I am digging it so far. Not going back to Reddit. Feels a lot more home like for the time being.

I'm loving it, and even trying to contribute a little, even if it's old content, memes, or shitposts/comments.

I really feel like it has the opportunity to grow.

Reddit had to start somewhere to wind up the 'juggernaut' it is today. 15 years ago, Reddit was much different than what you now see.

We have been gifted the opportunity to try again.

Let's make it work.

<3

Even if it isn't here to stay, it doesn't matter. It's here now. Don't get married to a social platform.

Yup same here. A bit smaller but all my “core” subreddits have been duplicated here and like many older redditors my favorite subs were already smaller ones. I actually think it’ll last and I’m not going back. Had they just priced out 3PA maybe but I can’t use that platform after what they let spez say. Rich lying assholes can’t keep getting away with it.

The “tipping point” will happen when a) enough of the popular subreddits get their equivalent here, and b) when people make a point of turning posts into discussions. The experience of making a comment and then…nothing isn’t the sort of think likely to sustain itself.

I was just thinking the same thing. I've been sorting my new and you can refresh every 10 or 12 seconds if you want to and more and more keeps popping up. I'm happy that I'm not seeing many spam post yet. Hopefully the hate community stay away also. Sometimes I think it's better to have them out in the open though, where we can read and see and be reminded what we need to fight against.

Agreed, I'm excited to be part of a growing community, I get excited to scroll before bed and see what new posts/communities have been created. Excited to be here with you all and have no plans of going back to Reddit.

It's not perfect, yes, but it's not malicious in any way, and I thoroughly appreciate that.

Look at mastodon (or try it), after Twitter user exile it grows and shines like an independent big social network. Same will happen to lemmy.

And if original developers will shut down their instances, there will still be a lot of others. And if devs abandon their code, it's opensource, so anybody can continue supporting it. And if not, ActivityPub is a protocol, that's used to exchange data, and new software will be written, like kbin is a working alternative to lemmy.

So, the only thing to worry about is a userbase, we must form it to attract new creative people here.

I have to be honest, currently I don't see myself staying on Lemmy over Reddit.

All I want it browsing communities (subreddits) as easy and accessible as possible. I spend most of my time on my frontpage and r/all, the "it just works" feeling is nothing that Lemmy gives me so far.

Lemmy seems to be a thing for enthusiast. I have my doubt it will stick with the everyday average user.

Same here