Yes. I’ve been been on lemmy.world and kbin.social for the past week and the growth and content maturation is good enough for me now, and improving fast.
I deleted my Reddit account and all my post history yesterday.
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
That is the goal, yes. One thing I've noticed is that the relative scarcity of posts here, especially news, has me frequenting a lot of news sites directly. Which I think is a good thing. Of course, one can't expect Lemmy to rival Reddit's content and engagement from the get go. We'll see where the platform is headed in the future.
Hell yeah I'm stayin. Especially after reddit continued to dig in their heels
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.
I intend to BUT ultimately the decision is on the mayority's preference
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 (?)
First comment here, but yes. Reddit has shown zero interesting in responding to community feedback about the API changes and u/spez is a complete waste of oxygen.
Yes, it's really clean. Once it grows the debugging will help smooth things out.
Yes!
Time will tell. Digg was great until it wasn't. Reddit killing my favorite app of 10+ years can fuck off (long live Bacon Reader). Lemmy by design is fragmented which is great, but will introduce momentum problems. Really it's going to come done to; Is their a Lemmy app and server that I can encapsulate most of my interests into and be able to ignore the rest?
When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I'm staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.
I certainly hope so. While I can't look into the future, I haven't been feeling the need to return to reddit at all, and I have hopes for Lemmy - if it continues to grow without devolving into some bot-infested, right-wing mess or something.
For now though, I'm definitely hopeful. The announcement of the Sync and Slide apps gives me a positive outlook here!
Too late, my antenna dropped and my ears grew. I'm a lemmie now.
I don't need Reddit.
I don't need Lemmy either, but I like it.
This is my new home 😁
It's a no-brainer. I was an early addict of Usenet, and never found the same utility and community when everyone left for the bright shiny corporate sites (and usenet became harder and harder to access since it wasn't making any billionaires richer.) The Fediverse is what is needed to take the internet back. I just feel bad that it took me so long to start. I joined Mastodon in January and am a thousand times more active there than I ever was at the birdsite, because my account is growing and morphing to fit MY needs. The same will happen with Lemmy and Kbin, and I hope with peertube and all the others. I keep saying it...the Fediverse is what we should have been doing all along, rather than tolerating the billionaires because it was "convenient".
Yes
Yes! I also can't wait for Sync!
I actually much prefer lemmy. But unlike most, I'd much prefer it not become a reddit clone. Once there is too many people it becomes a search engine, a long line of puns and hot takes. Just my 2 cents. I prefer engaging discussion over content. The content is just there to get the ball rolling. Either way, I'm perfectly happy with lemmy in whatever it evolves into and I'm glad I'm here with everyone, and I'm really enjoying this early stage. I have always much preferred small communities in my own life. This is the only sm I use rn.
Also unlike most I actually really enjoy the home brew vibe. Having to struggle and work around bugs and stuff is kinda fun. Lol
This is my first comment on here, and it definitely won't be my last. I'm not looking back.
I don’t think so, for the moment at least.
Why? Because it’s me! Hi! I’m the lazy casual Reddit user you guys have mentioned a couple of times!
I have basically only come here because I smell blood in the water, and I’m really annoyed by some of my favorite subs still being privated. But at the same time I recognize that what that sack of human waste at the head of Reddit is doing rn is enforcing a dictatorship.
This site for now is, at least compared to many other mainstream social networks, very rough and unintuitive. And this really doesn’t help to grow the number of potential users, considering the overwhelming majority of people using social network nowadays is 10 times even more casual than I am
But, there’s a butt. This change from Reddit to the Fediverse is necessary. Maybe not now or in six months, but I can already see myself relieved in the future because I had already started dipping my toes in other sites.
Also while I’m not an expert I recognize the technical advantages offered by the Fediverse compared to Reddit, all thanks to a devoted and positive community.
Time will tell, but for now I’ll openly admit to play both sides
Yes
Short term, definitely. Long term, how the hell should I know.
I think so. It was hard to leave reddit at first, I didn't realize how hooked into that ecosystem I was. Now that there are more people interacting with Lemmy and more communities popping up, I think I'll continue to stick around. Lemmy does seem to be turning the corner from reddit bashing into its own environment, which is refreshing.
