I run a few groups, like @[email protected], mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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    Reddit had similar problems with finding subs - it was sometimes really difficult. But, honestly that was sometimes my favourite part. You’d randomly stumble upon a sub that you’ve never heard of that’s super active.

    I think there should be a way to easily find communities, but there’s something fun about discovering a community out of nowhere.

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      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.