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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes

Downvote to disagree, upvote to agree

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won't return to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm quite large, and I'm here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Fills my reddit void

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I will stay as long as they don't do what Reddit did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

LLL

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh dang, it seems I've been living under a rock. What are the tech and drama issues I missed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone told me about https://sub.rehab/, so I just check that every few days to see if my favorites show up there!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s pretty neato. As an aside, can you save comments on lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can! I use Jeroa on Android, and you can tap the bookmark button to save comments, and I think it's a similar process on Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooohhh I'm gonna start using that from now on!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the Voyager PWA is a big part of why I'm staying. Good UX!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on every website known to mankind, a world record I wish to keep, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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 👀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was already on lemmy dammit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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. :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like it here and I don't like it anywhere else.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, this is my new home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will stay, just have to figure out more how it actually works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, after Boost for reddit stops working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm glad to be informed of this early in my Lemmy career. Time to make an alt!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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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