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I hadn't thought about it until now but what do redditors who didn't migrate say about us? I'm really curious now but I don't want to look. I've only been on the site a couple times since the blackout and they were for specific reasons * I don't want to ruin my streak * . Does anyone here use both regularly?
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Okay, that's slightly disappointing but nothing surprising. I appreciate the well thought out response, thank you.
Kind of seems like the scale will always be tipped on reddits side but hopefully that doesn't discourage the people who actually do come here. As long as Lemmy is active, I don't plan on using anything else. My reddit account was over a decade old and I'm hoping my Lemmy account will last even longer. Should I move instances?
Considering that Reddit was the safe haven for people trying to escape "mainstream" social media who didn't want anything to do with 4chan, it isn't surprising that most of the fanbase is loyal to them. It is a little disheartening, indeed, but I guess it'll take a couple more of these big fuck-ups for something to change noticeably.
I am, however, very fine with the amount of engagement we have here despite the lower user base. Might actually be better exactly because of that.
I mean, the instance isn't really that important, is it. You can still interact with everything on here regardless of the instance your account is registered to.
But if you main decides to defederate from a few fav instances you're out of luck.
That's true. But it's also super easy to create a new account on a different instance should that happen. Or you can browse those instances in the browser without an account.
Out of all the people I know irl who are aware of Lemmy, 50% have tried it, and of those, all but one was put off by the tankie mind rot and inconsistent moderation.
The "fuck capitalism" at every turn is pretty frustrating at times even as an active user.
And in reality, fuck capitalism. But we don't need it in every thread. It's exhausting. And the tankies brand is way more "fuck the US" than "fuck capitalism." They are just violent, often weirdly bigoted, and poorly informed.
And I mean yes, but it's a nuanced conversation. Capitalism is off the rails and a lot of people are being hurt by that, but getting things back on the rails isn't as simple as "just don't do capitalism" or "do socialism."
It definitely doesn't need to be in every thread like you said, because trying to have those repeated nuanced conversations is just exhausting.
But it's true though. It's the source of every modern ails. From increased housing to global warmin
From the place I still use as they didn't move, I haven't seen a single mentioning of Lemmy, fedivers, black out or anything close. Makes sense as those communities didn't even try moving.
In one of the subs I did notice a quality decline and it moving a bit from, people talking about shared experiences with a medical condition, to being babys first experience with medical condition, but it has moved back even so slightly, but the average age seems to have gone down.
The other one for a game. I can proudly say is just as low quality as before, but I stick around to give tech support, even if it of the absolute most basic nature sometimes, and keep up with updates, bugs and community fixes.
Wow, that last sentence makes you a saint.
Thank you.
From what I can tell a lot of the people there who are even aware of it think of Lemmy as inactive and irrelevant and the protests as an embarrassing failure.
the protests were an embarrassing failure but lemmy isn't