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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I'm pretty upset that I didn't discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I'd return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I'm intending to stay here.

Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself (@[email protected]), but there's yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).

[–] GONADS125 1 points 1 year ago

My local sub has been one of the harder ones to lose.. I might make one here eventually. I'm just not convinced there's enough local users here yet.

I've recreated [email protected] here. I was a big community member there under a different username on r/vans. I'm determined to get this community to grow on Lemmy. r/vans is in the top 5% population size-wize on reddit. There's bound to be dozens of us here!