I’ve had a great time here. The people on the various communities I’ve joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven’t encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.
I’ve had really cool conversations and I haven’t been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.
What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.
People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.
I’m excited to see your experience as well?
I’m really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D
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I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I’m in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I’m excited to see where this goes
I agree, I think a “fuck it, pick one for me” button would be great for newcomers. Just gotta make sure the randomized list only contains vetted / reliable instances that wont go dark after 2 days of experimenting.
Agreed! I wish an app could’ve just forced me to join a general instance.
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The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I’m afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service… But it’s a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.
They won’t recover, because Reddit is going to get only worse. There was an NBCnews interview with Huffman, where he more or less let it slip that the next big step is trying to monetize subreddits. People will eventually migrate to the fediverse because Reddit is going to gut very core of what makes Reddit Reddit. Of course Reddit won’t magically disappear but it will slowly drift towards irrelevancy as it transforms into something else.
It could be argued that some of the best content creators of Reddit have left, or are considering leaving out of disgust due to disrespect from the admins. If Reddit alternatives prove to have quality over quantity, Reddit might continue hemorraging users, and the ones that stay will be folks that appreciate dopamine-heavy content from TikTok.
Of course Reddit will cost for a while. But they’re not going to recover because they have nothing better to offer than what they just took away.
And after Twitter self-destructed last year, people aren’t going to jump into Reddit if they aren’t there already.
I feel like I’m in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.
That’s a cool way to look at it! “Sssk this is the SS Lemm.ee hailing the SS Behaw over, over.”
Ha exactly, “They’re seeing our calls Captain, but there is no responding communications”.
It’s going to take a while re-building a list of communities, and getting familiar with the new UI (I’m using Jerboa on Android). But otherwise, same vibes as when moving from twitter to mastodon, it feels good to rely on decentralized networks where we aren’t the product.
What I’m missing at the moment is the ability to build “MultiReddits,” i.e. specific groupings of communities for when I want to browse by theme. For example, back on Reddit, my “Sports” M-R included the subs: NBA, MMA and general sports.
Right now on Lemmy, it looks like one can browse communities by either: Subscribed, Local, and All, but nothing else. Am I missing something, tho?
Yup, migrating from Reddit here. Biggest problem for me is finding a good instance. First one I tried was not in my region, poor connectivity. Then I started trying ones in my region (USA) after looking at the list sortable by country here; https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Next one I tried was beehaw.org. That one turned out to be heavily defederated which means it blocks a lot of outside instances. That’s really bad. I can block any instance I want in my profile so why do I need someone else to tell me what I can and cannot access.
I did pretty well with lemmy.one, performance was good, but was not particularly impressed by the administration, some disabled features and a few blocked instances. Now I’m trying lemm.ee and we’ll see how that goes, so far so good.
The next big hurdle is finding communities. There’s no sort or filter function when you list them all in a search. So it can be hard to zero in on what you’re looking for. There are some 3rd party sites like lemmyverse.net to help in the search for communities, but it would be a lot better if that was not necessary.
You can tell Lemmy is immature in terms of development, rough around the edges. It lacks quality of life features and has some glaring bugs. Still its not anything that makes it unusable, but the user experience could be better at this point. I’m sure it will get there as the software matures.
The huge thing that makes Lemmy superior (and the Fediverse in general) is that it’s community driven by FOSS making it free of corporate influence. That’s just a huge advantage, can’t overstate that too much. Inevitably what happens with corporate driven communities is they prioritize monetization over community interests. That happened with Reddit in a big way as evidenced by the recent strike.
I have to say, I absolutely love it! Their isn’t as much engagement or users to produce content, which can be a bit hard for more niche subjects. But that is okay, and I am very confident that over time those needs will fill in the fediverse.
Learning the technology behind federated social media has been extremely exciting! I really do think that this is the future of the space, and learning it has been like learning Linux or Python for the first time. I guess I am lucky that I have a bit more of a background in computers, so I get to be a bit more patient than most people when it comes to learning how the instances talk to each other, but I really believe that with the right user interface, everyday people will get the hang of it.
So one thing this experience has made me realize is that reddit didn’t always keep me up on what I could consider interesting news.
