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?
Honestly I’m not having a great time. Most of the hobby communities are graveyards. I spend a lot less time here because I’m not interested in tech communities at all.
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
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’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.
Its been fine, there been more comments from users of a lets say diferent vibe from hexbear common culture but there been positive interactions from instances like lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, midwestsocial, blahaj zone and some others.
Over all i say federation has been a positive change for Hexbear, it gives us more slop in many ways
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 I’m no longer active on Reddit, and I spend less time doom scrolling than I used to.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?
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
Same here. It’s simply not as active as Reddit, obviously. But I found that I was wasting way too much time on Reddit anyway. Infinity was still working for free this whole time, which was the 3pa I used for years, but I still deleted it about a week ago. My sub feed was way less active and the all page was even worse than usual with 80% just aita kind of text posts. I’m on lemmy maybe 30 minutes a day, but that’s a good thing for me.
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.
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.
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.
Of the two different things I used Reddit for, Lemmy is a 100% replacement for one, but sadly lacking in the other.
Current events (news, politics, etc…) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.
Tech Support on specific niche software (kdenlive, Scribus, Gimp, etc…) is still lacking. there aren’t a lot of communities dedicated to specific hobbies where a person can ask and answer questions from other users.
In regards to #1, there is actually one area where Lemmy has an advantage in my case. Because my local instance is my country instance, having that third “local” option means that I can, without any searching, keep up to date on national current events as well.
it’s like being in a Canada only news site, and then if I want, I can hit “all” and see the rest of it. it’s super easy in a way that Reddit couldn’t be.
A little disappointed - I wish there was a bit more variety in the communities. There are some smaller ones but there are very few people there, so it’s not much of a conversation.
The only other complaint I would have is seeing an article and then 3-4 communities in each of the big 3-4 instances all talk about the same thing. So you’ll be scrolling and see over a dozen conversations about Linus, which is a little annoying.
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