…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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    I’ll stay. I’ve been looking for a reason to move off reddit for a long time. But there didn’t seem to be a non political based exodus, until now. The TD stuff and voat seemed too political charged and only people of a certain political leaning left. As a result voat and the others were just all about American politics. This feels much more across the board, and so far I’m loving the Lemmy community.

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    I’m here for good. Yes it will take some time to get the lay of the land but, I’m already confident this will become a much better home for me.

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    I’m definitely staying. I know there’s gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.

  • Lemmy is promising, and I’m here to stay. I haven’t nuked my account on Reddit yet. But as others have said, I don’t plan on posting much there anymore. Unfortunately, I’m going to be slightly tethered to wherever the smaller, more niche communities that I like end up.

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    In the short term I’ll probably still be on both, but in the long run I am probably not going to stick around on reddit with the progressively shitty decisions being made.

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    Now that I’ve managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i’m pretty firmly here rather than there. There’s one community I’ll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I’ll manage.

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      Wait… Can you log in here with a mastodon account? I knew you could reply to comments and follow from mastodon, but the experience is pretty clunky.

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    I’ve been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I’ll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.

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      It’s open source so anyone can contribute. With how much feedback everyone is giving, hopefully that means things will continue to get better.

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    I tried lemmy a little, there’s not much content yet. It really depends on if the major power users migrate to lemmy, and on which instance they will migrate. The other problem being that I have yet to find a good mobile app to access the lemmy instances, and I’m too lazy to make my own (though it would be a good side hustle in my opinion).

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      Which OS are you on, android or IOS? On android I’m using Jerboa and it’s honestly quite a nice app for being in the alpha stage, didn’t check to see if it’s on IOS as well

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          Have you been able to get it to work? It crashes on me after about 60 seconds every time I open it. I definitely am feeling the loss of Apollo. Lemmy from the desktop isn’t bad, but the mobile experience is atrocious.

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            I’ve also been having that issue. I ended up adding Lemmy as a web app and it’s a pretty decent experience.

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      I’m doing the same but spending more time here. As more communities move over, my time with reddit will decrease. If I knew the copyright laws better, I’d host a few servers of my favorite shows.

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    I would really like to stay here, but I mostly used reddit on my phone and I’ve found the mobile experience so underwhelming that I have already given up on it. The MLem app crashes on me after ~60 seconds every time I try to use it, too.

    If we could entice the developer of Apollo or RIF or Sync or any of the big platforms to make a really slick app for Lemmy, I might never go back to Reddit.

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      I’m a mobile user as well, I found that (on Android anyway) click the show desktop option in my browser has greatly improved my experience here, all 2 days of it.

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        Try the Jerboa app! I haven’t had any problems with it at all (the Mlem app is for ios). You can use the direct link to the Google Play store (in green below app description) off the lemmy app page linked below. It’s official and everything. I like it much better than the browser version. 😁

        https://join-lemmy.org/apps

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    There wasn’t much to Reddit when it first started. Users built it over the years, including myself. I’d love to see Lemmy do the same, but it’ll take work and commitment. Should it happen to become as large, I do wonder if it will eventually face the same woes as Reddit.

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      It shouldn’t, provided people don’t just pile into single instances and spread themselves out.

      Also Support your local instance provider… ask them if they have a patron or something you can donate to. These servers aren’t cheap to run, and the more people and on an instance, the more money it takes to keep up on the upkeep.

      In the end due to the lack of ads, someone must front the costs, and with no angel investors (I mean I don’t want angel investors all over my fediverse, do you?) it’s gotta be us.

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    I’m not using reddit again unless to lurk some info here and there if it is needed to find information I couldn’t find on lemmy. I won’t participate in the Reddit community anymore even if reddit is backing down. The federated philosophy is just much more alligned with my values. If anything, this whole blackout situation accelerated my innevitable switch.

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      The Fediverse does certainly seem like “social media done right”, even if it may be a bit more tricky to use. It addresses many of the criticisms I’ve had of the mainstream social medias.