I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
I'm having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it's been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I'm making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I'd like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was "a subreddit for everything".
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can't open in-line on the front page.
I kinda miss Reddit, but after browsing it today, it felt kinda weird. Lemmy is starting to feel more and more like home as more people join in and participate. And also the fact that the 0.18 update fixed the numerous issues, it really helps.
As a long time reddit lurker. Loving it here so far.
When I heard about it I was kind of expecting it to be contentless and bare. Oh boy was I wrong and so pleasantly surprised.
The amount and the quality of the posts and comments is very high. The people super friendly and I'm loving the sense of community and respect. Bonding over something new and exciting also enchances this feeling.
I also visit reddit now and then but I noticed my browsing sessions leave me more satisfied here on Lemmy, than on Reddit.
Obviously there are some communities that I miss, but I'm sure with time replacement tor those will start to appear.
Lemmy and the community not only fills the "gap", but for me, it also stands by itself providing something that reddit didn't .
Super excited about what is being created here.
It's reminding me a lot of when I first joined Reddit (nearly 15 years ago). Not too much is happening day-to-day so I'm checking in every couple of days or so.
I think this is a much healthier relationship than checking a site compulsively every couple of hours. I'm liking it so far, also a crazy repercussion is that I'm using the internet like the early days again. I think of a topic and I do a deep dive on my own, researching into it and going down weird rabbit holes.
I feel like Reddit discouraged this behavior by having a non-stop flow of communities that "mostly" interested me enough to not go "browsing the web"
Well, let's do a pros vs cons
Pros:
- I wasn't banned for saying Putin should die after he invaded a country
- It's a decent time killer
- It's growing
- Idk I just like it
Cons:
- /c/NCD and some other instances are too small and not even close to their counterparts levels
- Jerboa for Lemmy has not been behaving too well for me
- It's still fairly small and new so communities need to consolidate still
Overall I like it better than reddit tho.
I like it so far. But I think the large amount of reddit users won't like how separate everything is. Most of my friends and colleagues I've mentioned and shown it to, didn't like it for that one reason. Reddit is a singular easy to access place with communities for everyone that is popular.
Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) needs to simplify I think for people to be able to adapt to it. My girlfriend made an account and is having trouble finding groups for herself, but willing to take the time cause I'm next to her all the time. But not everyones got that.
edit: also, i am using Memmy for Lemmy now on IOS, nice to have when not at my PC. Good app so far.
Loving actually having conversations with people, instead of talking into the void where by the time you see a post it's already so old that commenting is useless
I love the concept of a federated network, it definitely feels way more punk than just being another data set for a corporation
I do wish a few of the more niche subreddits had similar communities here, but I'm trying to do my part by making that content
I was on Reddit for over 8 years, nearly entirely using Apollo. It was frustrating to arrive “late” to a thread and only see funny jokes, and have any comments buried if you bothered to make one. Here, it is nice to actually have a conversation with posters and maybe you might actually see them again someday.
Maybe the difference between having a conversation at your favorite pub with good friends versus yelling at someone in the stands at a football stadium. It is nice to be seen and heard.
Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I'm in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there's more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.
I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?
The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.
I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.
Not as many things to mindlessly scroll by, but I'm liking the new community vibe so far!
gets better everyday indeed
There's one aspect of it that I didn't expect, and that's its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.
I'm not 100% sure it'll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I'll enjoy being here.
It's kind of a ghost town so far. But if we can wrestle control of social media away from corporate control, democracy across the world will be stronger for it. Regardless, I'm here for the long haul, making contributions FAR exceeding my efforts on Reddit.
It’s okay. I was optimistic at first, but I don’t think this platform is cohesive enough yet to be worth using consistently, especially with instances defederating from each other off and on. It means you have to have multiple accounts to access certain communities, and then kbin is a whole other thing I guess? Because I can’t log into kbin from wefwef so I can’t even access the stuff posted there.
Honestly the reason I’m even still continuing to even open lemmy other than to check its growth is because of how nice wefwef is.
Also, like other people have said, the jerking each other off about leaving Reddit has gotten unappealing. There’s only so much self congratulation I can take.
It's a bit of a mixed bag. I do enjoy Lemmy. I think that the conversations that take place here are interesting (though many now revolve around Reddit in one way or another). I don't really find the front page to be as good as Reddit's.
And then, of course, I think the most important difference is that Lemmy draws a specific type of person, even after the Reddit migration, and there aren't as many of us as there are average Internet users. I'm not saying Lemmings are a special breed; rather, I'm saying that we're the sort of people who might have used Usenet at its peak. We're the sort who might be Linux users. Many of us are morally aligned with open source technology and the ethics thereof. This makes the discussions a little less diverse on Lemmy than they are on Reddit (which can be good and bad, depending on the sort of conversation).
17 years on Reddit, 15 years as a registered user. I'm done with Reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/user/irqbreaker
Two weeks in on Lemmy and I've even set up my own instance. It feels like old Reddit and I'm loving it!
It feels more organic. I'm enjoying it.
The communities are a lot smaller as is to be expected, but it feels really good compared to Reddit. People are active enough and the overall design is so much less cluttered.
Although the bar is pretty low, given that half the Reddit app is just ads.
Ok so far. Missing some subs that i was active on at Reddit, but maybe they will show up eventually.
Only thing i don't realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is, when it is all going to show up everywhere else anyways. I go to Lemmy and i get kbin and mastodon post, i go to kbin and i get lemmy posts...
Really enjoying it, especially with the wefwef app (apollo refugee :( ). Compared to my experience on Reddit I actually feel the urge to contribute to discussions here and not lurk.
The only downside so far is that I kinda miss my niche subreddits... I've been checking sub.rehab on and off to see if they've migrated to Lemmy.
Getting used to it. I've noticed it's been very stable today compared to the last few days. I've been trying to find communities similar to the ones that I was a member of on Reddit. I miss the volume of info that was available on Reddit that I could drown myself in but I refuse to download the official app. After what spez did to Christian and other third party app devs, it's time to go. So, rock on, Lemmy! (this is my first post btw!)
Generally I like it. It has a lot going for it. So for some constructive (uninformed probably, I only signed up today, but I have been lurking for about a month) criticism:
I don't really like how there can be 10 "Official Linux" subs, because 10 self-hosted servers can create it locally. But Okay, I can deal with it, searching for subs I can see where everyone has mostly subscribed to for a particular topic.
Which leads me to, Although its distributed, it should be distributed with common "global subs" which sit on all instances of self-hosted. This would allow me to see that "/g/Official Linux" is the main one (others might exist and that is fine but they are local self-hosted and accessible globally but might be more niche). This would eliminate some small popup Lemmy's self-hosted since they would need a reasonable amount of storage. But I'm not sure this is good or bad, if you want to self-host and not participate in sharing/storing that data, then fine but your local subs are not replicated to the distributed network. I don't know in my own mind if this is all good or bad, but something like this should be explored.