Lemmy seems promising, its rough around the edges and needs work, but so was Digg when I first joined and the same with Reddit. It seems like the Lemmy developers and the iOS developers (I'm sure the same with Android, but I only have iOS devices) are working hard on both bug fixes and quality of life updates, which is encouraging.
I do not have much of a choice in this. No matter how good or bad Lemmy is, Reddit is not an option anymore for me: I do not want my data to get monetized. I should own the comments I write, not them. Also, the recent events really showed that Reddit administration board cannot be trusted: continuing to use Reddit would be silently supporting their behavior, which I just can't.
So far I like what I'm seeing in Lemmy. Yes, it's not as good as Reddit used to be, but I am sure that with time it will be similar to what I was experiencing. And I'm enjoying it already.
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.
Yes.
I came here as a Reddit alternative and like it much better. It reminds me of why I used to enjoy being on the internet before everything was owned by corporations trying to make money. A lot of people are comparing it to old forums, but it is also much more connected and easier to navigate than the forums of past internet days.
yup. but wee need more feature like real polls.
I'm not minding it. The instance (or app itself) seems slow, but overall okay. I'm just hoping the content shifts away from talking about how bad Reddit is and more about providing its own content.
Yes.
Most likely. All we need is more active users generating content and I'll be quite happy!
Slick interface. Text-heavy. OG Redditors.
I’ll stay for sure if it picks up.
I feel so let down by Reddit. I had two accounts with a combined Karma of 800k. I only posted original content. I posted thousands of comments. Reddit was an ingrained part of my daily life for years.
Then both accounts were permanently suspended immediately after I called out a bot phishing scam. Two appeals rejected. I was gutted. Still am.
Reddit is hedging everything on AI / LLM populating the entire site. Who needs human content creators anymore?
So, yeah. If Lemmy grows, I’ll be arguing, trolling, and jesting here for many years to come.
Yes
Absolutely. I will never use Reddit again out of principle.
I'm uncertain.
I won't be returning to Reddit, but I'm not sure about staying here either currently.
A fair portion of the communities I followed on Reddit were rather niche, so it might be a bit before similar communities pop up here. I'm also not completely sold on the fediverse concept, and there's a strong focus on Reddit hate here rather than actual new content.
On the other hand, I think it has a lot of promise, and the 3rd party app I used for Reddit is also coming here, so I think it has a lot of potential. I just hope Lemmy comes into its own eventually.
Staying. Spez has my explicit invitation to suckle my boomer taint.
Yes, that's the plan. Regardless of the Reddit drama Lemmy started to grow on me.
With the dumpster fire that is Twitter, and now Reddit, more than ever there's a need for decentralization. At this point, it's not a matter of if, but when a company will turn on itself to make a profit. What made Reddit Reddit, are the communities. While Reddit actually hosts the service, that's pretty much the only contribution to its existence I've seen. I used the webpage when on a PC, but I refused to use the official app. I've decided to bite the bullet and delete my Reddit accounts, because that's the only real way to make a statement, not blacking out subreddits for a few days. They don't care about that. It's just a drop in the ocean. But deleting (user) accounts, that's sending out a clear message. Lemmy continuing to grow and attract content creators, moderators, and posters will make it more vibrant and usefull. So I'm personally here to stay.
Where would I go?
Lemmy and Jerboa have really improved so much these last few days. I've already deleted my main account on reddit and I just use my secondary one to try and spread the word about lemmy and kbin.
Yes. Even if it dies, I'm done with Reddit.
I'm happy to give it a chance. I can't imagine Reddit will get better when they IPO
I want to, but I think the content still needs some help
Yes
Yes, yes I think I will.
I'm staying. I haven't liked reddit for a while now.
I'm here and on Kbin now. I have a few sales things I'm wrapping up on Reddit but that's it.
I also moved my Relay for Reddit into my general apps and put Jerboa, and the Lemmy Kbin wpa on my desktop next to it.
Only if I can search it somehow. Google doesn't seem to index it.
Just tried it for a few hours. Seems good, similar to reddit. But yeah, the fediverse part is confusing.
Some issues I have so far are, (1) when searching for communities, it seems that they are fragmented throughout the fediverse, whereas in reddit they are in one place. which makes it kinda odd and well (2) it's kinda small-knit. which I guess is good but feels odd coming from a large site to a small one.
