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?
One of things that I like most about it that it isn’t algorithmic. When I crash for the night, I look at the most popular over the last 12 hours, and then… I’m done.
Imo it feels like the reddit migration has died down, but a good chunk the users that have stuck around are actually engaged in their communities. I’ve been seeing more instances created too, which is cool because it means people are hosting their own.
More recently I’ve noticed that Sync actually plays embedded videos now, which is probably the best update since its release. It’s feeling a lot more user-friendly and that should help it keep growing organically.
The only times I use reddit anymore is browsing with old.reddit a couple times a week. I don’t even login to that site now because I don’t engage with anything, I just check the news and stuff then come back to Lemmy.
There’s a great app on fdroid called geddit that browses reddit without using the APIs so there’s no logging in or commenting, it might be useful for you
Most of the niche communities I followed aren’t on here so my usage is drastically lower than before. I find Lemmy to be generally nice as a platform-especially now with infinity for Lemmy out, I’ve come to forget that I’m no longer on reddit!
Just wish that there was more to go on here. Memes and tech can only keep me scrolling for so long.
I totally replaced my Reddit usage with Lemmy. Jerboa is fine and I feel every time I want to spend some time I find something here to read. And I feel it’s less useless than Reddit as well, with its nonsense ads and bots.
Found it great a month or two ago. Now, not so much. Gobshites and troll scum seem to be slowly making the place just another platform for bollox. Shame really.
three years ago after /r/cth got banned I switched to chapo.chat as my primary forum. After the API stuff caused Apollo to get shut down, I cut myself loose entirely from the reddit ecosystem. Haven’t looked back lenin-laugh
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
Comments on Lemmy tend to have a lot to say while offering a unique perspective. But most of the posts are boring and predictable, especially when it comes to politics.
I agree. If we didn’t have such evil floating around political power, it would be worthwhile to discuss more nuance. But because of the two party system, the state of the GOP, etc, the bad faith takes up all the oxygen in US politics. It sucks but I get it.
With third party apps added and new niche communities its getting alot better. I’m enjoying it. Also has a high level of discussion a higher level of discussion without karma.
To be honest I don’t understand it whatsoever I just go on chapo.chat and look at the posts on there. Now there are posts from other places which is neat. I don’t leave the site though as I don’t want to make a new account. Idk if I’m even doing it right or wrong.
not going well at all to be honest. it’s very hard to adjust. but i remember reddit was hard for me too, so i guess i should just put in a bit more effort
Mastodon feels much less diverse to me, everyone is discussing their sexuality and what Cory Doctorow just said, on Lemmy you get a much broader range of topics
we do! Check out #BlackMastodon and any of the queer and trans hashtags. And definitely follow Lisa Melton, she’s the reblog queen and you’ll discover tons of people through her posts and reblogs @lisamelton
Mastodon has imo dogshit discoverability. For Lemmy it feels like posts across the federated instances are all elegantly aggregated onto my front page. I can also easily subscribe to subs on other instances.
On Mastodon the client has to work around the backend to do simple stuff like aggregate the posts of multiple instances. Most stuff in the federated feed is pretty much random and the local feed is restricted to your account’s instance.
User discoverability is also awful. If I dont have a user’s exact name and instance it’s nigh impossible to find them outside of my own instance. Searching lemmy is much more effective when it comes to external instances.
Mastodon is trying too hard to be a twitter clone in some ways I feel. If it had instance subscriptions a hit like how lemmy lets you subscribe to subs it would be way more useful. Right now it feels like everyone is shouting into the void.
As an active person on both (and a mod here), Mastodon is definitely the most active. Yes, you have to follow liberally, dive into reblogs and follow some more, also cruising the Explore/trending section helps but it doesn’t take long to build up a super fun feed. People engage alot, no algorithms, it’s all just live and great.
Lemmy “elegance” isn’t that elegant. I’ve had to work with admins to help break through issues of posts federating around, but it’s getting better. I’m finally getting things going pretty smooth and my community is getting momentum, !AlternativeNation but it’s been a very slow, buggy, and painful process. One thing that helped was posting to my Lemmy community exclusively through my Mastodon account for a while to help bring people over.
Search is a wash. Mastodon, I can put a link to a post in the search and it pops up, can’t do that here. But Lemmy has better search for just text.
You see? Both are nowhere near perfect, both are flawed, and both are great! They serve very different purposes and don’t compete. They complement each other. I’m super happy we have both and absolutely love building up this community supported DIY fediverse.
Yeah I completely agree, even though I’m subscribed to my favourite communities, they are nowhere near big enough to even fill 5 minutes of scrolling a day
Back before Hexbear re-federated we used to have a sorting algorithm that was a bit better for smaller communities. Right now, Active posts stay for too long and Hot posts don’t yet have enough engagement to encourage people clicking through. I believe there’s talks of adjusting the sorting algorithms, hopefully soon.
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