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Does everybody thinks that this migration is gonna change peoples mind about not using Reddit anymore ? Here's hoping.

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[–] uhauljoe 11 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I don't think so.

Personally, I'm dedicated to transitioning to Lemmy. I was an Apollo user and it's disgusting how dirty they did Christian Selig. I will still use reddit for niche subs, cross posting to lemmy to get communities going, and for the odd question that I google now and again. There are still years and years of valuable content on reddit.

But while some people find it exciting to be part of a growing community, helping build something, other people are just here to lurk and consume the content provided. Those people are too impatient to wait for Lemmy to gain more traction, users, and content.

I think a lot of people made accounts or will make them, will check it here and there but ultimately get bored of the lack of content (compared to reddit) or give up when they can't figure out the federated/decentralized thing.

There are still some things that confuse me, but I'm LOVING lemmy. I love finding more of my subs that have migrated, or creating them and finding new content to add to them.

Reddit used to be a hobby, something fun, rabbit holes to dive into. Then at some point I stopped actively searching for cool niche subs and just kept scrolling the same front page. It had its uses but it was doomscrolling.

With Lemmy I'm like excited to post content again, which I never really did, and I'm finding myself commenting a lot more. I think I'll end up switching from Reddit permanently.