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I'm very new to Lemmy, I'm trying to see how it all works and what happens here. But honestly I feel like it might be a little too decentralized? Like, I know it's the point but I feel like this doesn't make for the best experience. Communities can be on any particular instance, and you can have repeats of communities for the same things. This feels overcomplicated, but I understand why it's that way.

Also, how many people are actually doing a full switch from Reddit? I personally don't intend on leaving Reddit, I'm just leaving temporarily, but not for any specific amount of time. I think that's what most people will do, or I guess I hope so, because Lemmy still has a long way to go before it gets good enough to make a competition, especially considering the drawbacks I said before, and I don't want us to lose all those communities that went black indefinetly, even if I supported the decision.

The point of the blackout was to protest, expecting an end to it all, although many are already wishing for an end for Reddit altogether from what I can see.

Idk, I still hope Reddit doesn't die tbh, I hope they listen to reason and backtrack a bit, or we find a way to bypass the restrictions somehow, I think I saw a revanced patch to many Sync work iirc, so maybe there's hope still.

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[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

Out of anything, it's honestly the collapse of moderation that would do Reddit in at this point. The third party apps they're killing are essential to the moderation of most large subreddits, and without them enough spam may flow into these communities to kill them. We'll see, but ultimately it's always good to have a backup. Nothing lasts forever, so it's good to be prepared for something being gone.