Currently, it appears to me in my limited usage, some sub on some self-hosted (lemmy.cheapdomain.for.fun) could blow up and that self-hoster cannot afford to maintain it, and shuts down. Boom, sub gone? (see previous, note I have not explored self-hosting a Lemmy server yet).
Server blocking/banning: This one concerns me, since its hardest to manage and deal with. Firstly, IMO you are going to get bad actors setting up bad servers with 'nazi love' subs or worse, and they should be filtered from the main distributed service. However currently this is in a terrible state of affairs and needs to be addressed, since free speech is what its about. People may disagree with things and even reddit had dubious subs. But you could choose to ignore it and not subscribe. There needs to be a way to inform users of a selfhosted site, and *why" the decision to block it was. So not just a federated list of "blocked" but with clear reasoning as to why it was blocked by lemmy.world or lemmy.me . Users could then at least identify a site that is blocked and if the reasoning for the block is against their belief they can at least go and check it out for themselves.
While being distributed, perhaps there can still be a self managed tagging system for subs and guidelines for how to tag your local sub, for global acceptance. You dont have to tag as the system says, but not doing so may prevent you from being shared across the federated net.
Everything else is great. Most of the reddit communities I had anything to do with exist here, albeit smaller. The Jerboa app is great (and another that I tried which I forget the name of off the top of my head).
I even like that the fanboys of Apple, Raspberry Pi, Docker etc are here to downvote the crap out of anything remotely negatively said, against their favourite thing... (That one might be a bit facetious, but that is what freedom of expression is).
I'm enjoying the site overall, but I feel like a lot of people are way too die-hard into the philosophy here, to the point where everything seems to come back around to endless circle jerks about how cool and awesome we are for using the superior open platform.
I like it because it's open, but it really isn't THAT big of a thing, and I'm getting pretty burned out only the endless talks about what is and isn't the best pure way to implement the perfect utopia of federation.
Other than being a bit quiet, I am enjoying it more than I ever did reddit. It's the quiet, the newness, the wait for new communities to pop up, but most importantly, I don't get the feeling of overbearing moderators.
Thank you for taking all of us in.
The “front page” experience of seeing general news I should be aware of is getting better but it’s harder to find active niche communities as expected, and I wish there was combined or less fracturing with communities, like having to choose whether to follow [email protected] or @lemmy.world since I would assume they’re somewhat redundant
I've been lurking for a few weeks now but finally made an account and I'm really liking it here. Less content but higher quality is preferable to tons of content but most of it is garbage like on reddit.
My main complaint is the fediverse isn't big enough to have a lot of activity on the more niche communities so I find myself going to reddit for a few of those subs still but only on my desktop so I can use old reddit and block ads.
Gonna try and contribute more here since it's much less toxic and noisy than reddit is.
I was afraid it would a lot like Mastadon 99% of the content being about how Twitter sucks yet having none of the content Twitter has.
I'm pleasantly surprised. Now that 0.18 made Lemmy actually usable, iI have just about eliminated Reddit from my social media habits. Just need to find some sexy instances now...
Lemmy is awesome - I'm really enjoying it. Like the early days of Digg, even Fark, etc. Quality stuff happening!
Performance has improved, but many niche communities need more growth and engagement.
Duplicate communities across Lemmy instances are a bit of a nightmare in some ways - although by design, and also have advantages.
r/all on Reddit looks pretty different now, unless that's just my perception. A lot of subs I'd never seen, more low quality stuff with less engagement.
I like it a lot. Feels like early days Reddit. I do miss some of the niche reddit communities, but on the other hand the main lemmy continues seem much more approachable. My biggest complaint is that Lemmy can be pretty slow at times.
Honestly I'm kind of struggling with the concept. I'm using the connect android app but it's just not clicking for me.. how do I know if I've found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
It's probably the closest thing to reddit right now (even down to the shitposting memes unfortunately) but I wouldn't say it has the same feel quite yet. I still find the distributed nature confusing (am I in the lemmy.world's technology community, or lemmy.ml's? How do I get to beehaws instance?) and navigating between instances is a chore. I realize though that situation is very fluid and if users can get over the hump and start investing into their communities and lemmy as a technology it can get better.
Also I rely on mobile apps to navigate the majority of the time. There are some decent ones out there now, like Connect for Android. But it definitely is still buggy, and is not as fluid as my experience with Relay for reddit. But again, nothing that can't be fixed.
Some of my favorite subreddits still hasn't shown up yet as communities in any of the major lemmy instances, and I honestly feel it's going to take a very long time for that to happen for some of the more niche ones. The user base I honestly believe will never reach even close to reddit's numbers.
So in a nutshell, good promise, closest thing to reddit, but still has a long way to go.
It seems fine, with a few concerns.
The federated nature could become confusing, especially for new users. For example, I'm not sure how a new user is supposed to distinguish between: [email protected] and [email protected] This seems like a potentially worse version of reddit's games vs gaming vs truegaming.
Also the lack of filtering options. Until I build up a reasonable amount of communities I'm subscribed to, I suspect I'll be using All more, which doesn't seem to have a simple way to do things like filter out all memes or just focus on text.
I have never heard of the fediverse before the whole exodus. As soon as I did, I was immediately hooked. Fuck corporate interests.
So far really confusing. But honestly I didn't use reddit for 4 years despite having an account because I couldn't figure out how to even begin and I only got it going thanks to boost and my spouse (no one else I know is/was on reddit). So I have hopes that over time it will sort itself out and I will have figured out how this works. Let's see if I can even post this comment.
I really like it generally. I mostly only miss some of the more niche subreddits I belonged to. There are equivalents for some of them here, but it doesn't seem like there's a large enough user base yet to have the active engagement and frequent new content the ones on Reddit have. Other than that I just miss the features of Reddit Enhancement Suite, When I'm browsing on desktop I try to drag-to-zoom some image or another at least three or four times a session, and I really miss continuous scrolling.
I like it! Main issue for me is that there is not enough content on my hobbies, and "all" content is mostly filled with reddit-this and lemmy-that (or now threads) stuff, which is annoying because I don't want to talk more about the platform than actually using it. But I hope this will change with some time.
I use only the browser, UX and UI is pretty straight forward, but subscribing to communities of other instances is really weird. I need to copy the "handle" (i.e. [email protected]), and add it manually to my instance domain (i.e. lemmy.world/c/[email protected]), and then I subscribe to it. I don't know if there are other ways (besides finding new communities via "all").
I'm not into the technicals of lemmy or the fediverse, but I guess this is not easily solvable, as an instance doesn't know that I am the user of another instance.
I've not been back to Reddit for days and I have no plans on returning
I was afraid that there wouldn't be enough content, but there's a LOT.
Fucking loving it, bringing back the early internet nostalgia
Never really posted before Lemmy and feel the need to express how much I enjoy this platform
I like how default sort for comments is active instead of best, which was just top rated comments
that way, I see recent comments where conversation is still happening and I can participate, gives a better feeling
It's good. Unironically better in some ways - the transparent up vs. down votes are nice, and the preview button is indispensable. I used to post something broken and then have to ninja edit it.
