how is Lemmy going for you?

So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).

This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.

I find I tend to get more replies here.
Reddit is dead. Lemmy is
ALIVEEE!!!!!

It's the Fediverse that I have been searching for.

Somebody on Lemmy made this quote I really like:

Twitter is people you care about posting content you don't care about. Reddit is people you don't care about posting content that you do care about

Twitter-like Fedi never clicked for me. I made a bunch of accounts over the course of two, maybe three years, each starting with the intention of maybe making new friends and having a good time. I met a ton of cool people but we never became good friends because I never got really invested into it, simply because my feed was never something I hoped it would be, something exciting.

Lemmy gives me exactly what I was searching for. I didn't use it prior to thr Reddit migration because there were too few people but now I am very happy

Just another quote I read about twitter/Mastodon:
"You simply shout into the void and hope someone answer."
Lemmy and Reddit feel more like the old forum culture. And that's better, imo.
Yeah Twitter style never appealed to me either. Though I'm wondering if I should try Mastodon since it's supposedly more active than Lemmy.
- In my experience, no. I’m not a fan of the microblogging style of discussion as well. I never had a personal twitter account, only my artist account I use to post once a week. I thought I’d try Mastodon, and while it’s nice to be in the fediverse and there a lot of interesting people and posts there, the microblogging format still doesn’t work for me and I basically stopped using my account after 2 weeks. I feel more at home with Lemmy.
That twitter quote is so true.

I'm just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.

Other than that... I'd argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that's great.

It's a give an take. I do miss some of the communities but at this time lemmy is more intimate. Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind. As an early adopter on lemmy you can help build and participate more readily. Nothing like having a comment on a thread with 1,000 comments and thinking 'fuck it no one cares.' Or worse trying to hamstring your comment into the top 6 or 7 threads for visablity alone.
- Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind.
  I dig the analogy and had to chuckle.

You mean you don't want to see the same whiny post about LTT again?
It's also really hard to block everything because there isn't a simple block button available, you have to go into the message and then scroll all the way to the bottom (which is fun when infinite scrolling is switched on).
- Try the Voyager app. Long press to subscribe or block direct from your feed!

Eh, it scratches the itch. I don't touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.

i moved to lemmy before the reddit api changes. in january 2023 i stopped using all proprietary software and was looking for alternetives. its way better than reddit, im never going back...

There's good reason to love Lemmy, and since joining I've also gone very Foss and privacy centric but I just feel like it's a bit quiet, maybe it's just me
- Quiet?
  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
  How's that?
  AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
- It's very quiet but it's so much more personable in the comments.

I'd like to see more human posts than just meme posting and news.

Lemmy is great and all. Love it more then I ever did reddit. But it seems like instances are more politically polarized than your average subreddit. It kinda harshes my mellow.

I do like that people feel more genuine as opposed to just broken records repeating overused talking points.

I've only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.

I know what some of those words mean
- Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It's where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We're a left unity trans positive community that's been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.
  slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger!
  
  cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
  libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they're usually the people who can be reasoned with so it's extra frustrating.
  chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That's how Hitler happened.
- Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".
- Is 'slop' from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
- Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
  WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online

I'm struggling to find niche communities but overall the comments are more human and not just saying what everyone wants to hear for Internet points. I still plan on hosting my own instance soon and I'm excited for that. I do find it annoying as well when I sort by new and it's just thousands of repost from reddit.

its good, been enjoying it for ~3 years now

Haha, same.

My problem is that most of the posts are about lemmy or reddit.

Pretty good, it's my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn't work that well..).

Choosing an instance sucked though.

I went like:

sh.itjust.works: Found out they're Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a 'bitch' on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see 'removed'
lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I'm staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over

I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations
- The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.
  If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it's gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you're the only admin and you die? Gone.
  In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my "private" messages.
  If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.
  So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.
I saw “yarrrr” and chose a great one hahaha

I do use it regularly, but I miss some of the niche gaming communities. You can definitely tell there's a lot less activity on here, but hopefully it keeps growing with time.

I think its great

Overall a much more friendly bunch of people here.

Thanks you guys! Youre all awesome!

Honestly I'm not having a great time. Most of the hobby communities are graveyards. I spend a lot less time here because I'm not interested in tech communities at all.

three years ago after /r/cth got banned I switched to chapo.chat as my primary forum. After the API stuff caused Apollo to get shut down, I cut myself loose entirely from the reddit ecosystem. Haven't looked back

Imo it feels like the reddit migration has died down, but a good chunk the users that have stuck around are actually engaged in their communities. I've been seeing more instances created too, which is cool because it means people are hosting their own.

More recently I've noticed that Sync actually plays embedded videos now, which is probably the best update since its release. It's feeling a lot more user-friendly and that should help it keep growing organically.

The only times I use reddit anymore is browsing with old.reddit a couple times a week. I don't even login to that site now because I don't engage with anything, I just check the news and stuff then come back to Lemmy.

Redditfugee here. Lemmy pros/cons:

Pros

I guess it serves as a bit of a nicotine patch for Reddit. I'm no longer active on Reddit, and I spend less time doom scrolling than I used to.
By and large the community seems alright.

Cons

Lemmy just isn't the reference omnibus that Reddit is, and I don't think it ever will be. Even down to r/whatisthisthing or r/tipofmytongue I don't think will work on Lemmy, partially because there's going to be eight of each, seven and a half have no traffic.
The communities I'm interested in have basically no traffic. No one posts anything. I see a lot of posts with no discussion, or one comment saying "I'm a bot."
There's a kind of stupid problem where, you're scrolling through, say, your All New feed. It's separated into pages instead of infinitely scrolling. Page 2, you find a post you'd like to read. Click it, read the post, back out to the feed, you're on Page 1 of the feed again. You've lost your place. One of the ingredients to that nicotine patch.
There are too many different forms of idea cancer here. I spent several minutes having to individually block several nearly identical communities for sports ball game results that each had nearly identical bots posting sports ball scores to them, because someone set up a nearly identical community for each team. This I think is a valid use case for the platform, but if you're not interested in sports ball it makes the All feed unusable. I'd also like someone to explain to me why posts from r/buildapc are being "archived" here?

