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Anybody who supports free and open source software should fuck outta reddit already. Also if you can use any Linux distribution you shouldn't have any problems getting used to lemmy
I think the main problem with Lemmy (and with Mastodon and many fediverse software too) is discoverability, expecially when the network is so small like in our case.
Lemmy ranking algorithm suck, it never succede in showing me interesting content, unless you opt for a "subscribed only" feed I can't see why follow communities if they never impact how they appear, and discovering new interesting communities is basically impossible, all the ones I follow are from reddit refugees that left a pinned post on Reddit saying "you can find us at this Lemmy instance as c/..."
Keeping the Reddit sub makes sense for one reason. There are tons of thread, and answers. When you search something, Reddit comes among the first options. Fedi hosts have different links, hence it's harder to find.
I didn't think it was going to be so big, but some valuable information has already been lost.
The people that decided to mass change their comments to "We moved to Lemmy due to reddit, etc." Or flat out delete them. Obviously it's their choice, but they did more harm than good with that.
I was recently looking into info about Plex servers on Linux and half of the answers, and mind you they are ranging from months to years old, are filled with "deleted comment" and "moved to Lemmy".
They didn't hurt reddit by doing that, they hurt the community.
Hurting the community Hurts reddit, reddit is literally nothing without the community. No incentive for people to go there if they can't find what they're looking for. We just need more time and people to start populating lemmy with the sort of answers you're looking for. It sucks but it's realistically the only way to make change.