While i agree with the general idea of leaving reddit, just in two days Lemmy has had some major issues for me personally. Starting with the fact that accounts can’t be transfered across instances. I’d love to leave lemmy.ml to alleviate their stress and get a faster experience, but i just can’t. Signing up on another instance means none of my posts are asociated to me anymore and i’d have to resubscribe to all Communities. Lemmy.ml has been 404ing a LOT for me to the point where it’s close to unusable on the web. Jebora works, but that’s about it.
I’m also in the “official” Matrix Channel, but chat is so inadequat for the types of content we do here. Plus it’s not archival or searchable.
For now, i’ll be here. But i REALLY hope lemmy get’s some upgrades to make it feel more like a coherent Network and less like i’m investing in little islands that might not be here tomorrow.
In the grander scheme i truly believe Forums are where it’s at. It’s a space controlled by the community, can be Open Source and has all the benefits of archival and threads. I hate that every community is moving to Discord or other things where information just can’t be found anymore. If lemmy is any better in that regard remains to be seen. The name “Lemmy” is one of the worst they could have picked when it comes to searching though. Motörhead is just to big in comparison.
undefined> It’s more complicated than signing up for Reddit, but really just by 1 degree. I don’t know. There are fundamental differences that make lemmy a lot harder to get into. Start by choosing an instance. Add to that, that this decision is pretty much final. No moving accounts ever. Then you get into the fragmentation of communities. is the lemmy.ml, lemmy.world or some other community the “main” one? The base benefits of decentralization are also it’s main issues at the moment. Lemmy needs to get something in place to move accounts cross instance including linking posts and subscriptions. Additionally, Communities need to be able to span multiple instances for various reasons. Mostly to gather people in one place, but also to spread the load. And not the least to also decentralize data. While lemmy as a whole might be decentralized, a community sits on one instance. And once the owner doesn’t want to run it anymore, everything is gone.