Quitting Reddit's hard, but it's heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here! I've got to admit, even after Mastadons limited success, before today I never seriously thought that federated social media would actually ever work. It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.

Here we all are though! Decentralizing the decision making for who gets to post and host, what gets seen and what doesn't, seems to be worth fighting for. For enough of us at least to make this corner of the internet interesting for a while.

I've got a question though, are there any non technical people here? If you are interested in technology do you know non technical people who are participating in the black out?

You could write a front end client for Lemmy. Right now I think theirs only like one app for each platform, with lots of room for UX improvements. The site you have is fine but I know I won’t personally be investing any time that’s not backed by web standards, with distributed stake holders. I think maybe you’re asking the wrong crowd here because we’re all likely to be inclined against letting another digg/Reddit situation happen where the people that find themselves in a leadership position can ruin the whole thing

Hello all! Signed up for a few different sites yesterday, before the crush of today, to see which ones got some staying power. Kbin's incredibly slow right now, Reddit's not just blacked out but down, and Beehaw's over here in the corner rock solid. Think I've found my new spot!

Yeah I can see a path for this ramping up slowly, especially given the horrible mismanagement of places like Reddit. Even if they weather the storm of the blackout, given the official app, it seems like they're just chasing the same infinite dumb stream of memes design that places like Facebook and Tiktok have already embraced. Probably because that's where the money is? I don't know.

The more niche communities are always what made me hang out at Reddit though! I'd bet they continue to alienate and marginalize them enough that more people continually jump ship over the next couple of years. I do hope Beehaw and other spaces like it succeed in becoming a non-profit and truly community driven, and the web decentralizes itself again.

The nice thing about Reddit being super centralized was that you could just append "reddit" to a Google search and find a community for anything under the sun. The distributed nature of lemmy makes it a little harder, but dedicated search indexes are already popping up and I'm sure they'll incorporate that kinda stuff back into the main lemmy instances sooner or later.