fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined.

Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It's generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.
- As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.
- The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.
- We're doing our best!
  
  If you're in a niche community, don't be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I've seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.
- I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.
I'm so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I'm like... Where? I've had nothing but positive interactions. I'm really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I'm having a better time here than in late stage reddit.
- It's not any more toxic than Reddit honestly.
- A lot of the times it's just people with bad opinions that are mad that they keep getting downvoted. I've seen so many zionist accounts comment under these "lemmy is bad" posts. Even in disagreements the comments are most of the time informative and constructive here.
- As if Reddit was free of toxic interactions lol
- Individual instances and frontends might have something to do with it. People saying they see a ton of NSFW and have to block so many communities, but at sh.itjust.works on Voyager I haven’t seen any of that.
  
  It’s simultaneously open yet curated at the same time and that’s pretty neat!
I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.
- If we can't meme, I don't want to be part of the revolution.
  
  ~(that's a joke, based on something emma goldman kind of said)~
Gotta really hand it to the Lemmy devs, third party devs and server maintainers.

What interface is this? Looks interesting.

Moist is down at the moment, so - in true Reddit fashion - maybe Lemmy just hugged it to death.

There's just something about seeing users make posts on another instance from their own and the comments filled with users from different instances that makes me so happy. It makes Lemmy feel more like an actual front page of the Internet that can be used from anyone anywhere.

It's so much better! RIP R word

R word is an offensive phrase.

You gotta proxy it by saying "letter after Q word".

I still miss some features that RES provided.

Especially draging images to resize them is a feature I use all the time

Does your instance have a mlmym interface? If not, you should ask your admins to add it.

It's not the full RES, but it at least gives you the "old reddit" format. Most of the large instances have it, like old.lemmy.world and oldsh.itjust.works.
- That's for Lemmy...
Good i miss that too. Have you tried something like hoverzoom to fill the gap? That's what i did anyway and it works for all sites not just reddit. It feels like a core browser functionality to me now

Damn, Louisiana got a whole fleet of orphan crushing machines.

If only k/mbin federated better - I'd be all over it :(

Did you actually try mbin? Because we fixed a huge number of federation issues kbin had/has. Sure a bunch still need to be worked on, but we do our best and improve it with every release
- Is it supported by any app?
- I've not tried it but have been keep tabs.
  
  The two main problems appear to still be ongoing PRs/issues; magazine/community sidebar content doesn't update and doesn't federate out at all to lemmy, and moderation actions don't federate at all (any of the various types) - which is particularly problematic.
  
  https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues/248
  
  https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/694
- I used kbin for a while and now mbin for quite some time. I primarily use the desktop website but one thing I noticed from when I tested some Lemmy mobile clients is that I saw a lot more different lemmynsfw communities & consequently threads, like a lot more. What I don't know is if this is just a case of this particular instance, or if it is just more noticeable because of the content. kbin was even worse and barely showed ANY content from that instance, mbin was significantly more when I switched, which surprised me. But if we compare for example (pulled from the instance's frontpage):
  
  https://lemmynsfw.com/c/ecchi https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]
  
  We get a 404 on mbin. You can repeat this for a lot of communities there with the same result. If you search for this or other "invisible" communities in the Magazine search, then they also don't show up there at all:
  
  https://fedia.io/magazines?query=ecchi&fields=names&federation=all&adult=show
  
  If this is the case with other instances then I feel there's potentially a lot of active communities & threads that we aren't even aware of, but also potentially more fringe instances & communities.
- Not a fan of Melroy(mbin founder). They claim to have been a dev for Lemmy and kbin. Then when they didn't get the control they wanted, started their own instance. When that didn't take off, he ranted very publically once again about how the current team he was "working with" sucked and how he was the only true savior of the fediverse. Then he started mbin, which he named after himself(Melroy Bin).
  
  His entire attitude has been "fuck you, I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't listen to me" from the start.
  
  HARD PASS.

and it's* starting to become

article posting = notifications = shitloads if dopamine

(for just lemmy*)

I've always liked Kbin's design and funcionality more than Lemmy, but the latter is more popular and sometimes posts/comments won't load properly on Kbin, so I've stuck with Lemmy for now.

Everyone in this thread is suggesting Mbin, so I might try that. Sounds like it's a fork of Kbin that actually solved a ton of its federation issues with Lemmy.
- I spend most of my time on kbin.run now, one of the mbin forks.
I go back and forth depending on my mood but yeah, I find lemmy a bit smoother
If you like Kbin's design you may enjoy Alexandrite, a frontend for Lemmy
- I found the Lemmy frontends to be all kinda crappy and lacking in options. Alexandrite for example aligns its content to the far left side of the screen, which is super annoying on a widescreen monitor, which are like almost all desktop monitors nowadays. It also does not show any NSFW / 18+ marked thumbnails, just some hyperlink symbol. Thumbnails are also very small and do not fill out their available space in compact mode like they do on kbin / mbin.

More functional how? I'm always interested in how people perceive things and what they look for, after all, it's the people that make places good and so it's important to understand them.

I don't know what OP noticed in particular, but I immediately saw the interface collating other posts with the same URL as super helpful in making the Fediverse feel more contiguous.
- That's a good feature for sure.
- Can be annoying if there's a page that gets updated under the same URL though.

This place by its apparent nature is so far less prone to the pollution those other guys allowed in

Too bad for Louisiana

It really is. But it's the textbook result of Democrats not voting.

17% of registered voters actually voted for Governor and the Landry got in on 11%. It's the same across nearly all disticts which has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

People are so disenfranchised and uninformed that they don't even bother.
- It's either democrats not voting or it's votes being counted wrong. We don't want to face that possibility because it seems hopeless, but that kind of thing can happen. We really need to have more robust systems for ensuring vote counts are correctly reported, verifiable by everyone. Something similar to how monero does its thing without revealing identities but still providing the ability to verify transactions, we should have a voting system that cryptographically allows a person to confirm their vote was counted, without having to provide the ability for others to see what that vote was. There's got to be some kind of algorithm that does this

Agreed!