how is Lemmy going for you?
how is Lemmy going for you?
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?
how is Lemmy going for you?
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?
So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).
This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.
I find I tend to get more replies here.
Reddit is dead. Lemmy is
ALIVEEE!!!!!
It's the Fediverse that I have been searching for.
Somebody on Lemmy made this quote I really like:
Twitter is people you care about posting content you don't care about. Reddit is people you don't care about posting content that you do care about
Twitter-like Fedi never clicked for me. I made a bunch of accounts over the course of two, maybe three years, each starting with the intention of maybe making new friends and having a good time. I met a ton of cool people but we never became good friends because I never got really invested into it, simply because my feed was never something I hoped it would be, something exciting.
Lemmy gives me exactly what I was searching for. I didn't use it prior to thr Reddit migration because there were too few people but now I am very happy
Just another quote I read about twitter/Mastodon:
"You simply shout into the void and hope someone answer."
Lemmy and Reddit feel more like the old forum culture. And that's better, imo.
Yeah Twitter style never appealed to me either. Though I'm wondering if I should try Mastodon since it's supposedly more active than Lemmy.
In my experience, no. I’m not a fan of the microblogging style of discussion as well. I never had a personal twitter account, only my artist account I use to post once a week. I thought I’d try Mastodon, and while it’s nice to be in the fediverse and there a lot of interesting people and posts there, the microblogging format still doesn’t work for me and I basically stopped using my account after 2 weeks. I feel more at home with Lemmy.
That twitter quote is so true.
I'm just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.
Other than that... I'd argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that's great.
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.
Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind.
I dig the analogy and had to chuckle.
Eh, it scratches the itch. I don't touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.
Same, I do all of my browsing here but still look up things like "baldurs gate 3 quest/item/enemybugged reddit" because it's the only place I can find answers, outside of the occasional steam forum post.
Yeah, it's crazy how bad search engines have gotten and how good companies now are at SEO.
You basically have to end every single search with "reddit" if you want to so words written by humans.
i moved to lemmy before the reddit api changes. in january 2023 i stopped using all proprietary software and was looking for alternetives. its way better than reddit, im never going back...
There's good reason to love Lemmy, and since joining I've also gone very Foss and privacy centric but I just feel like it's a bit quiet, maybe it's just me
Quiet?
How's that?
It's very quiet but it's so much more personable in the comments.
I'd like to see more human posts than just meme posting and news.
Yeah, I'd love to have my niche communities back as well
Same here, so I started an "art" server. We'll see how it fares.
That would be nice. I yearn for the day when I can stop putting "site:reddit.com" into all my web searches cause the answers are all on Lemmy.
Right now this place is good for browsing All, but trying to convince the smaller subs to migrate over here just gets you downvoted and flamed.
Back before Hexbear re-federated we used to have a sorting algorithm that was a bit better for smaller communities. Right now, Active posts stay for too long and Hot posts don't yet have enough engagement to encourage people clicking through. I believe there's talks of adjusting the sorting algorithms, hopefully soon.
Lemmy is great and all. Love it more then I ever did reddit. But it seems like instances are more politically polarized than your average subreddit. It kinda harshes my mellow.
I do like that people feel more genuine as opposed to just broken records repeating overused talking points.
I've only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.
I know what some of those words mean
Hexbear: the 3rd or so biggest instance on lemmy and by far the most active. It's where all the people with pronouns next to their names come from. We're a left unity trans positive community that's been around for 3 years, mostly made up of Marxists and Anarchists. We were just recently federated with the rest of lemmy about a week ago.
slop: Food for the hogs. Content. Posts. Discussion. Drama. Romance. Danger!
cth: a podcast no one really cares about. A community of leftists outgrew a forum that used to be about them. It got banned from reddit and the refugees turned into Hexbear.
libs: Liberals. From our perspective this includes about 65-75% of the American political landscape. This includes all democrats and about half republicans. These are people who support capitalism. Bernie Sanders is a lib. They are annoying and will betray you in the end but they're usually the people who can be reasoned with so it's extra frustrating.
chuds: Fascists. The other 25-35%. Confederate flag waving people who eat burgers as a protest against global warming. Kyle Rittenhouse stans. Coal rollers. The people who will kill you first if you have good politics. They believe above all else in natural hierarchies so the capitalists will turn to them when the left challenges theirs. That's how Hitler happened.
Once you understand the kind of people who are on hexbear, things will become more clear. Just go to some of their profiles and have a look at what they post
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".
Is 'slop' from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online
I'm struggling to find niche communities but overall the comments are more human and not just saying what everyone wants to hear for Internet points. I still plan on hosting my own instance soon and I'm excited for that. I do find it annoying as well when I sort by new and it's just thousands of repost from reddit.
I dunno, there always seems to be a dog pile of people ready to be outraged. The LTT stuff, especially the un-verified, tweets from the disgruntled ex employee.