Still, I'm gonna give it a try. to me its something new but similar :)
Maybe if they bring actual polls. I feel cheated after having clicked on a poll that was not, in fact, a poll
Yes, and I am hoping to check out and even host a number of other fediverse projects over the next several months.
Absolutely. It’s a matter of principle, and Lemmy is getting better every day. I uninstalled Apollo and won’t be back.
Yup. Just need 2FA.
Right now lemmy and like are still a bit rough since the spike coming from those leaving reddit happened so fast.
However, the development it picking up fast, since its a open source project, so in the coming weeks we'll see many new features, and see the platform improve really fast.
So I think it'll stick with it for a while, because it'll get better
I've been a loooooong time reddit user (was using it in parallel with digg). Had an account at some point but deleted it with the Pao drama. Now I made an account on lemmy.world :D. So happy to finally be active again :)
Yup
Yes, I don't see why not. Seems to be going pretty well. I expect to eventually fully tune out of reddit same as I did Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. I've long enjoyed somewhat smaller discussion sites pre and after reddit, such as Slashdot, kuro5hin, Hacker News and so forth.
I'm here to stay even at this level of users. My hope is that the user base grows and the vibe stays the same.
I hope to! I was skeptical at first that enough momentum could build to turn this into a viable Reddit alternative, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised so far
Yes
Duh, why is this even a question? It's got some growing pains, but the Lemmyverse promises to be resilient to corporate capture in a way Reddit never could be
I like it, feels like a new frontier where we have the chance to build new and better.
Fuck u/spez, but weirdly enough I'm grateful to him because I wouldn't have found out about the Fediverse otherwise.
Yes, absolutely. It vaguely reminds me of Usenet and I'm not happy with Reddit at this point. I don't see that changing
I hope to. This gives the same vibes and works far better than the Reddit app and website.
yes
All we need is enough people to feel alive. We shouldn't need an entire country's worth of a crowd in order to feel fulfilled.
100% yes.. It just doesn't feel right to me that Reddit is a platform entirely created by the community, yet the ones getting rich are a select few.
In essence, people make content and some guy who probably doesn´t even use reddit that much gets to buy a new house/car/boat. No thank you.
For sure. I even started my own instance for some friends and myself. I like it a lot.
Federation doesn't work well tho. We are only seeing a fraction of the posts and comments from remote communities. Also, posts and comments made to remote communities doesn't seem to get through. These are the main issues I have with it right now.
Yes
Yes I really like this. I've been signing on every night learning how it works. The atmosphere is better, better content, I've been signing on Reddit to watch it burn, I thought I'd miss it and I don't- haven't even gone on today actually
Can't wait to see what /justunsubbed is bitching about lol
I'm not going to Reddit for sure!
Yes!
(P.S. hope they add a poll system)
I'll stick around. Not going back to reddit, but I hope Lemmy grows and becomes more active.
Already abandoned that site for good. Spez can choke on a good D and die, fuck him.
Yea, it's pretty nice. I like it a lot more than Reddit, has better vibes.
Yep
Yes. Only thing I found really useful on Reddit was consolidated news. Nearly everything else was a time waster. I refuse to use their mobile app so I’m not going anywhere. I’ve been saving so much time not mindlessly scrolling on Reddit.
I will stay here and will try to help the fediverse grow.
Up until now I was using the official reddit app and had no problem. In the last year the ads have become really annoying and was trying 3rd party apps, but now this won't be possible.
Will I go back to it? Well, it's a fact that googling (something + reddit) has saved me numerous times so, yeah I will take advantage of it I guess, but I don't want to contribute to the slightest to it.
Reddit is just not trustworthy anymore. The only way I will be actively using it is if it becomes federated.
To be determined:
Waiting for more polished mobile apps, and have to see if this initial swell of users will keep the momentum.
Definitely yes, it's like the California gold rush right now and I love to see this place evolve over time
Yes!
Lemmy is the lost spirit of early 2010s Reddit I had been mourning for some time even before all the controversy
I'll definitely be sticking around to see what happens with Lemmy. I may end up using kbin primarily but am very much interested in subscribing to Lenny communities across instances. It's been tremendous fun learning about the Fediverse and ActivityPub, and I also think that decentralization is a good response to what we have all witnessed with centralized social media
I'm trying to but honestly its got so many problems.
