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.
Reddit is dead. Lemmy is
ALIVEEE!!!
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’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
Back before Hexbear re-federated we used to have a sorting algorithm that was a bit better for smaller communities. Right now, Active posts stay for too long and Hot posts don’t yet have enough engagement to encourage people clicking through. I believe there’s talks of adjusting the sorting algorithms, hopefully soon.
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
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.
It’s a give an take. I do miss some of the communities but at this time lemmy is more intimate. Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind. As an early adopter on lemmy you can help build and participate more readily. Nothing like having a comment on a thread with 1,000 comments and thinking ‘fuck it no one cares.’ Or worse trying to hamstring your comment into the top 6 or 7 threads for visablity alone.
Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind.
I dig the analogy and had to chuckle.
I’m struggling to find niche communities but overall the comments are more human and not just saying what everyone wants to hear for Internet points. I still plan on hosting my own instance soon and I’m excited for that. I do find it annoying as well when I sort by new and it’s just thousands of repost from reddit.
I dunno, there always seems to be a dog pile of people ready to be outraged. The LTT stuff, especially the un-verified, tweets from the disgruntled ex employee.
People are ready to string up Linus and torch his community even though the response video today is all you could ask for. Then she piles on and somehow her word is not inpugnable.
Any voice of reason is down voted and dumb hot takes and up voted.it feels worse than reddit tbh.
Yeah been noticing it can be pretty hit or miss, the vibe is pretty chill here but people still come out of the woodwork to dog-pile on people. The unverified allegations with LLT / Madison are a perfect example of that
He said the hard-r word all of the time as a kid
Are you planning on some specific communities or “just” a server for anyone to join and use?
Just a server for my friends and I to use
My problem is that most of the posts are about lemmy or reddit.
It’s not as bad as it was a month ago. Already the content feels more diverse.
Same here. Really hoping the non-lemmy-focus communities can start to get more active now that the commotion is settling down a bit.
Yeah, people need to post in a lemmy drama community or something, I’m sick of it and would like to read about something else.
Lol yeah I know what you mean that bothered me a while ago too, I just wanted to check in
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It’s also really hard to block everything because there isn’t a simple block button available, you have to go into the message and then scroll all the way to the bottom (which is fun when infinite scrolling is switched on).
Try the Voyager app. Long press to subscribe or block direct from your feed!
its good, been enjoying it for ~3 years now
Haha, same.
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.
Thank you.
Honestly I’m not having a great time. Most of the hobby communities are graveyards. I spend a lot less time here because I’m not interested in tech communities at all.
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
three years ago after /r/cth got banned I switched to chapo.chat as my primary forum. After the API stuff caused Apollo to get shut down, I cut myself loose entirely from the reddit ecosystem. Haven’t looked back
I’ve only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.
I know what some of those words mean
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as “slop”.
Is ‘slop’ from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
“If I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” — liberals
(I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that ‘slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)
Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online
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 :)
