I’m pretty happy with the experience on Lemmy so far as I joined even before the blackouts started happening. The trigger was the dumpster fire of an AMA with the CEO. I tried kbin first because it’s supposed to be newer and more interoperable with other federated platforms but I found the instance I was on wouldn’t properly load content from Lemmy and I couldn’t find a kbin Android app. So I’ll be here for the time being.

During the shitstorm on Twitter and the exodus to Mastodon, I tried out Mastodon and felt that it was a similarly welcoming experience. But I kept reading comments on Reddit that the Fediverse was too complicated and it was too hard to find people to follow because you needed their username as well as their instance to find them. I hope people have realised that it’s not that much harder during this current Reddit shitshow.

Everyone understands that Reddit/Lemmy/kbin is built on community, and the growth of this community has been fostered by moderators, not Reddit itself. So my question to any subreddit moderators is: Is there something about the Fediverse that would prevent you from moving your community off Reddit? It seems pretty clear that people will try Reddit alternatives even before their favourite subreddits have moved. Users are engaged with the communities that you have built and loyal to the 3rd party app developers and we don’t give a fuck about Reddit as an organisation.

Discussion open to everyone, but curious to know if any moderators are also using Lemmy.

  • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is there something about the Fediverse that would prevent you from moving your community off Reddit? It seems pretty clear that people will try Reddit alternatives even before their favourite subreddits have moved. Users are engaged with the communities that you have built and loyal to the 3rd party app developers and we don’t give a fuck about Reddit as an organisation.

    I don’t currently moderate on reddit, but I can tell you that the larger subs I used to moderate will likely not be moving to lemmy in the foreseeable future. The moderation tools currently available for lemmy are extremely limited compared to what you get with reddit and the toolbox extension. What lemmy has now is okay for smaller communities of up to maybe a few thousand subscribers, but I think the level of spam and trolling you’d see with even tens of thousands would be completely unmanageable with the tools currently available, let alone any more than that.