Feeling good. It's early, and I know we need to keep that in mind. That said, more of the communities I used to follow have started setting up shop here and that is a good feeling. Now with Memmy on the App-store I feel at home and don't have much if any real reason to go back to Reddit.
I quite like it, I generally like how it looks, and there was less of a learning curve than I expected there to be. Things mostly work without needing you to know HOW they work (though that is fun too). I am sure it will get more active as more people move over, but it's actually the perfect amount of activity for me right now. I can check in and there is usually some new stuff without worrying about things moving so fast that my voice gets lost in the noise.
Big plus is I can be fairly open about my leftist politics, at least around here, and not be downvoted into oblivion. Nor does everything thread even tangentially related to China devolve into racism within five posts.
Are there a couple niche communities I miss? Sure, I might recreate them myself honestly, somebody has to. Otherwise, I don't miss much.
I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Could be the novelty of everything, but I'm liking it more than Reddit. And like I've seen many here say, I tend to respond and have conversations here more often.
Plus, Connect for Lemmy is very nice on my Android phone. I was waiting for Sync of Lemmy to arrive, but I'm not so sure I'll switch.
After the recent performance upgrades its working great and I am finding it to be a great general replacement for my time on Reddit. All I am hoping for now is for the fediverse to become a bit more populated so that niche communities can develop and get a bit more activity.
It's neat. I see a lot of potential in the platform. I look forward to seeing how it evolves.
It reminds me of what reddit was like in the early 2010s. Kind of a wild west.
It feels like 20 years ago migrating from large chatrooms to bulletin board forums with a smaller more specialized community like setup. Posts and threads don't instantly get buried, and there don't seem to be as many assholes looking to pick a fight.
I see that by scaling down, some of the the more niche forums don't get the traffic, but that will likely change over time. I'm digging the integration with Mastodon so links to people and articles don't have to flow through Twitter. It minimizes having to sift through tons of ads to read what I want.
I also like the region based instances like lemmy.ca and midwest.social having communities and news that is of interest to those regions. It would be cool once more countries have their instances / communities.
Reddit had a good idea with having subs, but many of them got too big to be able to have meaningful discussion for many people. What is the point of trying to comment and engage in a topic that has 5000 posts? Lemmy hopefully can solve that by having the same community in different instances to keep the size where more people can discuss topics in a smaller more engaging setting.
On reddit, just about any comment made after 12:00 EST would very rarely get more than a few upvotes
So far in Lemmy I feel like my posts get better reach and interaction, which makes it feel like a better social environment.
Android's Connect for Lemmy is buggy as fuck. I get errors just about every other thread. Open to other recommendations for a Lemmy app.
Following instances is kind of confusing.
Is there nsfw content?
It's okay. I miss reddit, but it's clear how steep a cliff they're slipping off of.
So far, 6/10. Needs dramatic improvement. There are some nice differences, and overall I can see how it could eventually fill the void. Eventually. Want to re-emphasize that it needs a lot of work.
It feels like home! I didn't think it would, but I've settled in. I like that it's a smaller community as I feel my comments count for more somehow. I also like that we're all (or at least a large proportion of us) just a little bit clueless about what's going on or how stuff works round here - we're muddling along together as best we can and it's lovely.
It feels a lot like Reddit did back in the early days before it got popular, in fact. And I think the existence of multiple instances as opposed to one site has the potential to keep it that way - if your instance gets too big or too busy for your taste, migrate somewhere quieter or even create your own.
Lemmy scratches the Reddit itch for me. It doesn't have all my old niche communities yet, but it's got enough for me to log on and see what's happening in the Internet.
Also, I haven't been pestered to use an app since I got here, which is so nice. Reddit was getting more and more aggressive about that before I quit.
It's neat, though I still have mixed feelings about how to choose which communities to follow. There are many duplicates, and I feel like if I don't subscribe to ALL of them, I could be missing out, but then it increases the chance that I'll see many of the same post (e.g., for a news community).
Content discovery is a bit more work. On Reddit, I never really subscribed to things or sought anything out in specific beyond just using All and scrolling, because it had a nice mix of everything. Here, it seems I'll have to do a bit more work and seek out the type of content I want to see, especially if a user on my instance hasn't already discovered something I care about.
It's also more work to choose an instance. Some instances might block what I want to see, so it's possible I will need multiple accounts.
Overall, I think with some more users and more communities, those gripes will largely go away as some communities in certain instances might become more dominant.
I'm mostly just happy to not see ads, and to know there's not some nefarious company running the service.
Since I switched to Connect for Lemmy, I'm really liking it. I found Jerboa to be a bit unintuitive, which is a reminder of how much a third-party app can mean for the enjoyment of a platform and why people have so strong feelings about their Reddit app of choice that they're willing to leave the platform if that app doesn't work anymore. I don't know if I'd have kept trying to get into Lemmy if I hadn't found Connect.
There are less people, but I enjoy it a lot. I more and more seldomly look into Reddit these days. I‘m much more active here, hoping that more and more users step over…
With apologies for sounding like a McDonald's ad, I'm loving it!
I was very wary when I switched over the day before the app-pocalypse because of my experience trying to replace twitter with Mastodon, but this place has NOT felt like yelling into the void, it's immediately done most of what I used reddit for!
I'm liking it a lot. Completely replaced Reddit. Hopefully there will be fewer posts about how Reddit sucks soon as that will start to smell of obsession very quickly.
Kinda like how conservative subreddits were nothing but complaining about progressives, or how r/sino is nothing but trying to shit on America
A little intimidating at first but after finding a decent mobile app (connect) and following a few communities I think I'm getting it. The whole federation and indexing is really interesting to me and eventually I could see myself hosting a small instance.
Not enough content yet but I'm contributing what I can and if everyone keeps getting their friends on Lemmy it will be amazing.
Primarily a mobile user, which I’m assuming most migrants are. I like it so far, but have some minor complaints about the available apps. I was so used to Apollo, and a lot of the apps like wefwef and Mlem are frustratingly close but not quite there yet. Mlem Is missing some things like being able to zoom images, make image posts, (Correct me if I’m wrong, but Mlem doesn’t appear to be able to post anything except links) automatically fetch inbox messages, or view comment replies in threads. Wefwef seems more like Apollo so far, but it has its own quirks since it’s entirely web-based.
That’s something that I expect to improve with time though, as the apps are all still under development. So here’s hoping that things improve.
Is missing an active NBA community, which is/was at least half of my reddit traffic along with several other subs I frequented, so I that regard it's a let down.
The interface is already better on jerboa than anything reddit ever made, and I haven't had a ton of issues, just missing the communities.
it's scratching the itch quite fine so far
I was never a hardcore Reddit user, just a casual scroller, and I have to say, with the Connect android app and after subscribing to a few communities, my experience has largely been the same. It'll be better when/if more people migrate over I feel like, but in terms of the actual experience, it's already slightly improved from Reddit.
