Yeah same, most communities i frequent on Reddit haven’t transitioned yet or is still tiny so I kinda juggle between the two apps.

Lemmy is nice for tech and nerdy subreddits but that’s pretty much it rnow

Exactly, pushing people away is not how you grow a platform

Like, what happened to just downvoting low effort or low “quality” posts? Do we have to pass IQ tests to allow users on Lemmy now?

Yeah same. Mixed feelings about all of this

Like you said, big communities here have been pretty great, but the smaller communities I frequent on Reddit (Talking about genshin and Honkai subreddit which aren’t event small) are pretty dead here.

I talk a lot about the casual community of Reddit and how I wish Lemmy could attract those users. I see Meta as a way for this casual community to come here, but then again, Meta is bleh

Exactly. Ease of use can truly impact the growth of a platform.

Like, I’m sure most people on Lemmy are a bit tech savvy, but the overall user just want to make 1 account and be able to access everything.

Right now, Threads is doing a “good” job by integrating themselves with Instagram. Don’t even need to create a new account if you have Insta, just pop in and start using it.

True, Facebook is already in hot waters with EU because of privacy laws, it’s no wonder that they’re scared of launching Threads there.

Threads isn’t yet running in the EU - and it might never run, as the bloc has stricter privacy rules than most other countries, and it has given Meta a few headaches to cope with in recent years. It’s not the EU that blocked the launch of the app, rather it’s Meta who’s being preemptively careful.

Basically Meta is unsure if EU privacy law will allow them to keep functioning so they just decided to not launch there

Ya pretty much double-edge sword

On one hand, Instagram users can bring a ton of content, which “should” be good for the overall website

On the other, it’s Meta lol

So is fediverse basically a bunch of servers, and Lemmy and Mastodon are like, different interfaces to access those servers? (I’m not sure I understand how fediverse works)

Ya agreed, I wish YouTube would’ve just pushed it as another app instead of forcing it down the main YouTube users throats.

Like, I don’t even mind short tiktok like videos, but yeah I don’t go on youtube for that

looks like there’s very few changes aside from the spec bump and some extra lights on the back.

Yea I saw some workarounds for Android but IOS is still kinda lagging behind.

I’m barely using main reddit now tbh. Mostly check it like once-twice a day to see if I missed any news and move on

I’m using Memmy for now. It works pretty well, aside from the issues with Lemmy servers.

Flip flopping between Lemmy and Reddit ever since they killed Apollo. The main app is just a pain to use so it definitely killed my enjoyment of browsing reddit