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?
The lemmy experience is so much better than reddit in one way: the Lemmy website on the phone just let’s you use it, no more “This community is only available from the app” and have to use the desktop website, or the log in with Google pop up. I don’t want to use the app, I don’t want to log in on mobile.
Switched to lemmy 100% after 17+ years of reddit, daily user. I think it’s ok but increasingly getting annoyed with a couple things. The rampant extreme politics and phrasing as if it’s fact, and people complain about cross posts but I literally see the same exact posts (same community) over and over as I scroll through the feed. Other than that it doesn’t nearly have much content but that’s to be expected.
Once I found Liftoff, I’ve used Lemmy exclusively. It’s fantastic, I don’t feel as intimated about commenting (even though this is my first on this account) I’ve found most of my interests again in different communities. There are still a few I don’t have, but that will sort itself out in time.
Yep Liftoff is my favorite Lemmy app as well! For reference, Relay for Reddit is my favorite Reddit app (it’s still working for now), and I tried most of the Lemmy Android apps.
I never used relay. I was a RiF fan, I had that for years… so long that I actually forgot Reddit had ads!
I tired mastodon on the mobile web, but that just didn’t gel for me, the few times I’ve logged on to Lemmy on the PC it’s also just felt so much easier to scroll and read.
Of the two different things I used Reddit for, Lemmy is a 100% replacement for one, but sadly lacking in the other.
Current events (news, politics, etc…) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.
Tech Support on specific niche software (kdenlive, Scribus, Gimp, etc…) is still lacking. there aren’t a lot of communities dedicated to specific hobbies where a person can ask and answer questions from other users.
In regards to #1, there is actually one area where Lemmy has an advantage in my case. Because my local instance is my country instance, having that third “local” option means that I can, without any searching, keep up to date on national current events as well.
it’s like being in a Canada only news site, and then if I want, I can hit “all” and see the rest of it. it’s super easy in a way that Reddit couldn’t be.
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.
It gets better once you find interesting subs. I think it scratches the same itch and I plan to continue using it. I do have some concerns about the community, however. I guess I was hoping it would be less of an echo chamber and have a more nuanced and in depth discussion.
I haven’t really found that and I think it’s more or less the same as reddit most of the time.
I also miss browsing through the short video subs like /r/crazyfuckingvideos once a week or so just to see some crazy things.
However, I do find there is actually pretty good discussion on tech stuff and you do find some geopolitics/ political discussion if you read through some of the ideological drudgery a bit.
So all in all, I think Lemmy so far has been a positive experience for me and I’m committed to remaining here for the foreseeable future. At the end of the day - it’s an open source decentralized community. I’ll put up with a lot of shit just because of that. No chance I’d be going back to reddit.
I found Lemmy to be better for my mental health. I recently visited Reddit again to follow on a heated topic since Reddit has more info and news, and found my anxiety levels skyrocket due to the toxicity of comments.
While Lemmy has less engagement than Reddit, that also leads to a more level-headed community.
That, and with new Lemmy apps and experiences being developed constantly, I’m liking it here a lot.
Sync user so it looks and basically feels the same. Just the volume of posts is missing. My other issue is I used a lot of smaller communities and they haven’t migrated… Yet. So it’s hard to get answers to things without going back to the /r which I try to avoid.
The only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming
I’m a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in ‘lemmy’ and get the answer to my question.
Otherwise there’s just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.
I use it daily and don’t go on reddit anymore. I’m missing a lot of things I used to look at but I don’t have anything to post on those topics.
Compared to reddit the quality of discussion is far better. It still feels like you can’t go against the grain without being banned. I haven’t had a spicy enough take on anything to test that yet but I’ve seen people getting instantly labeled as trolls and banned.
Overall it’s a good experience, I think the web ui is better than reddit without RES and I’m liking Jebora even if it’s buggy as hell.
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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