Other than the occasional bugs, but anything getting stress tested is going to experience growing pains, and it's kind of charming. Like, new mmo launch charming. :D
Lemmy reminds me of why I even liked Reddit in the first place. Honestly, it makes me worry how it'll change if it grows. Because the downfall of Reddit for me wasn't really the API changes, or Spez, or the crappy new features, it was just more people flowing in, all desensitised jokers hungry for attention. For now, I'm liking it, though! And now I know there's other places I can go if a billion-dollar corporation kills the Fediverse :)
Been on Reddit since 2010. I'm hoping that Lemmy and other Fediverse apps sort of grow out of the meta-talk and comparisons to their centralized counterparts.
Otherwise, the communities themselves seem pleasant (or swiftly defederated from by the good ones). We don't quite the critical mass to get active niche communities, or hyper-specialized ones yet, which I kind of miss. Stuff like "here's a subreddit for each of these very specific habits that cats can have", or "talk about a particular species of parrot", y'know?
It's just a bit too small right now, lots of communities that don't exist yet or are barely active. I do think there's potential here though. I'm not the most techsavvy so I don't really understand the whole fediverse thing, and I think that's the thing keeping a lot of people away. Once you're here though it barely matters.
I like it. Unlike a lot of comments I see, I don't want hordes of people to come here from Reddit - I prefer to keep it smaller. Yes, it sucks that super niche communities are hard to get without tens of millions of people, but the drop in overall quality isn't worth it.
It is a little difficult to find communities if they are not on your specific server and the apps are not quite there yet, but it is promising and I am happily getting settled in.
I like it a lot. It still needs much more pull, which can only be achieved with more content and more name recognition. To that end I'm thankful for all the active users posting content here.
Another thing I notice is that it's a bit harder to get started with Lemmy for casual users than it is with Reddit - purely due to the federated nature. I think that Lemmy could gain significant ground if there were apps that made using Lemmy stupid simple and hid away the federated, decentralized nature when signing up for the service.
Well it was confusing to begin with. I'm still not sure how to search efficiently or whatever, and I don't know where you can quickly see the Instance themes. I've settled in though and I'm comfortable now. It really helps that **every **comment isn't replied to with someone outright hostile for whatever reason. Pretty sure that'll change once the bots realize we're worth their time.
I have my icks. I wish thread trees were more distinct. I'm still getting the hang of the interface. But despite them there is a pleasant vibe here where you feel like you're actually talking to people and not screaming to be heard amongst a hostile crowd.
upvoting things on the main lemmy.ml page spins forever.
I'm really enjoying it. I feel way more inclined to post here, I very rarely did over at Reddit. People seem a lot more receptive and willing to participate.
Only downside is that it doesn't have the history Reddit has, so I still find myself using Reddit's history for research. I haven't installed the new app though, and I haven't looked at /r/all since the API changes went into affect.
Growing pains for sure. The power of reddit is it's ubiquity - communities on reddit can be very granular because the critical mass has been reached for it to still function. I dont want the homepage of reddit, the social network black hole of endless scrolling, I want conversations about things I can't discuss anywhere else. Home assistant yaml tips and the best builds in Path of Exile and whatnot. While I like the long-term implication a of lemmy, right now it's specicially the worst part of reddit.
One of the things I greatly disliked about reddit was the hivemind that formed a couple years after it launched, which has only gotten worse as time passed. Anywhere posts and comments are driven by upvote or engagement algorithms is going to create an echo chamber, but I was curious to see if the decentralized aspect of this place might tone that down a bit. It's hard to tell right now because my feed is filled with some of the most indignant, extremist people from other platforms who are here as a form of protest.
Feature-wise, this place is functional and not too hard to navigate, but finding and subscribing to communities was pretty confusing and it's lacking a lot of QoL stuff that reddit has. I don't expect it to be a 1:1 clone but I sure would like notifications when someone responds to one of my posts. Or maybe the notifications just aren't working properly for me? I dunno.
Missing some of the communities I used to browse. On the other hand I can see porn on my feed again so that's nice.
I like it. As an IT guy I tried to set up my own instance and failed because the guides and READMEs are shit. So I chose the idiot proof way, now here I am. I'm missing the content, but hey, we Redditors just joined. Let's wait a while.
It's lovely. Haven't looked back. The only thing I've even thought about going to reddit for in the last three weeks has been the occasional technical answer that comes up in a Google search.
I hope that in time the fediverse will become the same sort of resource.
Relatively little going on so I'm still gonna go back to reddit occasionally because for example on the software development side I've found the reddit communities really useful and they simply don't exist here.
Beyond this I'm determined to stick it out with lemmy. There are cute animal pics. There are memes and jokes. And a few other interests of mine are also reasonably active. It's almost enough to satisfy my desires for "doomscrolling" without being a total time trap. So that's nice.
I was legitimately, saddened and upset when I heard that Apollo was going away and that I would never be able to use Reddit again I am actually quite pleased with Lemmy. I love it.
I like it so far. I miss some of the communities that are either not yet present, or are not yet active enough on Lemmy, but I'm hopeful that things will fill out over time. I do hope we can get a good solution for video hosting that isn't relying on youtube, but I get that that is a tall order.
I’m liking it! Scratches the same itch that Reddit did. Content doesn’t roll in as quickly from my subscriptions as it did on Reddit but I guess I’m into some niche-ish things and it’ll pick up steam eventually(?).
It’s buggy and flaky and wonderful. I can’t believe A) how quickly it’s grown over the past two weeks, and B) how great the communities seem to be. I’ve only asked one question so far but I got more and better answers than I would have on Reddit. I was feeling pretty down about the internet during the last week of June, but now I’m feeling hopeful.
Less active just due to lower user population but great vibe nonetheless.
Loving it. Reminds me of the olden days of Reddit where the communities were smaller but everyone was contributing more.
The bugs and the issues help sell the fact that it's a smaller community so even those don't bother me so much.
I like it a lot, but it has a lot of bugs that drive me crazy. Particularly with the Jerboa app, but also on the web. That's part of the early days for any software, though, especially one undergoing an explosion in its userbase. I'm happy to stick it out, and Lemmy is already a ~90% replacement for what reddit has been to me for the last 10+ years (feels weird to say that).
I've enjoyed my time here on Lemmy and am fully invested. It's helped me curb my reddit usage completely and I won't be going back.
It really feels like Reddit 10 years ago and I loved that. Rough edges and all.
It's getting better every day and more stable. I'm really grateful for all the effort people are putting in it and very happy here.
I dig it. I lurked a few weeks before signing up. Feels freer, less stressful here so far. (Not for instance admins, I'm sure!) I miss some of the niche subs over there, but I'm adjusting. I've only tried wefwef and Liftoff so far, but will get around to giving more apps a shot, too. Using Firefox on mobile hasn't been bad either. As a creature of habit, I was a long time RIF user and imagine I'll eventually get attached to one for Lemmy.