Take your upvote for "nicotine patch for Reddit". Brilliant.

It's a lot less of a time sink for me now. I'm on maybe 15 minutes a day.

It's probably because most of my other most frequented forums aren't quite here yet.

Same here. It's simply not as active as Reddit, obviously. But I found that I was wasting way too much time on Reddit anyway. Infinity was still working for free this whole time, which was the 3pa I used for years, but I still deleted it about a week ago. My sub feed was way less active and the all page was even worse than usual with 80% just aita kind of text posts. I'm on lemmy maybe 30 minutes a day, but that's a good thing for me.
Same here, It’s a good thing I think, but it sometimes make me feel a bit out of the loop

Pretty good. Using it much more and noticed a pretty good uptick in other posting stuff since I created my account.. I'd say I have two feet in the door to a new home. . Edited to clean up as was typing initial response on the go.

Most of the niche communities I followed aren't on here so my usage is drastically lower than before. I find Lemmy to be generally nice as a platform-especially now with infinity for Lemmy out, I've come to forget that I'm no longer on reddit!

Just wish that there was more to go on here. Memes and tech can only keep me scrolling for so long.

I've fully replaced reddit/Twitter for scrolling a while ago- I don't even bother with other social media at this point.

I was worried it would be annoying having to deal with a bunch of liberals after federation, but it's been pretty funny on balance. Sorry about the enormous emojis though, I try to spoiler tag those now.

Its been fine, there been more comments from users of a lets say diferent vibe from hexbear common culture but there been positive interactions from instances like lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, midwestsocial, blahaj zone and some others.

Over all i say federation has been a positive change for Hexbear, it gives us more slop in many ways

I use it daily.

Of the two different things I used Reddit for, Lemmy is a 100% replacement for one, but sadly lacking in the other.

Current events (news, politics, etc...) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.
Tech Support on specific niche software (kdenlive, Scribus, Gimp, etc...) is still lacking. there aren't a lot of communities dedicated to specific hobbies where a person can ask and answer questions from other users.

In regards to #1, there is actually one area where Lemmy has an advantage in my case. Because my local instance is my country instance, having that third "local" option means that I can, without any searching, keep up to date on national current events as well.

it's like being in a Canada only news site, and then if I want, I can hit "all" and see the rest of it. it's super easy in a way that Reddit couldn't be.

It doesn't really have all the communities I'm interested in ... but for most of my looking-at-memes and commenting-on-things needs, it works great. I use lemmy exclusively on mobile and haven't touched reddit on my phone since sync went away, but I still engage with reddit periodically on desktop.

Have you heard about the problem with Linus media group????????

Literally my entire wall is either:

extreme tech industry junk
asks
cats

I would love some diversity but everything I've subscribed to is either the above, or dead.

I suggest roaming further into other instances. I made a new account on a different instance and the "all" feed has been surprisingly different

For me it seems to have wained a bit, I feel like a lot of casual users have gone silent recently, the content I'm seeing is more specific to niche topics and communities

Have you tried browsing another instance's All feed to see if yours is missing any communities? I started using Lemmy on a really small instance but switched to lemmy.world as my main because it could see a lot more content. My new alt runs a federation helper to fix this too.
My only real complaint with Lemmy is that instances, by default, only know about their own communities and the remote communities that their users have specifically subscribed to. Some smaller instances run federation helpers that scan other instances for communities. Manually initiating a federation request is not intuitive either.
- I've just made myself a hexbear account because of the mentions on here, looks interesting
I feel the opposite, posts have more comments than ever, even when the migration started

I love that Lemmy has a small, but dedicated userbase and much less flamewars than Reddit. Seems like most people are actually here for good content and not just trolling everyone else.

I also like that the feed just ends eventually and I can close the app instead of doomscrolling through the whole night.

And I hope that toxic gamification features like global karma or awards will always stay out of here. The dopamine rushes from those are just bad for my brain and these features are really unneccessary.

Once I found Liftoff, I've used Lemmy exclusively. It's fantastic, I don't feel as intimated about commenting (even though this is my first on this account) I've found most of my interests again in different communities. There are still a few I don't have, but that will sort itself out in time.

Yep Liftoff is my favorite Lemmy app as well! For reference, Relay for Reddit is my favorite Reddit app (it's still working for now), and I tried most of the Lemmy Android apps.
- I never used relay. I was a RiF fan, I had that for years.. so long that I actually forgot Reddit had ads!
  I tired mastodon on the mobile web, but that just didn't gel for me, the few times I've logged on to Lemmy on the PC it's also just felt so much easier to scroll and read.

I love it very much. Meanwhile I almost forgot, that reddit once was important to me.

I haven't completely switched to Lemmy yet. I don't get as much of a diversity of views here.

But apart from Political stuff, I think the people here are wonderful and actually helpful.

This might not be an alternative to reddit and gain millions of followers, but nonetheless, It's good in it's own way. Edit: So many likes, did I mention I am somewhat conservative and don't support abortion after 5 months? Shocking, now downvote me I guess

I understand the political stuff. I made a comparison that the Democratic party is very similar to the Republican party in a few ways and ended up getting a death threat. It's a cult I tell ya.
- I'm pretty far left politically and I can think of a number of similarities between the two parties. The dynamics are very much the same in certain cases but the ideology driving it is different.
- I haven’t completely switched to Lemmy yet. I don’t get as much of a diversity of views here.
  wtf! that's no joke, stay anonymous my friend. What the dick that guy must have been!
- Damn that sucks :(
  what is wrong with some people

Arguing with a smug and credulous Tesla consumer that posted a "oh no! Anyway" meme in response to his favorite treat being an accident-prone, regulation-dodging lithium fire of a bad purchase reminded me of being back on

Comments on Lemmy tend to have a lot to say while offering a unique perspective. But most of the posts are boring and predictable, especially when it comes to politics.

