Yea I'm with you. For a few days, I was debating if I wanted to get the word out to some select communities and friends regarding kbin / lemmy / fediverse stuff, but I've come to the decision to keep it personal. As you mentioned, there's a self-selection thing going on and those that should be here will end up here anyway.

I have to keep reminding myself that (a) it works differently, and (b) it's not as polished. But I actually like the latter quite a bit. It feels a lot like reddit when I joined circa 2009—and I'm realizing I really forgot what it was like.

Additionally, that's why I like the fact that the fediverse is sort of technically complex and not particularly user-friendly, and if I had my way about it, it would stay that way.

Bluntly, technical complexity serves as a barrier-to-entry for lazy and stupid people, and that's a good thing.

I'm old enough to remember when the internet as a whole was like that - when you had to have some technical knowledge and determination just to get online at all. And I remember how much and how quickly things went downhill when that was no longer the case.

yes this is a good take. So far across beehaw, lemmy, and kbin I have had much more meaningful interactions with people.

After 12 years, I’m done with Reddit, the writing is on the wall - they are catering to the Facebook style and type of user. Their major focus is users scrolling their feeds. There is no place for them there as time continues on.

I am looking to a future where I can contribute and get something different out of my time on the internet. it doesn’t bother me that every community hasn’t migrated, I’m trying to spend my time learning about new ones and expanding my horizons.

I literally have no choice as I'm IP-banned on Reddit. I may be able to create a new account if I get a new PC, but most likely not while I live at my current address. Fuck Reddit anyways, they're literal garbage.

This place is ass because people won't post content, they just want to bitch about reddit.

Finally I have found my enclave of high quality people and no longer need to hang out with the riffraff! /jk

I love that investing a little bit of time learning about the fediverse is allowing me to get back to my roots as an early internet adopter (usenet).

True. But I have to say that it did take me some time to warm up to the fedi concept. I don't think it's bad to drop the idea on people. For many people it takes several times of hearing something to get it.

I will say that even in my minor looks back over at Reddit now, even in subs that were not hotbeds of anti-Reddit activity, the posting quality has dropped dramatically. It feels like there's some quiet quitting going on to me. And at some point those folks will look for an outlet, or a source of news, or something. So being ready for them is good.

I took part in the protest because I was a third-party client user (Sync) pissed off that I wouldn't be able to use it anymore. The official Reddit app is officially crap.

I found Lemmy right away and spent the blackout checking things out. I loved it (though I've since switched to kbin after comparing). I only went back to Reddit yesterday... to delete my account.

This is where I'm meant to be. Thanks for having me.

I saw a discussion aboht lemmy in the comments section of the Financial Times, of all places. The FY was reporting on the reddit drama, in the comments the consensus was that the Lemmyverse, while janky, had an authenticity ane charm that reddit had lost a long time ago.

I concur with that sentiment.

I think a lot is those who remember / use old Reddit. Those that joined and only know new Reddit and the official Reddit app will stay. that is why there are a lot of 10cake redditors here and a lot of younguns there.

Im just tired of the control, and gas lighting - I've found I can digest this site much better and leads to over all less social media - huge productivity boost getting off of reddit - most of that shit is bland garbage that feels like bot city.

The whole federation thing is confusing though…

Client selection on iOS is quite limited too. I’d love if there was an Apollo-like Lemmy client complete with all the gestures and seamless Imgur upload.

But even then, trying to find a community is challenging because of the decentralized nature of it

There’s potential for sure, but I can’t see it taking off with the general public in the current state

Iconoclasts. The others can‘t even imagine a world without Reddit, but here we are, building it.