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Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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[โ€“] Dylan96@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find lemmy too complex and technical to succeed...

[โ€“] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found reddit complex once upon a time. I think once people wrap their heads around instances, everything else is easy.

[โ€“] Dylan96@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For example, have you tried mentioning a user in a comment? it shows every corresponding username in every instance....

[โ€“] xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Right, but the nice thing here is you can actually fix this, or suggest how it should work instead, and there's a way to get it sorted out. Something on Reddit annoys you? Scream into the void and cope with it, mostly.

[โ€“] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot that can be done to make it simpler and easier given enough time.

More importantly than that though, as long as any fediverse-enabled platform takes off, then it actually doesn't matter if it "succeeds" (if by succeed you mean millions of users). Do I care if somebody uses Kbin instead of Lemmy? Hell no. Kbin's success is Lemmy's success and vice-versa.

The measure of success is not Lemmy user numbers. The measure of success is fediverse user numbers.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could I use Lemmy to see outside Fediverse content?

[โ€“] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Right now? Subscribe to a Kbin magazine (if they're not still overloaded)