I don't understand why people are grasping so desperately onto reddit. This platform is young but already superior in most ways to reddit.
Also, I firmly believe that federation is the perfect environment for something like reddit and this is what we should have gotten in the first place instead of what reddit became.
I've honestly been impressed with how fast Lemmy has improved both in terms of technical implementation as well as the quality of the site overall. Memmy has also impressed me with how quickly it is improving as well.
My experience is that it's 95% of the way there and has the potential to do it all. I think Lemmy needs time to coalesce as a thing and for defacto groups to emerge that replace the ones over on Reddit.
I’ll be honest, I have not weened myself 100% off Reddit just yet. However, I notice with each passing day since Reddit sabotaged third party apps that I am opening and scrolling through Memmy first and more often than I am doing with Narwhal. So while I have not left Reddit behind just yet, leaving it behind is getting easier by the day as more people start coming over to Lemmy and is becoming more active.
Give it some time, user count is still tiny compared to Reddit so obviously niche content will be less common at first. But it's growing rapidly, I've not even been here a week and every day it feels more alive.
I've been on Lemmy for only a few weeks, and I am already seeing pretty growth on niche communities. The TTRPG community specifically was pretty much dead here a couple of weeks ago. But now there are lots and lots more people! The communities are active, there is constantly new content, and actual upvotes. Nice to see! I am looking forward to watching this place grow.
Eh, this is mostly fine - worst part of reddit is starting to comment on a post only to realize that 4000 people already did so and nobody will ever see your comment.
my problem was writing a well thought out comment, proof reading it, then realized it probably wouldn't matter to OP or anyone else so I'd delete and move on
I use all the tools I can. Reddit has a great community in a lot of subreddits that are extremely helpful. So are many standalone forums for the topics I enjoy. Lemmy is just another option for great content. I prefer Lemmy to Reddit as a platform, but the content - I really don't care where it's hosted as long as it's free (free as in freedom of information, not just cost).
Reddit's gone to shit, but I'll still hit those SysAdmin and other subs for information. Too valuable not to.
It has a few weird glitches that happen every couple of days, and I haven't been able to find a way to 100% stop non-English languages from showing up. Every other day my feed will get filled up with posts in Dutch or German or something, I'll go through block communities and try to keep them out (I just can't read what they say, so I don't care to see it). I tried changing my language in the settings, but that doesn't seem to have stopped it. That and random problems with being logged in seem to affect Memmy on iOS. Otherwise, I'm liking it so far.
Hopefully the momentum continues and the community builds. I was worried about finding a barren wasteland after leaving Reddit, but it seems to be doing well so far.
It's really nice . I'd really love to get the members from r/daria over to my c/daria because i literally don't have anyone else to talk about the show Daria.
I've only noticed two bots: one that reposts Reddit content (which I have blocked) and another that corrects community links to make them instance-agnostic (I appreciate that bot).
I like kbin better, but yes, the threadiverse feels a lot more cosy and positive! There are a few niche communities I miss, but I'm sure they'll take off in time.
I like kbin, but it's missing a few QoL features like collapsing comments and viewing "context" of a reply. To expand on the latter, when someone replies to a comment on both Reddit and Lemmy you can click a "context" link to view your original comment and all child comments. Currently it doesn't seem as easy to view your comment and all replies to it on kbin.
You're right about missing context - that's definitely something I'd like to see added!
Youre also right about collapsing comments, although I have a script that adds that feature. The number of great userscripts for kbin already is pretty crazy!
I still use both. To be honest, I never understood what the whole freakout blackout thing was about and didn't really pay it much attention. Big deal, apps no longer work. Who gives a shit. I never used apps anyway, correction I used Alien Blue like 10 years ago. Reddit is still 100% functional using the website. So in my opinion the whole gloom and doom, sky is falling manbaby temper tantrum was a complete overreaction.