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And at the beginning everyone was worried about "Eternal September". It's only been two months.
People will come in waves, instances and communities will grow and die, just like how it was on reddit, we'll probably start seeing meme/politics free or even more specialized instances soon. But all of this is going to take time.
The turning point will be when companies/websites start spinning up their own Lemmy instances as their official one to replace their forums, which I think will happen.
So, being on Lemmy is a long term investment for me.
Same for me, good to still see you around
Hopefully this works out, gotta get that first mover advantage in, then Lemmy's only real celebrity will be recognized as the marketing genius that she is. :)
I like Lemmy better when it's when it's nicer and quieter a month ago honestly.
Ha ha :)
Same feeling here, browsing All now is cumbersome due to the low quality of the average content dropping
Yeah, so that's why I'm expecting way more alt hopping and defederations and people splitting into smaller groups soon until everything finally settles.
One of advantage of the fediverse honestly that it prevents powertripping mods, since it's so easy to move to another community on the same topic on a different instance with different admins and mods, and while a person can be banned off a particular comm or instance, they can't be banned from Lemmy as a whole, so reputation matters a lot more right now when everybody kinda knows each other here.
Yeah, lemmy seems like a great alternative to discourse.
I don't know if this is going to happen, and to be honest I hope it doesn't. Lemmy is not designed to be a forum and shouldn't try to be used as a replacement for one.
How is Lemmy not a forum?
Lemmy is a link aggregator. Yes it can serve a lot of (if not all) the functions of a forum but it's not designed to be a drop-in replacement for something like Discuss or phpBB. It's different enough that I feel like calling it a forum is not the right term.
What exactly does it do worse than one of those?
Id say finding the latest comment is harder here. Sure, its not that hard when looking post replies. But comment replies? They can be nested, pretty much buried behind the "See more replies" button.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2043
here's an issue tracker for that, I don't think it's really something that fundamentally makes it worse than a forum, honestly.
Oh i wouldnt say its worse at all. I prefer nested replies all the way. Regardless, i still wouldnt say lemmy fits the forum format, again due to the way you access the most recent replies.
In a forum thread, you go to the last page and youve found the latest comment. In a Lemmy post, even if the nested comments arent hidden, its not obvious at first glance which one is the latest comment.
Also, if you "bookmark" a forum thread, youll get notified of any new replies in said thread. On Lemmy, you can check the latest comments from an entire instance or community. But not for a specific post.
Again, id never phrase lemmys format as worse, for i greatly prefer it. But i wouldnt consider it a forum. It simply displays the information diferently