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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With third party apps added and new niche communities its getting alot better. I'm enjoying it. Also has a high level of discussion a higher level of discussion without karma.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm loving it, it feels genuine and authentic without all the bots and algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's literally just reddit for me at this point, i use mlmym.org which gives me the old reddit interface so i barely notice even the slightest difference.

If people didn't make so many posts about drama in the fediverse i would have had no clue there were any problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I don't miss Reddit at all. I deleted my account over a month ago.

Voyager is just like Apollo, and it's been fun to try other apps as well. I also have accounts on kbin, Discuit, and Squabblr, but Squabblr is basically a dead platform at this point, and Discuit is yet another centralized platform so who knows if that one will last.

Lemmy's been my favorite of the bunch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven't been back to Reddit. It's going great. Mostly I am relieved I don't have to see that fucking Jesus ad anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Browsing Lemmy's front page has replaced reddit's r/all for me, usually checking top of 12 hours from all instances.

But I still use reddit for specific forums of certain things, because it's just the biggest community for the particular subject. I usually try to check if I can find the particular subject from Lemmy and check that out first though.

I'm more of a commenter/lurker and I quite rarely make new posts, but when I do make one:

  • If it's a question about something I need help with, I'll start with a Lemmy post and then possibly also make one on Reddit - more readers, more answers.
  • If it's just a shitpost/meme/"content", I only post it on Lemmy.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly use Lemmy these days, especially after my preffered third party reddit app got ported over to Lemmy. I only use reddit for a few communities, Lemmy for everything else. I also only use reddit on desktop, never on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Regretting thr instance i chose and checking for migration options.

Lemmy world is showing some weird reddit vibes when it comes to shoving admin decisions down users throats, even if they dont affect me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

not going well at all to be honest. it's very hard to adjust. but i remember reddit was hard for me too, so i guess i should just put in a bit more effort

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Signing up for some instances can be annoying, when a few want you to type out a cover letter of why you want to join them. I get trying to weed out bots but god is it tedious.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty good so far, miles ahead of reddit, it's been nice seeing it grow, have been here for a year and change

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When I sort by All I see 90% of what I would be looking for on other sites, so it's a drop in replacement (at least for now). I spend less time overall on lemmy, but the time I do spend is less mindless scrolling, and more actually interesting posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends. I'm on two instances, sopuli and beehaw. Both of them are really welcoming and cool, and I can interact with people without worrying about being bullied or harassed or attacked by random trolls just because they don't like what I say (and trust me, suffering those actions while being neurodivergent is way worse than suffering those actions while being neurotypical).

But I think that more than 70% of the content I see comes from one single instance. Excluding beehaw (they defederated that other instance, and I agree with that), I think that sopuli also has similar communities that are like abandoned or with low amount of content. That's something I don't like.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use it just as much as Reddit and generally enjoy the home/all experience much better. What you miss is the niche communities but I feel like the better experience on the β€œbig” communities like [email protected] or [email protected] make up for it.

It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so I’m grateful for that as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I learn something new every week about subjects I was decided on for a long time, forcing me to re-evaluate. It seems like there are more knowledgeable people here than on Reddit. I do wish our visualnovels community was more active, but alas, it's a more niche subject that's bound to grow slowly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use it but some of the smaller communities pretty much are non existent here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The memes are good and I find out about news and stuff the same way I would on reddit. So pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’m liking it. The comments are nice and the content for the most part have been enjoyable. I do miss larger niche communities in reddit. Some really small communities are so small or dead its hard to get it going.

I don’t spend as much time on lemmy as I did reddit. I think I’ve now spent a bit more of that time spread with instagram and YouTube as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still not as good as Reddit as a platform despite the apps are getting really good. I haven't discovered interesting /c/ and my frontpage is filled with memes and tech news only, it gets boring. The local regional /c/ is pretty much dead. No one bother posting or start a convo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm here for the community and to be honest - the people in the Fediverse are very smart and share their smarty brains in a nice and parsable way.

edit: with the exception of c/asklemmy.world because apparently all the judgey shitheads that make the internet suck all live there.

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