I prefer it. The concept of federation has been hard to wrap my mind around, but I think the issue with current-day reddit is that many communities became so large that interactions between users and even interactions with posts that are more than an hour old almost completely dried up (or at least that was my experience) which made the website a lot less interesting as a social platform and more of just a time-wasting doomscrolling link aggregation platform.
Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I’m in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there’s more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.
I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?
The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.
I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.
Scratches the itch but like others I miss the more niche stuff.
But I’m trying to be the change I want to see
Definitely nice to scroll through news and memes again without having to deal with twitters dumpsterfire. Still some comforts I’m used to are missing but it’s early days and I only see it getting better from here.
Definitely not missing Reddit.
Too much tankie bullshit.
Second biggest server is straight up Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
I’m currently juggling 3 different apps to find one that works best for me (Jerboa, Connect, wefwef.app via Hermit, and excitedly waiting for Sync for Lemmy). I’m also experimenting with setting up my own instance to learn more about federation.
I love the principle/values of Lemmy, what it stands for, being part of a growing platform and learning about it. But when I’m just looking for mindless time-wasting content to kill boredom, I find myself missing the quality of experience, the communities, the level of engagement and diversity content from Reddit. Many subreddits I used to follow for “dumb” content simply don’t exist on Lemmy, and I doubt it will gain inertia on Lemmy.
I really like it generally. I mostly only miss some of the more niche subreddits I belonged to. There are equivalents for some of them here, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a large enough user base yet to have the active engagement and frequent new content the ones on Reddit have. Other than that I just miss the features of Reddit Enhancement Suite, When I’m browsing on desktop I try to drag-to-zoom some image or another at least three or four times a session, and I really miss continuous scrolling.
So far so good. The main reason I bailed on Reddit was the loss of RiF. I hardly ever used desktop. I’m using Connect for Lemmy and I’m still getting used to it, but it seems like a decent enough replacement.
Honestly, I’m kind of hating it… everything feels like it is in the wrong place, everything has just enough friction in interacting with Lemmy to irritate me as I try and get realigned, and nothing feels like it is at my fingertips. The signup process alone was adamant that it was incredibly straightforward and that instances don’t matter… but is also very variable based on the instance you choose… I had to wait until morning because my instance’s email verification didn’t work and had to be done manually. Then when I look to turn on 2FA, it just doesn’t work at all, very unappealing.
Maybe once Boost for Lemmy is out, that will have some quality of life, but currently I am not actively liking anything about Lemmy at all, beside just the basic principle of it.
I think I like more than I liked reddit.
But my NSFW needs are not met yet, reddit have way more fap fuel.
I’ve enjoyed my time here on Lemmy and am fully invested. It’s helped me curb my reddit usage completely and I won’t be going back.
It really feels like Reddit 10 years ago and I loved that. Rough edges and all.
Not gonna lie it was really confusing to begin with, even with a guide. Partially because I dropped by kbin first.
I’m honest, I still don’t get the universe concept. I am going on the site via feddit, which is the German version, I guess? If I want to see everything, I need to go to lemmy.world? If I get an app for it, what would it route me to?
It should be fine after a while if people stay here, but for now it’s still in its infancy when it comes to user friendliness, I think.
Honestly I’m kind of struggling with the concept. I’m using the connect android app but it’s just not clicking for me… how do I know if I’ve found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
Not as many things to mindlessly scroll by, but I’m liking the new community vibe so far!