Switched to lemmy 100% after 17+ years of reddit, daily user. I think it's ok but increasingly getting annoyed with a couple things. The rampant extreme politics and phrasing as if it's fact, and people complain about cross posts but I literally see the same exact posts (same community) over and over as I scroll through the feed. Other than that it doesn't nearly have much content but that's to be expected.

I must admit. I have relapsed to reddit somewhat due to the lack of specific video game communities here. I use Comet for reddit (iOS) which still works

I use geddit on my phone to browse Reddit. I too mostly use it to visit game specific subreddits. Hope they will become more active here on Lemmy

this is the most alive of all the fediverse projects. Not without its problems, but I have absolutely no reason to use reddit anymore.

To be honest I don't use it nearly as much as I used Reddit. Haven't been on Reddit since the fuckening except for a couple of times, but my Lemmy usage is at maybe 10% pf what my Reddit usage was.

Now is that good or bad?
- It is very good, considering how people behave there, i think that came from over excessive usage basically living on the platform.

I think it's fine but I admit I don't think it's very fun with one centralized Lemmy instance. Feels like reddit all over again. The idealist in me wanted a distributed network instead, with popular communities spread out across hundreds of instances run by volunteers.

But on the plus side, we can talk without corps being involved and that's really, really nice. I don't even use any big tech sites anymore except github.

It's pretty much inevitable that people will cluster on a few larger, proven services.
Look at email. For most people, email is Gmail, or one of another small handful of giant services. But you can still get email from smaller providers, or run your own, and play ball with everyone else.

I engage a lot more with general communities than I used to because the quality of poster is so much higher here. People are more likely to engage in good faith discussion and offer more than just those low effort redditor joke comments that site has become notorious for. There is just no point commenting in larger communities and threads on reddit, because you'll get buried by lazy meme comments and the one person who does sort by new is mostly likely looking for conflict rather than a conversation.

Really wish there was more content. I've been trying to post stuff but I never get any comments either. Anything other than the few mainstream communities is just dead

I think there are too many communities. People tried to replicate reddit's diversity and places got spread too thin. When Reddit first started it didn't even have subreddits.
- This will be controversial too but having the same community on each instance doesn't work either. There are 3 major Android communities and none have very much content, and lots of reposts etc
- Megathreads, or just a good popular post in related popular communities can work pretty well until there is enough traction to warrant its own community. A lot of subreddits arose because half the posts in a sub became what was previously a fringe topic of the parent.

It's been better since moving away from lemmy.world, then Sync being available also helped a lot. But unfortunately as many have noted already, this is not as easy to get into for more casual users so it's heavily biased towards tech topics and communities. Smaller communities will probably take a lot longer to take off if at all and I'm sad about that loss so far.

To be honest I don't understand it whatsoever I just go on chapo.chat and look at the posts on there. Now there are posts from other places which is neat. I don't leave the site though as I don't want to make a new account. Idk if I'm even doing it right or wrong.

I do miss some of the more specialist communities on reddit but honestly this is great for just scrolling stuff, and it's completely replaced reddit for that.

This is basically how I feel.
Reddit had some great aspects. Niche communities about hobbies I might be interested in had wikis with intros on how to get started being something I miss.
My biggest issue with the Lemmy community is we seem to have brought the thirst-communities and the meme communities in great numbers but the hobby communities are really lacking.
Generally speaking I'm not interested in pics of attractive celeb number 7864 and while memes are fun their over abundance was why I was looking for a new content aggregator before the API changes.
- I'm also sort of sick of talking about the politics of social media, I'd rather use social media to talk about other more interesting things

I have completely replace Reddit with it. (Save for looking for when I end up there due to trying to solve technical problems). Yeah it’s janky and doesn’t have as much happening but I feel like the userbase overall is much less toxic so more enjoyable to engage with.

I also feel like Lemmy is less toxic and therefore more enjoyable. On Reddit I would never browse the default front page or r/all because it’s a cesspool, but I can browse All on Lemmy and it’s quite enjoyable. That’s actually how I found this thread 🙂

Liking it a lot! I was thinking the other day about how we’ve pretty successfully made the jump away from every other thread being about Reddit or technical issues to having many general interest communities and some niche ones that are continuing to diversify.

Obviously we’re not nearly at the scale of Reddit yet (considering the entire Fediverse could fit inside some singular subreddits) but I’ve tried to make up for less content by making more myself and actually engaging with people instead of lurking.

I like it but it's missing the low-quality 'non-fiction' relationship post porn I loved to binge on.

I gotcha
"My partner is being completely unreasonable and her family hates me and wants us to fail just because I have a secret second family I keep locked in the basement."
Heh. Man, do such posts dominate reddit these days. They can be entertaining on occasion, but god damn are they absolute drivel.

I like not having to scroll through the same standard comments on every post. There might be fewer comments here, but they're higher quality. I mostly used reddit for news which Lemmy covers just as well. Regardless of the API changes and enshitification Reddit simply got too big. Between the marketing and other sorts of vote manipulation, reddit basically stopped providing a useful overview of even news. The hivemind pushed the same dead horse to the front every day.

Thanks for the gold, kind stranger.

Feels like OG reddit back in the day with less niche subs and with an /all that is more readable (and with the occasional surprise nsfw reddit used to have). I feel that in reddit I had drifted to only reading my own curated sub list, and barely reading /all due to the toxicity

Only rarely do I get back to reddit, mostly because one of the sport subs, which has a repost bot on lemmy, shows an article I want to read the comments on.

Yes sometimes the polarized instances get a bit annoying, I find them managable and interesting to see what these communities are talking about every now and then.

