After many years of Reddit I made the step today and uninstalled my reddit app. If Lemmy works out I will completely migrate here. The idea of the a Fediverse based place such as this one feels promising.
Now I am wondering, are you all also planning on staying here, do you mainly use Lemmy temporarily, or do you want to use Lemmy in addition to Reddit in the future?
I plan on using it for the foreseeable future. My biggest concern would be niche communities dying out and not getting much in terms of engagement
It does seem to be harder to find niche communities not hosted on your instance, however if at least one person is interested in the niche community on your instance then it will show up in search without having to manually seek it out
So I guess it really depends on if users on your instance have similar interests or if everyone is willing to use the lemmy community browser to go find the communities they wish to find
I’ve had some troubles adding communities from the Lemmy Community Browser. I’ve mostly used Jerboa for Lemmy but entering something like
In the search section doesn’t seem to pull up anything.
Maybe I just need to try to subscribe to things on desktop first
If someone on your instance hasn’t subscribed to another instance then Jerboa can’t see it so you will have to use the web browser from your instance to find it
It will need an active core community especially in the beginning, I think. One worry I have regarding niche communities is, that duplicate communities might spread the user base.
Yeah it would be nice to see large communities spread across different instances