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Lemmy is still awesome. I am amazed that so many people are still using it (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Makes me happy. It's easy to have a good time here.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I expect a surge of new users the next time Reddit squeezes their users. I expect Reddit to pull a YouTube.

This time, lemmy will be way more capable to handle a surge.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm still hoping we can get some stuff done before that happens. It'll be a mess regardless, but it might help with some of the friction

v0.19 has some much needed features
some better guides and established communities to get help / learn about lemmy
better moderation tools are much needed

At the same time, we already have a lot of good stuff now. All the frontends, mobile apps, and browser extensions just did not exist a few months ago. That alone is very impressive

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

It's a matter of slow growth. If it all happened fast with a huge user base, things would break and stop functioning in more places and more often ... which would drive people away.

It's better to just grow everything slowly and steadily. It's better to be reliable, than the biggest and fastest.

I'm here for the long haul. And we'll probably look back fondly at this time when everything was small and just starting. I'm happy I'm here and I look forward to what is to come.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

some better guides and established communities to get help / learn about lemmy

On that one, thank you for all the work you are doing with [email protected] !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

😊

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

youtube is more secure than reddit.

it's hard to offer that much video content for free

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Free is now kind of debatable for Youtube. Sure, you can do it but the adds...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

FYI: "pulling a YouTube " == forcing ads for web browsers