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?
Going better than I expected, especially now that we have so many capable clients like Sync. I don’t miss Reddit at all, and I really like that there aren’t any annoying posters like Schnoodle and his circlejerking fanbois, or the LTT fanclub in subs like r/pcmr who’d downvote anyone who criticizes LTT, or Windows fanbois who’d always downvote anything Linux related (I also like that there’s a larger representation of Linux and OSS folks here which is awesome).
I spend like an hour here daily and I’m looking forward to see how much it grows.
Overall, I do like it most of the time, but as of right now my biggest issue is the massive amount of downtime on Lemmy.world. How am I supposed to like it if I can’t even use it?
Personally I'd suggest switching servers then, you'll still get all the content anyways. I started out on lemmy.world, but moved over to kbin.social and haven't had any issues after that
i moved to lemmy before the reddit api changes. in january 2023 i stopped using all proprietary software and was looking for alternetives. its way better than reddit, im never going back…
There’s good reason to love Lemmy, and since joining I’ve also gone very Foss and privacy centric but I just feel like it’s a bit quiet, maybe it’s just me
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.
Great question! I was a Reddit user for 14 years officially and, after the API bullshit they pulled, I found this amazing community! I don’t have to sort through a bunch of bot bloated crap to find something interesting. I really don’t want to say it but this is the Reddit I grew to love and I thank them for pushing me to this community!
Feels like a small club (not that I attended much clubs), I often recognize some usernames. In big social medias, there are so many users posting that you don’t often see the same user often enough to recognize their username. On Lemmy, you get sort of mini celebrities, they’re always on the front page (I sort by All/Hot).
Tbh I was never a regular reddit user , no matter how much I tried , however since I have joined lemmy, I am using it like a lot ! Enjoying it here a lot !
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.
I like it. I feel more comfortable to engage with others. I still have some communities on reddit that I go back to for specific information, but other then that, full transition.
Pretty good. It’s my default morning scroll, at least.
I’ve got a lot more comfortable with it since using Alexandrite on desktop and Sync on mobile.
The only thing really missing at the moment is content. It tends to be good for the high profile stuff, but a bit lacking for the niche stuff. I still sneak back to the other place on occasion to catch up on smaller communities… hopefully that will come with time.
Its been fine, there been more comments from users of a lets say diferent vibe from hexbear common culture but there been positive interactions from instances like lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, midwestsocial, blahaj zone and some others.
Over all i say federation has been a positive change for Hexbear, it gives us more slop in many ways
I’m interacting with it far more and in far more varied contexts than I had been on reddit for several years. Overall, there isn’t as much useful or entertaining activity in total of course, but the signal to noise ratio is soooooo much higher.
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