Lemmy and mastadon and the whole fedeverse are the future. We didn't have our eyes open cause we where stuck in the Reddit world for so long. I'm learning more and more everyday and i'm loving it. So easy and so many people :P People will make this place close to reddit as they can but long live lemmy

Regardless of the success (or failure) of the blackout what's important is to create an alternative platform to Reddit. The blackout doesn't have much legs because of the lack of alternative. Deep inside we all know that many will just go back to reddit once the blackout will end - it's why the importance of creating an alternative.

Keep boosting Lemmy.

i think accessibility is why lemmy has such an "Old Internet" vibe to it. there are probably a lot of people here that joined reddit over a decade ago (my account turned 11 this year).

that and, there's no reason to tie your real identity to your account. i think about the difference between lemmy and mastodon (aside from mastodon being like twitter). i look at mastodon maybe a few times a month, but when i do look at it, i see people using their real identities and posting as if it's a piece of their professional career

The biggest benefit I see so far is the lack of bots. I know there are still some bots out there but most of them are useful bots and not just karma farming bots or bots designed for propaganda.

i'm so glad we're off reddit so now we can say what we really feel about spez

Bleh, gatekeeping is trash

It reminds me of when I first found Reddit back in the day, and just how not user friendly it was. I'm looking at the blackout like a good thing - I've got a little bit of that "excitement" back from finding and exploring these new places.

I remember having to explain to people what subreddit where, once lemmy/kbin upgrade their UI enough it will be no more complicated.

I have a buddy who once gave me props for being able to navigate reddit with ease as silly as that sounds. I can't even imagine showing him this...

For og reddit people. The toxic new wave can stay out.

This is truly a successor to Reddit but I think getting more people to migrate is crucial. Still not a lot of people have heard about this. We need to bring more people here.

Yeah, we've literally seen this forum migration happen many times in the short history of the internet. Reddit had some novel concepts in terms of evolving and democratizing the concept, and it was the best thing since sliced bread for a long time.

Federation is a reasonable evolution of the user-run, user-generated concept, which ultimately requires more freedom that a heavily monetized platform can ever deliver. I there will always be a distinction between internet media as a product, and internet media as a utility. The neat thing seems to be that the internet kind of always seems to evolve new versions of the latter when they are needed.

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There is some enormous potential opportunities on the horizon that we're well ahead of here. The real issue is, Reddit will have to join us on the fediverse or they will be history.

What we have to do as instances/admins/fedizens (whatever you want to call yourselves) is build the future we want. It will be quirky - but at some point that quirkyness is exactly what people want in the end.

I think so, true commitment for this community is what makes it more interesting.

Still Reddit has the perks of being the source for tons of Google searches and less experienced users which brings lots of interesting topics/solutions etc.

But being away of repost, ads, influencers and that kind of shit is reassuring not gonna lie lol.

Haha, i feel you compeletly. I really like it so far here. The UI is intuative and the community seems to be active!

I see a couple other comments about sign up issues and I'm having the same. Don't see anything in my spam folder, though. Both submit buttons on the sign up/login pages just spin endlessly the last couple days. name's same here as on midwest.social.

I think the fundamental thing for alternatives to succeed is that they can't primarily exist as outlets for us to complain about reddit. Certainly there's going to be a lot of that given that reddit's actions sparked a partially-reluctant exodus, but the best revenge is living well and all that.

Like Brazil being a successor to Rome

Edit: See my reply below.

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