Reddit refugee here. F spez.

...and it'll only get better from now on.

Made the jump, hello everyone!

I have tried many forum-styled site over the years including the politically more questionable ones, and from what I see theres 3 hurdles a site need to pass in order to be good:

1. it needs good infrastructure, especially user interface (where 4ch, most forum, and now reddit fail)

2. it has some gatekeeping to filter out the "order consumers", but not too much that it drives user away, including having a toxic environment (where 4ch and .win fail)

3. it needs to have enough user generated content so thay theres actually reasons to use the site (whre most reddit clones fail)

from what I see lemmy has passed all the hurdles, and I have good hope the fediverse will stick around

I suppose this is a good place for my first post. I'm happy to be here. This has saved me from the withdrawals of losing reddit. I hope we can make this an active community.

Really interested to hear about the plans and costs to scale up and grow in a stable, reliable, and safe way. Hopefully Patreon membership grows too and allows continued performance improvements.

I think for more casual users, continued degraded performance - or worse, an instance being stopped for whatever reason and the content and accounts being lost - would probably stop the platform being a true replacement. Casual users would head back to Reddit.

I think having a public roadmap and backlog, good communication and transparency will be super important, particularly in these early stages.

Great job so far, this kind of sudden growth is not easy to manage!

im really liking how lemmy works and i think its interesting to learn about the details and i like the philosophy it runs on. im glad to be a part of this community!

Friendly reminder to donate to your home instance if possible! Every little bit helps :)

I'm here to stay, I love semi-niche social media sites :)