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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good. Also good to see a lot of other subreddits are going dark. Been using Lemmy for just a few hours, and I do not miss Reddit one bit anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy can be a bit slow, especially with remote communities.

But damn, if Reddit's only option is the new UI there's no way I'll ever use it.

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

lemmy.ml is probably slow for you because of the influx of new users you can avoid this by joining a smaller general instance, like sh.itjust.works for example. We have a badass Canadian admin who is keeping our server running extremely smoothly so far. I had major issues when I signed up on lemmy.ml and beehaw, but this instance is running smooth and is nowhere near capacity.

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

same, only a minute on this website and I do not miss reddit one bit.

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

I've made the transition from Reddit to Lemmy so much more seamlessly than I did from Twitter to Mastodon. The percentage of Lemmy users that post high quality content & comments is much higher than Reddit, and a forum-based platform doesn't really need many users to be useful, it just needs users who post content and interact meaningfully with one another.