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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm liking it so far. But given this is a federated replacement of Reddit, how does replication of communities work? Cuz there are multiple Technology or World News communities in different instances. Which one do we follow?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm only just starting the last week or so, but I feel like because it's a bit smaller there's better discussion. Most minor annoyance with it though is some quality of life things not being there like RES (browsing everything with J + K etc.) and that multiple times a day it gives me Server Error / Cloudflare error pages.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I run out of content to read much more quickly than I did with Reddit, so I'm antsy/restless more often, because I pick up my phone and then have nothing to do on it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was commenting a fair bit early on, but have stopped so much cause that's just how I react to social media.

Have completely stopped using Reddit after baconreader died, and check Lemmy once, maybe twice a day. Nowhere near what I did Reddit but such is the way of things.

It has led me to go properly check out Mastodon so I'm more active over there (but still not really active)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very good. Seems like a nice place to be in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really like it and use it every day. I still use old.reddit.com a bit but I like Lemmy and Kbin more.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is great. So great that I named myself after it (my nickname was just "Resol" before then, now it's obviously "Resol van Lemmy", it sounds very Flemish). I do have a problem with it though. Most communities I was active on on Reddit are either nonexistent on Lemmy or just not big enough to maintain daily activity, making them look like ghost towns. Also, I had to shuffle between different clients because I didn't have a satisfactory experience with some, I'm currently using Sync because the interface is so nice (although I like how Jerboa shows the upvote to downvote ratio in addition to the total score). In addition to all this, I got help cutting down on screentime thanks to the Fediverse. I just didn't have much addiction anymore, which is always a good thing. I don't know what else to say.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Flemish or Dutch indeed, very fancy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So I used lemmy world and then lemmy winks because world had up time issues and now I keep making ones on new instances seeing as winks seems to be dead

Memes are about the only consistent content on lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty good, though I'm not mainly using Lemmy directly. I run a Kbin instance that I've been using primarily, but I've also been testing Artemis with the developer's artemis.camp instance, and I have Infinity for Lemmy signed into my lemmy.world account.

There's less content here than on Reddit, but I think it's higher quality. There's less trolling and shitposting here (unless seeking it out on purpose then there's plenty).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I joint today because Kbin is very slow to browse, so I figured I create an account here, but I don't get why there is a lemm.me and lemmy.world which both look identical but it seems I can't log in there using my username here?

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