Asklemmy

I like the desktop app, and the community - but the content is still a bit sparse. The nice thing about reddit was that you could find content for literally anything and every time you refreshed there'd be new content to view. It's obviously not nearly so busy here, but hopefully that will improve with time.

In the meantime I've been juggling this and Mastadon to get my fix lol

My main lemmy instance went down, and I had to go to three because so many people are creating accounts. So bad; but, for a good reason.

It's my first full day on Lemmy and I'm liking it a lot so far. It's definitely smaller than reddit but it feels more personal this way. I'm sure that will change after the exodus that will be happening over there soon.

So far I don't quite understand how everything works. I am confident I will figure it out though

Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.

I was in so many niche places that I think it'll be hard to really find somewhere to connect with.

So far, my experience has been pretty painless. Took about a day to really get used to. Its not nearly as big as Reddit, but I kind of like that.

Pretty great honestly. I've found almost all the "subs" I'm interested in, and the community has been very nice. There's a few small things I'd like to see (UI improvements, 2FA (coming next patch), etc), but those will come in time :)

My self-hosted instance seems to be working well, but I can't figure out how to federate with other platforms such as mastodon.

I guess we'll figure it out at some point.