It is crazy to me how much the lemmy experience has improved since joining here from Reddit a few weeks ago.
The fediverse isn’t going anywhere, and just getting started!
What I really like is the fact that the comments are not just the same jokes or the stupid puns over and over again trying to harvest that sweet sweet karma.
It is refreshing to see comments that bring a different perspective or information to the subject.
The community feels way more welcoming and Lemmy and related apps are developing fast.
Let's hope it stays that way as the user base continues to grow 🤞
And one can turn of the avatars!
I was here early June when there was very little activity. I didn't really understand the fediverse, and how instances worked. I remember thinking "this has so much potential!" The average instance had about 4000 users. And now it's exploding. I know many people are going to continue to use Reddit, there's still more users on Reddit then there are on here, there probably always will.
I feel the users that end up on here are smart, informed, fed up, we see past the lies, we are mature and chill as fuck.
The fact Lemmy takes time to learn is a good thing.
I‘m pretty sure that‘s how literally everyone in their respective information bubble feels. Of course we‘re the only ones who are right ;-)
based ;)
Once the quality of the porn and the memes went up I knew I had found a replacement
Care to share some good porn communities? I've had hard time finding them.
lemmy.world has some but there are also two porn focused instances, lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com. Both federate with lemmy.world, you can use this tool to find communities and sub and interact with both instances from lemmy.world or sign up to each one/either one since they both interact with one another.
just make sure to post some too! getting porn and/or meme communities off the ground ain't easy without a lil help
Yeah it's reaching critical mass I feel. So much more activity compared to a few weeks ago
.world's 40% growth on July 1 blew me away. Really convinced me this place will be the next Reddit in time, in the way we used to know Reddit.
The fact the user experience has gotten smoother and more responsive on top of that is just insane. Huge props to the .world team.
Agreed! And less buggy. 2 weeks ago the servers were constantly crashing or the apps were glitching out. You can see the progress day by day.
Yeah this latest version of Lemmy seems to be humming along well oiled. It's working really good for me.
heads up, someone even ported the old reddit interface to lemmy: https://mlmym.org
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this.
Thats pretty close to old.reddit. I like it.
That ... felt ... weird.
Still ... kinda cool. Who made this??
I have been pleasantly surprised the last several days. I was a little disappointed with the content at first (though I did enjoy how it felt like the "old" internet), but now that the apps have rapidly improved (connect is great!), and I've started subscribing to some interesting communities I really love it. It's like a kinder gentler reddit.
The experience has gotten a lot smoother for sure! We are also getting better at using Lemmy to begin with.
I give credit to the admins of Lemmy.world. Because their instance blew up in popularity, they went through and did some optimizations to DB and other queries. What's even better is they've submitted the PRs so all instances can scale as smoothly going forward.
I'm LOVING it suddenly. A week ago it felt like not enough, today I'm saving more memes and commenting way more than I did on reddit.
I'm looking forward to more niche communities picking up on this speed, but the Frontpage is definitely scratching my quick burst attention span itch now. Tip: Sort by hot, top 6hrs, or new if you need the more rapid change of pace reddit had.
Saving memes? Son, memes don't need to be saved. They self-perpetuate.
I remember when memes were just text, and it was just something stupid like posting "the best" over and over again.
Lol I just meant funny pictures. That's some technically correct shit right there though.
I think this is because sudden growth and the apps improving day by day (or sometimes even in less amount of time).
I'm so happy with Lemmy as what it is right now, and the forecast looks even better.
After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, "Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets." Can't say that now, it's getting busy. There's more content than I can review in a day now, and that's just from the front page in Subscribed view.
First time I've wanted something I visit to be busy.
Yep. I'm a month in. I took a couple days break, and came back yesterday and it's moving along nicely. No drop in quality or anything, just more good content, and slightly faster paced discussion.
As soon as Boost is released, Lemmy will be even more active.
I've actually picked up app development just to help out with Thunder. There's several of us working on it now and it is REALLY starting to come together. Next release is gonna have so much stuff, and I've got even more ready for the one after that.
By far the slickest looking lemmy app yet (aside from Memmy maybe which is only iOS atm). Not yet feature complete, and only on github right now, but already my favorite to actually use.
I think Boost and Sync are going to generate another inrush.
I do hope those apps share at least a small part of their revenue by donating to the Lemmy devs (will be tricky to decide which instances to also donate to though). The app devs should realize that the success of their app business depends on Lemmy still being alive.
I honestly enjoy this app more than the basic reddit app except for the lack of people in my communities. it wasn't the best experience at first (late june), but now I really like it on here
I just joined Lemmy yesterday morning so I don't have a huge frame of reference but I am enjoying it very much so far.
Yeah this is wild ... every instance seems a lot smoother, and there is massivh more and better content. It's feeling awesome
Yup. Much nicer. No sponsored posts and advertisements.
At least Lemmy has gotten a lot more stable in the past few weeks too
Helping shape what this could become is what I’m excited about.
I see post, I upvote. Am I doing it right?
The second I visited lemmy it immediately felt like the reddit of old. Damn it feels good to be back to basics.
Took me a little while to figure some things out, with which subjects were active, figuring out nsfw instances, then adjusting themes so it appealed to me more.
I'm really liking the way as I was figuring that out, there has been more user activity and posts.
I hope it continues, but regardless I'm here for the ride. Long live Lenny!! (And Lemmy)
I agree that the proliferation of quality apps over the past few weeks on Android and GitHub has been pretty incredible considering the broad range of designs and features each one uniquely has
I think for me personally is that with Reddit I was scared to comment on posts because I felt like the Reddit hive mind would attack if I even slightly disagreed.
Totally agree! The number of posts and comments have gone way up already. Now that the main Reddit migration has lessened, I hope word of mouth keeps it going.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg started a clone…both lol and terrifying.
Yes, very happy so far. I haven’t posted this much even on Reddit.
Definitely has felt like a more welcoming community. Each comment on Reddit I made I had to mentally brace for the inevitable bot and troll replies. Constant fights.
Here I haven't seen much of it. Some people honestly trying to understand my points of view! Very refreshing
Yah, huge difference in just a couple weeks. I think it's hit the tipping point and we got here just as it happened.
We did it, Reddit.... wait
we lemmied it? lemme help u?
The third party apps actually dying was the topping point. But it seems there's still much growing to be done
tiddeR. Which "red..hu.h..dd.it" are you taking about? Is he among SUS?1?1?1?1?1?