Yes
Downvote to disagree, upvote to agree
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 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.
I will stay as long as they don't do what Reddit did.
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?
the Voyager PWA is a big part of why I'm staying. Good UX!
I'm on every website known to mankind, a world record I wish to keep, so yes.
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.
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!
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 👀
Still trying to get head around kbin vs lemmy vs Mastodon and the interoperability therein. It's starting to click. (Intellectually I get it, but from a workflow perspective it's taking time, as there are too many ways to go about it. The tryanny of choice, etc..)
So. Likely. Yes.
It comes down to the UX. I use BaconReader for reddit, and since that's going away I might as well find something else. I don't think kbin/lemmy/Mastodon are there yet as far as UI is concerned, but it'll come. (FWIW the twitter app is, for me, not half bad - it's workable - but I'm gradually weaning off it for more obvious reasons).
Yea, I'm hoping some of those developers create apps for Lemmy instead
I believe the Sync developer is making an app for Lemmy. Hoping that pans out as Sync was my main interface to Reddit.
Yes, but only on the condition that HeGetSus doesn't make an appearance.
So far, so good. Keep the bigotry and fascists in check and I'll stick around. I tried to make a community (a page for my band) just now and it just loads and loads when I hit submit. Anyone else had that problem? I turned off all my ad blockers. The issue persists.
edit: I was able to make a community today. Check out !jambands if you're into that kind of thing! :)
edit2: 12/13/23 Lemmy has lots of bigots and incels now.
edit3: 2/14/24 Lemmy now seems to have bigot and incels mods running many "front page" communities.
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.
I will stay, just have to figure out more how it actually works.
Yes, after Boost for reddit stops working.
It's a little up in the air for me at the moment. I just discovered that all of our upvotes and downvotes aren't private. It's not what I'm used to at Reddit.
I can see pros and cons to this, so it will be an interesting change for sure.
Well, I'm glad to be informed of this early in my Lemmy career. Time to make an alt!
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.
Once my reddit app stops working I won't have a choice but to find a new home. Subreddits are burning in ways that can't be easily reversed and will take years to naturally grow back.
As long as I can find news and memes, I will stay here.
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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 (?)
I was already on lemmy dammit
These poor lemmy users who aren't on reddit. Suddenly a herd of raging ex-redditors come storming into their otherwise quiet community and take shit over. :)
Maybe a stupid question but is there any app for Lemmy? In my mobile browser it is somehow clumsy
There's quite a few in development, but not a whole lot out of the private testing phase.
Although this is a kbin thread, it covers most or all of the existing or upcoming Lemmy apps:
Is there any way to do actual Polls with Lemmy?
Is there a way to access lemmy on mobile?
try Connect
been using voyager (wefwef)
Yes, even more likely if I find a good iOS app for Lemmy.
Mlem/Memmy app. Very early stages of development, but looking really promosing. I have both, can't decide which one will end up being the daily driver yet. But how cool would it be if Apollo was ported over?
I plan on it if more people come over and the communities grow. So far I have been checking the sub-Reddits I am subscribed to for info about them migrating to Lemmy
I've switched to Kbin.
- Posted from Gerboa on mobile because Kbin doesn't have an app yet ...
Jerboa, right?
Yes, especially after the 30th. Right now im still browsing it every so often mostly because my sync app still works and I just really like the app... But after the 30th i'm mostly done with reddit.
Absolutely. I'm on a few instances with different moods/themes, and I toggle between them depending on what I am interested in at the moment (sciences, programming and tech, ...).
It has already entirely replaced Reddit for me. It's much nicer here.
Do you recommend a specific lemmy for programming or tech?
I'd also like to know, there are some magazines popping up on KBin, but they are mostly just 1 person posting news and/or old reddit posts.
