I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
I think the content level has gotten better even in the past few days.
I predict at ~200,000 users, there will be a good enough flow of posts and comments that it won’t feel as empty compared to Reddit.
I feel like I’ve seen a lot more posts in just the past few days since I’ve started coming here.
It was slow when I came in last month, but it has gotten to pretty high levels of interaction since.
We just need the niche stuff for us to customize and we will be good to go.
Lemmy.world server was getting hammered on July 3rd. I was part of the wave on the 3rd. But since then things have been much smoother and I see a lot more activity.
If you are on iOS try Mlem (if you can get on the TestFligh). It’s a much better, native experience.
Memmy just went live on iOS public AppStore for anyone finding TestFlight full.
Another one worth a shot is Memmy, which I’ve settled of personally, as a prior Apollo user.
I’d describe it as being halfway the two, but to me, it just feels best to use.
As far as these beta apps go, I’m pretty surprised it’s this smooth to explore and use Lemmy today!
For mastodon, I just found an incredible FOSS app for iOS too; Ice Cubes. It’s mind blowing, really, how far fediverse has got in these past years since I last actively used it!
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
Give it a few weeks. Most people on here probably come from Reddit. A bit like finding out your wife cheated and getting used to new environments and situations, just on a much smaller scale.
I mean naturally.
We’re all still processing what happened to us over there.
Nice overall but still a bit silent here and there.
But I actually have more motivation to interact here than I ever had on Reddit.
With it being a little quieter it’s so much more calmer feeling
GOTTA BRING UP THAT INTENSITY LEVEL! THIS AIN’T NO YOGA CLASS! GO ARGUE WITH SOMEONE! CONTENT GAINZ! 💪😁
Wait: That’s Meta Threads. Never mind.
Commenting in Reddit felt very claustrophobic in a way. And saturated. Kind of sad, also, if you were some days late to some nice topic, and get buried under thousands and thousands of comments made prior yours, and have zero interactions at that point from anyone, even if you asked a very relevant question or whatever.
But I suspect Lemmy will get to that point too. Right now, though, it’s light enough to actually warrant wasting energy writing anything as a response to anything.
Part of the reason you got no interaction is half your comments were shadowbanned by automod because it contained a random word and you had no idea. Most mods keep their automod config private so you don’t know which benign words are banned. For example, I found out the word “snowflake” was banned in a specific subreddit where literal snow was frequently part of the discussion. I had a browser plugin called reveddit-realtime that would tell you when comments got shadow banned.
Reddit is a farce.
I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
My impression of lemmy changed a lot once I’ve read this updated from the lemmy devs from less than a month ago. TL;DR: Lemmy was developed by just two people and with reddit self-destructing everyone jumped to it, and lemmy wasn’t really ready for that.
With that info I’m now all the more impressed that lemmy is working as well as it currently is and not crashing every few minutes!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m impressed with Lemmy - it’s doing an amazing job handling the migration, its structure makes a lot more sense than I thought it did when I was a newcomer, and its functionality is both adequate and actively evolving. My wishlist is mostly minor usability details and it seems like that’s something they’re actively working on - even the text posts and youtube videos thing I mentioned in my previous message has already been added as a feature on lemmy.world today alone.
Yeah I think In a year or two this will be just as good as Reddit, maybe better. Personally I prefer Lemmy, it reminds me of Reddit before it gained mass appeal. The important thing is now there is a viable alternative to Reddit. Everytime Reddit does something controversial, this site will gain a wave of new users.
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The servers (instances) aspect and different communities (forums on topics) on different servers and servers blocking others, is a mess if I’m being honest. It’s the biggest flaw. I still find it hard to find communities of topics I want…
Maybe freedom isn’t for you. They say you can’t unplug from the matrix after a certain age.
I think my main problem with the fediverse in general is that if I click a link to something on a different instance from an external site, I can’t instantly interact with it on my account (subscribe, vote, comment etc). I have to go back to the instance my account is on, then search for that post and hope that the fediverse has connected those two servers, then hope I’m actually able to find it, then I can interact with it. This could probably be best mitigated by some sort of solution like an app or browser extension that does those steps automatically.
The biggest issue is discoverability. There’s not federated way of linking to posts or comments and it’s really hard to find the content that’s there.
For example, if you subscribe to one of the bigger meme communities, your feed will be 95% memes and it drowns out everything else. But if you unsubscribe, you get 0% memes. So it’s virtually impossible to get like ~20% memes.
The hot and active sortings, which should help you find worthwhile content are far too stable. They only push the same stuff over and over. Good new stuff often gets burried, because it doesn’t have enough engagement to make it into hot/active which would provide engagement, while the stuff that’s already there stays there.
Search is another big issue. On Reddit, if I read a post before, I could just search for it and find the post quite quickly. On Lemmy this hardly works at all.
