Fuck /u/spez and all of that. It would be my 13th cake-day on July 7th 💩and I won't be on Reddit to celebrate because the account will have been shredded and deleted.
I'm glad we finally have an alternative (seemingly)decided on. I guess there isn't much else to talk about until 7/1 when a lot of blissfully ignorant reddit users realize they can't post anymore on their favorite app, when I think we'll see the biggest surge of new users. It feels as though the lack of conversation and "low" userbase - compared to reddit, is prompting users to ask if they made the right choice...
"Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on >Lemmy than Reddit?"
"POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?"
"let’s cut the “Reddit” circle jerk and start actually making >content"
It's too early for those questions and of course people are going to be talking about Reddit, it's our old home. I was a user on Digg before Reddit, the big difference was that Digg V4 blindsided us, we knew a change was coming but had no idea it would be that bad. /u/spez was so nice as to tell us we were fucked a month or so in advance.
The point is, chill out, explore this community and others if you're inclined and don't stress, the rest will follow along in time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk
I kinda love the smaller population here and elsewhere. Reddit was too big a crowd, too centralized. I like being more scattered, and making genuine connections that aren't drowned in a sea of wisecracks and insults competing for 'karma'.