[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

I’m fucking stoked to see so many people like me (who are pissed at how corporations fuck their own product just to make more money) migrate over here. For once I feel like I actually have a way to “protest” corporations and their greed. I know the vast majority of Reddit users didn’t care, but I know many of us are here to break free from all of that tomfoolery. Just happy to be apart of it. Don’t know how long it will last, but I’m hoping that it does.

I just want this place to be a new home. Don’t care what others do as long as enough people are making content here.

This feels much more like what the internet should be. Not the realm of giant advertising companies.

🤷‍♂️... Let's just make ourselves a comfortable place here.

I gotta say, the percentage of meta posts here about reddit/Lemmy compared to any other content is really hurting its chances.

Even during the protests, it felt like the percentage of posts on reddit about reddit was maybe 50%. Here it's 75% or more. We need more normal content on the front of /all, or else this entire site becomes c/lemmycirclejerk or something. I'm hoping as the migration completes we return to more typical content.

I could not care either way. I came here to try a new site, but the constant barrage of meta-reddit posts is kind of ruining it.

Like, yeah, I get it. I had a lot of communities that I'm going to miss, too. But the way past that is to build new comunities here and forget about the old site, not obsess about its downfall like a clingy ex.

I’ve been waiting forever for a viable Reddit alternative. Reddit started going to shit a very long time ago. Going to non-corporate internet is a breath of fresh air, bugs and all.

For older guys like me, this place is familiar, though it’s been a very, very long time. I’m wondering how younger users are reacting to it.

For me it's not about changing other peoples minds, it's more about creating a viable alternative to reddit for the right people.

Reddit should deal with hateful people and those who are unwilling to challenge themselves to look over the edge.

I have a feeling that many of the people who moved here are the most active ones who also probably used a 3rd party app. This has two effects: Lemmy becomes much more active despite the relatively low amount of users while reddit loses many of its most active members while keeping the lurkers that don't contribute and thus the content quality is going to see a significant drop despite the amount of users remaining about the same.

Lemmy doesn't need hundreds of millions of users to become better platform than reddit. We just need the most active ones. Facebook still exists too and is succeful on paper but who even goes there except my parents? For all I know that place could dissapear tomorrow and I wouldn't notice. It effectively doesn't exist to me already.

I think that people will still stick with Reddit just like there are a lot of people still using Twitter: it feels like their home online.

Here’s a funny thing though, I’ve seen so many posts on Lemmy by people saying they were lurkers on Reddit but they do (intend to) post here.

That can’t be a coincidence 😊I am one of those former lurkers/occasional posters and I’m kinda active here.

(As an aside: I do wonder if the lack of overload due to constant ads can be attributed to that)

I really don’t miss Reddit much now, because the communities on Lemmy are wonderful, and they can only grow more.

I think despite Reddits recent missteps, they are still very entrenched. But the apps that have been developed for Lenmy look very promising and I’m glad that this community seems to have a bright future.

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.

After the way Reddit treated devs & users they lost me, I think many others feel the same. Fediverse community is building nicely, once niche communities/magazines start populating there will be no going back

I genuinely hope so. I think it's a great foundation so far

In my opinion? We just make posts here, and some people might come.

I doubt forcing people onto the website will work, but simply being a better community than reddit might do the trick.

I still intend to use Reddit on the desktop but they have absolutely lost my mobile time… that has now been given to Lemmy & Mastodon.

While the absolute numbers of users that make the switch will probably be small for the foreseeable future, I still think they will make an impact. On Reddit, more than 90% of users never contribute anything. Those will stay there and keep making up the big numbers. But the users that migrate to the fediverse were the ones that posted, commented, moderated and voted on Reddit. If even a small percentage of those leave, it will have a fast greater impact on Reddit than the mere user numbers suggest.

I suspect that it's too early to tell as yet. i've noticed some instability since the lemmy.world update (my home instance) but have noticed similar weirdness on other instances of the same version of lemmy.

I think the fediverse communities are already proving themselves to be of significantly higher quality than reddit. The main difficulty I see is that I don't know if lemmy/kbin provide a good way to maintain cross-instance communities at the moment. I'd like to avoid fragmenting niche communities across them.

reddit has proved to be a jugernaut due to the multiple diasporas it survived in the last decade+ and also because it's much easier for noobs to use and get hooked than the fediverse; so leaving it can only impact you.

Nah its already transitioned from "hope this protest changes their minds so we can go back" to "im excited to see this place replace them completely"

You know, I don't think I mattered that much to Reddit at large. I mostly lurked and occasionally posted.

But I don't need Lemmy to be as sprawling as Reddit.. The people are nice, the topics are interesting, and I'm finding instances that I want to subscribe to every day.

I'm ok with it.. Reddit can burn or just go on without me. I'm happy here.

I personally removed all my comments and deleted my account. It’s a barely a dent for Reddit but at least I won’t be able to go back because that means starting to sub to all the subs I did in the past.

If Lemmy doesn’t make it then I’ll at least know we tried

I don't think so. Look at the cesspool that is Facebook, yet still has billions of users. Personally I don't care if the riff raff stay there. Tens of thousands of deleted comments and thousands of deleted posts, and I just don't care about leaving after 15 years.

A million or more people leaving will not have that big of an effect on its own, no. Since most of the people who left were the people who actually cared though will eventually make a difference. Everything that's wrong with Reddit now is going to get 10 times worse. Popular subs will be overrun with trolls and spam. Mods won't care anymore since no one apparently cared about the work they did. Eventually it will turn into a marketing tool for shitty bands to sell albums, and scammers to rip people off like Myspace did so long ago.

It might take a year or two or even 5 before it is unrecognizable, and that will be now Reddit ends. No one will care by then. It probably won't even make the news

I don't care.

I already like this place, so it's done its job as far as I'm concerned.