Reddit’s SEO is also really good, Lemmy’s doesn’t exist.
Other than that, it’s a nice place. Discussions are civilized. I miss a lot of the more niche content, but maybe it will happen in the future.
I like it so far. But I think the large amount of reddit users won’t like how separate everything is. Most of my friends and colleagues I’ve mentioned and shown it to, didn’t like it for that one reason. Reddit is a singular easy to access place with communities for everyone that is popular.
Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) needs to simplify I think for people to be able to adapt to it. My girlfriend made an account and is having trouble finding groups for herself, but willing to take the time cause I’m next to her all the time. But not everyones got that.
edit: also, i am using Memmy for Lemmy now on IOS, nice to have when not at my PC. Good app so far.
Ok so far. Missing some subs that i was active on at Reddit, but maybe they will show up eventually.
Only thing i don’t realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is, when it is all going to show up everywhere else anyways. I go to Lemmy and i get kbin and mastodon post, i go to kbin and i get lemmy posts…
I realy like it, but I miss RIF. I use Jerboa now, but might switch an app. RIF was realy usefull for not looking at stuff (loading it) for seccond time. I saw purple link and just skipoed the post, without needing to open it or to load the image again.
It’s reminding me a lot of when I first joined Reddit (nearly 15 years ago). Not too much is happening day-to-day so I’m checking in every couple of days or so.
I think this is a much healthier relationship than checking a site compulsively every couple of hours. I’m liking it so far, also a crazy repercussion is that I’m using the internet like the early days again. I think of a topic and I do a deep dive on my own, researching into it and going down weird rabbit holes.
I feel like Reddit discouraged this behavior by having a non-stop flow of communities that “mostly” interested me enough to not go “browsing the web”
I’ve been lurking for a few weeks now but finally made an account and I’m really liking it here. Less content but higher quality is preferable to tons of content but most of it is garbage like on reddit.
My main complaint is the fediverse isn’t big enough to have a lot of activity on the more niche communities so I find myself going to reddit for a few of those subs still but only on my desktop so I can use old reddit and block ads.
Gonna try and contribute more here since it’s much less toxic and noisy than reddit is.
LOVE the username. Tenye wa diye gut, beltalowda.
Oye, fo keng to im gut, beltalowda.
I finished the whole show, worth reading the book series?
YES PLEASE READ ALL THE BOOKS! They’re absolutely amazing and I’ll go to my grave holding the opinion that The Expanse(book AND tv show) is the greatest piece of media ever created. A bit hyperbolic for most people but it’s my genuine opinion. There’s also shorter 100ish page novellas in between each main book that are absolutely worth reading and give more backstory to the characters and universe, but it’s not strictly necessary. I’ve read through the series twice, first time was just main books and the second time was with all the books and novellas as well.
If you do start the books, make sure to start from book 1, the shows and books follow the same general plotline but there’s definitely some differences between the two such as multiple characters being combined into one character for the tv show, or characters being introduced later or earlier etc. The books will be mostly the same but different enough to be a thoroughly entertaining read. I’ve heard of others that finished the show and picked up right from book 7 and had a good time so that is a viable option, but I strongly recommend going through the whole series. It’s so worth it.
There’s also audiobooks, and the narrator Jefferson Mays does a top tier job, that’s how I went through the series for my 2nd time since I had a job that allowed me to use earbuds while working. A ship in the show was named after him which was a nice little homage to him.
It’s a bit of a mixed bag. I do enjoy Lemmy. I think that the conversations that take place here are interesting (though many now revolve around Reddit in one way or another). I don’t really find the front page to be as good as Reddit’s.
And then, of course, I think the most important difference is that Lemmy draws a specific type of person, even after the Reddit migration, and there aren’t as many of us as there are average Internet users. I’m not saying Lemmings are a special breed; rather, I’m saying that we’re the sort of people who might have used Usenet at its peak. We’re the sort who might be Linux users. Many of us are morally aligned with open source technology and the ethics thereof. This makes the discussions a little less diverse on Lemmy than they are on Reddit (which can be good and bad, depending on the sort of conversation).
It’s kind of a ghost town so far. But if we can wrestle control of social media away from corporate control, democracy across the world will be stronger for it. Regardless, I’m here for the long haul, making contributions FAR exceeding my efforts on Reddit.
Well, let’s do a pros vs cons
Pros:
- I wasn’t banned for saying Putin should die after he invaded a country
- It’s a decent time killer
- It’s growing
- Idk I just like it
Cons:
- /c/NCD and some other instances are too small and not even close to their counterparts levels
- Jerboa for Lemmy has not been behaving too well for me
- It’s still fairly small and new so communities need to consolidate still
Overall I like it better than reddit tho.
There’s one aspect of it that I didn’t expect, and that’s its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.
I’m not 100% sure it’ll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I’ll enjoy being here.
