This… Is awesome. Thank you for the list! Bookmarked it for when I get home (Jerboa confuses me lol). 😎

On one hand, I think this is the best opportunity for lemmy to grow exponentially in terms of reddit immigrants. It would be great to take advantage of this since if many users from reddit have a good experience with lemmy it’s free word of mouth advertising over at reddit. Plus I’m not sure reddit will do something like this again in the foreseeable future after their IPO comes out.

On the other hand, I completely understand that there are technical challenges that need to be addressed, and a user that’s trying lemmy out for the first time would probably get turned off if it seems like lenny is unstable and/or there’s not much content to engage him/her.

Id love for lenny to evolve and grow. I’ve only been here ~48 hours but I’m already less stressed and the community so far has been good to me. I’ll still promote lenny even after this API issue until they ban me. Lol.

I’ll be honest - I don’t think I’ll stop using reddit completely. There are just too many subs there that aren’t here that I’m interested in. I might just use reddit whenever I’m on pc (which would be far far less since I’m usually on mobile). I’m still staying here, though, and try to be as active as I can.

Greed and arrogance, I guess. They feel as if they’re too big and there’s no viable replacement for them that rivals in scope. They also want $$$ so they’re willing to alienate some user users because they believe A) most of those users won’t leave and just switch over to browser/official app, and B) even if they emigrated it will still leave a sizable percentage that would net them profits.

Honestly, I don’t think they’re wrong which is why (imho) a good reddit alternative is desperately needed - they won’t stop here. I know we have lemmy (and others), but as I’ve said before it’s a bit complicated for the average user and it’s nowhere are huge as reddit in terms of the variety of subs/communities. I don’t think the amount of people leaving will be significant enough to make them think twice about future decisions.

r/mademesmile is also a pretty nice sub. But yeah, it’d be great to see humansbeingbros here.

Definitely try it. I started Linux with Mint since it’s the closest to Windows I could find. Later on I wanted to try bleeding edge but vanilla Arch was too complicated for a noob like me. Until I found EOS. The transition was smooth and painless. I learned more about Linux in a few months with EOS than years on Mint, but that’s a me problem. Now I have vanilla Arch on my VM and EOS on my laptop bare metal. It’s pretty stable, and that one-time Grub issue was the only hiccup I ever experienced that was not due to my stupidity. Lol.

Now I want to try Gentoo, but man it’s even more complicated.