Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.

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    It’s really weird. There’s so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. That’s a really great vibe.

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      That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.

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          Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and there’s a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldn’t last and was too difficult to use… lol change is hard sometimes but it’s life.

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            Yes I’ve noticed this as well. I think there’s some denial mixed in there. Right now the 3rd-party apps still work. They can still use old.reddit. Adult content hasn’t been banned on site and official app yet. The IPO and likely cash-out/sell-out that will follow is still some months away. A lot of the people are in the “this is fine” stage at the moment, similar to the situation over at Twitter. Most of them will see the light eventually. That said, there does seem to be a growing interest in Lemmy already.

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              I agree things are just now starting to intensify on Reddit. If and when they go through with those changes will be when some people start to wake up. The ones that don’t see it then probably never will lol.

              Yeah, I’ll admit until a few days ago I had never heard about lemmy. Wasn’t until I was seriously seeking something other than Reddit did I come across this site. It reminds me some of the twitter exodus after musk bought it. Lots of new interest in mastodon like almost overnight. I’m sure some of it died down due to mastodon not being *exactly * like twitter and it does have a bit of a learning curve but surprisingly mastodon continues to grow at a pretty decent pace. I imagine a bit of a similar situation here.

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                My only hope and worry is that the devs and admins are aware and prepared for the big wave of new users. Especially this instance and those featured as recommended in joinlemmy. Mastodon also went through the same thing but for some reason I think they had some more time to mature before that.

                Ive already been experiencing some stability issues and this volume is nothing compared to what could possibly be coming as early as next month.

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                  im on the discord for beehaw and they admins are aware of whats going to happen and are currently trying to best prepare for it

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                It was the same with Firefox for me. As soon as Chrome announced The adpocalypse, everyone wanted to jump ship from Chrome. Forget what happened that made me switch about 6 months before that but I tend to catch on to stuff like this earlier than most.

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              The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven’t actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand…

              But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how “communities are way too overbearing with the rules.” , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it’s run by a bunch of “tankies”

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                  Yeah, some instances lean a bit harder into that than others so there’s nothing really stopping people from creating their own instance and blocking some of those they deemed “troublesome” but nothing I’ve seen has really scared me anymore than some of the batshit crazy stuff I was seeing regularly on Reddit and other parts of the web lol.

                  Actually just saw a post on mastodon that was telling people to avoid lemmy because of the tankie shit lol.🤷🏻‍♀️

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                    Yeah, like, if I’m supposed to avoid this place because of tankies in places, why am I not supposed to avoid reddit because of fascists and racists and sexists and transphobes and. waves at reddit in general

                    It seems like the same thing as the people who poo-poo tumblr for being all dRaMa and furries or something, ignoring that it’s essentially a giant jumble of blogs you pick and choose from, and that tumblr posts are constantly reposted to reddit but not vice-versa.

                    Anyway. My personal experience (admittedly limited) with tankies has been that they’re wildly wrong about a lot of shit, often disturbingly so, but also they tend to think trans people are human, so they’re already a mile more preferable to be around than the right to me. Tankies, to me, seem more like they’ve fallen for disinformation and “socialist” dictatorship PR campaigns and less like they’re purely full of hate for everybody not exactly like them. But I’m basing this mostly on the tiny handful of people I know personally so I could be mistaken overall. In any case, so far Lemmy seems fine in this respect (I just got here tho lol).

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                  If anything the tankie mud slinging has had the opposite effect on me. The Lemmy devs seem pretty damn gracious and accepting of people that probably have more moderate political beliefs than themselves.

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                What’s a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.

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                  they’re complaining about us lemmygrad users, but we aren’t even the biggest instance anymore + the 2 recommended instances block us anyways so it’s a worthless complaint now

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                  Basically another term for communists.

                  The fragmentation might be a hurdle but with how the fediverse works I see it more just being similar to email. You’ve got people using gmail, yahoo, aol etc each is its own separate server but they can all play nicely together and if one dies the others keep trucking.

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      I actually enjoy getting in on a platform at the early stages like this, because of the interesting conversations.