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[–] Digester@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Much better than Reddit. I no longer get my comments automatically removed by some poorly implemented algorithm anymore. Lemmy is more flexible and diverse.

[–] trambe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I like Lemmy for the more serious conversations. Still think it’s missing a lot of β€œcasual” communities but that’s something that hopefully comes later.

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

I think it's really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I'm following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.

[–] DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I’m enjoying it! The fediverse is a cool concept with a lot of promise, and with Reddit and Twitter both being killed from the top it’s taken on new importance for me. It’s also been really refreshing to see that Lemmy isn’t a right-wing cesspool like Reddit alternatives and whatnot have been in the past

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been on the fediverse before, but never thought to use Lemmy/Kbin until the Reddit exodus. Joined a small community for the domain name and enjoyed it thus far.

That being said, some communities are missing or inactive, definitely gonna help out in that regard.

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[–] 3991pa@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm liking it so far, but a couple of things confuse me about the multiple instances thing.

I've made an account in lemmy.world and for the most part, have found my favorite communities are on the grow here.

However, I know there are other popular instances like lemmy.ml and such. Do our accounts not work cross compatible across the various lemmy instances?

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[–] Sigma@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

loving it so far aside from comments randomly disappearing after i submit them, but im assuming that bug will eventually be worked out. i miss the big card interface reddit switched to but im currently using a custom css that makes lemmy look like old.reddit.com (modified to be amoled black) and it feels great.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Very little content here. But I'm glad the crowd is more diverse than on Mastodon

It's aight. I just want to see all the billionaire bastards burn

[–] francisco1844@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

When federation works it is good. The instance I signed up for was missing quite a bit of posts across many of the different communities I had signed for. It seems better now after a recent upgrade, but unless one checks manually there is no way to know for sure if one's instance is federating properly.

The other issue I find is that because anyone can create a topic on any instance, that can cause fragmentation of less popular topics so basically none of the instances has a good representation on that given topic because the few people interested in the topic are scattered.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Loving it except for a handful of bugs that I expect to be fixed in the next release :)

It feels good to start fresh with a new set of community subscriptions. Some of them I've subscribed based on the topic before they've had significant traffic, but we'll see what happens!

It also seems some communities that have been copied from reddit (by name) have multiple competing instances. I expect some community wars and perhaps mergers to occur in the future. Exciting!

[–] quadrotiles@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think I sort of understand in theory how instances and the communities work, but I am confused about how it works in practice. I'll hopefully figure it out in time. I signed up via reddthat, so as long as they stay federated... I should still be able to see everything and do everything and have my comments be seen by everyone? Right?

I signed my mum up for Reddit 6 years ago and she's a daily user of that (lmao I help her with subreddits and try to help her not fall into weird rabbit holes, but over all she just looks at cat pictures and fun things) but I don't think she'd manage Lemmy. Maybe, if there were already more communities and more posts related to her interests, and I set Lemmy up for her, and nothing ever changed about how she would learn to use Lemmy. But I think just the nature of Lemmy - it's too new and the idea of instances and how they are federated is too confusing for now. Or maybe I just need to understand it better myself.

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[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

I'm slowly figuring out things and slowly finding communities. There seems like there's a lot more genuine engagement. It's rad.

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah the content isn't quite as niche yet, but I way prefer it

[–] MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems OK, hoping Sync for Lemmy client adds a bit more polish, most current clients seem unfinished or a bit janky in some ways.

Ultimately, it'll just take me time to adjust to the new way of things and more users/content.

The only way I'll be going back to reddit is if I can use Sync, and that definitely isn't happening so I'll have to adjust.

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It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy

[–] smoochie@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

I like it so far, although I don't quite understand the whole thing with instances etc yet. But I'll get there eventually. Like many others, I was just lurking on Reddit, but now it feels like it might be worth commenting and maybe even posting once in a while. That's a great feeling

[–] evistre@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's fine, but I don't enjoy having to deal with federation stuff. It's doable, but it's not intuitive, and everything is a bit too disorganized.

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[–] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 5 points 2 years ago

Scratches the itch but like others I miss the more niche stuff.

But I'm trying to be the change I want to see

[–] Hizeh@hizeh.com 4 points 2 years ago

I'm liking it a lot.

[–] TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me

[–] neptune@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Its great, every day more and more people are creating content and the quality of discussions is rich and contextual in most cases, back in reddit most of the times a huge chunk of the top comments where just reddit comedians making a low effort comment to try and gain upvotes.

One of the things I like about lemmy the most so far is the ability to view both a local All and the All with every instance there is, so if my local instance gets stale I can just look at whats happening on all instances!

[–] Anders@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

Really miss Sync, but am living well enough with Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released.

I really love it. Even though I miss a few subreddits, Lemmy feels much like early Reddit, and it scratches an itch I've felt for many years.

[–] HerrNovad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I like it a lot, but I do miss the multi-reddit feature, several communties in one feed. But so far, so good!

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