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 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.
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 I’m no longer active on Reddit, and I spend less time doom scrolling than I used to.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?
Unfortunately the communities that I’m interested in didn’t really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I’ve dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I’m interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it’s hard to get stuck in when the discussions I’m interested in aren’t really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.
I must admit. I have relapsed to reddit somewhat due to the lack of specific video game communities here. I use Comet for reddit (iOS) which still works
I engage a lot more with general communities than I used to because the quality of poster is so much higher here. People are more likely to engage in good faith discussion and offer more than just those low effort redditor joke comments that site has become notorious for. There is just no point commenting in larger communities and threads on reddit, because you’ll get buried by lazy meme comments and the one person who does sort by new is mostly likely looking for conflict rather than a conversation.
Just to let you know, your ipv6 address for lemmy.catasaur.xyz is misconfigured, pointing to a local address (fe80). I couldn’t send you a dm, maybe because your ipv6 addr is misconfigured, so replying to a random comment.
I too have recently quit reddit. It was getting hard enough to put up with even without seeing the ads.
I comment and post more than on Reddit partially because it feels more personal, partially because I want the platform to grow
The two problems I have that I can think of right now are there aren’t as many communities/they’re smaller/fractured across instances, and the classic internet hivemind dogpile on topics and stances
I haven’t completely switched to Lemmy yet. I don’t get as much of a diversity of views here.
But apart from Political stuff, I think the people here are wonderful and actually helpful.
This might not be an alternative to reddit and gain millions of followers, but nonetheless, It’s good in it’s own way. Edit: So many likes, did I mention I am somewhat conservative and don’t support abortion after 5 months? Shocking, now downvote me I guess
I understand the political stuff. I made a comparison that the Democratic party is very similar to the Republican party in a few ways and ended up getting a death threat. It’s a cult I tell ya.
I mean, just make sure you don’t reveal your original name, address, state your live in, your phone, your ip address or any identifiers which can lead back to you. You don’t know which aholes you are dealing with, so better to be safe.
I’m pretty far left politically and I can think of a number of similarities between the two parties. The dynamics are very much the same in certain cases but the ideology driving it is different.
That is exactly what I pointed out but people can’t take criticism and cannot have a civil conversation. I had to recuse myself from the replys because they were just people attacking and trying to belittle me as a person or my opinion. Or people literally just cussing at me. We all know these are the ways to change someone’s mind.
My favorite niche communities have come to Lemmy, but they’re very inactive. Which is good and bad. There’s much less filler content, but less substantial content as well. It’s nice not having to scroll through miles of junk to find the good stuff, but I do wish there was a little more good stuff.
Overall, I think I’m glad for the change. I wasted a little too much time on Reddit for sure. Here, at least I can pop on and see that there’s nothing new I’m interested in and do something else rather than scrolling through all that filler to find a nugget or two.
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