Opposite for me. Didn’t work in Chrome before, but now when I go back it holds my spot.

Welp, I think it’s pretty clear Lemmy is not ready for primetime. The number of new bugs filed vs. the number of people working on the project, doesn’t inspire much hope for things like this particular issue. And the fact that all instances combined still have fewer people online right now than some of the average size subreddits, means people don’t really give a shit about the API change. In the end, Lemmy might get a nice little bump, but Reddit isn’t going anywhere.

I’ll definitely keep an eye on Lemmy for the future, but it’s not going to replace anything for me.

Honestly it’ll probably be closer to 99.999% of users will stick around Reddit. The largest Lemmy instance is smaller than the smallest subreddit I follow and I suspect that’s probably the case for most people.

Here’s what will happen… Reddit blackout starts, people come to Lemmy, 8 out of 10 are confused by the way things work and bail instantly. 2 out of 10 might stick around, try to sign up, but everyone hammers the top 3-4 instances and they have a bad first impression. A few days later everyone is back at Reddit and Lemmy is right back where it was a month ago.

I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt I will be.

Nope, but I do use tags to group people. “Family”, “Close Friends”, “Coworkers”, etc. Does Lemmy have something like this? Like the OP, I don’t want to dig through 20 instances to find the “best”. Just show them all in one dump. The “winner take all” style won’t appeal to the masses at all.