I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.

/s

Edit: Wow this blew up!

Edit 2: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Edit 3: RIP my inbox! I can’t believe this made /r/all!

Edit 4: We did it Reddit! Lemmy!

  • delirium@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    While lemmy as in lemmy.ml isn’t ready, there are plenty of other instances for users to go. I hope that few folks will find their way here one way or another. Probably not to the reddits level, of course, but I’m still hoping to see something around 20-30k MAU.

    To me, Lemmy’s concept looks better than reddit. Glad I found it.

    • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I feel like the concept of instances and federation are still foreign to a lot of mainstream users. And it doesn’t help that a lot of these instances have genuinely terrible domain names that don’t give them an air of legitmacy or even a vague association that it could be a Lemmy instance. Like seriously, beehaw.org? sh.itjust.works? I guess this minor gripe will eventually go away once reputable groups, associations, or even companies start spinning up Lemmy instances, but still, it is quite daunting and scrappy looking to the average user.