I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.
The amount of new content I’m seeing every day should prevent some of that.
I’m seriously shocked at how much Lemmy has blown up over the past couple days.
I’m never going back (Besides to delete my account).
Lemmy reminds me of when I first joined Reddit. There isn’t a constantly changing frontpage (yet). The communities are smaller, but thats a good thing. I actually want to participate.
I’ve drunk the koolaid. I’m considering starting an instance for my personal professional community that I lost since the pandemic.
Mastodon didnt click for me, but neither did twitter even in its hey-day. Just not my cup of tea. But Lemmy does.
I can guarantee I won’t be going back to reddit on mobile if they go ahead with the API changes. I may occasionally use reddit on desktop but 99% of my reddit usage was on mobile via Sync.
Once they get rid of old.reddit (which they inevitably will) that will force my hand and I’ll have to fully move to Lemmy. As luck would have it, the developer of Sync is considering re-purposing it to run on Lemmy which would be perfect for me.
I’m hoping Apollo does the same.
And have them blackmail the Fediverse? I think not!
I’m a Reddit mod and Sync is one of my favorite apps, so that’s exciting news! The ONLY reason I have the official Reddit app on my phone is to stay up to date on my chats when they come in.
For me personally, I’m just here for the ride and I’m curious how things go. On reddit I am only apart of smallish communities and sort by new, so this kinda works even if it’s not a bunch of niche subs with stuff I’m into. On reddit I kinda comment and move on, and maybe here I can break the habit of completely ignoring my inbox 😅
I don’t think the kind of people who are willing to try out some geeky experiment of a social network are totally dependent on Reddit culture.
Exodus from one network to another (or to nowhere) is a thing that’s happened in the past, and if anything, people aren’t willing to go back once they finally take the effort.
Tho I’m guessing lots of people have multiple accounts such as alts for r34, and may keep using those until Reddit finally shuts off all nsfw.
This is still a new frontier of site conglomeration we have no data for. If anything we have contradicting data to previous instances of this occurring because megasites have yet to fail since the rise of Facebook.
There have been MySpace -> FB, Digg -> Reddit, Viber -> WhatsApp, Hotmail -> Gmail, BlackBerry -> iPhone. Neither was 100% conversion, some kept their relevancy in certain markets, but those were quite some waves.
Also, Tumblr completely kicked the bucket with its users dispersing, and while OF managed to save itself by backtracking, people were already migrating to other services.
It may be true that the likes of FB, Twitter and Reddit are too big to fail right now, but people also keep finding alternatives.
So, we’ll see.
There’s still no mainstream competitor for Reddit. I love Lemmy, but the idea that someone with little to no computer expirence is going to find it easy to join and use is laughable.
i still remember my migration from myspace. it felt like i was losing something… with reddit, i’m much more ok with it. a place is just a place and i’ll find another sub with users similar to the ones i interacted with on reddit.
Impossible to say now, but definitely quite a lot of them are not going to be regular users. I still hope/believe the majority will stay though.
At the very least the exposure will put Lemmy on the map
Agreed. For a long time, Reddit was the only social platform I’ve used. But I do not intend to go back. It feels weird.
The community here is much better IMHO
Much less toxic
(I’m not talking about lemmygrad)Yeah, but it’s still relatively small now. We’ll wait and see I guess haha.
and that’s a feature haha
What’s wrong with lemmygrad? I haven’t been there yet so I don’t know.
It’s like r/The_Donald but on the opposite end of the political spectrum
Removed by mod
I describe it better as stethoscope theory.
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Doesn’t matter, this is how these things gain traction. It’s all about trends, especially on social media, baby.
I’m staying; I primarily use Reddit on mobile - once RIF is gone, I’m gone. I am not using the official app even if they pay me.
most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days Not true, most subreddits are going down for as long as it takes for the reddit admins to change their mind (AKA forever)
It depends on a lot of factors, depends on twitter response and what the mods chose to do about it.
Personally, with the twitter shenanigans, I stopped paying for their blue thing and don’t use it unless someone links to it. So my Twitter usage has down to the floor.
I may take the same approach to Reddit. There is still time to change course, but I’ll go where the crowd goes, and keep tabs on alternatives. I will stop paying for premium and don’t open it as much, and hope Lemmy keeps me occupied enough.
nahhh. at least not entirely. i’m focusing on feeling more at home here, it’d feel wrong to go back. over the last months the cracks have started to show in reddit to such a degree, i was trying to escape but couldn’t quite get committed enough, so this is perfect
i’m sure people will dabble in specific subs but still mainly use lemmy as best as they can
I’ll be using both
I feel like most will, it’s kind of confusing getting here in the first place so I’m not entirely convinced this would be capable of migration without becoming far more user friendly. On top of that the big communities still have more discussion over on reddit which is the main draw imo.
I will enjoy the last days that Infinity will be operational, after it gets shuttered I will participate more here. I might go back on reddit every now and then to see what r/okbuddychicanery is up to but that is it.
I have no use for the hot garbage official app otherwise.
If it’s anything like the incoming waves of new Fedi users, 50-65% will go back to their services of choice and never return to the Fediverse.
