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Im very excited for Lemmy. It seems a bit rough around the edges, but I'm very hopeful for it. That being said... (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by Sputnik34 to c/[email protected]

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Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original "black out" of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy

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[–] lunarshot 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think this is a little overblown. How long were you in reddit for?

A lot of the people coming over here were on reddit for 10-12 years, back in the old days. People are adjusting. A big majority of the new users on Lemmy aren’t interested in going back to reddit at all, nor do we want Lemmy to be reddit.

Reddit has degraded significantly overtime, I think that the API debacle was a massive wake up call. People are still adjusting and there is a very big wave of new users on July 1.

But many of us came over in early June when the changes were first announced. I haven’t been back to Reddit since and I have been a lot happier. I honestly found that my interactions have been very pleasant here, the content has been deeper and more engaging, overall I’m really excited for the future.

Reddit was fun but it’s time has passed for a lot of the users here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

16 year club account here. This reminds me very much of earlier days Reddit. Both after the first migration from Digg in 2007 and the big one in 2010. We're very much in a transition period and there are definitely some growing pains. Some will go back, others will use both for the time being, but I'm becoming increasingly optimistic about this being the way forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

wholeheartedly agree

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It actually is quite nice here