Looking forward to the Reddit blackout. Hopefully a bunch of new instances pop up and gain traction
Overall I’d say it feels bittersweet. It sucks that reddit is being screwed over, but it could be really good for lemmy as a whole as long as we get through the growing pains. I like our community but it could use more people posting/commenting and driving up the engagement. Some communities are just too sparse right now.
I really think we need like a one image description of how to make an account. Something that could be posted and cross posted to Reddit, all the steps, what an instance is, what the communities are, how to sign up for the iOS and Android apps!
I was thinking about this last night; maybe a sort of phone-scrolling poster-style guide (not dissimilar to the API changes effects banners on Reddit the past week) with a quick guide to Lemmy/Kbin. I’m not totally new to the Fediverse having used Mastodon on and off after the Twitter migration, but I’m no pro when it comes to writing the content for one though.
Should probably be under a Creative Commons license as well.(edit: grammar)
I’m both excited and terrified to be quite honest. While I expect the fediverse to grow quite a bit as a result, I also expect plenty of bad shit to happen as a result and I hope we can survive the load.
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Agreed. This is depressing as hell. Apollo is a joy to use. There are so many niche communities on Reddit that I enjoy, and even if Lemmy or other federated things like it take off, those communities are largely going to die. This is a tragedy, no matter how you look at it. We are losing.
I also agree, that it is extraordinarily sad to say goodbye to my top used app (RiF); but I would say even sadder still is Reddit’s decisions proving how little they value their user base.
I, myself, was likely not a high value user; but the way Reddit is treating its mod teams who have spent countless hours performing a relatively thankless job for free, is simply egregious.
I wouldn’t necessarily say excited myself, it feels more bittersweet. On the one hand it like sucks for folk on a personal level who might have really enjoyed being part of a certain community, or all the work people have put into moderating, posting content or their work on a third party app is just going up in smoke in a snap.
But on the other, it feels like sweet sweet delicious karma for the stupid bullshit Reddit’s leadership have done over the years and getting to see the birth of something new and better to come out of the ashes. Hopefully this place sticks around because its felt like a breath of fresh air honestly.
