I’m fucking stoked to see so many people like me (who are pissed at how corporations fuck their own product just to make more money) migrate over here. For once I feel like I actually have a way to “protest” corporations and their greed. I know the vast majority of Reddit users didn’t care, but I know many of us are here to break free from all of that tomfoolery. Just happy to be apart of it. Don’t know how long it will last, but I’m hoping that it does.

To be honest, I don’t think so.

Personally, I’m dedicated to transitioning to Lemmy. I was an Apollo user and it’s disgusting how dirty they did Christian Selig. I will still use reddit for niche subs, cross posting to lemmy to get communities going, and for the odd question that I google now and again. There are still years and years of valuable content on reddit.

But while some people find it exciting to be part of a growing community, helping build something, other people are just here to lurk and consume the content provided. Those people are too impatient to wait for Lemmy to gain more traction, users, and content.

I think a lot of people made accounts or will make them, will check it here and there but ultimately get bored of the lack of content (compared to reddit) or give up when they can’t figure out the federated/decentralized thing.

There are still some things that confuse me, but I’m LOVING lemmy. I love finding more of my subs that have migrated, or creating them and finding new content to add to them.

Reddit used to be a hobby, something fun, rabbit holes to dive into. Then at some point I stopped actively searching for cool niche subs and just kept scrolling the same front page. It had its uses but it was doomscrolling.

With Lemmy I’m like excited to post content again, which I never really did, and I’m finding myself commenting a lot more. I think I’ll end up switching from Reddit permanently.

I just want this place to be a new home. Don’t care what others do as long as enough people are making content here.

This feels much more like what the internet should be. Not the realm of giant advertising companies.

I could not care either way. I came here to try a new site, but the constant barrage of meta-reddit posts is kind of ruining it.

Like, yeah, I get it. I had a lot of communities that I’m going to miss, too. But the way past that is to build new comunities here and forget about the old site, not obsess about its downfall like a clingy ex.

I think that people will still stick with Reddit just like there are a lot of people still using Twitter: it feels like their home online.

Here’s a funny thing though, I’ve seen so many posts on Lemmy by people saying they were lurkers on Reddit but they do (intend to) post here.

That can’t be a coincidence 😊I am one of those former lurkers/occasional posters and I’m kinda active here.

(As an aside: I do wonder if the lack of overload due to constant ads can be attributed to that)

I really don’t miss Reddit much now, because the communities on Lemmy are wonderful, and they can only grow more.

I have a feeling that many of the people who moved here are the most active ones who also probably used a 3rd party app. This has two effects: Lemmy becomes much more active despite the relatively low amount of users while reddit loses many of its most active members while keeping the lurkers that don’t contribute and thus the content quality is going to see a significant drop despite the amount of users remaining about the same.

Lemmy doesn’t need hundreds of millions of users to become better platform than reddit. We just need the most active ones. Facebook still exists too and is succeful on paper but who even goes there except my parents? For all I know that place could dissapear tomorrow and I wouldn’t notice. It effectively doesn’t exist to me already.

reddit is going to be fine without you lmfao, it’s unreal how delusional some people are