I’ve noticed that I come across the same posts more frequently on my front page here than on Reddit. Perhaps it would be solved as the userbase continues to grow. Other than that, I have no complaints. This platform is a perfect substitute for Reddit, if not better.
Good so far. Communities here are less active and I am still using old.reddit.com for stuff that has no equivalent community here yet, but just gonna give it time and re-search for the missing stuff every so often to see if any of it has been added anywhere.
I like it a lot, but it has a lot of bugs that drive me crazy. