I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
Hijacking top comment: This is totally unnecessary and I love it.
What’s wrong with wefwef? I’m currently using it an iPhone and finding it not a huge difference in viewing and posting.
Video scrolling sure it’s not great.
There’s tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.
Same here. I mostly hung out in smaller, hobby subreddits. And the few I’ve found here are mostly dead. I really want to nerd-out with other people about shit nobody else cares about
i agree. i’ve been switching between lemmy and reddit lately, as i figured i would, since reddit just has so much more. lemmy is very comfy, happy, kind, and community centred, which i like for some things, but i just love those niche subreddits way too damn much to actually give them up yet. hopefully in time there will be more here.
Lemmy is more picture oriented, like Instagram sort of. Reddit at least I’d you used old and shut off custom css, was more textual. -1 for Lemmy there I’m afraid.
So far half the posts are about Reddit. So that part sucks. Lemmy is very complicated compared to Reddit. I don’t think large groups will be able to migrate here until a easy-mode app comes along to make it user friendly(er).
Yeah, I would say I’m kind of struggling here. I can’t figure out how to block communities I don’t want to see. I can’t figure out how to find communities I would like to be a part of. Currently my feed is full of stuff like bean memes and foreign languages. Which, said feed doesn’t really seem to move at all.
It doesn’t have ads though, and I know I’ll eventually get stuff figured out. But currently, I don’t feel like I’m getting much actual use out of it.
If the feed seems to be stagnant, you could be using the (default in many cases) active sort, which tends to have a lot of the same posts at the top, from what I’ve seen. Switching the sort to hot generally shows more fresh content in my experience. You can block communities on the web version using the red button on the right, in what I think is the sidebar, although that might be hidden on a phone. This site looks to be helpful for finding communities as well.
I’ll give the different sorting a try, but I don’t feel like it’s made much of a difference. I’m on mobile, so I’m trying out different apps. Currently have like 4 different ones installed. I can find the block community button in two of them, but clicking it does nothing.
My guess is this is just growing pains issues. I do appreciate the site recommendation.
There are 3rd party clients already in the works. Have you tried wefwef.app? Just type it into your browser and enjoy
As a long time reddit lurker. Loving it here so far.
When I heard about it I was kind of expecting it to be contentless and bare. Oh boy was I wrong and so pleasantly surprised.
The amount and the quality of the posts and comments is very high. The people super friendly and I’m loving the sense of community and respect. Bonding over something new and exciting also enchances this feeling.
I also visit reddit now and then but I noticed my browsing sessions leave me more satisfied here on Lemmy, than on Reddit.
Obviously there are some communities that I miss, but I’m sure with time replacement tor those will start to appear.
Lemmy and the community not only fills the “gap”, but for me, it also stands by itself providing something that reddit didn’t .
Super excited about what is being created here.
It’s reminding me a lot of when I first joined Reddit (nearly 15 years ago). Not too much is happening day-to-day so I’m checking in every couple of days or so.
I think this is a much healthier relationship than checking a site compulsively every couple of hours. I’m liking it so far, also a crazy repercussion is that I’m using the internet like the early days again. I think of a topic and I do a deep dive on my own, researching into it and going down weird rabbit holes.
I feel like Reddit discouraged this behavior by having a non-stop flow of communities that “mostly” interested me enough to not go “browsing the web”
Pretty nice. I just wish more people were here. The occasional bug is fine it seems to be fixed quickly.
Love your comment, it is doubled on my side.
I was on Reddit for over 8 years, nearly entirely using Apollo. It was frustrating to arrive “late” to a thread and only see funny jokes, and have any comments buried if you bothered to make one. Here, it is nice to actually have a conversation with posters and maybe you might actually see them again someday.
Maybe the difference between having a conversation at your favorite pub with good friends versus yelling at someone in the stands at a football stadium. It is nice to be seen and heard.
Weird anecdote here. When Reddit went to hell I just joined an instance in my country with I think 20-30 people in that moment so we always watched the same names in posts and comments, and we laughed about it.
Next thing I known, somehow I just made my self some new friends, so yeah, its weird felling the slowlynees of here, but its especial, its own thing different to Facebook, Tumblr, or even Mastodon, I like it.
Well, maybe you have another new buddy!
Hell yeah !
I like this take, hadn’t thought of it before.
I am glad I could help!
Same. Social climate over niche availability.
I like the ability to talk to people not just be an invisible upvote or downvote. And honestly, I did very little voting because it was just a way to scroll mindlessly. Here, it feels like it matters.
Loving actually having conversations with people, instead of talking into the void where by the time you see a post it’s already so old that commenting is useless
I love the concept of a federated network, it definitely feels way more punk than just being another data set for a corporation
I do wish a few of the more niche subreddits had similar communities here, but I’m trying to do my part by making that content
I don’t have anything to add but in the spirit of actually engaging, I see your comment and agree!
Lookit that! Now it’s a conversation :)
Honestly if people just went and created the communities they miss from Reddit people will join up faster.
I think the whole creating a sub and modding it was for a specific type of person on Reddit. Will be interesting to see how easily that will flow over here.
The servers (instances) aspect and different communities (forums on topics) on different servers and servers blocking others, is a mess if I’m being honest. It’s the biggest flaw. I still find it hard to find communities of topics I want…
I like it but can’t wait until we stop talking about Reddit
17 years on Reddit, 15 years as a registered user. I’m done with Reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/user/irqbreaker
Two weeks in on Lemmy and I’ve even set up my own instance. It feels like old Reddit and I’m loving it!
Same here. Same username over there.
- fugepe ( @fugepe@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
I never understood this proud feeling of being part of a website.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
What kinds of things are you proud of?
- fugepe ( @fugepe@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
Things I train/study for and control.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Well, a person does control which websites they’re a part of. Maybe “pride” here means they enjoy speaking up about it (a good definition of pride I’d say), like I enjoy saying I was at Burning Man 2006 but I’m a little ashamed of saying I missed the final lightsaber battle. The thing they controlled was navigating to be in a certain moment of history.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I would show you my 12 year old profile (with some real classic comments including a best of explanation of quantum physics, and a bunch of spoof lyrics of songs, short stories, debates, awarded essays, epicly stupid jokes) except it became un-viewable when they banned me for mocking someone’s plan to solve housing shortages by vandalizing houses.
I love it tbh. Just wish my niche communities had more people. But that just takes time
Definitly hurting for engagement and content, but seemingly improving.
Not as many things to mindlessly scroll by, but I’m liking the new community vibe so far!
For now, not great. It’s annoying to have 99% of my feed taken up by posts like this one. I don’t care about Lemmy, reddit, or any other related sites. I’d like to just find some actual content thanks.