this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.

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[–] wicked82@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and there's a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldn't last and was too difficult to use... lol change is hard sometimes but it's life.

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What are their complaints about lemmy?

[–] wicked82@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven't actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand...

But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how "communities are way too overbearing with the rules." , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it's run by a bunch of "tankies"

[–] raj@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.

[–] wicked82@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Basically another term for communists.

The fragmentation might be a hurdle but with how the fediverse works I see it more just being similar to email. You’ve got people using gmail, yahoo, aol etc each is its own separate server but they can all play nicely together and if one dies the others keep trucking.

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