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See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.
A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been 'it's the internet, it doesn't matter', and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren't supposed to do.
I can't say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won't return to Reddit.
Same here. It's already gotten sucky, and it's only going to get worse.
If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.
Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.
Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I'm quite large, and I'm here
This is the way
Yes, obviously.
Yeah! Fills my reddit void
I will stay as long as they don't do what Reddit did.
Yes
Ive found the transition to be seamless. I put Jerboa in the spot where RiF used to be on my phone, and now I dont even think about going to the old site.
Its actually nicer to he around at the nascent stages of Lemmy's popularity. Im catching different communities just by sorting through all/new that I wouldn't have found otherwise
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Yes
Lemmy is a game changer for me. First couple of days were confusing, but after adding a slew of communities that resembles my reddit subscription list... I think I'm there.
Now its more of the niche subs that I hope will grow into its own. More specific game communities are needed, because that's more or less the only reason I have to go back to reddit.
I've been around Lemmy for under a week so far. This feels enough like Reddit (more than Kbin) and...seems(?) to have more activity than Kbin so I deleted my account there and decided to stay here. I've already created a bit of content here to grow this place! ❤
I hope I'll see more communities arrive here what are not yet here but in Reddit 👀
I'm planning on staying here permanently. I'll go into Reddit just to check subreddit names I've subscribed to and see if there's a Lemmy community for it every now and then, but I'm not going to engage with Reddit more than that.
Someone told me about https://sub.rehab/, so I just check that every few days to see if my favorites show up there!
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I'm on every website known to mankind, a world record I wish to keep, so yes.
Yea, I'm here to stay and help it grow. Reddit even before all this BS just felt...icky sometimes. Lemmy doesn't, and I'm loving the passionate people that are moving here.
It depends on the tech. I'm not convinced this form of federation is going to work. There's already a lot of tech issues being exposed and drama unfolding between the instances.
I also don't think it will see wide public adoption due to how segmented the communities are.
I hope these issues are resolved, and I'll try to stick it out here. I quit Twitter and am trying Mastodon and I'll do the same with reddit. I'm not willing to just sit by and watch corporations take over our society.
Oh dang, it seems I've been living under a rock. What are the tech and drama issues I missed?
I'm perusing reddit occasionally, I dunno, out of habit, but also curiosity as to how this all plays out. But the magic is gone there, and wow, growing here very quickly. I'm here to stay, on lemmy.world or wherever in the fediverse. I'm on a mastodon instance but it's kinda sleepy, but hanging in there.
I used BBSs in the early 80s, even dialed into Ward & Randy's BBS in Chicago with an acoustic coupler modem... 300 bits/sec. Fedi stuff is more akin to that than the overly-managed corporate shit.
"Federation" instantly made sense to me. I feel sorry for (lol) younger people who've only known corporate, centralized, soc media stuff.
I suspect things are gonna get messy; communities are, or will be, hard to find, scattered, the activityPub relationships can be very complex, you can't really tell who sees yout posts, or what's included in a thread... the code isn't there. But it will get there.
Fuck corporate seamlessness. I'll take the anarchic chaos of user written code and organic change. The idea that we can, or even that we "should", be able to "see everything" is a dumb 20th century idea. The world is a huge and complicated place, us dumb little organisms can't even understand everthing that goes on in our physically local neighborhood. How could we? What a delusion.
There's always more to seek and see. It's fkn great.
I'm a filthy casual, and I think I'll be staying. I might try out Kbin when they get a mobile app, because I'd like to be able to follow mastodon and the fediverse versions of reddit from the same app. But I love it here so far. There are a few subs I really miss (witches vs the patriarchy, some science subs, and a whole bunch of academic and religious subs), but I'm fairly confident that most of those will make their way here eventually. If not en mass, then a trickle of like minded folks.
the Voyager PWA is a big part of why I'm staying. Good UX!
Yee
I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.
That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.
I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.
I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn't post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became "Oh, it's because x and y" to "Oh god you're so fucking stupid it's obviously Z".
And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can't even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.
Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I've never been more active on any other platform.
Yes
I think it’s looking very promising. I’ll agree with others here that if the users come on, some of the bugs get worked out, and an Apollo like app gets created Id be happy to call this home.
I’ve been a serious Reddit user since the digg incident so it really is like the end of an era.
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wefwef app is amazing so I am staying here
yes
I want to. But in all honesty, it depends on how much of the communities I'm used to migrate here as well. Right now my typical reddit content is mostly missing here. It has potential, but like any other social media site, it depends on the community and the content. I'm hopeful though, I think reddit is in its final days either way.
Almost certainly. I just signed up to pay $5/mo through Patreon for .worlds. I'm happy to pay and not SEE ANY GD!#)$$U@) ADVERTISING!! I mean that alone... lol
Communities are filling up, that's what matters. Code works fine. The android Jerboa app (only one I could find; is there another?) won't run on my Pixel 6 Pro but I'm fine with the web interface.
I'm gently suggesting in the subreddits I inhabit that it's time to move, here. My usage there dropped a lot with the shenanigans there; I suspect it will never return to its former self. Fine by me. Everything is a TAZ; gotta stay flexible.
The culture matters, not the platform.
Absolutely
Absolutely, this is my new home.
I like it here and I don't like it anywhere else.
I'm staying here on Lemmy, this platform seems like it has much more promise than Reddit and centralized platforms like Reddit.
Don't get me wrong platforms like squabbles are cool and all but in the end they're not federated and that means they're going to end up meeting very similar if not the same fate as Reddit itself is meeting right now.
Probably. It would be nice to be able to select a more compact view - it feels like there's a lot of wasted screen real estate with the current look.
Are you using a mobile app? If you're on Android, Jerboa gives you options on how to view. List view, cards, and small cards (or something to that effect). I like cards because my eyes suck, and I need the pictures to be big enough. Lol.
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Yes, but
The site needs a ton of UX polishing to keep "lazy users" hooked (something I think it's critical if you want to harvest as much users as possible from this fire). I feel like software developers tend to be more conscientious internet citizens that fight for their rights and seek independence, so I'm hoping that gives an influx of fixes/bug reports on lemmy's github repo leading to stability, but maybe we also need to find ways to collaborate with front-end/brand design people (?)
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