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?
I’m not going to be fully optimistic, I’ve struggled to get one community active and can feel myself slowly giving up. I moved from Reddit using the website as 80% image sharing and 20% discussion and it feel like Lemmy’s content is 20% image sharing and 80% discussion so it’s feeling rough
I’m loving it. I’m following a lot (about 500 communities) so I’m always seeing new content. It did take a while to find everything I wanted to see though.
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
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
In my experience, no. I’m not a fan of the microblogging style of discussion as well. I never had a personal twitter account, only my artist account I use to post once a week. I thought I’d try Mastodon, and while it’s nice to be in the fediverse and there a lot of interesting people and posts there, the microblogging format still doesn’t work for me and I basically stopped using my account after 2 weeks. I feel more at home with Lemmy.
Sounds like me. I signed up to Twitter in 2010 but practically never used it. The short message format never appealed to me and I always thought it was dumb. The heavy focus on politics also put me off.
However if Mastodon is interesting I’m willing to give it a try! Do most people use it anonymously or with their real names?
There are instances that bump up the max length. The word you’re generally looking for is “glitch” (instances will say they’re running “the glitch fork” or “glitch edition” or will have version numbers ending in +glitch, which has a few features on top of regular Mastodon), although some regular Mastodon instances may also increase the char count the hard way.
Alternatively, Firefish/Misskey by default has ~3000 characters but it’s a completely different experience altogether (although it still federates with Mastodon (like kbin and Lemmy)). I’m not exactly sure on how Akkoma instances are usually set up but that’s worth taking a peek as well.
Of course this doesn’t address the politics stuff but that’s more on you to curate your own experience.
My favorite niche communities have come to Lemmy, but they’re very inactive. Which is good and bad. There’s much less filler content, but less substantial content as well. It’s nice not having to scroll through miles of junk to find the good stuff, but I do wish there was a little more good stuff.
Overall, I think I’m glad for the change. I wasted a little too much time on Reddit for sure. Here, at least I can pop on and see that there’s nothing new I’m interested in and do something else rather than scrolling through all that filler to find a nugget or two.
It scratches my reddit itch. Only thing that’s bothering me is the lack of non-tech-related content.
For a while I tried to block every new Linux, IT tech, gaming and social media drama community that popped up on my feed.
But I had to do it daily cause more kept popping up, and even the memes, news and askquestions communities are mostly tech-related.
I miss diversity in topics (and before you ask, yes I understand the reason and I’m doing my part in posting original content).
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).
I comment and post more than on Reddit partially because it feels more personal, partially because I want the platform to grow
The two problems I have that I can think of right now are there aren’t as many communities/they’re smaller/fractured across instances, and the classic internet hivemind dogpile on topics and stances
I must admit. I have relapsed to reddit somewhat due to the lack of specific video game communities here. I use Comet for reddit (iOS) which still works
I engage a lot more with general communities than I used to because the quality of poster is so much higher here. People are more likely to engage in good faith discussion and offer more than just those low effort redditor joke comments that site has become notorious for. There is just no point commenting in larger communities and threads on reddit, because you’ll get buried by lazy meme comments and the one person who does sort by new is mostly likely looking for conflict rather than a conversation.
Unfortunately the communities that I’m interested in didn’t really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I’ve dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I’m interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it’s hard to get stuck in when the discussions I’m interested in aren’t really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.
Feels good to see it growing, I made an account really fast after lemmy got released, but still used reddit, too. I realized fast this could be the “new reddit” after the API thing and made some commercial posts for lemmy over the last months.
The only thing I am not happy with is the defederation idea. Don’t misunderstand, it’s good to be free from extremist politics or porn, but in fact reddit isn’t that aggressive in the way defederation is done here. You just don’t subscribe shit-subs. And this kind of self control would be nice on Lemmy, too. Why I am not able to just defederate my account from stuff I don’t want to see would be better, imo.
I mean it’s all been a decision from Admins. Let instances defederate from each other but let users decide on their own. A warning label would be enough, something like: your comments/post on this instance wouldn’t be seen from other users of your home instance or something like that.
I mean the solution actually is, people have Lemmy accounts for different stuff, this isn’t a practical solution when the Normie’s hit Lemmy in the future.
I’ve seen admins asking for more fine-grained moderation tools. Maybe eventually things will work the way you’re hoping. Here’s a quote from a Beehaw admin,
an unfortunate reality we’ve also found is we just don’t have the tools or the time here to parse out all the good from all the bad. all we have is a nuke and some pretty rudimentary mod powers that don’t scale well.
Defederating prevents trolls on another instance from coming into comments in local communities to harass people. From an admin/mod perspective you have to take some kind of action to stop that.
I love it. People complain about the lack of hobbyist spaces so I’m making an active effort to build them up more as time allows. I have considered making an art lemmy instance which may be a potential eventually, but I’m fine either way.
Thanks. I don’t know if I have the budget accounted for it this month and this current instance alongside each other, so if it were to be made it would be probably next month.
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