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?
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You mean you don’t want to see the same whiny post about LTT again?
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Perhaps your filtering has done a good job then!
It’s also really hard to block everything because there isn’t a simple block button available, you have to go into the message and then scroll all the way to the bottom (which is fun when infinite scrolling is switched on).
Try the Voyager app. Long press to subscribe or block direct from your feed!
Haven’t been back to Reddit. It’s going great. Mostly I am relieved I don’t have to see that fucking Jesus ad anymore.
Sync user so it looks and basically feels the same. Just the volume of posts is missing. My other issue is I used a lot of smaller communities and they haven’t migrated… Yet. So it’s hard to get answers to things without going back to the /r which I try to avoid.
So I used lemmy world and then lemmy winks because world had up time issues and now I keep making ones on new instances seeing as winks seems to be dead
Memes are about the only consistent content on lemmy
I found Lemmy to be better for my mental health. I recently visited Reddit again to follow on a heated topic since Reddit has more info and news, and found my anxiety levels skyrocket due to the toxicity of comments.
While Lemmy has less engagement than Reddit, that also leads to a more level-headed community.
That, and with new Lemmy apps and experiences being developed constantly, I’m liking it here a lot.
daily user of Lemmy at this point, fuck Reddit
Aside from the russian shills, fine and dandy.
Names yourself after a communist, thinks communists are russian shills.
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.
Authoritarian propaganda is kind of ruining it for me. I came in excited to help build something together and now I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
Maybe I’d recommend an instance that doesn’t federate with Hexbear, ExplodingHeads, or Lemmygrad.
I was going to say “what authoritarian propaganda” because I don’t see any of that shit, but yeah, my instance doesn’t federate with those places. The strength and the weakness of a federated system, I suppose!
I’ve had some luck blocking instances within mobile apps, but that doesn’t scale well if the number of toxic instances is constantly growing. I’m curious to see how this gets addressed in the long run (or if it is left as is, since it is technically working as designed).
Same, I get that people have different political backgrounds, and even hope to be part of a group with different opinions, but some of those instances are just so far removed that I just block them
Yeah people have a wide range of political views, plus on anonymous social media you never know if an account is even a real person or KremlinGPT.
I don’t think I’m on my phone as much but I do miss /r/BlackPeopleTwitter. I bet the posts about the Montgomery Brawl we’re top notch.
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.
its good, been enjoying it for ~3 years now
Haha, same.
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???
Lemmy is great. So great that I named myself after it (my nickname was just “Resol” before then, now it’s obviously “Resol van Lemmy”, it sounds very Flemish). I do have a problem with it though. Most communities I was active on on Reddit are either nonexistent on Lemmy or just not big enough to maintain daily activity, making them look like ghost towns. Also, I had to shuffle between different clients because I didn’t have a satisfactory experience with some, I’m currently using Sync because the interface is so nice (although I like how Jerboa shows the upvote to downvote ratio in addition to the total score). In addition to all this, I got help cutting down on screentime thanks to the Fediverse. I just didn’t have much addiction anymore, which is always a good thing. I don’t know what else to say.
Flemish or Dutch indeed, very fancy.
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.
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Current events (news, politics, etc…) the transition to Lemmy was seamless.
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Tech Support on specific niche software (kdenlive, Scribus, Gimp, etc…) is still lacking. there aren’t a lot of communities dedicated to specific hobbies where a person can ask and answer questions from other users.
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.
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