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?
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.
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.
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.
Same, I do all of my browsing here but still look up things like “baldurs gate 3 quest/item/enemybugged reddit” because it’s the only place I can find answers, outside of the occasional steam forum post.
Yeah, it’s crazy how bad search engines have gotten and how good companies now are at SEO.
You basically have to end every single search with “reddit” if you want to so words written by humans.
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.
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?
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How’s that?
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
🤌 perfection
It’s very quiet but it’s so much more personable in the comments.
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’d like to see more human posts than just meme posting and news.
Yeah, I’d love to have my niche communities back as well
Same here, so I started an “art” server. We’ll see how it fares.
Care to share?
Check it out here: lemmy.mindoki.com
Small but I’m still proud :-)
That would be nice. I yearn for the day when I can stop putting “site:reddit.com” into all my web searches cause the answers are all on Lemmy.
Right now this place is good for browsing All, but trying to convince the smaller subs to migrate over here just gets you downvoted and flamed.
Yeah I completely agree, even though I’m subscribed to my favourite communities, they are nowhere near big enough to even fill 5 minutes of scrolling a day
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.
How do you create a custom email for everything? That seems hard to me
I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.
The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.
So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)
Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.
Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.
In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).
dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha… reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month
I’m sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what’s your threat model?
Losing all my comments and posts?
embrace the ephemeral bro, I had a 15y/o reddit account (still do but fuck em)
also, you can just export them?
I saw “yarrrr” and chose a great one hahaha
I think its great
Overall a much more friendly bunch of people here.
Thanks you guys! Youre all awesome!
This is what makes me love this platform, Reddit was just a negative experience for the last years.
I love it very much. Meanwhile I almost forgot, that reddit once was important to me.
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.
There’s a great app on fdroid called geddit that browses reddit without using the APIs so there’s no logging in or commenting, it might be useful for you
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.
Open up the communities you feel are really missing! I did so with !apocalypticart@feddit.de and so far, it’s going great judging from the subscribers.
I just wish other people than me would start posting there, but that’ll come eventually :)
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.
not just trolling everyone else
(Antique meme, I know)
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).
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.
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Current events (news, politics, etc…) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.
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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.
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