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I often see random post appear on top because I'm guessing its a web socket connection and a recently post top decks due to the algorithm. It sometimes causes me to click on the wrong post.
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On the topic of wrong posts I often click on a post and get a different post than the one selected as though there is conflicting Id's.
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The back button is stopped by a dirty wisywig but it does not trigger an alert for loss of information so its effectively just disabled if your abandoning the post.
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The votes seems to randomly fluctuate.
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having to confirm a reply as read is super annoying.
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When I come to lemmy I have to change to top day or something otherwise I see the same posts over and over and there seems to be no way to set a different default
I will say that I am a software developer and happy to help fix some of these issues. At the moment because of federation I am unsure where to contribute but I definitely see no path forward for lemmy while these issues persist.
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Only time I'm going on Reddit is to steal my old stuff to post here. I like this federated concept better
Yes, absolutely. The community over here is 110% better than reddit ever was.
Absolutely
I'm already committed dude, I have made the switch. I haven't even opened rif (except by accident lol) since the subs went dark. That place was starting to turn into a fascist shitshow anyway.
yeah, this place is pretty hip and cool
Of course I will. If the community stays as lively and healthy as now I have no reason to leave. Personally I believe Lemmy can only get better.
Time will tell, I like it atm.
Been looking for a viable alternative to reddit for a long time!
Yes.
Lemmy currently requires a lot of work. By sticking around and providing feedback and support, we all can hopefully iron out those kinks and make it mainstream-ready.
Yes.
Yes, definitely.
I’m actually really enjoying watching it grow, I joined on another account at under 10k then on this account (which is now my main) at around 100k, now it’s over 1m. I know that number is slightly inflated since there’s bots and multiple accounts for some users but still, my point still stands
yes
Staying? I just spent the last WEEK spending all day every day on deep diving the fediverse.
Yes. I am staying 😁
Yes! Done with Reddit
I do plan on staying here mostly. Aaron would be ashamed of how far reddit has fallen. Some subs I cannot live without like /r/CFB which means I will use reddit from time to time unfortunately
I don't think lemmy is ready for primetime. There are many defaults on this that make it seem like a clunky early adopter build of an application.
I'm not planning on leaving... but i'm still struggling to get the same use case here as reddit provides.
I've used my lemmy.ml account periodically since 2020, so... yes. And my interaction has only increased since the Reddit issues.
I'm loving Lemmy and planning to stay, it's been cool seeing so many new communities pop up and grow every day.
I don't need another social media site that is trying to sell my data, feed me endless ads, AND has a dictator at the helm.
I'm not deleting my Reddit account, and I won't stop using Reddit entirely, but I'm done using Reddit multiple times a week and will mostly browse occasionally or through search results from Google.
I was deeply sad when all this began and Sync for Reddit was being shutdown, but Lemmy legit feels just like Reddit only better!
Plus, with Sync for Lemmy in development I couldn't be happier!!! Just needs to grow with more users and activity for those more niche communities to develop. But I'm all in for the decentralized future!
yes. reddit was a little bit of a bad habit for me, lemmy is a reddit-like fix where i’m more comfortable contributing rather than lurking.
Yes
It seems like more content is getting uploaded daily. As long as the communities I enjoy interacting with post on lemmy, I have no reason to look for my content elsewhere
At this rate I plan on staying on Lemmy for the time being. Reddit seems like it will fail soon so I should try an alternative. I was surprised to see no forums about Digimon on Lemmy so I had to create one, along with other forums such as Disgaea, Skuntank, sunflowers, skunks, whales, and vultures.
It's been alright so far, but going from being a constant lurker to starting to engage has been tough. Lot of the communities that I used to frequent have yet to migrate over and it is hard not having that especially for niche communities. I don't expect this to be an issue in the long run but that's the biggest factor rn.
Here to stay. Lemmy feels like old Reddit, back in the early days, after Digg 2.0 imploded for acting like... current Reddit. Digg 2.0 was actually less brazen and more polite than the crap Spez has been pulling. It's mind boggling that's he's learned so little over the years.
First comment here! Seeing the rapid growth of Lemmy/KBin/Fediverse in general gives me a lot of hope for this site. I hope the momentum continues and I definitely plan on sticking around.
Yes
Yes. People are friendly here.
