This… Is awesome. Thank you for the list! Bookmarked it for when I get home (Jerboa confuses me lol). 😎

Vary valid points. I guess time will tell which view is correct. Or maybe they’re both right. 🍻

Tbh, I’m ignorant (relatively to most users here) about AI so I avoid it in my arguments. I just haven’t had an opportunity to work with AI-related projects. I’ve been hearing/reading about it, though, in Reddit’s API issue so any input is appreciated.

As for the network effect (“nowhere as huge”), by simply using it I think that we’re already contributing.

True. It’s also why I’m making a conscious effort to be active here. It’s easy because I’m less stressed discussing stuff here than on reddit. Lol!

I’m optimistic lemmy will grow. Maybe not as big as reddit, but that’s not a bad thing imo.

On one hand, I think this is the best opportunity for lemmy to grow exponentially in terms of reddit immigrants. It would be great to take advantage of this since if many users from reddit have a good experience with lemmy it’s free word of mouth advertising over at reddit. Plus I’m not sure reddit will do something like this again in the foreseeable future after their IPO comes out.

On the other hand, I completely understand that there are technical challenges that need to be addressed, and a user that’s trying lemmy out for the first time would probably get turned off if it seems like lenny is unstable and/or there’s not much content to engage him/her.

Id love for lenny to evolve and grow. I’ve only been here ~48 hours but I’m already less stressed and the community so far has been good to me. I’ll still promote lenny even after this API issue until they ban me. Lol.

I’ll be honest - I don’t think I’ll stop using reddit completely. There are just too many subs there that aren’t here that I’m interested in. I might just use reddit whenever I’m on pc (which would be far far less since I’m usually on mobile). I’m still staying here, though, and try to be as active as I can.

Greed and arrogance, I guess. They feel as if they’re too big and there’s no viable replacement for them that rivals in scope. They also want $$$ so they’re willing to alienate some user users because they believe A) most of those users won’t leave and just switch over to browser/official app, and B) even if they emigrated it will still leave a sizable percentage that would net them profits.

Honestly, I don’t think they’re wrong which is why (imho) a good reddit alternative is desperately needed - they won’t stop here. I know we have lemmy (and others), but as I’ve said before it’s a bit complicated for the average user and it’s nowhere are huge as reddit in terms of the variety of subs/communities. I don’t think the amount of people leaving will be significant enough to make them think twice about future decisions.

some people describe it as a “small town feel.”

This is actually pretty accurate based on the short time I’ve spent here. Honestly, it’s pretty nice.

Our opinions have always been valid, they just haven’t been welcome.

Thank you for saying this. I guess I needed to hear that. lol. It would be amazing if lemmy grows a bit more - more activity would be nice. That’s my only concern rn, tbh. Hoping we both enjoy our time spent here!

r/mademesmile is also a pretty nice sub. But yeah, it’d be great to see humansbeingbros here.

I’ve been looking for a reddit alternative for at least a year now, although I wasn’t too focused on it. I did try one (I can’t remember the name) but didn’t stick around because there was so little activity. The API change was the last straw. I actively looked for alternatives and someone recommended lemmy.

Had I known about lemmy before, I probably would have been here since last year, at least.

I apologize for deleting my comment. I felt I was too new to have valid opinions on the matter. I got used to reddit picking apart comments lol (just like what you mentioned). I’m still not used to the community here.

I’m staying with lemmy, tbh. The community is refreshing. They actually seem to encourage (mature/open) discourse here. I wasn’t as active in reddit as I am here in less than 24 hours. Lmao. I still miss some of the subs I frequent and they’ll probably be the reason I’ll still pop up in reddit from time to time.

Definitely try it. I started Linux with Mint since it’s the closest to Windows I could find. Later on I wanted to try bleeding edge but vanilla Arch was too complicated for a noob like me. Until I found EOS. The transition was smooth and painless. I learned more about Linux in a few months with EOS than years on Mint, but that’s a me problem. Now I have vanilla Arch on my VM and EOS on my laptop bare metal. It’s pretty stable, and that one-time Grub issue was the only hiccup I ever experienced that was not due to my stupidity. Lol.

Now I want to try Gentoo, but man it’s even more complicated.

I completely agree. I use Joey myself (no particular reason - I just got pretty confortable with it). My only problem now is I keep getting timeouts. It could be my connection, though.

Firefox and Kiwi on mobile.

Firefox and Brave on desktop.

Oh and Chrome, too. I’m sorry but my job requires it. :(

Thanks for the welcome! I’m still a bit confused by how this all works, but not gonna lie I think it’s pretty cool and I wish I knew about this earlier.

I’m almost ashamed with my list. Lol.

In no particular order:

• Ghost Recon (WL and BP)
• FF VII
• FF VIII
• Warframe
• Silent Hill (PS1)
• Gran Turismo
• Forza Horizon Series
• RDR 2
• Chrono Cross

Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.

Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.

Thank you for the warm and informative welcome! I really hope this community grows.