- Die in a few weeks? No
- Get more users than reddit? No
- Be a place in the long run for privacy minded people to escape corporatism and have discussions about any topic? Yes
Let’s be real, most of the growth of Reddit over the last 5 or so years haven’t been the type of folks generating good content and discussion anyway. Even if Lemmy gets like 1% of the userbase this place is going to thrive.
Lemmy has been around for quite a while, well before any of the recent issues. The userbase will probably die back once people get bored and go back to Reddit but some of us will still be here
Hmmm the main question is whether it can get it’s content to show up in search results - this being the main selling point of Reddit and other platforms.
Right now, if you help someone fix an issue it’s pretty much walled in and unavailable.
Mate, it wasn’t just created. This site has been around for a while
It will last. I plan to stay here. I hope everyone else does too. Even if Reddit totally went completely back to how it was, I deleted my account because I don’t like their attitude. I also find the conversation better here. And it’s all open source, which is always my preference.
Same with Twitter, I still use it to follow F1 drivers but that’s it. 99% of my socials is done on Mastodon now as there are more people there who share my interests and it’s open source.
I’m here for the long haul. Reddit was simultaneously the best and worst of the internet, Fediverse seems to be prioritising the best. Now that the apps are starting to hit the public, there’s no going back.
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This place has existed for a lot longer than the last month.
Define die. It’s been slowly growing for the last 3 years. If it goes back to that it’s still good.
Lemmy isn’t going to “die” anytime soon, it has already been around for about 4 years now, it’s not going anywhere…
Maybe activity will significantly slow down, maybe it will go back to being a super small community, but I don’t see it completely getting killed anytime soon.
I’m interested to see the outcome of Reddit, since I’ve been there for almost a decade, but I’m kinda liking the change to lemmy and I definitely don’t support Reddit’s decisions or direction. I think I’m going to stay here and delete my Reddit account once I see the results of the 30th
It was here before the Reddit implosion, will be after. Question is, will you be?
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Glad to hear it. I deleted 2 accounts with over 100k karama, and moved fully to Lemmy. I’m here to stay as well. Reddit is dead to me.
Maybe, but I think that the branding of the “fediverse” + difficulty of use will make it unlikely to surpass reddit or any other alternatives. It will almost certainly still be around for years to come, but I doubt it’ll be much more than niche, despite me hoping for the contrary.
I will say I hate the difficult to use part. it’s no harder than email it’s the same @ symbol and everything. i don’t see people having an issue signing up for yahoo or Gmail. I agree it’s a branding issue but the question is who is branding it that way. seems more like fud to me. is it aa feature rich? no that is valid and will improve in time. once jerboa fixed /c urls I don’t even search for them I just find them organically now.
I don’t think Lemmy would die even if Spez gets fired and they write a public apology for the users inconvenience and step back with the API changes…
I for sure am here to stay!
Honestly even if they fired Huffman, reversed all his bad decisions, and even went open source again it would still never be the same. They would never be able to fix the damage that they’ve done.
That’s what happens when you stab your users in the back like this.
Yeah, it’s not as though the third party app devs would suddenly all be like “oh thank god we can keep working with this company”. The bridges are burned.
Also the person developing Reddit’s mod Toolbox is quitting [source]. That’ll be a huge blow to the ability for Reddit mods to moderate subreddits. Yep they really couldn’t fix this even if they wanted to (they don’t, they think we’re too stupid and that we’ll still keep using Reddit even after every sub is full of spam and “upvote if you agree” posts).
I just need the RIF client made into a LIF client to solidify the permanence of Lemmy.
I just replaced where the icon was on my phone
I just did that with BaconReader. Felt weird.
