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I am cautiously optimistic about the decentralization and federation. But I think the biggest hurdle is developing the user base right now. ExperiencedDevs is the only subreddit I followed before this all started that directly linked a Lemmy alternative.
I'm not sure which subreddit mentioned Lemmy, but I've never been to r/ExperiencedDevs.
I've been using my Matrix instance for 99% of my private conversations since 2018, so I know it works, but also see that people won't change unless their #1 solution isn't taken away.
So right now it's do or die for any Reddit alternative.
r/ExperiencedDevs pointed at programming.dev specifically which is why I am giving it a shot. I have used decentralized stuff in the past like Usenet and IRC. I kinda miss the lack of corporate overlords.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/147ebxd/experienceddevs_will_go_dark_until_the_end_of_the/
I found this instance from the list, checked out any interesting names, saw the content, and this one looked the best for me.
I will do my own instance in the future, but it will take about a month before my schedule clears out.
It's kind of weird though, I always wanted to microblog, but never really found the time, now I'm thinking of using Lemmy for that.