Too new to rate, but I have to say that I am optimistic. I was early on Digg, early on Reddit and in both cases, had great runs. Fingers crossed - but going to give it the college try.
Absolutely, this is my new home.
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.
I'll stay, I'm convinced this will help feddie communities, including also kbin or Mastodon as an example, to expand. I just see the problem of: where did my community go? do I need to register into 5 services? Something that many people are arguing and agreeing on and will soon have a decentralized nice federated community, no matter the name or the server you use (long-term for exodus from Reddit and others). I won't blame on this, is difficult to take these decisions in such a short time, days.
Yes, after Boost for reddit stops working.
YES
If Reddit fixed 100% of their issues today, probably not. There isn't anything Lemmy does significantly better than Reddit. In the real world, yes I think I'm here to stay assuming Lemmy continues to improve.
Yes, obviously.
Yes! I’ve been enjoying it so far and it seems to be growing nicely. I just have to get out of my lurker habit and post more.
I like the general community vibes here, hope to see some of my specialized subs get some traction too! Gonna do my part!
Yeah I'll be staying, hoping for jerboa to improve or sync to release so I can have a UI that's a bit more encompassing (searching, hiding comment chains, share image posts as an image instead of a link, internal gif/ video playing etc). Hopefully some more communities pop up since I'm too lazy to moderate but missing a few of my favorite communities still or at least couldn't find them (fantasy books, Malazan, weed community, bento/meal prep, some science and engineering communities, etc)
Yes!
Yeah! Fills my reddit void
YES! Definitely staying. I can’t go back to Reddit after all of this.
I like it here and I don't like it anywhere else.
Yes
Yeah!
Depends.
The stuff I usually go to reddit for has been popping up here, but the communities are still so small and so quite that it doesn't fill the void. There is also a lot of double posting in feeds because, while decentralization is very cool, multiple instances running the same or very similar spaces lead to a lot of community fragmentation - and if you want to stay part of the communities you have to kinda follow all of them and .. Suddenly you have the same post from 3 different communities because well, the poster also realize that the community is fragmented.
Also just a bunch of things are just extremely user unfriendly for seemingly no reason. Trying to subscribe or whatever to certain spaces or follow certain spheres or topics is just needlessly obtuse. Links not defaulting to opening a new tab is for sure a choice.
We'll see, if the spaces grow and become more lively and accessing the content I want becomes just a bit more straight forward, then yes, I'll stick around, but right now... eh, I'll check in but we'll see.
Yes
Yes
That's the plan. I'm strongly invested in leaving Reddit for good.
I do have some concerns regarding the scalability of the Lemmy as a whole though. Seems like sync issues are a frequent problem.
No twitter for months, been using mastodon, killing reddit for lemmy has been just as easy.
If it gets better ( and I hope it does). I cannot tolerate using reddit's official app, but my experience on lemmy has been buggy and slow so far. Also my favorite subreddit has no sign of migrating yet.
Lemmy needs a polling tool... I'm staying regardless 😏
I don't know. The front page is confusing. When I press "all" and "hot" threads with 10 upvotes show up at the top. When I press "top of a day" I get some better posts, but soon new posts with 0 upvotes appear above them. It's all confusing and honestly, it's a mess. When I sort comments by top, I get comments with 0 upvotes at the top.
No kind of sorting seems to be doing what I want it to do.I see no reason not to. I feel a little stuck to Reddit for some subreddits because of the years of content and answers. The SkyrimMods subreddit, for example, has so much information on old mods and fixes to problems that are extremely hard to find otherwise.
Overall though, I think I’ll spend more and more time on Lemmy / Kbin (still undecided on which I like better overall, but that’s the fun, right?) than I will on Reddit.
Yup! Although there are clearly growing pains, the general vibe and tone of comments feels like the friendly and candid environment I previously liked in a lot of smaller subreddits. The kind where no one is expecting any kind of monetary return for an opinion. It's all intangible worthless internet points to be handed around, so there's not much to be had in ulterior motives.
Yes 100%
Yes. I am liking the experience so far and it has gotten me interested in the rest of the fediverse. There are a few user experience kinks that I think need working out and a few bugs I have run into, but I think they will be fixed with time and they are not deal breakers for me.
yes
Gonna be using both, until the amount of content starts to be similar and then switch here permanently
Yes, specially if the migration keeps up.
