I'm returning to Reddit, here's why
Although the idea of decentralized servers sounds nice, there are at least two serious problems IMO that make me return to Reddit for at least now.
(1) Continuity. Although many accounts and communities are created on large instances like lemmy.world, not all accounts and communities are. Which means accounts and communities on smaller instances are at serious risk to be shut down suddenly. This is potentially also the case for accounts and communities on larger instances, but it’s less likely considering their size.
But a large instance tends to be slow because it cannot always keep up with a surge of new accounts. Furthermore, non-US content like political news from other countries seems to be completely absent. Making most of the communities interesting for those interested in US-politics, but that’s about it.
(2) No urgent response from those developing Lemmy to prevent unsollicited direct messages. This is not a problem as long as one does not receive direct messages, but you cannot prevent getting them. Moreover: you cannot delete DMs you didn’t want to receive in the first place.
Without some form of continuity management (community moderators or users being able to backup and migrate their community and account) or a way to block direct messages from being received (blocking users isn’t a solution) my personal conclusion is that Lemmy or Kbin aren’t a suitable replacement for Reddit.
And yes, I understand Reddit administrators can remove subreddits, but so can Lemmy administrators. There is no difference if you cannot move a community or your account.
But Reddit does allow DMs to be blocked and the number of users far exceeds that of Lemmy and Kbin.
So although the idea is nice, I’ll no longer post or comment on Lemmy or Kbin. The platform isn’t ready yet IMO.
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