Reddit Migration

I don't want the fediverse to replace reddit. I just want a place to post and share stuff without corpo baggage.

Exactly. Signing up and accessing Lemmy should be made more straightforward for the non tech savvy ppl. Just my humble opinion.

It took me like 30-45 minutes to understand that I need to find an instance, the right one, sign up there, before I could access Lemmy's communities. Some of the top Instances are closed for signups temporarily due to overwhelming number of signups.

It's going to be a while before Lemmy scales up, if it ever does.

Reddit:- You Google Reddit and your first result is Reddit.com. You click the link and are presented with the front page. You from scroll from a few hours and end up signing up and staying.

I don't think this is the path most people take to becoming new Reddit users.

I think most people end up using new social media sites because they get linked to content already on a given site that they like. This could be from friends sharing links, or through Google results from the site.

You click join-lemmy.org and are presented with a page of information about the fediverse, links to set up a server and pictures of code...

More or less exactly what happened with me. Bounced off of Lemmy 4-5 times trying to decide on an instance and when this and Squabbles was recommended it seemed more intuitive.

Another option would be a lemmy instance becomes dominant and that hits the top SEO spot. Then most people use that to browse until they want to sign up and then either choose that or look around for others.

You click join-lemmy.org and are presented with a page of information about the fediverse, links to set up a server and pictures of code...

Not sure what universe you are from but in my reality that's just bullshit. What you said is there but right next to the "set up a server" button is a "join a server button". And right above the scary code pictures is another "join a server button".

This is a rather back-handed post, and it talks about fairly easily solvable problems.

You Google Lemmy and your first result is a wiki article for Lemmy Kilmister…

That's because 1. Google's search engine sucks now and caters to the dumbest audience, and 2. Lemmy Kilmister has lived longer and has been the public view longer than Lemmy the platform. That will change quick enough.

You click join-lemmy.org and are presented with a page of information about the fediverse, links to set up a server and pictures of code…

Yes, it requires reading. Holy fucking shit! I'll admit that the page could at least use a picture of a Lemmy front page, but that's not hard to fix.

I’d recommend kbin personally as it gives the same sort of experience as Reddit from the initial interaction.

Yes, nice of you to recommend the platform you are using and post on. The first link on Google shows "No information is available for this page." That's the biggest red flag ever for links you don't want to click on.

It also has the same dumb UI problems as every other Federated platform. It's like nobody has gone to Responsive Design UI School.

• Give me my damn page real estate! I don't want to be locked to this dumb 1200px fixed width bullshit. Everybody with a computer in 2023 has widescreen monitors, so give me my widescreen output. And stop making the post height so big. I want to see a sea of links. Stop catering to mobile phones every waking moment of your lives!
• When it comes to comment threads, suddenly, the page indentation is so small that it's really hard to tell which is a reply of what.
• Even with the real estate they do have, the front page for any of the platforms are so threadbare that it doesn't look like a feature-rich platform. Which it isn't. I've got so many buttons on Reddit. A bunch of buttons on the top. A bunch of buttons on the right side. So many links and buttons right there on the front page. It doesn't matter if there's alternate links that take me to pages that dedicated pages for that feature. It's still there on the front page to make it easier to do.

Don't introduce obvious bugs like the inability to subscribe to communities. You're in the big leagues now and need to revamp your testing practices.

Lemmy and kbin are still very much in their infancy while Reddit has been around for nearly 20 years. There's definitely going to be growing pains since it's still so new and for right now at least most people that are going to join are people that are leaving Reddit so it's probably going to remain a fairly niche thing at least in the short term.

Secondly, I don't think they have to necessarily replace Reddit and they both could go on and do their own things. Honestly, even during my time on Reddit I found the smaller communities were better than large or default communities IMO. I just find that smaller communities have better engagement where ones that are too big your post or comment will end up getting buried.

Even if Lemmy or kbin don't overtake Reddit, I think there's still a place for them.

All the android apps don't have support for kbin, I'm assuming its same for iOS. So kbin probably won't go anywhere really until that changes...

I choose kbin over Lemmy because most Lemmy instances don’t work for me. I made accounts on Lemmy.world, beehaw, and here. Kbin is the only one I can log in on all of my devices. The Lemmy instances only work on my Mac, when I try to log in on my iPhone or windows machine the login just spins.

So this is my home now

I agree woth all your points except for one

You Google Lemmy and your first result is a wiki article for Lemmy Kilmister...

I see no problem here. RIP Lemmy, fucking legend