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Time will tell, but it's working for me at this point. I actually had Lemmy bookmarked on my desktop browser for quite a while and never used it. Mainly because it just wasn't very active. However after the exponential growth resulting from Reddit's shenanigans, it's busy enough to keep my interest.
There was a bit of a learning curve in understanding how instances work and how communities are addressed. It didn't take long to get used to it. I don't see where that would be a show stopper for anyone willing to put in a modicum of effort. I don't know maybe that's a good thing, filter out the lazy ones.
The big positive for me is not being beholden to corpo profit mongering. We'll never see corporate enshitification here (assuming we keep the Meta and Twitter types out). The Fediverse may suffer some growing pains, Lemmy and kbin in particular, but it seems to be coping so far. My main concern is scalability. If exponential growth continues things could get overwhelmed. Though It will probably settle down to a low roar pretty quick here.