Unlike most I presume, I felt more forced off of Reddit. I found the official app unusable in comparison to RIF. My transition has been pretty good. Communities I browse have been fun and surprisingly a bit wholesome. In truth the only thing important I lost is the r/oneshot community. That has been a gut punch to me. But I can't give up just yet. I have to try to see if I can build a new home in Lemmy.
Post and discussion volume isn't as high, but it's high enough to keep me happy
I like it. It definitely feeds my bored and feel like reading habit. I do wish there were more specific communities that I used to subscribe to. It has promise and feels cool getting in on something early on too.
It's really good for tech, news, and memes - but anything related to sports or culture is pretty much non-existent. Sure sport news make it through into the NBA community for example, but no one is actually engaging - pretty much feels like an RSS reader in there.
It’s being ok, specially after I found Wefwef (love it, but needs a better name).
But about content, I still miss a lot of the subs I was subscribed to (Oddly satisfying, TechnicalPrint, and many other specific ones). But I know that it’s only a matter of time.
Voting and posting is a bit annoying because servers are overwhelmed but I totally understand it and can wait, no problem.
I like it a lot. Obviously, content is lacking. But that is up to us to fix. The general fediverse capabilities are fantastic, but still a tad too confusing for newbies (from which communities can I see content, which communities can I see etc.) and take a while to figure out. Apps are already great. General UI is great as well.
I use wefwef and it works basically like Apollo did. The entire lemmy site is a fairly good replacement for Reddit. There are some sections where there is no one, but hopefully with time that will fix itself.
I'm really liking it. It's still missing a few of my old reddit communities but feels very much like reddit used to, it at least feels like I'm getting my fix. I'm using Connect to navigate Lemmy and it reminds me a little of my dear old Baconreader.
I miss the niche subs I used to follow
Liking it so far. It's like stepping into another reality (or instance? am I doing this correctly) where people are just decent and not all the time spiteful. It's such a breath of fresh air. I kinda feel more at ease here. I noticed that I have shared more of my feelings here than the long time I spent on rexxit. Maybe it's cuz I share the same experience with my co-refugees. Maybe it's also the upvotes that makes me feel that people are actually reading lol
It definitely was a rough start. Mastodon was already a bit more mature and the app ecosystem was way more vibrant. However I discovered the wefwef PWA and since it’s almost an Apollo clone it feels like home.
I’m enjoying the beans.
I love it so far. I've been a huge supporter for decentralization for a while now through blockchain tech so it's great to see so many people finally seeing what makes decentralization as a concept so great.
I just hope the apps keep developing at the speed they are because they are the part that is lacking the most right now. The experience is significantly better on PC right now. Even simple things like finding new communities is difficult on the apps I've tried so far.
Tbh not sure why I didn't join sooner. I really like the idea of Lemmy. I'm exited to see more communities come in and grow the platform. Would love to see more voices and perspectives, but I also kind of like the tiny bit of barrier to entry. If someone goes through the process of joining an instance and figuring out how all of this works then it means they really want to be here and they have some sense about them to get here. I really hope Lemmy flourishes and it's not a bubble because of Reddit.
I like it more than reddit honestly. We've already expanded into a space 3x the size of what we have on reddit, although there are far less people and a lot of those communities will disappear. Honestly an architecture mistake that reddit only allowed one subreddit per topic instead of entire an entire reddit instance dedicated to one thing.
So far so good. The main reason I bailed on Reddit was the loss of RiF. I hardly ever used desktop. I'm using Connect for Lemmy and I'm still getting used to it, but it seems like a decent enough replacement.
I like it. Been spending a lot more time here than Reddit. That's for sure.
It's better than I expected tbh, the app I use is Jerboa (it's suspiciously similar to boost, I'm waiting for Ruben [the dev] to publish boost for lemmy)
Everything is done right to ensure an open platform and that another redditpocalypse doesn't happens, the only thing that concerns me is that if I choose lemmy.world, I'll miss on other things, I just need all my tech related and videogames (and blender) subreddits to migrate so I fully leave reddit.
Also, I think I got a good username
It seems like it's the same with less poop and more beans.
Jokes aside, my favorite feature is that image hosting is built-in. I have actually been using my own instance as an image hosting site and posting them elsewhere. I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to view a file browser, though.
Never used 3rd party apps on reddit but was tired of the main app so I tried alternatives. Not disappointed with the current state of Lemmy and really want it to grow
Really glad to be here. I wish there were more people here to contribute to the comments and wish more apps supported the instance I joined. It's growing though. Those things will improve quickly.
I like it most because I can't and don't feel the need to doom scroll. I just check in every once in a while during the day and post here and there and upvote bunches of posts and comments and then I am out. Plus I don't feel that my comments will be attacked and downvoted for no good reason.
It's a learning curve. I think it'll be great in the long run though. Not sure which app I'm going to stick with. Using jerboa currently.
I like it! More exposure, one or two good apps for Android/ iOS, and I'm sure it can be a better Reddit in a few months.
After I took the time to understand it, I love it. Just need my favorite communities to migrate/become more active (yes I’ve thought of starting at least one myself and might do so).
I especially enjoy that I feel good about contributing to a conversation here. I didn’t comment much on Reddit because the mob seemed relentless at times.
I’ve joined two instances and I think I need to do more to understand their differences (Lemmy.world vs discuss.online) before I settle on a “main.”
I like it and I’m optimistic that it will only continue to grow and get better. I also really like the fediverse as a concept. It feels more like the old internet, where you had lots of smaller communities, rather than everything centralized into one huge space.
The only thing I miss is my smaller subs is that I really enjoyed for my specific interests. Hopefully they grow here. For general content I enjoy Lemmy much more
It's great! Though I'm missing some niche communities. And some good apps.
Very little content here. But I'm glad the crowd is more diverse than on Mastodon
Trying to figure things out. I like it so far, just feels a little different. A little more sparse. Using the Jerboa app, which seems okay. I miss Boost, but I think the dev is working on a Lemmy version.
The content is really bounded by tech stuff, but I guess that's due to migration being important for tech-savvy users. It is true that appending "reddit" to search queries and following the results is still inevitable (but hey, libreddit and teddit still work). But vibe is completely different, very organic, very active, I like it a lot. I think there is a lot of potential in this feeling of authentic communication. Let's hope it grows.
Lemmy is much better replacement for Reddit than Mastodon is for Twitter.
I've been spending more time here than reddit since they killed 3rd party apps. I'm liking it so far
It's great! Definitely satisfies the urges to scroll through a bunch of silly crap. And the Memmy for Lemmy app on iOS feels a lot like Apollo. Very happy to be part of this community, despite it's intimate size
I enjoy it so far, but I am noticing that the userbase is currently a lot smaller and thus there are fewer posts and comments. Also, the niche interests are very thinly represented. For instance, I enjoyed following the valheim subreddit to get up to speed with updates and see fun creations. Lemmy has basically no community for valheim. The same goes for other narrow subjects. I expect this to grow along with the popularity of Lemmy, but it's currently a bit shallow.