I have an RSS feed setup of about 55 feeds. I would keep scrolling on reddit because I’d want to keep trying to find those interesting articles in a haystack but I think I may have reached overstauration on subreddits that I’d have to scroll through a lot of junk.
With rss feeds set to update once a day, once I reach the end of my feeds I now feel more comfortable saying I’m done wasting time for the day trying to keep up with the feeds.
It does mean though that I have to find other ways to waste those 5 to 15 mins of down time waiting on an elevator or waiting on a coffee if I’ve read through the news of the day. I’ve returned to wordle and now the mini crossword from NYTimes.
If nothing else, this has made me realize I don’t need to keep endlessly scrolling to pass the time.
What app are you guys using on Android? Jerboa?
I am; Jerboa seems to work okay.
It’s fine, but the typing experience is lacking. One small mistake with make you potentially delete at least a full sentence because it randomly deletes the spaces.
Yep, jerboa gets better with every update, but it feels kind of janky overall.
I use them all, but have settled into Thunder
Thunder is working well for me. oh this post is OLD woops
It really does have the same feel as the Digg exodus, I’m enjoying the camaraderie with the other Reddit refugees.
The software is a little rough around the edges still, but I’m having a whale of a time here. Honestly it’s pretty exciting thinking about what this could be if enough communities grow here.
The software is definitely going to get better over time as it is developed more.
Oh for sure. I actually kind of love that it’s so minimal right now, sure there’s a bunch of stuff missing but what’s there today works well and represents a great platform to build on.
If it was more polished but had more stuff that doesn’t fit my tastes then I’d be less excited (tbh that’s kinda how I feel about kbin)
I’ve always primarily lurked on reddit. I don’t usually say anything unless I have something to add and by the time a post makes it to the front page who is going to see it anyway? So I’m trying to participate more which is new for me. Besides that I’ve had a little trouble with jerboa but I’m chocking that up to growing pains. But so far so good and I’m looking forward to watching lemmy and lemm.ee grow and thrive.
Same here, mostly lurked and looked for any interesting topics. Every now and again would catch a debate gone sour and would read it out of curiosity. Never really cared to accumulate karma, didn’t care. Joined reddit years ago when it was simpler and I enjoyed it more. Now its more, karma focused and seeking approval from the mods/masses. I’m glad I left, happy here now.
Its not just you, jerboa is a little rough when it comes to navigating across multiple federated instances. But it just needs more time in development, and honestly the level of polish the app already has is impressive.
Navigating between federated instances is rough in general, but it is also the cutting edge of using this stuff, so I can’t wait to see those problems be solved and help solve them.
Love it! It’s like food truck version of reddit. The apps are now right next to each other on my phone
May I ask what you mean by the “food truck version of Reddit”?
That is an excellent analogy! Do you mind if I use it?
I’m missing my niche subreddits because the only thing I used Reddit for much anymore were r/synthesizers and r/printsf, and there aren’t very many people talking about synthesizers and science fiction lit just yet. I started the former anyway!
My niche subreddit is dedicated to pebble watches, but thankfully, they also have a discord community that was started before the reddit fallout.
good for you! be the change you want to see. It feels lonely at the start, but you gotta help populate whatever community you want to start and people will come!
How would I subscribe to the magazines? you made?
https://lemm.ee/c/synthesizers is the one I created. I’m not 100% what I’m doing, but I think it works.
The first few days was the refugee camp outside Reddit City, where we were all scrambling between our tents and looking for places that would take us. Now those camps are flourishing and buildings are popping up, while new citizens are joining every day!
This is all giving me strong Digg vs. Reddit comic vibes and I love it!
It seems a lot quieter. But in a nice way. Like, city centre shopping vs village store.
People seem a bit nicer.
And, there’s a greater sense of optimism here. About everything.
I made a reddit account over a decade ago, it was by far my favorite social media platform, and pretty much every single change since then has made it slightly worse. I’ve been looking forward to this exodus for a while.
I’m having a great time. It feels a lot cozier than Reddit, and like I’m talking to actual people who I occasionally manage to recognize when I see them later (like you OP, for example). I’ve posted more within a few days here than I did in years of being on Reddit. Which isn’t saying much, but it’s something.
It’s also been a great opportunity to jump into the Fediverse and get more comfortable with it. It’s an exciting time!