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I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I gave up Reddit 100% the day the blackout started, so by default… yes. Way more time on Lemmy. As someone that isn’t on these sites that much of the time, I like Lemmy way better since I can actually contribute and have conversations. On Reddit I’m only ever replying to a post once there are a thousand replies already and it’s always buried. Here it’s much easier to chat.

I was thinking about setting up an instance to help me learn some more development stuff and practice my Terraform use, or maybe build an iOS app to learn Swift in my spare time… but I don’t really have spare time, so those things have a 99.9% chance of not happening haha.

[–] mjhrrs 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Second this. Though if Lemmy gets really popular, same thing will happen.

[–] Action_Bastid 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Eternal September comes for all sites eventually. Arguably, we're the first waves of Lemmy's Eternal September for some folks here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I wonder if that’s the case. You can have an instance of “Technology” at each different Lemmy instance, and all the tech instances won’t be the same. If someone feels like they’re being drowned out they can start another subject instance locally on the lemmy instance they are on. This is good because In over a week I haven’t been able to get any of the instances on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world to complete a subscription. This community has been in “Subscribe pending” for over a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe, but maybe not. My prediction is that there will be extremely popular communities that will be basically like the biggest subreddits, but you will also be able to have a nice relaxed conversation in your home instance's smaller comms. So you'll get the best of both worlds!

[–] political_avacado 2 points 2 years ago

I have mainly just been visiting r/ModCoord to see what the moderators are planning. All my regular subreddits have gone dark since the blackout.

[–] Pmmeyourtoaster 1 points 2 years ago

I use terraform every single day. Let me know if I can help with anything if you're standing up an instance. I have considered the same thing.