Everyone's nice and there activity, but I miss some subs. I could make them them all, but creating content for all of them would be too much work... I already do that outside reddit/lemmy. 😣
I love that it exists. I don't visit Reddit anymore, although I miss some communities, especially AskHistorians and AskScience. Otherwise, I can tolerate the teething problems of Lemmy (and kbin) in order to support a free internet. The latter is far more important, to me, than "better functionality"
I love the experience so far, but god, do I crave my niche communities.
I like it better so im using it as much as i can and just hoping its not a fad and people actually move over enough to unseat reddit
Really miss Sync, but am living well enough with Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released.
I really love it. Even though I miss a few subreddits, Lemmy feels much like early Reddit, and it scratches an itch I've felt for many years.
It's a lot better than the last time I was here. Last time a week later the top few posts were the same lol
Honestly, I'm kind of hating it... everything feels like it is in the wrong place, everything has just enough friction in interacting with Lemmy to irritate me as I try and get realigned, and nothing feels like it is at my fingertips. The signup process alone was adamant that it was incredibly straightforward and that instances don't matter... but is also very variable based on the instance you choose... I had to wait until morning because my instance's email verification didn't work and had to be done manually. Then when I look to turn on 2FA, it just doesn't work at all, very unappealing.
Maybe once Boost for Lemmy is out, that will have some quality of life, but currently I am not actively liking anything about Lemmy at all, beside just the basic principle of it.
It feels like people are genuinely excited to be part of the community, which is something I haven't felt from reddit in years. I really hope that's able to stick around in one form or another. The community makes the site fun. I don't think reddit has been "fun" for a while, it's just been a content-firehose to the face, and it's nice to not be drowned by it.
But also I'm bored and don't know what to do with the internet anymore lol
So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me
It’s an adjustment. I find there to be far fewer comments on posts. I want to be optimistic, but haven’t achieved the same level of dopamine release. Still, I prefer it to the echo chamber Reddit has become.
I’m not bad about it. Trying to contribute more and hopefully help this place grow!
It's aight. I just want to see all the billionaire bastards burn
I'm not particularly impressed, to be honest.
Aside from the performance issues (which I'm sure will be sorted out), the UI is awful. Seriously, how the hell am I supposed to join a community on desktop? The "subscribe" button is just a bit of text!
I understand the idea of the fediverse is to be decentralised, but it just doesn't make for a great user-experience. The whole thing doesn't really "click" in the same way reddit does. On top of that, it doesn't really have a big enough userbase yet. On reddit, big subs like gaming and movies a packed full of users, yet their equivalents seem pretty dead here.
I'm never going to install the official reddit app so I'm sure I'll be fine with Lemmy on mobile when the performance issues are sorted out, but I'll probably stick to reddit on desktop.
r/NCD and various firearms related subreddits are all I miss from reddit.
Think it would be cool to start an instance dedicated to firearms where there's a general community and separate smaller communities dedicated to certain popular platforms or topics like r/longrange or r/ak47. If I take it upon myself to start this I'd try to keep it apolitical other than maybe a community dedicated to gun rights/control/policy discussion only.
For now it feels like a nicotine patch, but in a good way.
I think I sort of understand in theory how instances and the communities work, but I am confused about how it works in practice. I'll hopefully figure it out in time. I signed up via reddthat, so as long as they stay federated... I should still be able to see everything and do everything and have my comments be seen by everyone? Right?
I signed my mum up for Reddit 6 years ago and she's a daily user of that (lmao I help her with subreddits and try to help her not fall into weird rabbit holes, but over all she just looks at cat pictures and fun things) but I don't think she'd manage Lemmy. Maybe, if there were already more communities and more posts related to her interests, and I set Lemmy up for her, and nothing ever changed about how she would learn to use Lemmy. But I think just the nature of Lemmy - it's too new and the idea of instances and how they are federated is too confusing for now. Or maybe I just need to understand it better myself.
Scratches the itch but like others I miss the more niche stuff.
But I'm trying to be the change I want to see
I’m really enjoying it and feel like it’s easier to reply here than in Reddit. I love seeing how fast it’s growing as well. People also seem nicer here - it feels less toxic.
Seems OK, hoping Sync for Lemmy client adds a bit more polish, most current clients seem unfinished or a bit janky in some ways.
Ultimately, it'll just take me time to adjust to the new way of things and more users/content.
The only way I'll be going back to reddit is if I can use Sync, and that definitely isn't happening so I'll have to adjust.
It’s decent, has a lot of room to grow though. I really miss the niche subreddits.
I’m enjoying it! The fediverse is a cool concept with a lot of promise, and with Reddit and Twitter both being killed from the top it’s taken on new importance for me. It’s also been really refreshing to see that Lemmy isn’t a right-wing cesspool like Reddit alternatives and whatnot have been in the past
the fediverse has done a great job replacing reddit for my scrolling-though-random-stuff needs! as for more niche stuff, it's still not there yet (as has been pointed out many, many times already), but i'm trying to help! i'm posting and commenting regularly on [email protected]. "be the change you want to see" and all that. i encourage everyone else to do the same with their niche communities!
edit: though at this point i have 4 accounts across different instances (here, lemmy.world, kbin.social, feddit.online), thanks to various things. so it's not entirely smooth sailing for me right now
I prefer it. The concept of federation has been hard to wrap my mind around, but I think the issue with current-day reddit is that many communities became so large that interactions between users and even interactions with posts that are more than an hour old almost completely dried up (or at least that was my experience) which made the website a lot less interesting as a social platform and more of just a time-wasting doomscrolling link aggregation platform.
Loving it except for a handful of bugs that I expect to be fixed in the next release :)
It feels good to start fresh with a new set of community subscriptions. Some of them I've subscribed based on the topic before they've had significant traffic, but we'll see what happens!
It also seems some communities that have been copied from reddit (by name) have multiple competing instances. I expect some community wars and perhaps mergers to occur in the future. Exciting!
Its great! I was on pleroma before and didn't even know Lemmy was a thing u til recently. Love federated social media.
I’m certainly enjoying it. As others have mentioned it’s a lot slower content wise and the smaller subreddits I was in aren’t here. Lots of niche content is missing, but things like news, politics, gaming, tech, security, are all here and doing fine.
It definitely feels emptier, but I imagine that with time that will change. Still, I don't mind it, because that means that people here are generally more active.
I still miss some subs, but I know those will also come with time.
I like Lemmy for the more serious conversations. Still think it’s missing a lot of “casual” communities but that’s something that hopefully comes later.
When federation works it is good. The instance I signed up for was missing quite a bit of posts across many of the different communities I had signed for. It seems better now after a recent upgrade, but unless one checks manually there is no way to know for sure if one's instance is federating properly.
The other issue I find is that because anyone can create a topic on any instance, that can cause fragmentation of less popular topics so basically none of the instances has a good representation on that given topic because the few people interested in the topic are scattered.
Much better than Reddit. I no longer get my comments automatically removed by some poorly implemented algorithm anymore. Lemmy is more flexible and diverse.
