With the dumpster fire that is Twitter, and now Reddit, more than ever there's a need for decentralization. At this point, it's not a matter of if, but when a company will turn on itself to make a profit. What made Reddit Reddit, are the communities. While Reddit actually hosts the service, that's pretty much the only contribution to its existence I've seen. I used the webpage when on a PC, but I refused to use the official app. I've decided to bite the bullet and delete my Reddit accounts, because that's the only real way to make a statement, not blacking out subreddits for a few days. They don't care about that. It's just a drop in the ocean. But deleting (user) accounts, that's sending out a clear message. Lemmy continuing to grow and attract content creators, moderators, and posters will make it more vibrant and usefull. So I'm personally here to stay.

Yes I'd be an idiot to go back to a closed system under corporate control. Its not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last. We are seeing the web closing up now and if we don't vote with our choices and content we will only be left with corporate walled silos with paid subscriptions to read, ads to watch, tracking on everything.... Skip and few steps and we and up with black mirror.

The narrative needs to be democratic. Same thing with privacy , if youbcant have a private conversation you can't bring about change. I hope you'll all stay too

I'm on every website known to mankind, a world record I wish to keep, so yes.

I'm a filthy casual, and I think I'll be staying. I might try out Kbin when they get a mobile app, because I'd like to be able to follow mastodon and the fediverse versions of reddit from the same app. But I love it here so far. There are a few subs I really miss (witches vs the patriarchy, some science subs, and a whole bunch of academic and religious subs), but I'm fairly confident that most of those will make their way here eventually. If not en mass, then a trickle of like minded folks.

I will if a few things happen...

A solid app on Android/iOS to rival Boost, RIF, and Apollo.

Growing communities.

I've been around Lemmy for under a week so far. This feels enough like Reddit (more than Kbin) and...seems(?) to have more activity than Kbin so I deleted my account there and decided to stay here. I've already created a bit of content here to grow this place! ❤

I hope I'll see more communities arrive here what are not yet here but in Reddit 👀

the Voyager PWA is a big part of why I'm staying. Good UX!

Yes 100%

Yea, I'm here to stay and help it grow. Reddit even before all this BS just felt...icky sometimes. Lemmy doesn't, and I'm loving the passionate people that are moving here.

Yee

Yes

It depends on the tech. I'm not convinced this form of federation is going to work. There's already a lot of tech issues being exposed and drama unfolding between the instances.

I also don't think it will see wide public adoption due to how segmented the communities are.

I hope these issues are resolved, and I'll try to stick it out here. I quit Twitter and am trying Mastodon and I'll do the same with reddit. I'm not willing to just sit by and watch corporations take over our society.

So far, so good. Keep the bigotry and fascists in check and I'll stick around. I tried to make a community (a page for my band) just now and it just loads and loads when I hit submit. Anyone else had that problem? I turned off all my ad blockers. The issue persists.

edit: I was able to make a community today. Check out !jambands if you're into that kind of thing! :)

edit2: 12/13/23 Lemmy has lots of bigots and incels now.

edit3: 2/14/24 Lemmy now seems to have bigot and incels mods running many "front page" communities.

I will stay if you all stay. The site we want is the one with the people. I got sick of talking to bots and seeing ads disguised as social commentary. I would love to have a place to learn and socialize without constantly being bought and sold.

wefwef app is amazing so I am staying here

Absolutely! This place is fantastic!

Almost certainly. I just signed up to pay $5/mo through Patreon for .worlds. I'm happy to pay and not SEE ANY GD!#)$$U@) ADVERTISING!! I mean that alone... lol

Communities are filling up, that's what matters. Code works fine. The android Jerboa app (only one I could find; is there another?) won't run on my Pixel 6 Pro but I'm fine with the web interface.

I'm gently suggesting in the subreddits I inhabit that it's time to move, here. My usage there dropped a lot with the shenanigans there; I suspect it will never return to its former self. Fine by me. Everything is a TAZ; gotta stay flexible.

The culture matters, not the platform.

Yes. I’ve been been on lemmy.world and kbin.social for the past week and the growth and content maturation is good enough for me now, and improving fast.

I deleted my Reddit account and all my post history yesterday.

Hundred percent. Was a Digg "refugee" once before and I made the migration, more than likely will be a Reddit refugee making the migration again to Lemmy.

Maybe. Probably will get downvotes but feeerarion needs to be very user friendly and it’s so far real confusing. I’m hopeful, but I also know servers and people’s time cost money.

Blender.org figured out how to build a business case for open source and it’s working very well. I hope the fediverse can figure it out too.

I like the comparisons to email, how I could run my own server, but even today I jsut rely on Google for personal and work. Why? It just works and it’s very easy to use. And cost is affordable for the work side.

What’s going on here is interesting though! ActivityPub is super cool so I want to stay here to learn and keep a pulse on it.

I think I've figured out Lemmy and this Fediverse thing. So with that, I'll be sticking around.

This seems to be the right platform, so most likely, yes.

Absolutely

I think it’s looking very promising. I’ll agree with others here that if the users come on, some of the bugs get worked out, and an Apollo like app gets created Id be happy to call this home.

I’ve been a serious Reddit user since the digg incident so it really is like the end of an era.

For sure. I even started my own instance for some friends and myself. I like it a lot.

Federation doesn't work well tho. We are only seeing a fraction of the posts and comments from remote communities. Also, posts and comments made to remote communities doesn't seem to get through. These are the main issues I have with it right now.

Maybe if they bring actual polls. I feel cheated after having clicked on a poll that was not, in fact, a poll

I'm platform agnostic and will use whatever works best, is cross compatible, ethical, and open source.

I'm perusing reddit occasionally, I dunno, out of habit, but also curiosity as to how this all plays out. But the magic is gone there, and wow, growing here very quickly. I'm here to stay, on lemmy.world or wherever in the fediverse. I'm on a mastodon instance but it's kinda sleepy, but hanging in there.

I used BBSs in the early 80s, even dialed into Ward & Randy's BBS in Chicago with an acoustic coupler modem... 300 bits/sec. Fedi stuff is more akin to that than the overly-managed corporate shit.

"Federation" instantly made sense to me. I feel sorry for (lol) younger people who've only known corporate, centralized, soc media stuff.

I suspect things are gonna get messy; communities are, or will be, hard to find, scattered, the activityPub relationships can be very complex, you can't really tell who sees yout posts, or what's included in a thread... the code isn't there. But it will get there.

Fuck corporate seamlessness. I'll take the anarchic chaos of user written code and organic change. The idea that we can, or even that we "should", be able to "see everything" is a dumb 20th century idea. The world is a huge and complicated place, us dumb little organisms can't even understand everthing that goes on in our physically local neighborhood. How could we? What a delusion.

There's always more to seek and see. It's fkn great.

Yes!