People are ready to string up Linus and torch his community even though the response video today is all you could ask for. Then she piles on and somehow her word is not inpugnable.
Any voice of reason is down voted and dumb hot takes and up voted.it feels worse than reddit tbh.
Yeah been noticing it can be pretty hit or miss, the vibe is pretty chill here but people still come out of the woodwork to dog-pile on people. The unverified allegations with LLT / Madison are a perfect example of that
He said the hard-r word all of the time as a kid
Are you planning on some specific communities or "just" a server for anyone to join and use?
Just a server for my friends and I to use
My problem is that most of the posts are about lemmy or reddit.
It's not as bad as it was a month ago. Already the content feels more diverse.
Same here. Really hoping the non-lemmy-focus communities can start to get more active now that the commotion is settling down a bit.
Yeah, people need to post in a lemmy drama community or something, I'm sick of it and would like to read about something else.
Lol yeah I know what you mean that bothered me a while ago too, I just wanted to check in
its good, been enjoying it for ~3 years now
Haha, same.
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.
Pretty good, it's my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn't work that well..).
Choosing an instance sucked though.
I went like:
I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations
The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.
If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it's gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you're the only admin and you die? Gone.
In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my "private" messages.
If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.
So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.
I saw “yarrrr” and chose a great one hahaha
I think its great
Overall a much more friendly bunch of people here.
Thanks you guys! Youre all awesome!
This is what makes me love this platform, Reddit was just a negative experience for the last years.
Thank you.
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
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.
Open up the communities you feel are really missing! I did so with !apocalypticart@feddit.de and so far, it's going great judging from the subscribers.
I just wish other people than me would start posting there, but that'll come eventually :)
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.
It's a lot less of a time sink for me now. I'm on maybe 15 minutes a day.
It's probably because most of my other most frequented forums aren't quite here yet.
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.
Same here, It’s a good thing I think, but it sometimes make me feel a bit out of the loop
Redditfugee here. Lemmy pros/cons:
Pros
Cons
Take your upvote for "nicotine patch for Reddit". Brilliant.
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.
I love it very much. Meanwhile I almost forgot, that reddit once was important to me.
Literally my entire wall is either:
I would love some diversity but everything I've subscribed to is either the above, or dead.
I suggest roaming further into other instances. I made a new account on a different instance and the "all" feed has been surprisingly different
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.
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 love that Lemmy has a small, but dedicated userbase and much less flamewars than Reddit. Seems like most people are actually here for good content and not just trolling everyone else.
I also like that the feed just ends eventually and I can close the app instead of doomscrolling through the whole night.
And I hope that toxic gamification features like global karma or awards will always stay out of here. The dopamine rushes from those are just bad for my brain and these features are really unneccessary.
not just trolling everyone else
(Antique meme, I know)
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.
Have you heard about the problem with Linus media group????????
I use it daily.
Of the two different things I used Reddit for, Lemmy is a 100% replacement for one, but sadly lacking in the other.
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.
For me it seems to have wained a bit, I feel like a lot of casual users have gone silent recently, the content I'm seeing is more specific to niche topics and communities
Have you tried browsing another instance's All feed to see if yours is missing any communities? I started using Lemmy on a really small instance but switched to lemmy.world as my main because it could see a lot more content. My new alt runs a federation helper to fix this too.
My only real complaint with Lemmy is that instances, by default, only know about their own communities and the remote communities that their users have specifically subscribed to. Some smaller instances run federation helpers that scan other instances for communities. Manually initiating a federation request is not intuitive either.
I've just made myself a hexbear account because of the mentions on here, looks interesting
I feel the opposite, posts have more comments than ever, even when the migration started
Once I found Liftoff, I've used Lemmy exclusively. It's fantastic, I don't feel as intimated about commenting (even though this is my first on this account) I've found most of my interests again in different communities. There are still a few I don't have, but that will sort itself out in time.
Yep Liftoff is my favorite Lemmy app as well! For reference, Relay for Reddit is my favorite Reddit app (it's still working for now), and I tried most of the Lemmy Android apps.
I never used relay. I was a RiF fan, I had that for years.. so long that I actually forgot Reddit had ads!
I tired mastodon on the mobile web, but that just didn't gel for me, the few times I've logged on to Lemmy on the PC it's also just felt so much easier to scroll and read.
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'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.
Damn that sucks :(
what is wrong with some people
I haven’t completely switched to Lemmy yet. I don’t get as much of a diversity of views here.
wtf! that's no joke, stay anonymous my friend. What the dick that guy must have been!
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
Comments on Lemmy tend to have a lot to say while offering a unique perspective. But most of the posts are boring and predictable, especially when it comes to politics.
I don't think politics is supposed to be entertaining or necessarily innovative, fam.
I agree. If we didn't have such evil floating around political power, it would be worthwhile to discuss more nuance. But because of the two party system, the state of the GOP, etc, the bad faith takes up all the oxygen in US politics. It sucks but I get it.
