Overall I'd say it feels bittersweet. It sucks that reddit is being screwed over, but it could be really good for lemmy as a whole as long as we get through the growing pains. I like our community but it could use more people posting/commenting and driving up the engagement. Some communities are just too sparse right now.

I'm both excited and terrified to be quite honest. While I expect the fediverse to grow quite a bit as a result, I also expect plenty of bad shit to happen as a result and I hope we can survive the load.

I really think we need like a one image description of how to make an account. Something that could be posted and cross posted to Reddit, all the steps, what an instance is, what the communities are, how to sign up for the iOS and Android apps!

I wouldn't necessarily say excited myself, it feels more bittersweet. On the one hand it like sucks for folk on a personal level who might have really enjoyed being part of a certain community, or all the work people have put into moderating, posting content or their work on a third party app is just going up in smoke in a snap.

But on the other, it feels like sweet sweet delicious karma for the stupid bullshit Reddit's leadership have done over the years and getting to see the birth of something new and better to come out of the ashes. Hopefully this place sticks around because its felt like a breath of fresh air honestly.

it will probably be good for lemmy (if onboarding becomes less vague), but horrible for reddit. given the amount of subs straight up shutting down on the 12th i feel like that'll lead into a butterfly effect? i also wonder what spez will do. probably something that seems specifically designed to make it worse for reddit