I'm slowly figuring out things and slowly finding communities. There seems like there's a lot more genuine engagement. It's rad.
I really like it, except I'm still constantly getting "network error" messages. Not sure if it's a Jerboa app glitch or if the networks are still incredibly overloaded.
For example, every comment I post will buffer for a bit then tell me there's a network error, as if my comment didn't get posted. But if I refresh the post, my comment shows up. It's going to happen this time, too.
With the improvements Ruud and team put into Lemmy.World, my experience has gotten infinitely better. Lemmy is completely satisfying my Reddit addiction, and Memmy is an incredible app to navigate it all.
Overall, I’m really happy I made the switch. Had a 12 year run on Reddit, but Lemmy proves that Spez is wrong about where the value lies. If the content is water, there are dozens of ways to move it to different places, and right now Reddit looks like a leaky bucket in comparison.
Yeah the content isn't quite as niche yet, but I way prefer it
Made my account yesterday. I'd never heard of Lemmy so I decided to check it out. So far, it translated pretty well to what I was used to with reddit but it feels a lot like reddit did 12 years ago which is great. Also, there's NSFW posts on my feed! As soon as I saw that, I signed up so fast.
I don't know what the process is to create a community, but I have a few I want to try and bring to the table that may hopefully attract some quality users from subreddits i frequented. Audio production, magic the gathering, thunder basketball, etc.
Also, each and every comment I read from lemmy users feels...genuine? Like everyone has something to add instead of the same stale "this" comments. Overall, it's been great getting to know this website!
I'm glad Star Trek came over. Really hoped for some Stellaris and Xcom, maybe eventually.
I think it's really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I'm following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
loving it so far aside from comments randomly disappearing after i submit them, but im assuming that bug will eventually be worked out. i miss the big card interface reddit switched to but im currently using a custom css that makes lemmy look like old.reddit.com (modified to be amoled black) and it feels great.
I like it so far, although I don't quite understand the whole thing with instances etc yet. But I'll get there eventually. Like many others, I was just lurking on Reddit, but now it feels like it might be worth commenting and maybe even posting once in a while. That's a great feeling
I'm liking it so far, but a couple of things confuse me about the multiple instances thing.
I've made an account in lemmy.world and for the most part, have found my favorite communities are on the grow here.
However, I know there are other popular instances like lemmy.ml and such. Do our accounts not work cross compatible across the various lemmy instances?
Liking it so far. It feels a bit like the early days of the internet. You know the potential is there and can’t wait to see this grow.
It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy
They managed to make an even worse search experience
Lemmy is life, Lemmy is love.
As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.
Its great, every day more and more people are creating content and the quality of discussions is rich and contextual in most cases, back in reddit most of the times a huge chunk of the top comments where just reddit comedians making a low effort comment to try and gain upvotes.
One of the things I like about lemmy the most so far is the ability to view both a local All and the All with every instance there is, so if my local instance gets stale I can just look at whats happening on all instances!
Adjusting slowly. I feel about as isolated with a sense of pseudo-connection that dies off the moment I stop typing my reply here as I did on reddit, if anything less content here with a less aggressive algorithm keeps me from getting into scrolling loops and lets me actually do shit with my day.
I love it and created my own instance!!
I'm loving hanging out with y'all.
Not sure yet. Still getting the hang of it. I'll give a few more days/weeks but I thin the promise is there.
LOVING it!!!! It's very similar to reddit as far as content goes, but its better in the sense that im not being bombarded with rage bait!
Now that I've gotten used to the differences I'm enjoying it, fills a lot of the whole left by reddit. The only thing I'm missing is the scale of the user base making some of the more niche subreddits I used to spend the most time on not have a very active analog here
Reminds me of early days Reddit with smaller communities and content. Reddit has more than a decade to build on its community, so naturally it has more content and more niche communities. But Lemmy doesn't have big cooperate influence like Reddit, so hopefully it can have more balance and unbias contents in the future.
I like it. The memes and entertainment are growing and good enough for me. But the knowledge base needs more input so that it can be used at some point as discussion forum for problems in different categories. Like the old Reddit were you could search if people had this problem and solved it etc etc.
I'd like to be able to group multiple subs into a mult-iLemmy that I can save to refer to. e.g I have multiple gaming subs I'd like to group into a single browsable page titled "games". Any way to do multi-subs?
Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.
It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)
I like it a lot, but I do miss the multi-reddit feature, several communties in one feed. But so far, so good!
Loving in, and it gets better every day
It's a bunch of people chopping it up. I'm a fan. Mostly cause it's not apart of any economic system probly.
I prefer the smallish community size over the vast sea of opinion that is reddit.
It's weird, a little quirky, and can be a unpredictable at times. It all adds to charm though and I love it.
i found it challenging to understand how to subscribe to communities across instances until i discovered the Home icon in the top right of lemmiverse.net. i wish there was a quick 'subscribe' button there that would help you build up your subscriptions fast.
generally, i feel good about it. waiting for a few communities i really enjoyed to pop up- watchexchange and watches are big ones imo.
glad to see two huge F1 communities though!
Getting better as more people are on onboarded
It's good but it doesn't have all fixes for all problems yet like reddit had
I'm liking it a lot.
Good so far. Communities here are less active and I am still using old.reddit.com for stuff that has no equivalent community here yet, but just gonna give it time and re-search for the missing stuff every so often to see if any of it has been added anywhere.
I never used twitter, so i had no expectations when I used Mastodon.
I was a little hesitant with Lemmy since I use reddit so much. I'm liking it way more than I thought!
It's obviously less content, but as far ss my day-to-day use, i don't miss much. Hardest part was finding different communities to sub to, but there are enough directory sites around to help out with that.
There are a handful of local/regional subs on Reddit that I'll miss. I typically scanned them for news and current events happening around me. Their analog communities have been created here but the population is still pretty meagre. Which is fine. It means that to make it interesting I'll actually have to participate more rather than just lurk.
Loving it. Haven't been back to Reddit in days. Don't foresee that changing.
I find all to be rather good, and don’t miss r/all that much. There are much less news which I miss. And then there are the niche communities that don’t really exist. I’m very hopeful though!
High quality content makes my scrolling more enjoyable and less depressing.
BUT vastly smaller community means it's harder to get questions answered. Reddit was my goto for all kinds of things that I have now turned to ChatGPT for.
I like it very much! Everything comes naturally into place for me, I've had no issues adapting as of today. Already feels like home, and it's really nice to be here.
This is literally my first ever comment on Lemmy - been lurking since Apollo went dark. Going to try and be way more active here than I ever was on Reddit, need to start throwing more upvotes around too.
I have a nice little folder on my homescreen full of apps I’m switching between which is fun in itself watching them develop super fast, with great updates from the devs and server hosts which adds to the feeling of being in on the ground floor (typing this on Memmy, but also enjoying wefwef when it works for me).
There’s a real feeling here of “something” happening, but no one quite knows what it is yet. I wasn’t there for the really early days of Reddit, but I presume it felt a bit like this. The Beans situation was fun to watch come and go.
