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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Browsing Lemmy's front page has replaced reddit's r/all for me, usually checking top of 12 hours from all instances.

But I still use reddit for specific forums of certain things, because it's just the biggest community for the particular subject. I usually try to check if I can find the particular subject from Lemmy and check that out first though.

I'm more of a commenter/lurker and I quite rarely make new posts, but when I do make one:

  • If it's a question about something I need help with, I'll start with a Lemmy post and then possibly also make one on Reddit - more readers, more answers.
  • If it's just a shitpost/meme/"content", I only post it on Lemmy.
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I totally replaced my Reddit usage with Lemmy. Jerboa is fine and I feel every time I want to spend some time I find something here to read. And I feel it's less useless than Reddit as well, with its nonsense ads and bots.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I mostly use Lemmy these days, especially after my preffered third party reddit app got ported over to Lemmy. I only use reddit for a few communities, Lemmy for everything else. I also only use reddit on desktop, never on mobile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It is like being in the early stages of reddit so liking it so far. I think i may start contributing since there isn't a ton of content yet

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Overall, I do like it most of the time, but as of right now my biggest issue is the massive amount of downtime on Lemmy.world. How am I supposed to like it if I can't even use it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Personally I'd suggest switching servers then, you'll still get all the content anyways. I started out on lemmy.world, but moved over to kbin.social and haven't had any issues after that

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think it still needs to grow and get more stable. I find any browsing all that there isn't enough there for me to use it in the same way I used reddit.

For the first month or so, I would say it was about 40% of my SNS usage, now it's probably about 20-30%. Hopefully as more and more people use it, we get more users and more stable instances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I am liking it, community is friendly. I am slowly replacing my reddit addiction with lemmy. everyday I am finding new instances/communities to join. all in all, this journey so far has been exciting

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With third party apps added and new niche communities its getting alot better. I'm enjoying it. Also has a high level of discussion a higher level of discussion without karma.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I still prefer it to Reddit. I think there was a noticeable increase in activity after Sync was released - unfortunately since then I have noticed more argumentative / defensive interactions. I guess that just goes with the territory though as more people join and become active, I wish people would just chill though. I feel like I'm having to deal with more children, but it's still nowhere near as bad as Reddit was.

I'm still missing the diversity of Reddit as I liked lurking in (and learning from) communities I would never come across in the real world, but I hope I will stumble across them in time as I'm sure they're out there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm loving it, it feels genuine and authentic without all the bots and algorithms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I learn something new every week about subjects I was decided on for a long time, forcing me to re-evaluate. It seems like there are more knowledgeable people here than on Reddit. I do wish our visualnovels community was more active, but alas, it's a more niche subject that's bound to grow slowly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, I've loved it. I recommend Alexandrite for desktop and Voyager for mobile.

I've had rich discussion within various communities, and I'm excited to see Lemmy grow, even if it takes some pitfalls and time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

not going well at all to be honest. it's very hard to adjust. but i remember reddit was hard for me too, so i guess i should just put in a bit more effort

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Signing up for some instances can be annoying, when a few want you to type out a cover letter of why you want to join them. I get trying to weed out bots but god is it tedious.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Regretting thr instance i chose and checking for migration options.

Lemmy world is showing some weird reddit vibes when it comes to shoving admin decisions down users throats, even if they dont affect me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I use it but some of the smaller communities pretty much are non existent here

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Pretty good so far, miles ahead of reddit, it's been nice seeing it grow, have been here for a year and change

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My opinion is probably in line with most; that for general "news" it's just fine. For niche topics, most aren't here or at least aren't as robust as Reddit

There are two relatively minor features that I do wish would be implemented:

  1. homepage defaults to Subscribed instead of all, or at least a way to set that as the default

  2. a quick jump to top of page button that stays present when you've scrolled way down the page. Not sure if that was a RIF addition or native to Reddit, but that was a nice quality of life feature

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I use it just as much as Reddit and generally enjoy the home/all experience much better. What you miss is the niche communities but I feel like the better experience on the โ€œbigโ€ communities like [email protected] or [email protected] make up for it.

It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so Iโ€™m grateful for that as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Lemmy is great. Altho now it's full of Linus apologists so it sucks atm. Also Memmy is fantastic!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Still not as good as Reddit as a platform despite the apps are getting really good. I haven't discovered interesting /c/ and my frontpage is filled with memes and tech news only, it gets boring. The local regional /c/ is pretty much dead. No one bother posting or start a convo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm here for the community and to be honest - the people in the Fediverse are very smart and share their smarty brains in a nice and parsable way.

edit: with the exception of c/asklemmy.world because apparently all the judgey shitheads that make the internet suck all live there.

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