Asklemmy

Browsing through the global feed scratches the same itch as browsing through r/all mindlessly does and I don't miss much from Reddit, but I really miss r/noncredibledefense, and neither Lemmy spin off community is nearly as active

I'm interacting with it far more and in far more varied contexts than I had been on reddit for several years. Overall, there isn't as much useful or entertaining activity in total of course, but the signal to noise ratio is soooooo much higher.

Aside from the russian shills, fine and dandy.

Very nice, much better than I expected. And it's only gonna get better with apps further development.

It's quite good as long as a thread is not political. As soon as anything even remotely political starts being discussed, it devolves into an absolute shitshow, political opinions on Lemmy seem to be much more extreme than on Reddit for some reason.

I'm loving it. I'm following a lot (about 500 communities) so I'm always seeing new content. It did take a while to find everything I wanted to see though.

A bit slow at times, but loving it so far.

I like it. I feel more comfortable to engage with others. I still have some communities on reddit that I go back to for specific information, but other then that, full transition.

It has a nice vibe, easy to get engaged and I don't spend as much time on it as previously which is a win-win.

I had a great time here and did a great viral promotion campaign for the movie before the strike!

I guess the secret for a box office record is to organically promote the movie on Lemmy.

I'm like the George Takei of Lemmy, this is my turf now.

I comment and post more than on Reddit partially because it feels more personal, partially because I want the platform to grow

The two problems I have that I can think of right now are there aren't as many communities/they're smaller/fractured across instances, and the classic internet hivemind dogpile on topics and stances

I wish there was a big enough wrestling community

I'm not going to be fully optimistic, I've struggled to get one community active and can feel myself slowly giving up. I moved from Reddit using the website as 80% image sharing and 20% discussion and it feel like Lemmy's content is 20% image sharing and 80% discussion so it's feeling rough

Its okay. But im happy to be rid of my reddit habit.

Great question! I was a Reddit user for 14 years officially and, after the API bullshit they pulled, I found this amazing community! I don't have to sort through a bunch of bot bloated crap to find something interesting. I really don't want to say it but this is the Reddit I grew to love and I thank them for pushing me to this community!

The memes are good, but some of the zealots here have lost their god damn minds. Seems like only in certain threads, on certain instances.

It's weirdly more and less chill than reddit at the same time. I kinda like it though.

I really like it. Though, my experience massively increased after I switched away from a bigger instance.

Nice positivity in this thread.

I like it a lot, the platform is very promising. Trying to get some general communities (movies, casualconversation) up to speed

I use it daily and don't go on reddit anymore. I'm missing a lot of things I used to look at but I don't have anything to post on those topics.

Compared to reddit the quality of discussion is far better. It still feels like you can't go against the grain without being banned. I haven't had a spicy enough take on anything to test that yet but I've seen people getting instantly labeled as trolls and banned.

Overall it's a good experience, I think the web ui is better than reddit without RES and I'm liking Jebora even if it's buggy as hell.

Love it! Reddit was unusable to me with its crazy mods, so I mostly lurked. I also personally find lemmings to be more welcoming than redditors.

And I like to be somewhere closer to the start of the journey we're all making here on Lemmy even though it's been years since it was released. We're still early (but for real, unlike with creepto).

I enjoy it so far. But I wish more stuff was tagged as NSFW and filtered out. Often I get girls in bikinis in my feed and I don't want to know about that. I've been banning endless communities from my feed but it seems new ones pop up daily.

All in all Ok. There still some toxicity, not enough types of people to dilute some of the fringe or hardcore groups at times. Things like circlejerks seem to have more power outside of their own realm at times, anecdotally at least. Having to swap instances because DDoS or federation policy or the like and then having to reblock the same furry or anime or trans or random niche comic porn sites is a bit tiresome too. I get that the makeup of the users skews towards these groups and their supporters more, it's just taking more curation I guess.edit: and duplicate posts from multiple instances. Another thing I imagine will be resolved in future.

Those negatives aside it's been an interesting experience. I feel that I'm getting a broader sense of what's going on, things that would have been drowned out before now appear to get at least a decent chance if not equal billing in my feed. The new forums have been really good, a very wide range of topics and articles from all around and some properly interesting discussions going on.

It definitely feels more like the earlier internet days at times which can be good as well as bad. I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops

It's good and bad. I miss most of the niche communities that I frequented on Reddit but on the other side I am commenting and interacting on Lemmy much more than reddit. It feels good to have some discussion. Hopefully the niche communities I miss will grow in time. Another good thing is that since Lemmy is much smaller than Reddit I'll run out of new content quickly and go do something else instead. So now I'm not mindlessly scrolling for ages. I am noticing that since this is such a small community with a very specific group of people that use it (left leaning/tech) that it generally has much less diverse content and memes compared to Reddit. This matters more on Lemmy since most of the content is focused on broad appealing things compared to Reddit which had bigger niche communities.

It's pretty good actually, thanks for asking.

I personally was in for lemmy since the beginning, actually participated a bit building the first idea for another similar idea in 2018 to the fediverse, but I didn't have the capacity to participate more.

Now, I love that people seem to enjoy Lemmy and I'm excited for its growth!

Honestly? I'm wondering where all the quality Reddit posters ended up. Some Lemmy comments are even worse than the ones on Reddit, although the lack of gag posts is refreshing.

The lemmy experience is so much better than reddit in one way: the Lemmy website on the phone just let's you use it, no more "This community is only available from the app" and have to use the desktop website, or the log in with Google pop up. I don't want to use the app, I don't want to log in on mobile.

Ditched Mastodon pretty much entirely and Lemmy has been my go to. Sometimes will fill in content gaps with my RSS feeder. Definitely leaned me off of Reddit and I haven't touched the site in like 2 months. The desktop site is still rough, but using Sync it feels like I'm on Reddit again. It's just missing the niche communities I really missed, but the community is still building up here. Lemmy still has a lot to improve but overall the community has been pretty stable. The instance drama is entertaining lol.

Honestly, I don't miss Reddit at all. I deleted my account over a month ago.

Voyager is just like Apollo, and it's been fun to try other apps as well. I also have accounts on kbin, Discuit, and Squabblr, but Squabblr is basically a dead platform at this point, and Discuit is yet another centralized platform so who knows if that one will last.

Lemmy's been my favorite of the bunch.

Going better than I expected, especially now that we have so many capable clients like Sync. I don't miss Reddit at all, and I really like that there aren't any annoying posters like Schnoodle and his circlejerking fanbois, or the LTT fanclub in subs like r/pcmr who'd downvote anyone who criticizes LTT, or Windows fanbois who'd always downvote anything Linux related (I also like that there's a larger representation of Linux and OSS folks here which is awesome).

I spend like an hour here daily and I'm looking forward to see how much it grows.