I do wish NSFW was more granular. A lot of the things I’d like on my feed wouldn’t necessarily be what you’d want to have open in the office but I also don’t want it to be full of porn. Not anti-porn or anything I just don’t want it in my feed 24/7.
- You could always set your work acc to not display anything labeled NSFW in settings.

My favorite niche communities have come to Lemmy, but they're very inactive. Which is good and bad. There's much less filler content, but less substantial content as well. It's nice not having to scroll through miles of junk to find the good stuff, but I do wish there was a little more good stuff.

Overall, I think I'm glad for the change. I wasted a little too much time on Reddit for sure. Here, at least I can pop on and see that there's nothing new I'm interested in and do something else rather than scrolling through all that filler to find a nugget or two.

I miss episode anine episode discussions and isk what im doing wrong but sometimes I find a good instance but cannot access their feed from my account, and I dont wanna create another account or add the subs individually, you even see it has more post than subs most of the time. Aside from that its great, feels like im not required to say something that fishes for upvotes thus I comment a bit more

Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

Feels like a small club (not that I attended much clubs), I often recognize some usernames. In big social medias, there are so many users posting that you don't often see the same user often enough to recognize their username. On Lemmy, you get sort of mini celebrities, they're always on the front page (I sort by All/Hot).

All of the apps I've tried have problems. Most communities have a spam problem. None of the communities I'm interested in exist. I feel like there's almost a fundemental problem with the way that the fediverse works that makes it incompatible with this format, as almost all communities will be focused on generic instances as that's where people will create their accounts. I made my account on feddit.uk but I wouldn't make a community for something that wasn't UK focused, therefore the community doesn't get started.

My favorite app didn't port and my main community didn't migrate. I'm still not planning to go back to Reddit, but definitely feeling the change.

Where's the fucking porn?

On other instances, easy to find.
Not the worst idea to disconnect interactions from the main account.
- Ty my dude!
- Well, not the worst, but not ideal.
  Porn built the internet.
  It made Reddit.
  It unmade Tumblr.
  And shoving it in the dirty corner where only the clued in people know how to get to it just isn't a good gameplan for reaching critical mass.
  But, as noted elsewhere, the fediverse has some legal hurdles with the issue that corporations have thoughtfully removed for themselves, so even if it's the smart move for user growth it might be the dumb move for staying out of prison.
https://pornlemmy.com/
- And a ty to you!
Everywhere else on the internet, do you need a map?
LemmyNSFW.com

It's actually getting better daily IMO...

It gets better once you find interesting subs. I think it scratches the same itch and I plan to continue using it. I do have some concerns about the community, however. I guess I was hoping it would be less of an echo chamber and have a more nuanced and in depth discussion.

I haven't really found that and I think it's more or less the same as reddit most of the time.

I also miss browsing through the short video subs like /r/crazyfuckingvideos once a week or so just to see some crazy things.

However, I do find there is actually pretty good discussion on tech stuff and you do find some geopolitics/ political discussion if you read through some of the ideological drudgery a bit.

So all in all, I think Lemmy so far has been a positive experience for me and I'm committed to remaining here for the foreseeable future. At the end of the day - it's an open source decentralized community. I'll put up with a lot of shit just because of that. No chance I'd be going back to reddit.

For technical discussions I still find Hacker News much better than both Lemmy and Reddit.

It started off okay, but I'm about to give up on Lemmy after a couple months.

My main problems are:

The comments here are hit-or-miss. Every big thread deteriorates into pedantic arguments. It's seemingly a worsening trend and is on-par with the bullshit you'd see on Reddit.
Lack of comment moderation in larger communities. If a thread devolves into off-topic arguments or name-calling, the mods should step in.
The default active post sort is pretty terrible in so many ways. It's much too slow to change and you'll often see repetitive content. Smaller communities tend to have no visibility, but instead I see 5 posts from the same large community.
The comment sort is bad as well. If the community self-moderates through downvoting, then why are downvoted posts near the top? I think this leads to toxic threads and pointless arguments.
Lack of any content. I wouldn't mind a bot reposting an RSS feed or something into a community just to start discussion... But many are vehemently against that idea (leading to small communities dying completely). I'd argue the reason !technology@lemmy.world hasn't died out yet is because of the l4s bot.
Way too many politics. I'm so tired of seeing political discussion online---but here, you're just bombarded with it, even outside of political communities. Better moderation might help keep things on topic.
Users tend to browse All. While this gives people an opportunity to see new content, I think this might harm smaller communities in the long run. This is similar to how threads lose quality once they reach the front page on Reddit.

Maybe I'll come back after a year and see how things are. But as of now, Lemmy provides nearly zero value to me.

I'm really enjoying Lemmy so far. I've posted more here in one and a half months than in 16+ years on ~~reddit~~ astroturfbay. Why?

Because here feels like friendly neighbourhood square where people actually care to listen to each other. Whatever happens here feels way more organic and people-oriented than elsewhere. No algos dictating agendas just because more engagement=more profit.

So yeah, I really like this place.

One of things that I like most about it that it isn’t algorithmic. When I crash for the night, I look at the most popular over the last 12 hours, and then… I’m done.

I use it less, but I actually like it that way, plus I have no urge to go back to Reddit. So all good.

It's like moving from Coke to Pepsi. Similar enough in it's own way. It's definitely better than the other budget alternatives

Authoritarian propaganda is kind of ruining it for me. I came in excited to help build something together and now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Maybe I'd recommend an instance that doesn't federate with Hexbear, ExplodingHeads, or Lemmygrad.

I was going to say "what authoritarian propaganda" because I don't see any of that shit, but yeah, my instance doesn't federate with those places. The strength and the weakness of a federated system, I suppose!
Same, I get that people have different political backgrounds, and even hope to be part of a group with different opinions, but some of those instances are just so far removed that I just block them
- Yeah people have a wide range of political views, plus on anonymous social media you never know if an account is even a real person or KremlinGPT.
I've had some luck blocking instances within mobile apps, but that doesn't scale well if the number of toxic instances is constantly growing. I'm curious to see how this gets addressed in the long run (or if it is left as is, since it is technically working as designed).

