It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.
That's not frustrating at all! That's GOOD! It's proof they see Lemmy as a threat, and right now, it is!
They could be legit users, FWIW, and just not understanding Lemmy enough to know what an "instance" is. Nowhere else on the internet (except Mastodon) is it a "thing" to have different instances of the same site iteracting.
Half of my comments are about Lemmy not being ready yet, or a viable alternative to Reddit. It's not a "big lie". I'm currently relying on the hover-over text to know where the icons are, brcause they're not loading for some reason. I'm confident that decentralised social media will never take off, brcause the point of social media is to bring people together rather than stick them on different servers.
To be viable, alternatives don't need to function exactly like reddit. I think what you're referring to (aside from the icons not loading, which is a symptom of temporary server growing pains) is mostly discomfort with a new thing functioning slightly differently. Once you spend a couple of days using lemmy, the decentralized nature of it starts feeling much less foreign and is actually kinda cool for lots of reasons. Being on different servers doesn't mean we can't still come together; the fediverse enables us to come together to an extent that is unheard of with proprietary sites like reddit.
I hope you can give yourself some time to acclimate, I think you'll really start enjoying it here!
Lemmy is pretty dense to a newcomer, especially one who is used to the centralized web. But that's okay - we don't need Lemmy to replace Reddit. Just like Mastodon, this 'temporary exodus' is only beneficial for this platform.
Even when the drama 'blows over' and Reddit is back to its usual status, we will have gained a huge amount of new users interested in a decentralized web. As long as there are enough users for Lemmy, I think that's okay.
Initially I was kinda lost, but now that Im getting the hang of the instances etc, its pretty cool
Bruh you know your name is fucking snoo, right? Might wanna figure out your own loyalties lol
No I haven't noticed that cause I don't go on reddit anymore. I don't give a shit what people are saying on reddit. I don't give a shit about reddit at all, it's over. That's kinda why we're all here.
I came here to look to see if this topic was covered. I just checked my mod queue and every single post made by my automod OR other users about Lemmy was reported multiple times for "harassment" with 40+ down votes as well. I've literally never had a full mod queue that was more than 6 things before and I had 30 or more posts to approve with 3 being actual things. What the fuck.