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submitted 1 year ago by chrizbie@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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.

[-] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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:

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

  2. 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

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[-] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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

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.

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Souyo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Jack3G@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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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.

[-] PizzaDeposit@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Citheronia@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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

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