I haven’t built up a sub list of communities yet like quite like I had, so mostly just browsing All to soak in the entire platform, but that will come with time as it did over there.
Overall, it’s solidly filling the Apollo sized hole in my heart and in my day-to-day doomscrolling. I’m definitely sticking around for the long haul here - fuck you u/Spez.
So much potential! All that has to happen, in my opinion, there needs to be 3 instances( at minimum) that will promise to never defederate anything! And I mean keep corporate meta bs included and as long as it's not illegal ( looking at you, r/jailbait) it should be included. This platform will take off!!!
Let everyone have an opinion, a voice. Even if it's offensive. There should be a place for racism, fat phobia and discourse of any kind. And then we can have a place for everything else in between. As long as we have that yin and yang on the Internet lemmy will take off! like nothing else in the world because if you don't want to see something just don't join that community or that a federation.
A truly open source and free place curated just for you based on what you want, what you desire and what you would like to learn, that, that's what this place is all about!
It's the pipe dreams that the internet should have always been.
That's just my 2¢. Let everyone have a place and let it be free!
It's Much faster than reddit, no ads. it makes me think reddit should die at earliest
I'm digging it so far. Nothing to complain about. Just being patient with it's growth. Great potential.
I've been in Lemmy for a month now and I've never seen the need to come back to reddit at all. I like it here.
Currently I use Connect Lemmy for Android as with Jerboa there was a login issue when the server version wouldn't match. Not sure if this app is more resilient to this but it wasn't a good start. I couldn't use Lemmy properly for about a week or two. I also don't like that Lemmy is hard to search for new SubLemmy or search for results via Google. Before I just added "Reddit" to get the good results, I wonder how this will evolve if Lemmy gets bigger. Well and the whole kbing/Lemmy/mastodon link of the Fedyverse is really confusing for new people.
I'm trying to like Lemmy, but too small of a community, therefore, not enough activities.
A lot of my favorite subs aren't here.
Signing up for non tech savvy ppl is a complete disaster. Took me more than. 30-45 minutes of reading to get to signup. Most of the top Instances are closed for registration. Even if those that are open would take hours to confirm our signup.
Oh, if you go on Google, search Lemmy, it is on the top list. Even the related article is a Wiki. Lemmy needs to be less complicated, as in, everyone go sign in and get on it.
Honestly, I like it here. I've started to migrate mid-June and I got involved way more than in 5y of reddit. I'm definitely not looking back.
I like it as a social media and news source (maybe better than a social media tbh) but looks like I was using Reddit wrong before because I can count the times I surfed around r/all so I never was one of the more trendy guys (or what Reddit wants to be), I spent most of my time there in retro gaming communities, homelab, selfhosting, data hoarding, networking and alike, so in a nutshell more niche fields and sadly not all of those are highly active here (although the selfhost community and alike is! Who would have guessed haha).
It will take time to fill all the needs for the different users, but I really think this can evolve in a better place, and the new Meta app will bring more people to the Fediverse, for the better or the worse.
I like it so far. Everyone seems so helpful and nice. There isn't a ton of content here yet, but I know we're all working on it. Some of my niche interests have already had communities pop up since I've joined.
Currently, I'm using Connect. The UX is similar enough to Baconreader that I haven't had many issues with my transition. The future looks bright!
I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)
I like it. I haven’t been back to Reddit since June 30th. It still has ways to go in terms of content and app availability. I am using Memmy and it is wonderful. Missing support for gifs (some work many don’t), albums, etc. great start.
I'm liking it so far. What I've seen so far seems like the lemmy community is much more giving and less toxic than reddit.
I just found out how to add more…instances? I want to call them subreddits but that’s not it lol but I like it, and so far I’ve curated enough for it to keep me interested while scrolling. I do understand that everyone is still getting their footing, I definitely am, so it won’t be perfect or exactly what I want. You really gotta take time to discover and explore the feddiverse, it seems quite big.
I think if we want this space to be a great reddit alt, we gotta put the effort in making it so!
It's been alright so far. I couldn't get an account to work on Lemmy.world, so I had to start over on lemm.ee and that was kind of a pain, especially since some communities don't show up on lemm.ee. I'm still trying to get everything set up and subscribed to the same communities I was on Reddit. I'm using Jerboa and it works pretty well and looks good. Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow!
Fairly good!
For all its downsides, federation allows for the creation of very cozy communities. I love the feature that you can switch between browsing federated and local subs.
There could be more content of course, but it's not a matter of Lemmy and I, too, feel like I want to invest more in local community than on Reddit.
Keep it up!
Better than I thought. There are hiccups, but nothing awful. I enjoy it and it scratches the reddit itch.
Still learning how to use it, but so far i like it. I wish to find an app that would use less mobile data tho, RIF was nice and light, but Connect atleast feels like good ol' RIF.
Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.
It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)
Been here about 3 weeks and every day it's feeling more like home.
I won't be going back to reddit.
It's surprisingly good. I thought it would be more dead, but it actually makes for quite a nice replacement with plenty of content.
Been using Thunder through Test Floght and it’s been pretty nice. I’m sure with time it’ll get better and more populated but I don’t mind the calm right now.
Good quality memes so far, content for specific communities such as games or sports is lacking
I am enjoying out here. There are a lot of interesting posts and good discussion. However almost 80% of subs I am subscribed to on reddit are not here because they are niche subs. So now my browsing is divided between reddit and lemmy.
I miss Relay, my reddit app.
Sometimes it's really slow but besides that, it works and I believe it will take off as a successful project, Reddit can go duck itself.
Definitely nice to scroll through news and memes again without having to deal with twitters dumpsterfire. Still some comforts I'm used to are missing but it's early days and I only see it getting better from here.
Definitely not missing Reddit.
I was able to join Lemmy fairly easily at first. Then the updates happened on Lemmy World. Was almost about to give up because I was kind of made to log off then I couldn't log back in for the life of me.
Knew I had to be patient, but at one point I got so frustrated I just deleted the whole thing.
Downloaded it again a couple of days later and all was good. All sorted. Still learning though.
I find the idea of instances and being able to have a home instance while seeing others so great. It's like IRC with a server of choice and channels, but I even have the opportunity to see other servers, so it's a fun idea to me. Also Lemmy users are so nice! You're the best, and it must be a bit awkward for so many Reddit folk to very suddenly arrive.
I find it refreshing, for the most part. I've found that comments and replies are much more civil, I'm still getting used to the way users here disagree with actual reasoning while maintening respect for the other perspective. I had ads blocked before, but being absolutely ad free, without even the blank space where an ad would go is even better. The only downside is the amount of space dedicated to complaining about reddit. I don't wish to stop anyone from processing in whatever way they need, I just need to spend more time in my subscriptions instead of "all".
Little bit on struggle bus. Looks like work blocks the instance I registered on so tried lemmy.world, but I guess I need a totally separate account to login to that? Seems a little fussy
