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submitted 1 year ago by TurboLag to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

In another thread, I read a user's comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it's changed?

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[-] rikudou 149 points 1 year ago

It's gotten better. A lot. More people means more content. Sure, I have to curate it a bit, but overall it's better.

[-] QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 47 points 1 year ago

Completely agreed! Communities are getting stronger, consolidating repeats across instances, and providing helpful comments.

The other day I was going to post a link in a community, and then checked to see- it had already been posted! Brought a tear to my eye 🥹

[-] Pea666@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

Content is improving but the apps well! I’m currently using Voyager (wefwef) and it’s a lot better than when I started using it (around the great Reddit exodus).

The dev said they’d be scaling down support but it’s fine for now and even if it starts lagging behind for some reason there’s a couple of great alternatives as well (Avelon works very well for example).

[-] AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo 50 points 1 year ago

Its my first day here. I'm having a good time. Thanks for asking.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 10 points 1 year ago

Except Starfleet is toast.ooo

[-] AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks. Feels good to be here. I know some people have mixed experiences but it really is neat seeing the fediverse come to life.

Being able to browse other federated sites from one app is cool as fuck too.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's really cool. I'm way more active on Lemmy than I was on Reddit, and I keep thinking of a post made by @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website. I've seen some people talking about stuff that is not OK/mixed experiences (see the whole thing about rqd2.net that happened TODAY here), but I've just kept myself in areas which are full of great people (coincidentally @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website is one of those cool people).

The federated app thing is super cool tho lol

Welcome to the party!

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago
[-] ptz@dubvee.org 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine's gotten better, but it's taken some curation to get there.

Since I joined Lemmy during the Reddit meltdown, the amount of quality content has steadily risen. I run a small instance (~25 users), so my "all" feed isn't a deluge of everything under the sun. I also instance ban bot accounts which reduces a lot of the crap (reposts, spammy comments, etc).

[-] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking for new members? ;)

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[-] Icaria@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

It's hard to avoid the US politics. Worse than reddit in that regard, it is giving me flashbacks to 2008 Digg where every second thing on the front page was about Obama and Ron Paul.

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[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I find it's kind of a mixed bag. A bunch of communities I joined a few months ago are now just bot posts and boring but a bunch of newer communities I've joined are way better than reddit was.

[-] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Gotten better and better over time.

I’ve learned to always have a backup account on another instance and that’s decreased my downtime to almost zero.

I prefer the content here to Reddit, as Reddit seems to just be clickbait these days.

My favorite thing here is the community. Much less likely to encounter an asshole and even when people disagree, they seem to argue in good faith. Love the Lemmy/knib community feel.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

man I loved Ragnarok Online lol, me and my friend spent a lot of time in that game, I don't even know what made it so good I guess just the vibes

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I haven’t seen the experience getting worse. I am amazed by the amount of shitposting subs in the all feed but it’s not a lot of effort to scroll past them.

One thing i have noticed is that folks have lost their welcoming demeanor from the initial migration and a lot more argumentative or fringe communities are highly ranked on the all feed. And users who comment something that isn’t 100% behind the prevailing belief on Lemmy will get piled on the same as Reddit. I was hoping that Lemmy would be more open to all sorts of discourse but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

FuckCars or antiwork don’t bother me, but they aren’t the kind of topics that someone who is coming from a middle of the road perspective are going to appreciate. Even more so for the full on communist communities on Lemmy.ml or others.

I think these communities deserve their voice and don’t have a problem with them hitting the all feed, I just wish they were a little less aggressive with labeling other people as trolls and downvoting or insulting them when on other instances and communities

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It's great. It's fun to try to grow communities.

I even like finding similar communities being scattered around the fediverse. Not being centrally owned by anyone (including a single instance) is what makes this different from reddit.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Mostly stable. A few communities go strong, many more remain silent.

Bots though. There are a bunch of bots merely reposting links to other platforms like reddit, and it's so annoying. Their posts sit at +0 votes, 0 comments, and clutter communities and All feed. I'm mostly talking about https://lemmit.online/u/bot and http://zerobytes.monster/u/bOt. If anyone knows for what they are good, if anyone likes something about their existence, please enlighten me. From my point of view, they're like a (maybe) opt-out newsletter for which you were never asked if you want to receive it. And apparently people are working to make more bots and create more bot instances to mirror more non-interactive reddit posts into Lemmy. I think that's a terrible development for existing users, and severely off-putting for newcomers.

