The site’s entirely user funded, if people use it and don’t give, it’ll go under.

I’m not going back, I only used Reddit because it is what I was used to. I’ve given Lemmy a real chance and greatly prefer it now.

The forced ‘inside jokes’ that filled so many threads, so many times you would see a post and be able to predict the top comment and its replies. Hoping that the lack of account karma helps with that.

So many times in the past few months I would open reddit, stare at rhr uninteresting front page and close it. Especially the past few years it has taken an astronomical nosedive, and that’s coming from someone who joined in 2013 which some consider too late.

They’re probably the sorts of people that would drive down the quality of content here, so no great loss anyway.

Lemmites and Lemmegians are best

This app is ridiculously good, thank you so much for putting this together. Great third party apps like this can make all the difference for site usability.

Yes, I had briefly heard of Mastodon but knew next to nothing about it, and Twitter never interested me so I ignored it. After using Lemmy for a week I have now signed up for Mastodon and PixelFed, massive potential with these.

Sopuli.xyz has been a reliable instance :)

Communities, which have a parent instance.

My account is one I made for work related purposed and has ~140 karma with very little identifiable information about me. I won’t delete it, but I’m no longer using Reddit as a time-waster. I’m diversifying and have signed up here, kbin, Mastodon and PixelFed.

Maybe a plugin API could address this

I’m only dropping in but this instance certainly seems to be feeling the increased traffic. What kind of resources would one need to run an instance that can handle a high load?

I love how similar it is to Boost for Reddit, just wish I could stop the white flash on page transition.

I only ever lurked Reddit and am yet to change that here, but I am finding it nice to use. Once more communities, particularly niche interests, get a good amount of frequent users I think it will be an absolute joy to participate in.

Exciting time for us!