Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
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@[email protected] and I are the main devs for lemmy, but we're pretty bad about telling ppl about it... probably the reason we've had slow but steady growth, except for moments like these. It's a huge help if ppl can tell others about it, so we can spend more time coding.
Glad to have you aboard!
Oh wow, it's an honor to meet you - thank you so much for your hard work!
I had already started talking about Lemmy to people as soon as I heard about it myself, and I've seen many discussions about it in the most random comment sections on Reddit continuously popping up within the past day or two, so it's definitely starting to receive more and more attention!
I'm super excited too!
My main fear, is that people will just accept reddit's APIs going down, and go back to reddit anyway. It happened with twitter: a lot of the people who wanted to migrate to mastodon, left after a few days and went back to twitter, even with all of the shitstorms it has.
If reddit is to be believed, I think >80% of their users use the official web app and mobile app. That's shocking considering how bad both are, and shows that a lot of people just accept it because that's where the users are.
Yeah, honestly, that's what the majority of everything does. An insane amount of people freely download malicious apps without any further research or anything, let alone know about open source being a thing.
However, I think certain communities, such as SelfHosted or DataHoarder, would start gradually using Lemmy more due to the nature of their knowledge and awareness about things, which might slowly bring over more people.
I've also seen Lemmy mentioned in a lot of threads about the subreddits shutting down in cooperation as a protest against the Reddit API change. Most are casual users and won't care, and that's unfortunate, but if more and more start spreading awareness and migrating, maybe there'll be a better chance of more of those 80%+ coming here...