I'm platform agnostic and will use whatever works best, is cross compatible, ethical, and open source.
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).
Yes.
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.
Leaving Reddit for sure. Lemmy is top candidate right now.
Lemmy does not have ads and pop ups to force you download an app. So big yes for
I like the idea of the fediverse but seemed confusing when I tried looking into mastadon (maybe cause I don't use Twitter so I don't get the concept). Lemmy just feels right and intuitive
I'd like to inform you that you will now be the recipients of most of my shitposting. Sorry!
Yes
Yes.
It will for sure change once more people join, but this whole fediverse idea... it feels like the next evolution of social media. I think almost all of us knew deep down something bad was happening with reddit / our social media use. Federated, community-managed social media seems to be a logical next step.
I’ve given up on Reddit. I’m here to stay
Yes
The concept is showing lots of promise. There is great content being created, and an active community. I was on the fence a few weeks ago, but now I am bought in, to the fediverse. Lemmy looks like the top platform, though I still like kbin's ui approach. Overall I see that lemmy is ahead in content and has my support.
For me it depends. I've deleted my Reddit account entirely. Gone with the wind! And I've registered a Lemmy account. Then I realized how much more life time I've have without Reddit. Later I've realized I miss some specialized subs for retro gaming here. This is a much bigger community on Reddit. But Lemmy is growing and I hope what I'm missing finds its way to the Fediverse soon.
Yes
Absolutely, federated social media is clearly the way of the future. For years before reddit forums were hosted and support pretty much solely from it's users, and it's like that again. I don't think big corps should have the huge hands in tech that they have had, and I think this is the answer.
Yes, Absolutely! I also plan on using shreddit once I can't use infinity anymore.
YES.
Yes
Absolutely yes, but hope there will be some decent mobile apps for this as well.
If reddit can save itself, it's likely I'll stay on reddit, but if they do indeed kill Boost, I'll probably stay here. I just need more people to move over to Lemmy because reddit does have that power of so many people being there that there's a community with a ton of content on it. Something as niche as retrogamerepair has active people you can talk to on reddit, and that's a big thing that Lemmy will need to get
Its hilarious that half the time people mean to write "Lemmy", their auto correct makes it into "Lenny". Cannot stop imaging the Lenny-dude everyone are coming to see..
Hopefully. What if the reddit CEO does a 180 and goes back on his position? I'm afraid that a lot of people will flood back into the site. Problem is, unless people leave organically and of their own will with the intention to use this site because it's better than reddit, nothing will change.
It's important to support alternatives like Lemmy.world because even if the reddit API is free again, now that reddit is going public, expect a lot of restrictions on content. reddit will die like Tumblr did (avid ex-Tumblr user here, before they effed it up, BTW are we allowed to swear freely here?). And like Digg before it. I'd rather be cut reddit out of my life ASAP so I'm praying a ton of communities migrate here... this is such a simple platform to use
Yeah i will stay :)
As I used reddit exclusively through Apollo, I think I will completely migrate to Lemmy. My only gripe is the subpar webapp (at least for me it gets stuck a lot)
Definitely! Immediately before switching to Lemmy I found myself scrolling looking for something interesting, meanwhile everything on Lemmy is fresh and exciting. Loving it so far!
Yes I'd be an idiot to go back to a closed system under corporate control. Its not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last. We are seeing the web closing up now and if we don't vote with our choices and content we will only be left with corporate walled silos with paid subscriptions to read, ads to watch, tracking on everything.... Skip and few steps and we and up with black mirror.
The narrative needs to be democratic. Same thing with privacy , if youbcant have a private conversation you can't bring about change. I hope you'll all stay too
Yes, there's already a million users on lemmy.world and plenty of content. The only thing is Lemmy isn't supposed to be one giant instance like lemmy.world, but spread out. Idk if that matters but if it does how would we keep things connected / what would the hierarchy of servers look like if lemmy.world were at the top?
I’m liking it, especially with this WefWef web app thing for iOS. Staying because I’m not going back to Reddit
Yesss
Repeat after me:
Overwrite. Your. Reddit. History.
Especially if you've shared personal information. Deleting your account does NOT delete your history. Deleting does NOT delete your content from reddit's servers. Your old content is $$$ for reddit. There are free tools that can easily help you do this.
