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?
Really wish there was more content. I’ve been trying to post stuff but I never get any comments either. Anything other than the few mainstream communities is just dead
I think there are too many communities. People tried to replicate reddit’s diversity and places got spread too thin. When Reddit first started it didn’t even have subreddits.
This will be controversial too but having the same community on each instance doesn’t work either. There are 3 major Android communities and none have very much content, and lots of reposts etc
Megathreads, or just a good popular post in related popular communities can work pretty well until there is enough traction to warrant its own community. A lot of subreddits arose because half the posts in a sub became what was previously a fringe topic of the parent.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
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