I wasn't an early adopter of Reddit, or Lemmy, but this sort of has the same issues of momentum as web browsers do. It doesn't matter how they started. Where they are now is the standard, and that's what you have to build to in order to be a viable replacement. With browsers it's the capability to serve pretty much any page with all the bells and whistles, with Reddit/Lemmy it's all the posts, comments, and user base. I think it can happen, but it won't be easy or fast. I'm not worried, though. I think we can rely on spez to send more users this way until a suitable number of users have joined.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

👍 100% agrreeeee I was there

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a trans woman here, and to be honest change of any kind is so scary that it is unbelievable. Like when I finally got approved for hormone, the prescription stayed at the pharmacy for like 2 or 3 weeks before eventually I decided to call a friend..

I knew that if I went myself I would probably just chicken out or maybe I'd pick them up and just put them aside somewhere, simply because I knew that there would be no going back. I didn't even want to go back, but the fact that I couldn't was still scary.

But my friend made me take them right then and there, as anybody would, as he always had a good ability to talk me out of my inhibitions.

It's been about a decade since then and lemme tell you, life is better on two legs than three.

Hell I had been wanting a Reddit alternative for the longest time because the place was a shit hole from the beginning, but traditional online forums are dead.

It took a Perma ban from the whole site for me to make the switch, it's going to come sooner or later, it's a ban happy website it wasn't even the first time.

Even then I felt like a criminal on the run.

PS: a bunch of right wing trolls have reported my account for threats of violence, simply because I said something about Star Wars that they didn't like.

I got a permaban, and had to write an appeal letter to get them to look at what I actually posted to realize that there was not even the slightest hint of a threat there.

Ironically the second time was for abusing the report button, something that's not even listed in their terms of service, because that was easier than actually looking at all of the bigoted things that I reported. I try appealing that too, but never got a response

[–] techlaito@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Realest answer here. Truly a reddit moment