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.

  •  moreeni   ( @moreeni@lemm.ee ) 
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    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.

      • 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.

    • 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.

  • 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.

  •  Vlyn   ( @Vlyn@lemmy.zip ) 
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    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:

    1. sh.itjust.works: Found out they’re Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
    2. 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
    3. lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
    4. 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
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  •  Adderbox76   ( @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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.

    1. Current events (news, politics, etc…) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.

    2. 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.

  • 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!

    •  GBU_28   ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) 
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      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

    • 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).