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 guess it serves as a bit of a nicotine patch for Reddit. I’m no longer active on Reddit, and I spend less time doom scrolling than I used to.
By and large the community seems alright.
Cons
Lemmy just isn’t the reference omnibus that Reddit is, and I don’t think it ever will be. Even down to r/whatisthisthing or r/tipofmytongue I don’t think will work on Lemmy, partially because there’s going to be eight of each, seven and a half have no traffic.
The communities I’m interested in have basically no traffic. No one posts anything. I see a lot of posts with no discussion, or one comment saying "I’m a bot."
There’s a kind of stupid problem where, you’re scrolling through, say, your All New feed. It’s separated into pages instead of infinitely scrolling. Page 2, you find a post you’d like to read. Click it, read the post, back out to the feed, you’re on Page 1 of the feed again. You’ve lost your place. One of the ingredients to that nicotine patch.
There are too many different forms of idea cancer here. I spent several minutes having to individually block several nearly identical communities for sports ball game results that each had nearly identical bots posting sports ball scores to them, because someone set up a nearly identical community for each team. This I think is a valid use case for the platform, but if you’re not interested in sports ball it makes the All feed unusable. I’d also like someone to explain to me why posts from r/buildapc are being “archived” here?
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.
Signing up for some instances can be annoying, when a few want you to type out a cover letter of why you want to join them. I get trying to weed out bots but god is it tedious.
You don’t need to sign up to multiple instances, unless those instances are defederated from the instance of your account. I’m not sure why this would be a problem more than once (and at most once).
Example: I follow communities from a bunch of different instances with this single account.
Honestly? I’m wondering where all the quality Reddit posters ended up. Some Lemmy comments are even worse than the ones on Reddit, although the lack of gag posts is refreshing.
Arguing with a smug and credulous Tesla consumer that posted a “oh no! Anyway” meme in response to his favorite treat being an accident-prone, regulation-dodging lithium fire of a bad purchase reminded me of being back on reddit-logo
All of the apps I’ve tried have problems. Most communities have a spam problem. None of the communities I’m interested in exist. I feel like there’s almost a fundemental problem with the way that the fediverse works that makes it incompatible with this format, as almost all communities will be focused on generic instances as that’s where people will create their accounts. I made my account on feddit.uk but I wouldn’t make a community for something that wasn’t UK focused, therefore the community doesn’t get started.
It doesn’t really have all the communities I’m interested in … but for most of my looking-at-memes and commenting-on-things needs, it works great. I use lemmy exclusively on mobile and haven’t touched reddit on my phone since sync went away, but I still engage with reddit periodically on desktop.
Browsing through the global feed scratches the same itch as browsing through r/all mindlessly does and I don’t miss much from Reddit, but I really miss r/noncredibledefense, and neither Lemmy spin off community is nearly as active
I’m really enjoying Lemmy so far. I’ve posted more here in one and a half months than in 16+ years on reddit astroturfbay. Why?
Because here feels like friendly neighbourhood square where people actually care to listen to each other. Whatever happens here feels way more organic and people-oriented than elsewhere. No algos dictating agendas just because more engagement=more profit.
Eh, it scratches the itch. I don’t touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.
Same, I do all of my browsing here but still look up things like “baldurs gate 3 quest/item/enemybugged reddit” because it’s the only place I can find answers, outside of the occasional steam forum post.
I love that Lemmy has a small, but dedicated userbase and much less flamewars than Reddit. Seems like most people are actually here for good content and not just trolling everyone else.
I also like that the feed just ends eventually and I can close the app instead of doomscrolling through the whole night.
And I hope that toxic gamification features like global karma or awards will always stay out of here. The dopamine rushes from those are just bad for my brain and these features are really unneccessary.
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