After many years of Reddit I made the step today and uninstalled my reddit app. If Lemmy works out I will completely migrate here. The idea of the a Fediverse based place such as this one feels promising.

Now I am wondering, are you all also planning on staying here, do you mainly use Lemmy temporarily, or do you want to use Lemmy in addition to Reddit in the future?

  • EmilianoBlanquii@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Many have already expressed this sentiment, but I’ll add my voice to the chorus.

    Access to knowledge and resources generated by people for the purposes of being useful to other people, and without the pretext or subtext of profit.

    Effective digital mutual aid, for lack of a better term

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        I truly hope so.

        The main barrier here, I think, will be the general clunkiness of Lemmy. I assume it is a consequence of its federated organization, but it took me several attempts over the course a few days before Lemmy would even let me make an account.

        I’m nuts, so I kept trying. But If the barrier of entry is too difficult to for most people to bother with, i’m skeptical Lemmy will be able to be truly independent of Reddit.

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    I plan on using it for the foreseeable future. My biggest concern would be niche communities dying out and not getting much in terms of engagement

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      It does seem to be harder to find niche communities not hosted on your instance, however if at least one person is interested in the niche community on your instance then it will show up in search without having to manually seek it out

      So I guess it really depends on if users on your instance have similar interests or if everyone is willing to use the lemmy community browser to go find the communities they wish to find

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        I’ve had some troubles adding communities from the Lemmy Community Browser. I’ve mostly used Jerboa for Lemmy but entering something like

        !fallout@lemmy.world

        In the search section doesn’t seem to pull up anything.

        Maybe I just need to try to subscribe to things on desktop first

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          If someone on your instance hasn’t subscribed to another instance then Jerboa can’t see it so you will have to use the web browser from your instance to find it

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      It will need an active core community especially in the beginning, I think. One worry I have regarding niche communities is, that duplicate communities might spread the user base.

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    I plan on staying here. In two days I haven’t seen a certain annoying religious ad, rage-bait posts, no OF mailbox spam, and I’ve actually started commenting in threads again. I deleted my reddit app this morning and I don’t even plan on logging in again to delete my account.

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      Oh gods I hate that religious ad But yeah I agree w/ a lot you have said here, I dont plan on using reddit much, if at all in the future

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    I’ll use Reddit again if they revise their API pricing so that third-party apps don’t get shut down. Otherwise, I’ll probably keep using Lemmy only, unless I get bored of it and abandon Redditesque sites altogether.

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      It probably is difficult at this stage. Really feels like the beginning of something. Whats your community about?

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        Just a reproduction of the old r/yarn on the other site, a place to swap, sell and give away yarn. I thought I would set up a Canada only version