• Kwikxilver@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m not from Melbourne, but it’s great to see Melbourne people using their Fedi alternative to Reddit. The Brisbane one is dead!

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      It’ll be interesting to see what happens long term, especially after apps stop working. I am hoping that there will be enough creative people who move to alternative places that some small vibrant communities can form. I don’t want the endless memes and scrolling of Reddit, to me an engaged group of 20 people would be better than 20,000 disengaged scrollers.

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        1 year ago

        I think there will be a lot of confused people trying to access Reddit. We might get a few stragglers but I think word of mouth is better for getting people involved - ie messaging them to come over.

        Quality over quantity, absolutely!

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      @Kwikxilver @StudChud I’m glad too (as a mildly active occasional ex-Redditor, but a very active Fedi user). But sorry Briswegians aren’t doing the necessary work to try Fedi - because it IS work to do so and needs a critical mass of users to stand their ground, and notify people of a genuine move. I’m likely to be more active in here than I ever was on Reddit, and it hasn’t been as annoying as I’d expected in my main Mastodon feed.

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        I feel a bit weird stimulating that community myself, because I don’t live there any more. It was really nice to keep up with what was going on! And some people do post on Lemmy…but not enough.