Honestly, it's mind-boggling how the top 1% have us believing their relentless greed is just the norm and that we're helpless to do anything about it. This is particularly noticeable on platforms like Reddit, where we, the users, are the real value creators and even volunteer our time.
Just a few days ago, during the Reddit protests, the only thing required from us was to log off. However, it seemed that even this small act was too much for some. It's a stark wake-up call, making you question how and why we don't take a stand when our rights are truly in jeopardy.
In this day and age, it appears we're all too engrossed in our personal lives. If it doesn't directly affect us, it's shrugged off. This "not my problem" mindset is damaging to us all eventually. It hinders our ability to empathize with each other's struggles and to unite against common adversities. This isn't the type of society any of us should want. It's alarming to see our sense of community dwindling, and it's genuinely heartbreaking. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but the large number of people who seem indifferent is truly concerning. This should serve as a wake-up call for all of us. What do you guys think? (Pic not relevant)
I'm surprised at the lack of new posts across all communities right now. It's taken me 9 days to completely onboard to Lemmy and I've subscribed to every community across all instances that remotely interest me. It wasn't a big deal at all and I'm happy to be here, I just wish more people felt the same way.
I also think part of the problem is that a lot of reddit communities are learning about Lemmy and realizing they actually want their own instance with a bunch of new communities rather than creating a single new community on an existing instance, so it's adding extra time for the big reddit communities to migrate.
I'm also seeing a lot of hesitation on the reddit side, like oh well if we migrate then our user base might get confused and we'll lose our community in the process. Which adds to the list of reasons why mods want their own instances because they want to curate every part of the migration process.
In my opinion the UI is still pretty jank and it makes jt hard to even see relevant posts. Theres a bug right now with the sorting on Hot and Active that prevents you from seeing new posts. I think that has been fixed but it'll be a little bit before the 0.18 release fixes it
Also another thing that makes it hard is that I am using jerboa and linking to other instances just crashes the app. People like low barrier to entry, and stuff like this makes it a bit painful to use. The UI jank and bugs will get better in the coming weeks, and once it does, we will probably see a lot more activity.
Do you think, that there are many communities (especially their mods) on reddit that would be openminded to migrate to lemmy?
Imho most subreddits will "sit it out", i guess a lot of mods will more likely choose a subpar product (i guess tools for mods will still be able to access the api) than risk it to loose their "power" they have over their subs - There will always be a group of people that are willing to take over the old subs
Edit: words are hard
I’m the admin for discuss.online. I’ve reached out to a handful of subreddits I follow asking them to move over to my instance and they don’t respond. Not to me anyway.