not more than in total because I was 11 years there and sometimes posted daily, but I do participate more
I feel called out lmao. I've been more active on fediverse apps in the last week than I was on normal social networks in the last year.
Lemmy seems to be doing pretty well so far. I don't expect nor want lemmy&fediverse to completely dominate world of social network. That would only make spam/bot worse imo. I want it iust enough for me to enjoy.
Digg went down fast because there was an alternative other people could use, and Digg made far more mistakes than the reddit admins. But I hope now, every time the greedy reddit board does something people do not like, it shakes loose a few more people willing to use alternatives.
Similar to shaking a fruit tree, and getting apples to fall to the ground here and there
I left, I dont plan to go back. Joined Lemmy today, spun up an instance last night.
I'm not so sure. There are subreddits I need like /r/anime that have already extended the blackout, if other subreddits follow suit which I think they will then there's no reason for me to go back to reddit, there's nothing there but a corrupt out of touch immature CEO.
Idk I think more people will stick around then won't. But I don't think it will be immediate. It will be a slower migration as Lemmy gets better and better and easier to use and there is less and less of a reason to go back to reddit for anything. I'll only ever go there if I have to for some reason but over time those reasons will become less and less as the communities here grow.
Best thing we can do is add as much content and comments/posts as possible over the next few days!
I'm doing my part.
Same! I'm into camping and found this place https://links.dartboard.social/c/campingandhiking It's small but people are nice and I'll keep contributing :) idk if that link will work im still learning
Yeah only problem is fragmentation of groups (same community name over different instances).
A good solution would be something like multi-reddits, but multi-communities. So a user would create a curated list of communities that are combined into a single feed.
It'll be a pretty big feature and take time to develop, but it'll help a lot.