I also learned over the past months how tankies can be bending the truth and be quick with their banhammer. It's a bit eerie to see them create alternate realities shielded from outside opinions, how all that works technically with de-/federation, various versions of comment sections, and so on.

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could upvote tits twice

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

The only thing I like the lemmit bot for is to aggregate some news links for me, as well as random TIL. Any of the lemmit bot communities that just link to reddit are an absolute waste of my time, and I block them. But I honestly don't see them too much

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago

A lot more weird people now. I already miss the initial experience of a small crowd of tech people. Now it's mostly memes, because you can't have a good discussion on Lemmy without someone getting their perception bubble popped. I've been called a racist, a hater, homophobe, etc.

So of course all discussions are like "oh nice meme".

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[-] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

It’s been mixed for me.

Negatives: rise in bot reposts. Solution: block the individual bot accounts. Works fine. Cut spam on my feeds by a third easily.

Positives: more engagements on posts. More comments, more viewpoints. I think this is great.

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[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 1 year ago

Mines gotten better, but that's because I've become active in communities like !risa@startrek.website which are full of awesome people. Without them it would've probably still got better, but they've made it way better

[-] lesteross@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

People here annoy me here more and more with time, especially when it comes to reddit, where every post shitting on reddit is massively upvoted. There is nothing to read aside maybe c/all where active have something new maybe every day, and hot is filled to the brim with the same posts since there is no crossposting as far as I know. It feels to me that people are forcing themselves to like Lemmy cause for no other reason other than they hate reddit so much more. Will that stop me from browsing it? Not yet, but I have to browse reddit for stuff I care more about.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Crossposting does exist on Lemmy.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It comes in waves. Whenever I notice the comment quality getting bad on the front page, I assume reddit fucked up again. Things usually stabilizes in 1-2 weeks though.

[-] Dylan@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago

It was pretty dead when I first joined in the middle of June. Instances and communities have slowly started to fill and comment sections are getting more active.

Experience definitely got better once more third party apps got on board. There is a great selection out there with different tastes to suit a lot of users.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

More active niche communities popping up here and there! The strength and number of niche communities still don't match those of niche communities on Reddit, but I take it as a good sign of healthy growth.

It's just slightly annoying to have to check in every once in a while for niche communities that sprung up since the last time I checked

[-] koyo@ani.social 8 points 1 year ago

A bit more active than when I made my account.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Lol, so many people asking this. IDK, it kind of got better with time! I like here, my instance seems to share to same basic values has me, the interactions are less aggressive then on reddit. I sometimes go to Reddit to look at the trash. Oh and I got into Linux. Like really, my wife thinks I'm anoying about it.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Mobile apps are significantly better than they were at the start of the reddit migration, to the point connect has replaced Boost for me even though boost finally caught up to the rest of the class

So better in general I guess

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

The only real changes I see are that the population seems to be slowly rising.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmy seemed to me to be a lot more empty when I joined. I’ve enjoyed it recently. It’s seemed much more lively and with better content. It feels like the old days of browsing Reddit for 8 hours a day.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

I felt like that 4 months ago here. :)

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I was here since 2020, there are more "crazies" and average quality of content seem to be down, but a lot more memes and content. open source related subs seem a lot more active here then on reddit but on reddit there are open source developers talking and on here there are non it seems besides those developing stuff for lemmy.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Sync released

[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't been here long, but content quantity and quality seem to be improving, along with user interactions.

[-] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The reddit exodus tanked the quality of discourse so hard, I have to use my block list the exact same way I was using it on reddit; and that's fucking depressing. Eternal September, all over again.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I do feel like engagement and participation have dropped off from the Rexit peak. However, as the pace has slowed the quality of the posts and comments have stayed strong or even gotten better.

I'm looking forward to being able to block whole instances to get a lot of the bot-generated chaff out of my All feed. Stuff like sports scores and Hacker News reposts.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has gotten a bit slower, but the mobile app experience has gotten significantly better. I only go to reddit for one specific subreddit. Other then that, I'm full blown decentralized, except for my friends who still use discord.

[-] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

That Lemmit bot that just keeps posting links to Reddit has got to go!!

If it's worth posting or discussing, link the original article and make your own damn post. I don't want a link back to Reddit.

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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It feels about the same, aside from the week or two hexbear was around.

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