Switched to lemmy 100% after 17+ years of reddit, daily user. I think it's ok but increasingly getting annoyed with a couple things. The rampant extreme politics and phrasing as if it's fact, and people complain about cross posts but I literally see the same exact posts (same community) over and over as I scroll through the feed. Other than that it doesn't nearly have much content but that's to be expected.
It's been better since moving away from lemmy.world, then Sync being available also helped a lot. But unfortunately as many have noted already, this is not as easy to get into for more casual users so it's heavily biased towards tech topics and communities. Smaller communities will probably take a lot longer to take off if at all and I'm sad about that loss so far.
To be honest I don't use it nearly as much as I used Reddit. Haven't been on Reddit since the fuckening except for a couple of times, but my Lemmy usage is at maybe 10% pf what my Reddit usage was.
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.
this is the most alive of all the fediverse projects. Not without its problems, but I have absolutely no reason to use reddit anymore.
Mastodon is more active but Lemmy is super fun and growing.
Mastodon keeps getting big injections of new users because Musk is a stupid man baby and keeps pushing users away.
Lemmy, post Reddit protests, is now dependent on word of mouth.
Mastodon has imo dogshit discoverability. For Lemmy it feels like posts across the federated instances are all elegantly aggregated onto my front page. I can also easily subscribe to subs on other instances.
On Mastodon the client has to work around the backend to do simple stuff like aggregate the posts of multiple instances. Most stuff in the federated feed is pretty much random and the local feed is restricted to your account's instance.
User discoverability is also awful. If I dont have a user's exact name and instance it's nigh impossible to find them outside of my own instance. Searching lemmy is much more effective when it comes to external instances.
Mastodon is trying too hard to be a twitter clone in some ways I feel. If it had instance subscriptions a hit like how lemmy lets you subscribe to subs it would be way more useful. Right now it feels like everyone is shouting into the void.
Mastodon feels much less diverse to me, everyone is discussing their sexuality and what Cory Doctorow just said, on Lemmy you get a much broader range of topics
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 use geddit on my phone to browse Reddit. I too mostly use it to visit game specific subreddits. Hope they will become more active here on Lemmy
I think it's fine but I admit I don't think it's very fun with one centralized Lemmy instance. Feels like reddit all over again. The idealist in me wanted a distributed network instead, with popular communities spread out across hundreds of instances run by volunteers.
But on the plus side, we can talk without corps being involved and that's really, really nice. I don't even use any big tech sites anymore except github.
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
I do miss some of the more specialist communities on reddit but honestly this is great for just scrolling stuff, and it's completely replaced reddit for that.
This is basically how I feel.
Reddit had some great aspects. Niche communities about hobbies I might be interested in had wikis with intros on how to get started being something I miss.
My biggest issue with the Lemmy community is we seem to have brought the thirst-communities and the meme communities in great numbers but the hobby communities are really lacking.
Generally speaking I'm not interested in pics of attractive celeb number 7864 and while memes are fun their over abundance was why I was looking for a new content aggregator before the API changes.
I'm also sort of sick of talking about the politics of social media, I'd rather use social media to talk about other more interesting things
To be honest I don't understand it whatsoever I just go on chapo.chat and look at the posts on there. Now there are posts from other places which is neat. I don't leave the site though as I don't want to make a new account. Idk if I'm even doing it right or wrong.
Liking it a lot! I was thinking the other day about how we’ve pretty successfully made the jump away from every other thread being about Reddit or technical issues to having many general interest communities and some niche ones that are continuing to diversify.
Obviously we’re not nearly at the scale of Reddit yet (considering the entire Fediverse could fit inside some singular subreddits) but I’ve tried to make up for less content by making more myself and actually engaging with people instead of lurking.
I like it but it's missing the low-quality 'non-fiction' relationship post porn I loved to binge on.
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.
Thanks for the gold, kind stranger.
I have completely replace Reddit with it. (Save for looking for when I end up there due to trying to solve technical problems). Yeah it’s janky and doesn’t have as much happening but I feel like the userbase overall is much less toxic so more enjoyable to engage with.
Feels like OG reddit back in the day with less niche subs and with an /all that is more readable (and with the occasional surprise nsfw reddit used to have). I feel that in reddit I had drifted to only reading my own curated sub list, and barely reading /all due to the toxicity
Only rarely do I get back to reddit, mostly because one of the sport subs, which has a repost bot on lemmy, shows an article I want to read the comments on.
Yes sometimes the polarized instances get a bit annoying, I find them managable and interesting to see what these communities are talking about every now and then.
I do wish NSFW was more granular. A lot of the things I’d like on my feed wouldn’t necessarily be what you’d want to have open in the office but I also don’t want it to be full of porn. Not anti-porn or anything I just don’t want it in my feed 24/7.
You could always set your work acc to not display anything labeled NSFW in settings.
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 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