No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.
I’m hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don’t love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren’t out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.
As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.
I’m committed to ActivityPub. I don’t really care if the specific server backend ends up being lemmy, kbin, or something new.
Eh. I was on Mastodon for a few days then left. Turns out I don’t care to follow specific people. So it’s a bit more than the protocol I will chase. The type of interaction also matters a lot.
This.
i did a lookup for ActivityPub, found an article and an image. thanks!
It seems like lemmy picked up the bulk of the refugees so far. Shifting again would be risky at this point, it just serves to dilute the numbers again. Some stay, some go etc.
I firmly believe this is only the beginning here. Reddit is probably fine to lurk so long as old.red*it.com remains, but it has become a pretty hostile place for people who participate.
My prediction is that reddit will just end up hosting content posted by bots and commented on by different bots and nobody will have any idea that there’s so few real users left. This will become the home for actual discussion between humans.
Why ActivityPub specifically?
For clarity, I’m not disagreeing, just trying to understand.
It’s a widely accepted standard for decentralised social media. It can be adapted to many use cases relatively easily. If someone makes a better link aggregator server based on ActivityPub, it would be much easier to bring all the lemmy data and users to it than if someone started from scratch. As in what happened going from Reddit to lemmy, as Reddit doesn’t have a standardised federation behavior.
Thanks for expanding on that!
Not OP but probably because it let’s us all communicate with each other. I can watch und discuss stuff from Kbin and even had a couple of Mastodon users commenting in one of my threads. It doesn’t look you on a platform, everything is more or less cross platform.
As a matter of fact: I’m already eyeing to move to Kbin as soon as I can manage to install it on my server. If something even better comes up and it also works with ActivityPub, then back to moving ships it is for me
That’s where I’m at, too. I’m even heavily considering running a kbin instance for me and a couple of friends so we can federate it as we see fit
A lot of people switched to lemmy recently, so the development focus is on scaling for now. It’ll probably take a while until that’s sorted out properly and the devs can focus on accessibility.
I think lemmy is a good place for this community because we don’t need to worry about big platforms overmoderating.
No apollo app no reddit. I agree the UI/UX is problematic but the native reddit ad filled app is way worse. Lemmy both has lots of room to still improve the experience but its build well enough already to actually function and people to be here.
Its also open source, decentralized, possible to self host. Aka owned by the people rather then corpos. All those things for the new homepage of the internet? I can only get so errect.
Memmy is starting to look like it could be an Apollo for Lemmy soon.
I literally just download it. Your reply is my first notification on it. 🐭
https://wefwef.app has an identical UI to apollo
I am quite happy trying memmy now but its really cool how smooth wefwef feels for working inside a web browser.
Ikr! And if you “install” the PWA it works even better, i never expected a web app to be this good (but this says more about lazy web app developers)
I am committed to federated services from here on out. I am personally really liking lemmy… There are some minor annoyances but nothing major. The mobile browsing experiences makes me pretty cozy. With the dark theme it’s not too far from rif. Apps and plugins are coming that will make it that next special thing. Like I couldn’t imagine aliensite without old and res. It’s coming… I’m loving it.
I’m a week into having setup my own personal instance and LOVING Lemmy. The community, the software stack, federation, all of it. I don’t visit reddit daily anymore (15 year old reddit account to be deleted this week once 3rd party apps get shut down).
Exact same situation (Instance been about 3 weeks now). I went back to the alien.site once to make a throw away account to update a community where I had a loose end. Besides that I haven’t been back. I had a alien.site account for like 12 years. Basically was my internet. I am loving it here.
Looking at other fedi apps like Mastodon, accessibility and UI/UX will soon follow. Which is promising.
But yes, it’s the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse. So we’ll see what the future brings ;)
I started on Mastodon last year and watching it increase in size by orders of magnitude over the last several months has been a beautiful thing to watch. I am thrilled Lemmy has taken off, finally. The fediverse has restored my faith in humanity quite a bit and consuming it feels healthier, there is no way I am going back to centralised platforms. Come to mastodon and get a glimpse at what Lemmy may become. :)
Was talking to my non-techie wife yesterday and she asked what I was working on. I said “replacing reddit.” I explained the reddit situation and then we talked about alternative social networking and I was shocked she knew what Mastodon was AND said a lot of people were moving there!
Welcome the normies, we need them too. :)
it DOES feel healthier, doesn’t it? since starting here yesterday, i have been retraining my hand to not click on reddit. but honestly, i don’t even want to.
i am willing to commit to lemmy.
