It's a learning curve. I think it'll be great in the long run though. Not sure which app I'm going to stick with. Using jerboa currently.
It's a lot better than the last time I was here. Last time a week later the top few posts were the same lol
Leaving that toxic s-hole feels great. Reddits userbase had gone pretty horendous in the recent years and don't even get me started over the mods so I always begged for alternatives to be formed, I jumped ship the moment I found lemmy which is today.
The content is really bounded by tech stuff, but I guess that's due to migration being important for tech-savvy users. It is true that appending "reddit" to search queries and following the results is still inevitable (but hey, libreddit and teddit still work). But vibe is completely different, very organic, very active, I like it a lot. I think there is a lot of potential in this feeling of authentic communication. Let's hope it grows.
Lemmy is much better replacement for Reddit than Mastodon is for Twitter.
Decent so far, I do want a redditisfun type app for it, and it could use more people, but other than that good
I was legitimately, saddened and upset when I heard that Apollo was going away and that I would never be able to use Reddit again I am actually quite pleased with Lemmy. I love it.
I like it enough to host an instance. It's pretty legit, to be honest. If I can find and join more of the same types of communities I was a part of on Reddit, I can easily see myself spending more time here. Even now, I feel like my time on my phone is an even split between Lemmy and Reddit.
It's great! Definitely satisfies the urges to scroll through a bunch of silly crap. And the Memmy for Lemmy app on iOS feels a lot like Apollo. Very happy to be part of this community, despite it's intimate size
I love that it exists. I don't visit Reddit anymore, although I miss some communities, especially AskHistorians and AskScience. Otherwise, I can tolerate the teething problems of Lemmy (and kbin) in order to support a free internet. The latter is far more important, to me, than "better functionality"
Everyone's nice and there activity, but I miss some subs. I could make them them all, but creating content for all of them would be too much work... I already do that outside reddit/lemmy. 😣
It's great! Though I'm missing some niche communities. And some good apps.
Started out bumpy and the servers couldn't handle all the new traffic. Vast improvements over the last few days. So much so that I went ahead and deleted my reddit account today. Not looking back.
I am opening Lemmy daily... Most of the posts I see are circlejerking beans post and posts that are still celebrating the death of Reddit while Reddit has posts of real quality. I open Reddit in Firefox mobile now... Still way better than Lemmy... Hope that will change but I am sceptical.
I really like it here. Im on connect for lemmy which is giving me boost for reddit vibes
It's aight. I just want to see all the billionaire bastards burn
I'm slowly figuring out things and slowly finding communities. There seems like there's a lot more genuine engagement. It's rad.
loving it so far aside from comments randomly disappearing after i submit them, but im assuming that bug will eventually be worked out. i miss the big card interface reddit switched to but im currently using a custom css that makes lemmy look like old.reddit.com (modified to be amoled black) and it feels great.
I've been on the fediverse before, but never thought to use Lemmy/Kbin until the Reddit exodus. Joined a small community for the domain name and enjoyed it thus far.
That being said, some communities are missing or inactive, definitely gonna help out in that regard.
Definitely a learning curve but WefWef has solved a lot of my initial issues. Also seems like a lot less obvious bots and garbage than Reddit, which was getting pretty bad.
But so far I’m glad to be on something decentralized and excited to see what this looks like a year from now.
I'm liking it so far, but a couple of things confuse me about the multiple instances thing.
I've made an account in lemmy.world and for the most part, have found my favorite communities are on the grow here.
However, I know there are other popular instances like lemmy.ml and such. Do our accounts not work cross compatible across the various lemmy instances?
the fediverse has done a great job replacing reddit for my scrolling-though-random-stuff needs! as for more niche stuff, it's still not there yet (as has been pointed out many, many times already), but i'm trying to help! i'm posting and commenting regularly on !kirby@lemmy.world. "be the change you want to see" and all that. i encourage everyone else to do the same with their niche communities!
edit: though at this point i have 4 accounts across different instances (here, lemmy.world, kbin.social, feddit.online), thanks to various things. so it's not entirely smooth sailing for me right now
Yeah the content isn't quite as niche yet, but I way prefer it
So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me
It's fine, but I don't enjoy having to deal with federation stuff. It's doable, but it's not intuitive, and everything is a bit too disorganized.
Seems OK, hoping Sync for Lemmy client adds a bit more polish, most current clients seem unfinished or a bit janky in some ways.
Ultimately, it'll just take me time to adjust to the new way of things and more users/content.
The only way I'll be going back to reddit is if I can use Sync, and that definitely isn't happening so I'll have to adjust.
I think I sort of understand in theory how instances and the communities work, but I am confused about how it works in practice. I'll hopefully figure it out in time. I signed up via reddthat, so as long as they stay federated... I should still be able to see everything and do everything and have my comments be seen by everyone? Right?
I signed my mum up for Reddit 6 years ago and she's a daily user of that (lmao I help her with subreddits and try to help her not fall into weird rabbit holes, but over all she just looks at cat pictures and fun things) but I don't think she'd manage Lemmy. Maybe, if there were already more communities and more posts related to her interests, and I set Lemmy up for her, and nothing ever changed about how she would learn to use Lemmy. But I think just the nature of Lemmy - it's too new and the idea of instances and how they are federated is too confusing for now. Or maybe I just need to understand it better myself.
I’m certainly enjoying it. As others have mentioned it’s a lot slower content wise and the smaller subreddits I was in aren’t here. Lots of niche content is missing, but things like news, politics, gaming, tech, security, are all here and doing fine.
Its great! I was on pleroma before and didn't even know Lemmy was a thing u til recently. Love federated social media.
Less active just due to lower user population but great vibe nonetheless.
Liking it so far. It feels a bit like the early days of the internet. You know the potential is there and can’t wait to see this grow.
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