Ask Lemmy

how has your experience been?

Posts and comments cannot be easily deleted, for one.

Otherwise, the general experience is like being at an anarchists' beer hall.

Hi & welcome to all new users.

If you feel intimidated or jarred, it's normal. Just keep in mind it's OK make mistakes while trying new things out. There is only very kind moderators around here, well, a few are nice ;)

Don't be afraid to ask questions about anything you find confusing (there are quite a few, to be honest).

And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

1. I stopped worrying about the few things I did not like and focus my attention on what I think is great around here.
2. I learned to filter the default feed by showing only 'Subscribed' and learned to use keywords to filter out the many types of content I have zero interest in. It instantly made the experience much better.

That we still can't use a single account to comment and post outside of our home instance is the most frustrating part of the fediverse and the main contradiction to "you just need one sign up".

I don't understand the politics. .ml, hexbear, etc. It's like going to Christmas dinner with your girlfriend's family for the first time.

I don't understand the broader structure, something about Mastodon being part of all this? How everything interconnects, etc.

I'm happy enough here, I read, I make comments, I move on. Just like I did on Reddit. It's a bit empty, so many of the communities are ghost towns. I get that I'm supposed to help with that, but I'm not much of a poster.

Learning recently that apparently anyone can track my upvote/downvote stats was offputting. I'm going to stop upvoting and downvoting now, I don't want people making inferences from that, but I'm fine with what I write, because there I always say what I mean.

couple months, its pretty ok.

id like more users, but thats about it.

Got tired of the tankies on lemmy, was about to go to piefed, heard about the censorship of piefed, went back to lemmy. So idk

I have been using Lemmy for about 6 months and truth be had I am still really completely lost on the structure.

But that really doesn’t matter. I have found the communities (I thought they were called instances) that have the content I enjoy and they are reasonably active.

That is has been the biggest surprise for me, so many communities are completely dead. There is one movie community. Whose last post was 1.5 years ago.

I think the strength of the federated model also works against it. It really delutes the community’s content.

Also Lemmy is a total dead zone for any sports discussion. I have discovered an NFL community that seems active but I found it at the end of those year’s season.

I cannot use it, want to get rid of Reddit but this feels and acts like a site from 1980s , navigation and jumping off from one part to another is cumbersome at best and unknown at worst. What is difference between this and what I get in boost app is unknown.

I'm a redfugee came with the big exit about a year ago. I post prolificaly, comment sporadically and have a couple of comms. I love it, it feels more like the olden days of the Internet when everything was smaller and you knew people. I sometimes idly scroll Reddit but not even once a week, it's fucking dire and atmosphere is shit. Insta I'm on a few times a day for memes and Reels.

Long live the fediverse!

I joined a month ago, and I like Lemmy much much more than Reddit. The federation makes it visible that you're part of a large community, there's no advertising, and I find the discussion to be of a generally higher quality. I also like that one can see upvotes and downvotes. Not sure whether it needs to be fuzzified or embargoed to fight abuse in future, but either way, it's nice.

I'm absolutely sold on Lemmy vs Reddit. I dumped Twitter when Musk took over, and by then I was already on Mastodon, but I don't actually use it much. Didn't use Twitter much either. Any comments on Mastodon vs Bluesky?

Honestly not great. I was permanently banned from Reddit and the admins wouldn't tell me what I did. I came to Lemmy thinking it was a better alternative to Reddit, only to find out how toxic Lemmy is. It's even worse than Reddit in terms of toxicity.