Now that the two day shutting down of many thousands of subreddits is over, what is happening now? How many are remaining closed? Are others just going back to normal? What is the prospects of any significant change happening now?

I’ve set my pihole to reject reddit.com and I’m committed to using Lemmy, but I do miss the old Reddit.

  • Katt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

    Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

    By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

    I hope it will not become a “they” vs “us” thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

    Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that’s not bad. Competition is healthy.

    I’m staying, and I’m curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

    • lynny@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Hate to be that person, but the lemmyverse has about 160k people as of this morning. If you include Mastodon it’s millions, but they aren’t likely to interact as much with lemmy users.

      • CaptManiac@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Seriously? Where do you get this number? I believe the lemmy.world admin said they had 100k users yesterday.

        • lynny@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          If they said that then it changes things. I’m going off this tracker

          https://the-federation.info/platform/73

          It could just be lagging behind whatever lemmy.world mentioned, things are moving so fast that a few hours can make a world of difference.

          You’re giving me some more hope.

          • CaptManiac@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            I’m sure I have misremembered. No one’s near the 100k number.

            I think it’s interesting that despite lemmy.world having less users than lemmy.ml it has way more active users. Something to do with improved stability?

  • f1g4@feddit.it
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nothing really. Reddit will go on as usual with a bit less users and more ad revenue.

    • jimmyjazx@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      RIF was reddit to me so as it goes, i go. This app I’m using, Jerboa for lemmy, is pretty good

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        And it will only get better, let’s hope. I’m hoping at least one of the third party reddit app devs jumps onto making a lemmy apps, or contribute to Jerboa repo.

        For now I still have lot of peeves with Jerboa, but it’s very new, turns out. There was Lemur before, but its been abandoned.

      • VitaMan@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I like the layout of Jerboa, but there doesn’t seem to be much new content, hopefully that changes soon.

        • Xaphanos@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Jerboa does not get everything right yet. Use the regular web interface on a PC to see the difference.

          Give Jerboa time to evolve. The early versions of RIF were rough around the edges, too.

  • aloeha@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The protests need to keep going. Apparently spez thinks everyone is gonna come back today.