It's almost perfect... But whenever I get into a new game, especially something kinda niche, I can't find a place to talk about it. I miss that.

It reminds me of Reddit when I first joined (2011). I actually uninstalled Relay a couple days ago as I hadn't intentionally opened it in weeks. I'm probably not on here any less than I was on Reddit as some people are saying, but I do tend to browse all most of the time for now. I almost never browsed r/all.

I'll still go to Reddit if a search result takes me there, but even that seems to be happening much less than before.

TBH, I think I dislike it only slightly less than reddit. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the fediverse and what not. However, I see a lot of posts around here saying that lemmy is so much better than reddit, but I don't necessarily agree. Culturally I see a lot of the same behavior between the two. The main difference is there are a lot less "Facebook-like" posts and way more tech nerd-centric opinions. I would even argue that there is a lack of cultural balance. Like most of the people here are extremists in one way or the other (this includes me), and there are less "normal" people. I think this is probably what some of the users here actually want because they thirst for the "good ol' days" of forums before some of nerd culture leaked into the mainstream, but I'm not sure it's my cup of tea. Furthermore something that is sort of both a feature and a downside is that there is way less content here for obvious reasons. It's nice not to have an endless feed, but again, due to cultural imbalance, there isn't much variety. I love using linux, but I don't know if I care to have my feed engulfed by it. I'm not sure if the time I spend in Lemmy is really a net positive, just like how reddit felt. I'd say the most positive aspect of reddit was I could subscribe to a city specific subreddit and actually get news and info that is useful to my day to day life, whereas the info here is just useful for keeping me in my house or absorbed in work.

Please do not tell me to suck it up and contribute my own content. The point of this comment is not to get the community to "fix" lemmy for me but simply to relay an observation.

I think I want to love it just slightly more than I actually love it, there's so much potential and I LOVE that it's FOSS by it's very nature but it's a little lacking as it stands which has both negative and positive results

Feels good to see it growing, I made an account really fast after lemmy got released, but still used reddit, too. I realized fast this could be the "new reddit" after the API thing and made some commercial posts for lemmy over the last months.

The only thing I am not happy with is the defederation idea. Don't misunderstand, it's good to be free from extremist politics or porn, but in fact reddit isn't that aggressive in the way defederation is done here. You just don't subscribe shit-subs. And this kind of self control would be nice on Lemmy, too. Why I am not able to just defederate my account from stuff I don't want to see would be better, imo.

I'm enjoying it so far. It doesn't have the same user base or niche communities of reddit yet, so for now I'm just doing more general browsing. There just doesn't seem to be enough of a diverse set of interest yet. So at first it was a ton of posts about sync, currently it's a ton of posts about LTT. And it's just full of memes. Definitely could use a wider range of topics and interests.

That said there are a couple of really obnoxious instances that are highly political and as much as I am trying to avoid that, the users of those instances seem to dominate any thread even remotely political. It's quite annoying.

I found Lemmy to be better for my mental health. I recently visited Reddit again to follow on a heated topic since Reddit has more info and news, and found my anxiety levels skyrocket due to the toxicity of comments.

While Lemmy has less engagement than Reddit, that also leads to a more level-headed community.

That, and with new Lemmy apps and experiences being developed constantly, I'm liking it here a lot.

I love Lemmy! I've got accounts across several instances, and I have totally replaced my reddit scrolling with Lemmy.

daily user of Lemmy at this point, fuck Reddit

Happy. The only issue I have is scale. IMO there was nothing ground breaking about Reddit as either an idea or a piece of tech, it's value mostly comes from its users. Lemmy does not have the sheer breadth from scale that I enjoyed with Reddit, but hopefully that will come.

I like it and I think I can say with confidence that I've made the switch from Reddit to Lemmy as my default "internet frontpage."

Still rough in spots, though. The defederation drama is making this a bit of a rocky experience, so I'm not sure I've landed on my final instance just yet. I understand this is an unavoidable aspect of the Fediverse (i.e. relations between instances), but I still haven't settled on an instance where I can say, "Yep, this is the one for me."

On the positive side, I love Infinity for Lemmy, even with some of the remaining bugs, and I love that I can open a discussion that's on the top of my feed and I can still have meaningful interactions with the community. I hope my favorite subs from Reddit will eventually come to life here, because then I'd be golden.

Overall, this all feels like a fresh new start and I love it.

Well I'm using an instance (reddthat.com) that doesn't defederate. But downside being that some extremist instances are also not defederated (like far-right stuff). I would move to another instance, but just too lazy to make another account. Those stuff rarely show up on my front page anyways, and I just ignore them if they do show up. If there was a feature to block an instance like how you can block users, this would be the perfect instance for me. Sadly there's no such feature yet.
Fwiw the only annoyance i've had here on tchncs.de is not having instances defederated and needing to manually block miserable communities, and like half an hour of the server having a bit of a hiccup.

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.

Tbh I was never a regular reddit user , no matter how much I tried , however since I have joined lemmy, I am using it like a lot ! Enjoying it here a lot !

Well... If I never see a post about tech or a meme again it'll be too soon.

I blocked those communities a while back, my experience instantly went much better.

I love beehaw but I'm starting to feel disconnected from the community. I feel like overall beehaw and lemmy are creating this echo chamber that is repeating the same talking points over and over again. Reddit and Twitter both offered insight from industry leaders or at least those in the industry in question. Lemmy seems to lack those type of folks. I'm also noticing an abundance of opinionated folks. This is good and bad. It feels like sometimes there isn't any worth from engaging in a conversation. Sometimes there is, but a good bit of time I end up regretting it.

