Same fucking journey as you. Reddit was a good run for 10 years, let's see if Lemmy can work.

What the fuck is up with all the posts about shit and shiting in Lemmy lately? Is there some inside joke I am missing or is this an attempt to flood the site with low quality content?

What? I see and use upvote and downvote buttons in Jerboa. In fact I just updated your comment.

And Boost app users. Was the best interface I used.

Ooh show me your kernel.

This will really legitimize and mainstream the platform!

I am a Boost for Reddit User, but have seen Sync and it is well designed. Jerboa is cool but it is not there yet. The experience the dev from Sync brings to Lemmy will be amazing.

Not asking for features but would be good if kbin is included with it so that user fragmentation is limited. I still don't really understand the difference with Lemmy but it's cool.

Can someone please explain what the difference is between kbin and Lemmy and why these apps can interoperate? They look similar to me.

Why does discord look like a mess. I just can't get into it. The UI/UX seems off.

I don't think so. Although many will remain with Reddit, there is no incentive or loyalty for a significant % to do so. If reddit is shit, why not just use FB, Twitter or regular message boards? Already I saw many subreddits have discords already.

The question for most of those users is there a lesser evil in choosing one bad company over another? Unfortunately I just see this community content becoming fragmented as a result and no winners emerging.

I like Lemmy / kbin but I am concerned that a dev could just shutdown their server and a community, accounts are gone. Who pays the server bills, and maintenance backups etc? This seems incredibly problematic.

Beyond that they need a strong mobile app and 3P devs, a tool to read a users reddit profile and subscribe to similar channels, one click registration without selecting a server. It would be good to also have a mechanism for showing cross-platform posted content in a single view.

If honestly feels like the 90s wild west Internet days again. No alternative I have seen so far can address these concerns.

Yes excellent work explaining how this all works. This fragmentation is what I feared as it will cause users to get frustrated, give up and leave these communities.

Yes. That's what I see. I had no idea it wasnt upvote/downvote as I use jerboa.

So the escalation arrows just push a comment to the top?

Yep. It's just stupidity especially now. I don't understand why someone would stay there and not go back to reddit for a walled garden experience?

Exactly. I use both along with macOS, Windows, Linux. All have their pros and cons and all work well. Most of the rant comments are just BS.

Yeah this is an awful and thrown together article.

The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.

Imagine road rage.

It will grow massively once the app stores get reviews and apps

Yes. Might as well go back to reddit then going to another centralized platform.

Yes, many South Pacific nations will be gone by then due to sea level rising.

Your not going on a submarine are you?