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 like not having to scroll through the same standard comments on every post. There might be fewer comments here, but they’re higher quality. I mostly used reddit for news which Lemmy covers just as well. Regardless of the API changes and enshitification Reddit simply got too big. Between the marketing and other sorts of vote manipulation, reddit basically stopped providing a useful overview of even news. The hivemind pushed the same dead horse to the front every day.
I love beehaw but I’m starting to feel disconnected from the community. I feel like overall beehaw and lemmy are creating this echo chamber that is repeating the same talking points over and over again. Reddit and Twitter both offered insight from industry leaders or at least those in the industry in question. Lemmy seems to lack those type of folks. I’m also noticing an abundance of opinionated folks. This is good and bad. It feels like sometimes there isn’t any worth from engaging in a conversation. Sometimes there is, but a good bit of time I end up regretting it.
Overall it’s like the Linux version of Reddit. It’s not great but you can feel slightly more ethical using it.
The echo chamber is pretty bad here. I also don’t like that people here downvote opinions they don’t agree with, Reddit did this too though. I don’t think opinions should ever be voted on, up or down. People see which types of opinions get the most upvotes and it causes them to not express their true opinions for fear of being downvoted.
There are instances that disable downvotes, you may want to migrate to one that does. github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances#all-… has a column that indicates if an instance has them turned on or off.
reddit has the ability to hide post vote counts for a certain time to mitigate this. It's a feature that's worth bringing across.
(I also think it's worth capping the number of upvotes and downvotes a post/comment can get - and to do so asymmetrically, eg no more than 10 downvotes and 100 upvotes.)
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’ve fully replaced reddit/Twitter for scrolling a while ago- I don’t even bother with other social media at this point.
I was worried it would be annoying having to deal with a bunch of liberals after federation, but it’s been pretty funny on balance. Sorry about the enormous emojis though, I try to spoiler tag those now.
Pretty good. Using it much more and noticed a pretty good uptick in other posting stuff since I created my account… I’d say I have two feet in the door to a new home. . Edited to clean up as was typing initial response on the go.
Happy. The only issue I have is scale. IMO there was nothing ground breaking about Reddit as either an idea or a piece of tech, it’s value mostly comes from its users. Lemmy does not have the sheer breadth from scale that I enjoyed with Reddit, but hopefully that will come.
Pretty good, though I'm not mainly using Lemmy directly. I run a Kbin instance that I've been using primarily, but I've also been testing Artemis with the developer's artemis.camp instance, and I have Infinity for Lemmy signed into my lemmy.world account.
There's less content here than on Reddit, but I think it's higher quality. There's less trolling and shitposting here (unless seeking it out on purpose then there's plenty).
I use it just as much as Reddit and generally enjoy the home/all experience much better. What you miss is the niche communities but I feel like the better experience on the “big” communities like !apple_enthusiast or !technology make up for it.
It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so I’m grateful for that as well
It’s literally just reddit for me at this point, i use mlmym.org which gives me the old reddit interface so i barely notice even the slightest difference.
If people didn’t make so many posts about drama in the fediverse i would have had no clue there were any problems.
I miss episode anine episode discussions and isk what im doing wrong but sometimes I find a good instance but cannot access their feed from my account, and I dont wanna create another account or add the subs individually, you even see it has more post than subs most of the time. Aside from that its great, feels like im not required to say something that fishes for upvotes thus I comment a bit more
I do use it regularly, but I miss some of the niche gaming communities. You can definitely tell there’s a lot less activity on here, but hopefully it keeps growing with time.
It’s a give an take. I do miss some of the communities but at this time lemmy is more intimate. Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind. As an early adopter on lemmy you can help build and participate more readily. Nothing like having a comment on a thread with 1,000 comments and thinking ‘fuck it no one cares.’ Or worse trying to hamstring your comment into the top 6 or 7 threads for visablity alone.
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