Overall it's like the Linux version of Reddit. It's not great but you can feel slightly more ethical using it.

The echo chamber is pretty bad here. I also don't like that people here downvote opinions they don't agree with, Reddit did this too though. I don't think opinions should ever be voted on, up or down. People see which types of opinions get the most upvotes and it causes them to not express their true opinions for fear of being downvoted.
- There are instances that disable downvotes, you may want to migrate to one that does. https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances#all-lemmy-instances has a column that indicates if an instance has them turned on or off.
- I'm on Beehaw which doesn't have downvotes and it's still very much an echo chamber.
- reddit has the ability to hide post vote counts for a certain time to mitigate this. It's a feature that's worth bringing across.
  (I also think it's worth capping the number of upvotes and downvotes a post/comment can get - and to do so asymmetrically, eg no more than 10 downvotes and 100 upvotes.)

Since Sync came out, absolutely love it! Hope more people join!

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'm glad to see people talking about things that aren't positive here really. I was curious at first how much echo chamber this was going to have and the underlying obvious point that well... people who didn't like lemmy as much either:
A. Aren't going to take the time to respond to this post or
B. Won't see the post because they are gone already.
- I'm happy to see respectful and realistic criticism.
  People just angry because Lemmy is not a perfect Reddit clone bring little value to the discussion

It's ok. I've had some amicable conversations and there's more content for my train trips. Sometimes the online arguments make my anxiety shoot up.

Sometimes the online arguments make my anxiety shoot up.
It's in those moments that you type out a long ass comment and then... never post it

It's alright

Pretty good. It's my default morning scroll, at least.

I've got a lot more comfortable with it since using Alexandrite on desktop and Sync on mobile.

The only thing really missing at the moment is content. It tends to be good for the high profile stuff, but a bit lacking for the niche stuff. I still sneak back to the other place on occasion to catch up on smaller communities... hopefully that will come with time.

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

In general, it's been pretty good. Stuff is a bit unstable every now and then, but most of that changed when I switched away from lemmy.world.

There's a couple of things to contend with though. There's less content than there was on Reddit. This ultimately doesn't matter that much for general browsing, as there is still plenty. But for more niche communities it now means barely any content. Even with larger topics like Formula 1 it's quite noticeable that there's a lot less people in there. It's great during big discussions, but any smaller links or discussions often only have like 1 or 2 responses. For other communities it's even worse. Some of the genres I listen to have basically nothing going on, while on Reddit the community was at least large enough to have a few nice discussions every moe and then. The same with many games that I really liked.

Another problem is federation with more (politically) extreme instances like lemmygrad, hexbear, and some right wing crap that was luckily defederated before I could remember their names. On the one hand, I don't want defederation based on political opinion alone to be the norm. But neither do I particularly like getting constantly called a "lib" (even though I'm quite left wing compared to the national average) or get to read constant discussions on these topics wherever I go. I come here to read about fun stuff, unwind a bit, not to constantly read about people defending dictatorships. Hexbear is especially interesting, since their users also add a lot of fun memes and good content. But then equally they brigade comment sections and overwhelm anyone who disagrees with them.

Ending on a positive note: the software (apps, backend, frontend, etc) have really gotten a lot better over the past months. I'm using Connect at the moment and I really enjoy it. Bugs keep disappearing, to the point where I now have very few complaints. Apps is why I left Reddit, so seeing that we're now (imo) in a better place than Reddit is a good thing.

On the one hand, I don't want defederation based on political opinion alone to be the norm. But . . .
I come here to read about fun stuff, unwind a bit, not to constantly read about people defending dictatorships.
Just thought it was worth highlighting. Obviously, the view of Hexbear is that the people you are here calling autocratic aren't autocratic, but that gets into discussion of political opinions and my point is that this is a political opinion.
- My main problem with hexbear people (or at least the annoying ones) is that imo they're a bit too vocal about it. I'm not browsing Lemmy for political content most of the time, yet it seems like some hexbear people feel the need to turn everything into a political discussion. That kinda content is fine in some places, but less welcome in others. In my personal life I interact with people all across the political spectum, and with most people I can totally have a normal chat. That works because we bond over shared intrests. It's very annoying when people constantly try to start discussions, whether I agree with them or not. There's a time and place for everything.
  I don't think it's the majority of hexbear, I see plenty of good content from them. But there does appear to be a (relatively to all of Lemmy) quite large group of aggressively political people in there, to the point of trying to spread their ideology everywhere.

Found it great a month or two ago. Now, not so much. Gobshites and troll scum seem to be slowly making the place just another platform for bollox. Shame really.

Unfortunately the communities that I'm interested in didn't really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I've dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I'm interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it's hard to get stuck in when the discussions I'm interested in aren't really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.

I prefer Lemmy, it's a smaller community and I like the fact that you don't need karma to make a comment or post. I still lurk Reddit every now and then, but only for information about my interests, I don't comment or post.

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I'm spending more and more time on Lemmy and less on Reddit.

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.

A bit annoyed about defederations and community blocks. If an instance wants to be an island by itself, fine, but you shouldn't have to stay up to date with random announcements from each instance to figure out all the places you need to have an account to access all the content you want to.

I feel that in the end there will be 3 main clusters
vanilla, family-friendly content
piracy
porn
People who would want to have the whole experience would need 3 accounts, but that should be it
- my predictions are:
  explicit freeze-peach a la exploding heads (the so-called "alt fedi" over on mastodon)
  reddit-style free-for-all with just enough moderation to not be voat 2 (the current default of the threadiverse)
  strictly moderated "traditional fediverse with proper groups"
  porn
  of course there will be parts that overlap, but i absolutely expect a split to occur between the "reddit migratees" and "people who want a mastodon with threading" groups, if the second half hasn't given up on the threadiverse and returned to mastodon already

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

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.