I’ve been naturally gravitating towards lemmy the last few days, it’s really refreshing. I’ve not had to check myself as I’m reaching to open Apollo at all recently
100% agree!
Can you get Mastodon and Lemmy working together? Like is there a way to see them in the same feed?
You can follow users and communities and I think communicate from mastodon to lemmy, but you cant really follow from lemmy, yet. I do believe there are ways to comment, though. if you search the community or user name on mastodon (eg xyz@instance.org) then it should pop up.
@cccc @fossilesque i’m reading you from my mastodon home feed since i’m following @piracy as if it were a user
But yes, it’s the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse.
Agreed. I think the fediverse is still pioneer territory.
Come on, give it some time. It’s coming a long way, and devs are working their ass off to deliver some quality updates.
Also, there are a dozen apps in the works for iOS and Android that are to be released soon, if that’s not already the case. So you should have more choice to pick a better experience browsing lemmy in the coming days.
There’s already jerboa for android, made by lemmy.ml devs, kind of an “official” app
I mean yes, but you know… sync…
Yes I think a lot of us are waiting for the sync app. Hope it’s as good as the reddit one because that would really elevate my experience here
I wouldn’t count on it being the latest reddit Sync tier on the first release
But I have no doubt it’ll get there eventually, after some updates.
I’m obviously very committed. But I understand the frustration. However be a bit patient, the interest in the Software is just beggining and it has a completely open API. Great frontends will be developed very shortly
As a user of old.reddit I really don’t even find this interface to be much different. It really seems to be similar. Some of the issues I see as confusing comes to the federation specific things. As someone new to federation but from a technical background even I am finding that aspect confusing. So I imagine for people less tech savvy it would be an even harder learning curve. The idea of going to a completely separate domain, but being able to still subscribe to their community via the dbzer0 account is a totally different kind of concept and the UI can make it a bit complicated.
But overall using one specific instance feels very similar to the old.reddit UI if not slightly nicer in my opinion.
I am more than willing to wait for Lemmy to grow to see where it heads since it’s only been a thing since 2019.
Despite it having its fair share of problems, I am more than willing to put up with this for now since we’re still scratching the surface on the potential of a decentralized social media becoming a little more mainstream.
I’m not necessarily committed to Lemmy, but I am fairly committed to a fediverse Reddit-like app. And Lemmy is the one I’ve liked the most. The nice thing is, if something comes along that you prefer, you could switch to that and we’d still be able to interact.
As long as that other app also uses activitypub which might not be the case
I’m committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.
I’d think that we’re here for the quality of our experience and not for loyalty to a specific platform. Lemmy has some great advantages, especially for those of us fresh from Reddit who are sick and tired of corporate shennanigans and enshitification.
There’s lemmy politics which seems about disagreements that may or may not lead to defederating. But this isn’t for me a dealbreaker, and Reddit corporate made it super clear that it was on the side of the conservatives even if it found their hate speech brand-unsafe. My kind were not liked, and we could expect spittle in our drinks now and again.
So what would woo me away from Lemmy? Only if I found subs of my interests that I couldn’t find here, and then I’d haunt both platforms.
We’re just getting started. Sync for Lemmy and Memmy’s (heavily inspired by Apollo) release in a few weeks will go a long way for accessibility, and will likely already offer better UX than reddit.
No doubt contributors in the GitHub will add similar UX features as those fantastic apps once they’re out.
A piracy forum needs to be decentralised and based on FOSS software to be able to have quality content, we are not advertisement friendly lol.
Lemmy is the best option.
If not Lemmy then maybe a discourse forum but that would be even worse for mobile users.
Lemmy will only get better from now on, but tbh I prefer its UI over other alternatives official app.
Lemmy? Not specifically committed to Lemmy forever, but I very much see myself using it as my top Social Media 2-3 years from now.
I’m really invested that Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) is only going to get more awesome.
I’m just the past few weeks we’ve seen growth in not only the infrastructure, apps, and features of Lemmy, but there’s really great conversations happening around how the community is growing and possible threats to the system from big corps.
I think the Fediverse is a great place and is a great future of “Social Media”.
Even if no one else joins Fedi, I think we have enough entertaining content and news to sustain me for a long time. More people will join, though. Things will keep getting better, but it will take time.
Fuck Reddit, Fuck Twitter, Fuck FAANG. I hope distributed is the future.
I‘m committed to decentralized social media, so for now that’s this and kbin yeah.
I hope though that eventually a better UI in some app can help with your disability, being physically ill doesn‘t sound like a good time at all.
Same. The UI and apps and whatnot will all improve given time. You already have a bunch of new people working on new apps.
I am hard committing to decentralized social media.