Do you think that Lemmy will last or will it die in a few weeks?

This place has existed for a lot longer than the last month.

It was here before the Reddit implosion, will be after. Question is, will you be?

I will be. I've had so much fun on Lemmy over the past couple of weeks. Way more than I ever had in Reddit. Y'all are great!
- Glad to hear it. I deleted 2 accounts with over 100k karama, and moved fully to Lemmy. I'm here to stay as well. Reddit is dead to me.

Yes.

Lemmy has been around for quite a while, well before any of the recent issues. The userbase will probably die back once people get bored and go back to Reddit but some of us will still be here

Mate, it wasn't just created. This site has been around for a while

I'm interested to see the outcome of Reddit, since I've been there for almost a decade, but I'm kinda liking the change to lemmy and I definitely don't support Reddit's decisions or direction. I think I'm going to stay here and delete my Reddit account once I see the results of the 30th

Lemmy isn't going to "die" anytime soon, it has already been around for about 4 years now, it's not going anywhere..

Maybe activity will significantly slow down, maybe it will go back to being a super small community, but I don't see it completely getting killed anytime soon.

Define die. It's been slowly growing for the last 3 years. If it goes back to that it's still good.

Die in a few weeks? No
Get more users than reddit? No
Be a place in the long run for privacy minded people to escape corporatism and have discussions about any topic? Yes

Maybe, but I think that the branding of the "fediverse" + difficulty of use will make it unlikely to surpass reddit or any other alternatives. It will almost certainly still be around for years to come, but I doubt it'll be much more than niche, despite me hoping for the contrary.

I will say I hate the difficult to use part. it's no harder than email it's the same @ symbol and everything. i don't see people having an issue signing up for yahoo or Gmail. I agree it's a branding issue but the question is who is branding it that way. seems more like fud to me. is it aa feature rich? no that is valid and will improve in time. once jerboa fixed /c urls I don't even search for them I just find them organically now.

When Reddit forces "new Reddit" is when the real migration will occur. Reddit is dying more and more every day.

But they promised us that old reddit isn't going anywhere. Surely, we can trust that something won't happen if they say it won't happen, right?
- You can trust that it won't happen in the next fifteen minutes, probably. I wouldn't believe much further out than that.

I just need the RIF client made into a LIF client to solidify the permanence of Lemmy.

I just replaced where the icon was on my phone
- I just did that with BaconReader. Felt weird.

I don't think Lemmy would die even if Spez gets fired and they write a public apology for the users inconvenience and step back with the API changes....

I for sure am here to stay!

Honestly even if they fired Huffman, reversed all his bad decisions, and even went open source again it would still never be the same. They would never be able to fix the damage that they've done.

That's what happens when you stab your users in the back like this.
- Yeah, it's not as though the third party app devs would suddenly all be like "oh thank god we can keep working with this company". The bridges are burned.

While I plan on using this platform for the forseeable future - I don't have too high hopes.

I think it will probably go the way Mastodon is going. A few weeks of being "hot", then dropping off until it's pretty much business as usual, as it was before being the hot new thing. Don't get me wrong, I want Lemmy to succeed and replace reddit, but I wouldn't bet money on it.

Lemmy is turning into a left-wing echo chamber. The mods have declared that right-leaning opinions are not welcome and are defederating from any right-leaning instances. If you declare that half the population is not welcome, you're really limiting your reach. It's also going to be a pain to have two logins, one for lemmy.world and one for the free speech instances.

Freedom of speech for you, freedom of association for us. It's all freedom.
How dare we keep the shit out, amirite?

maybe when conservatives stop their whole experimentation with fascism people will let them participate again
- Maybe the problem is that your definition of fascism is "anyone who disagrees with me"?

Aslong as I can shit post and talk about video game development I don't care where I am

Definitely will die. I just don't see how instances will be supported financially. The fediverse is nice but at the end of the day, the instances are running somewhere and there are bills to pay.

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