I love it. People complain about the lack of hobbyist spaces so I’m making an active effort to build them up more as time allows. I have considered making an art lemmy instance which may be a potential eventually, but I’m fine either way.

Hoping that works out!
- Thanks. I don't know if I have the budget accounted for it this month and this current instance alongside each other, so if it were to be made it would be probably next month.

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

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.

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 think the tinfoil hats here stand out because they dont get lost in the noise.

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.

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!

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 think it could be because Reddit has more users from the US, and the fediverse is more a mixed bunch.
- It's because there are prominent leftist/communist communities here, so obviously they are threads in /all and comment

Aside from the russian shills, fine and dandy.

Names yourself after a communist, thinks communists are russian shills.

I wish there was a big enough wrestling community

I will fight you
- In Hell in a Cell?

It's fun to start with a small user base. The downtime is rough, and I have some minor issues with it like the fact that deleting a comment hides all of the replies to that comment. Overal, though, it's kew.

weirdly the downtime is mainly from DDOS attacks, apparently

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.

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).

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

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.

Wait...
I had no idea Margot Robbie was such a prolific android enthusiast
- Nobody ever asks...
  No movie promotions during the strike, and might as well as talk tech on a tech forum.

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

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 only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming

I'm a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in 'lemmy' and get the answer to my question.

Otherwise there's just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.

If you create a web dev and indie games communities I will join and answer all your questions.
- That's very kind, but I doubt I would be able to moderate should it become even remotely popular.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It's pretty good actually, thanks for asking.

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

I mean it beats Reddit's full time coverage of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
- it beats Reddit's full time coverage of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
  
  it beats ~~Reddit's full time coverage of~~ Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
weird that you say that when 95% of what I've seen has been very critical of Linus
Apologists like people who ask for evidence for serious allegations? Yeah those people are the worst, let me get my pitchfork
- The evidence is there, if you'd care to look.
  Plenty of posts with damning information on here.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

It's literally just reddit for me at this point, i use mlmym.org which gives me the old reddit interface so i barely notice even the slightest difference.

If people didn't make so many posts about drama in the fediverse i would have had no clue there were any problems.

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?

You can consider trying a different instance. LASIM can migrate a bunch of stuff for you to the new account.
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
I made another account on Lemmy.ee which while it seems slower has more uptime.

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:

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

homepage defaults to Subscribed instead of all, or at least a way to set that as the default
It should be in your settings page. It's just labeled "Type" and is between Theme and Sort type.
homepage defaults to Subscribed instead of all, or at least a way to set that as the default
In settings under "type" I have the option to choose a default for homepage.
- Nice, thanks. I looked before; either I missed it or it was an update feature

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.

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.

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.

Haven't been back to Reddit. It's going great. Mostly I am relieved I don't have to see that fucking Jesus ad anymore.

Just to let you know, your ipv6 address for lemmy.catasaur.xyz is misconfigured, pointing to a local address (fe80). I couldn't send you a dm, maybe because your ipv6 addr is misconfigured, so replying to a random comment.
I too have recently quit reddit. It was getting hard enough to put up with even without seeing the ads.
- Oops, thank you for the heads up!

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.

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

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.

I'm having fun. Would like to see some of the niche hobbyist coms get more visibility.

The algorithm seems to really favor posts with lots of comments, aka controversy usually

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.

The memes are good and I find out about news and stuff the same way I would on reddit. So pretty good.

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

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.

I’m liking it. The comments are nice and the content for the most part have been enjoyable. I do miss larger niche communities in reddit. Some really small communities are so small or dead its hard to get it going.

I don’t spend as much time on lemmy as I did reddit. I think I’ve now spent a bit more of that time spread with instagram and YouTube as well.

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.

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

It depends. I'm on two instances, sopuli and beehaw. Both of them are really welcoming and cool, and I can interact with people without worrying about being bullied or harassed or attacked by random trolls just because they don't like what I say (and trust me, suffering those actions while being neurodivergent is way worse than suffering those actions while being neurotypical).

But I think that more than 70% of the content I see comes from one single instance. Excluding beehaw (they defederated that other instance, and I agree with that), I think that sopuli also has similar communities that are like abandoned or with low amount of content. That's something I don't like.

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 “big” communities like !apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world or !technology@lemmy.world make up for it.

It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so I’m grateful for that as well

Lemmy is great. So great that I named myself after it (my nickname was just "Resol" before then, now it's obviously "Resol van Lemmy", it sounds very Flemish). I do have a problem with it though. Most communities I was active on on Reddit are either nonexistent on Lemmy or just not big enough to maintain daily activity, making them look like ghost towns. Also, I had to shuffle between different clients because I didn't have a satisfactory experience with some, I'm currently using Sync because the interface is so nice (although I like how Jerboa shows the upvote to downvote ratio in addition to the total score). In addition to all this, I got help cutting down on screentime thanks to the Fediverse. I just didn't have much addiction anymore, which is always a good thing. I don't know what else to say.

Flemish or Dutch indeed, very fancy.

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.

You don't need to sign up to multiple instances, unless those instances are defederated from the instance of your account. I'm not sure why this would be a problem more than once (and at most once).
Example: I follow communities from a bunch of different instances with this single account.
Agreed, I just won't bother

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

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.

When I sort by All I see 90% of what I would be looking for on other sites, so it's a drop in replacement (at least for now). I spend less time overall on lemmy, but the time I do spend is less mindless scrolling, and more actually interesting posts.

Pretty good, though I'm not mainly using Lemmy directly. I run a Kbin instance that I've been using primarily, but I've also been testing Artemis with the developer's artemis.camp instance, and I have Infinity for Lemmy signed into my lemmy.world account.

There's less content here than on Reddit, but I think it's higher quality. There's less trolling and shitposting here (unless seeking it out on purpose then there's plenty).

