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?
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 stopped using Reddit for anything but getting recipes (the food communities on Lemmy are tiny and inactive, especially for recipes, especially for a subsection like keto recipes), but there is generally not that much content on Lemmy, unless something is rage bait, there is usually very little discussion.
Quality of discourse is also not improved, people still get angry and insult you.
Overall it’s not too bad, and I appreciate the control I have with my own instance, but the world is just smaller & sadder than it was before reddit decided to tell users to fuck off.
Liking it a lot! I was thinking the other day about how we’ve pretty successfully made the jump away from every other thread being about Reddit or technical issues to having many general interest communities and some niche ones that are continuing to diversify.
Obviously we’re not nearly at the scale of Reddit yet (considering the entire Fediverse could fit inside some singular subreddits) but I’ve tried to make up for less content by making more myself and actually engaging with people instead of lurking.
I still prefer it to Reddit. I think there was a noticeable increase in activity after Sync was released - unfortunately since then I have noticed more argumentative / defensive interactions. I guess that just goes with the territory though as more people join and become active, I wish people would just chill though. I feel like I’m having to deal with more children, but it’s still nowhere near as bad as Reddit was.
I’m still missing the diversity of Reddit as I liked lurking in (and learning from) communities I would never come across in the real world, but I hope I will stumble across them in time as I’m sure they’re out there.
It’s good and bad. I miss most of the niche communities that I frequented on Reddit but on the other side I am commenting and interacting on Lemmy much more than reddit. It feels good to have some discussion. Hopefully the niche communities I miss will grow in time. Another good thing is that since Lemmy is much smaller than Reddit I’ll run out of new content quickly and go do something else instead. So now I’m not mindlessly scrolling for ages. I am noticing that since this is such a small community with a very specific group of people that use it (left leaning/tech) that it generally has much less diverse content and memes compared to Reddit. This matters more on Lemmy since most of the content is focused on broad appealing things compared to Reddit which had bigger niche communities.
I’m glad to see people talking about things that aren’t positive here really. I was curious at first how much echo chamber this was going to have and the underlying obvious point that well… people who didn’t like lemmy as much either:
A. Aren’t going to take the time to respond to this post or
B. Won’t see the post because they are gone already.
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.
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).
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
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 !
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