I hope to. It's between this and my kbin account. I made an account on one of each before I realized they were interchangeable and you could see and interact with the one from the other.
In 2018 I registered for an instance running diaspora*. At the time it felt early but federation was certainly the future. I deleted all socials except Reddit. Now with reddit doing its thing and the influx of new users I feel like federation is a better option. I think I'll delete my reddit account fairly soon. However I might not use lemmy or kbin often as it's also a good time to start easing of social media all together
yes
Yes
It just doesn't seem as busy or to have as much content yet, once it becomes more active I can see myself staying
Yes
Here to stay and do my part to help steer the net away from megacorp monopolization of the web.
Yes I defiantly will.
Yes
Yes
Definitely, I never felt the need to look at reddit since coming to lemmy
Yes
I will stay, just have to figure out more how it actually works.
YEAH love the community interactions here!
Maybe, if the people stay but it's unlikely I'll go back to reddit
Absolutely, I'm not going back to Reddit after the shit they pulled.
Yes
Yes
Heard about Lemmy maybe in 2019 (when it launched?) when I was looking for FOSS alternatives to everything I use, including Reddit. Never got around to trying it, but this looks good so far. Stripped of the Reddit nonsense. The main informational subs I use have started migrating the Reddit wikis. I was planning on leaving Reddit anyway when it IPO'd. This is the first step.
Yes
I’ve found my new home. I’m here to stay 😊
There were aggregators before Reddit, there will be aggregators afterwards. I've been using systems with similar philosophies since I was introduced to Usenet 40+ years ago. I, and the world, are always moving forwards, and never back.
Absolutely. I intend to keep browsing on here. Found a few nice places to wander around on and find cool stuff.
Yes, loving the variety as well as the freedom of using different instances! I'm a huge fan of decentralized projects in general!
Can't say for certain, but I'm never going back to reddit unless they repeal their new API changes.
I dunno. I've been on Reddit for 16 years. I really really really like the RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) style of expanding images and doom scrolling. It's my morning binge.
Stay? Where would I go? Reddit? The answer is yes, I'm here to stay
Yes.
Yes
Yes. There is a more peaceful vibe here.
Absolutely sticking around. Lemmy has basically completely replaced reddit for me. Once I got used to how instances and federation works it feels like how reddit was, especially like the smaller subreddits that were much tighter knit communities than the major subs.
I'm planning to stay and shift my Reddit activity to here. Even if that means rebuilding my network of communities from scratch.
Yes, I,m finding Lemmy quite intuitive for now although it is far from optimised. I have to say it was a smooth transition from reddit and felt like a band aid ripped off on an instant, hurt for a second but than it´s all good.
I'm on the fence right now. I understand the plus of federation is options, however the fracturing of servers and communities might be too much of a hurdle. I like reddit for the small communities it creates, but either those users finding lemmy too complicated or confusing might prevent those communities from reaching a usable point.
I don't know about Lemmy specifically, but I'm definitely all in on decentralized, ActivityPub-based social media.
Feel like we're about to see an explosion in ActivityPub interfaces, and if that happens, it's probably inevitable someone makes a UX novel or innovative enough to pull me away from Lemmy or some other 1:1 reddit clone.
Yes!
Yes
Once Boost quits working it'll be Lemmy full time.
Yes absolutely p
I like this place, and could willingly waste my time in it! --William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Yes
I have gone back to reddit in the past 24-48 hrs a few times to check up on things, something feels off. I know I know there's things going down, but it also just seems different. The pictures of jon oliver, etc. Ive been getting lemmy posts through my mastadon for the last few days since this started, and decided to finally make a full account here because I wasn't really getting the UI and i am super happy to see activity! gonna stick around <3
Yes.
I've already deleted the reddit app off my phone, and changed my browser home page to lemmy from reddit.
Yes
Hell yeah. Got nothing to come back to anyway, so I'll stay here.
Yes, definitely!
Yes. I imagine old.reddit.com will not last much longer (although we've been saying that for years...).
Yes!
Already migrated to mastodon, so this was the next step, unfortunately forced on me by reddit's actions
yes
Yes.
Yes, but only on the condition that HeGetSus doesn't make an appearance.
Yup
Please add community groups (multireddits), so I can manage big collections of community. For now, the main timeline is a mess.
Yes even thinking about a mastodon account too.
