So now that this is here, we carry on with business as usual?
Whether its here or somewhere else, just don’t want to lose you guys.
YEA YEA YEA YEA YEA YEA YEEEEEEAH! (yeah, I hope so)
Unfortunately, the realist in me is thinking it’s super unlikely to have any appreciable percentage of any given sub migrate over here, other than like super FOSS-enthusiast ones.
Edit: But I’d be very happy to be proven wrong on this.
I’m similarly pessimistic, but also… I want it to happen, so I’m going to engage with it as if it’s going to. I’m sick of the internet being owned by asshole corporations, and I’d love for an alternative to take root. That needs a certain amount of buy-in at the start, and it costs me nothing to try.
It’s worth a try at the very least, and the reddit subs blackout will probably bring a few more people in. But to be realistic it’ll probably be quite hard to start from scratch and to make it back to even a fraction of how big the old aub was.
Being the second-best at everything means we have a very varied userbase, and that’s a death sentence on Lemmy, where you need 900 separate accounts for each instance. Seriously, the user experience here is so awful it’d be almost unbelievable, if this place wasn’t flush with Linux nerds, who spontaneously burst into flame at the idea of usable UX.
Also, the Reddit sub has like 100k subs. This entire website has like 5k max.
Eh most FOSS stuff i’ve used has actually worked out decently despite the mediocre user experience, not saying i’ve not had any dogass experiences with some things though. Imo lemmy isnt too bad but deffo could be better.
It’s gotta clean up fast, which is a lot to ask of any service, never mind a curiousity project.
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Yeah, I’m seeing that now. The worry has been updated to “Huge chunks of this federation may die the moment one guy running a big instance turns out to be a sex pest”.
its at least nice to have a lifeboat if reddit does die
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