I'm only just starting the last week or so, but I feel like because it's a bit smaller there's better discussion. Most minor annoyance with it though is some quality of life things not being there like RES (browsing everything with J + K etc.) and that multiple times a day it gives me Server Error / Cloudflare error pages.

https://github.com/vmavromatis/Lemmy-keyboard-navigation
For the unavailability, you can consider moving to another instance using https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Tools are usually listed on !plugins@sh.itjust.works
- Thanks for the info!

I joint today because Kbin is very slow to browse, so I figured I create an account here, but I don't get why there is a lemm.me and lemmy.world which both look identical but it seems I can't log in there using my username here?

They are different instances. That's how the fediverse works.
You need to create an account on each instance you want to access the federation from.
- is Lemmy the federation?

So I used lemmy world and then lemmy winks because world had up time issues and now I keep making ones on new instances seeing as winks seems to be dead

Memes are about the only consistent content on lemmy

I run out of content to read much more quickly than I did with Reddit, so I'm antsy/restless more often, because I pick up my phone and then have nothing to do on it.

I really like it and use it every day. I still use old.reddit.com a bit but I like Lemmy and Kbin more.

I have almost completely dropped reddit. I'll check it once every few days on old.reddit for a few niche subreddits, or as I do regular online research on a topic, because it still has a long history. In the end, I never liked Reddit as it's just a silicon valley-based social media tech company that is designed to track users.

Lemmy itself is going great. I, for one, am happy that there are way more socialists here as a proportion of the population, and it makes me more comfortable as a user. And ever since Reddit killed 3rd party apps + ever since the lemmy web UI dropped websockets, actually visiting the Lemmy page feels much better. I didn't create an account on Lemmy for years because I really hated that websockets thing and seeing posts just appear randomly while leaving the site open.

My wish for Lemmy is a common sentiment: I would like to see more people with an easier way for them to get started. And I'd like to see less defederation. Lemmy.world performing preemptive defederation from Hexbear was a really bad move, IMO.

Someone mentioned how Lemmy draws a tech enthusiast crowd, and I think that's true. But that was also true for Reddit in its early days, as well. I think so long as the posting quality here is good, more people will eventually find their way in. If I can start seeing some cool home DIY stuff (to inspire the fortunate future day where I can finally be a homeowner myself), that is when I know Lemmy as a social platform has made it. I don't have the heart of a true poster, but I hope that if I have useful information to share and post that I'm doing my part in helping the community grow a bit larger.

I was commenting a fair bit early on, but have stopped so much cause that's just how I react to social media.

Have completely stopped using Reddit after baconreader died, and check Lemmy once, maybe twice a day. Nowhere near what I did Reddit but such is the way of things.

It has led me to go properly check out Mastodon so I'm more active over there (but still not really active)

I'm liking it so far. But given this is a federated replacement of Reddit, how does replication of communities work? Cuz there are multiple Technology or World News communities in different instances. Which one do we follow?

Very good. Seems like a nice place to be in.

Pretty good. haven't even been to reddit after I switched!

I don't think I'm on my phone as much but I do miss /r/BlackPeopleTwitter. I bet the posts about the Montgomery Brawl we're top notch.

Not very good. Many communities are just too small for any meaningful stuff, the UI is ugly, the software's buggy, and Lemmy (and tbh, the whole Fediverse) sometimes feels like a political echo chamber, only favoring a certain side.

I like the ui myself, and some of the apps are absolutely beautiful, I get you on the lack of engagement though, I've actually gone back and opened up a reddit account for this reason, I still love Lemmy and I'm certainly not giving up hope yet, but sometimes I just need more..
I'm on Voyager (via the app store) and it is wonderful (and free)!
I agree that some communities are quite empty, but I found that the techn savy communities are quite large and well maintained (selfhosted, linux and such).
Although the read is arguably shorter, i have more time in my day as a result of that. Not missing reddit at all ATM.
- I installed Voyager yesterday, I can't log in

Successful! A full reddit replacement!

The cons is the Sync app (or maybe it's deeper), comments seem to be under the wrong parent threads?

To be fair it's still in beta and that's a known issue, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

As I explained to someone, you could say it’s not exactly a cheap date here although it’s one I’m still sitting through, naturally.

Sync user so it looks and basically feels the same. Just the volume of posts is missing. My other issue is I used a lot of smaller communities and they haven't migrated.... Yet. So it's hard to get answers to things without going back to the /r which I try to avoid.

There’s a LOT of extremist left wingers but it’s ok because there’s a down arrow and block buttons. Oddly enough I haven’t seen much extremist right wing stuff plus I don’t have to care if someone doesn’t like me here so I’m less concerned about being honest.

It’s no mystery, the natural predator of fascists is communists
You’re welcome
The right wingers can't even move an inch in here, which is refreshing.
- I think it’s more likely that the demographic of Internet culture always has tended to lean fairly progressive
I think a distributed, democratically oriented platform that makes no effort to rank people in a hierarchy or score their performance naturally appeals to a lot of leftists. Can't say I've seen much I would describe as extremist, but I haven't looked so it seems plausible.
Of course there's nothing actively stopping right wing instances from spinning up, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before one blows up.

Too left wing, too much circlejerk. One sided discussions that feel AI generated. Controversial comments will get you banned in many cases. Worse mods than reddit easily.

It started out ok but is just a pointless echo chamber everywhere I look. Maybe I'm weird, but I WANT to view opposing viewpoints. That's how you learn things.

Be the change you want to see. The community is still in nascent stage so there's plenty of time to grow the community.
Personally, I think there are way more right wing echo chambers.

Lemmy blows and is missing vitally important features. In a decade, other people will finally figure it out once the tankies who control development exploit the information they've been farming against the users, put in updates that prevent defederation from their instances, fill the Lemmyverse with propaganda and/or start doxxing the liberals and alt right dipshits they hate.

I am personally trying to figure out what alternatives I could use. This instance seems alright for now, but after the last few I have been to, I don't really have faith in the platform. We'll see how this instance turns out, I guess.

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