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Its funny to me that those of us posting viable alternatives in those threads get drowned out by doomerism (there's nothing we can do!!!). There are alternatives out there to reddit, and they're already better experiences.
It's really baffling. Especially because there are some solid but really small communities that would have a fairly easy time migrating but are still not even considering doing so because of the small userbase over here. These communities don't even benefit from the bigger userbase on reddit because the discussions are solely between the users that are subbed to the subreddits.
Hmm I think that normally it is legit hard to move a community to a new server/system. Even a small one. It was tried with a german subreddit to feddit.de and it failed.
Right now there's a lot of momentum, probably because reddit fucked up.
Yea, a real mass exodus will probably not happen, but I would love it if at least a sizable community can grow out of it. There are a couple of smaller subreddits I would rather not abandon if they don't jump ship but if I can get the rest of my "content needs" from Lemmy I'd gladly take away from my reddit browsing time to come here instead.
If Mastodon teaches us anything it’s not about the size of the community but the engagement. If we end up with smaller, but more engaged, groups here and elsewhere in the fediverse then we’re in for a good time!
Which German subreddit was tried to move?
reddit.com/r/dachschaden. But I think the move wasn't to feddit.de, sorry. It was to a server that doesn't exist anymore, 161.social. It never caught on I think.
Too bad...seems like the kind of community that would rather not be on reddit after the IPO. Ideology wise I mean. But seeing that 161.social is dead now it definitely raises the question if staying was the better move. But I guess that's the point. If you don't get everyone to move then the alternative will likely die sooner or later.
161.social never had any active users, that was the problem I think. They tried mirroring some posts form the dachschaden sub, but that didn't attract anyone.
I see. I'm looking forward to how Lemmy does in the future. Even with the disruptive changes to reddit it's hard to imagine a real mass exodus happening. But a semi sizable community might be enough to at least split my browsing habits between Lemmy and reddit.
I split my browsing habits between Lemmy and Reddit like a year or two ago. Mostly I browse reddit and when I see funny or interesting content I post it here.
Seems like a good way to go about. I'll probably follow suit. I'm not sure if it will be possible to establish some of my favorite subreddits here but we'll see how it goes.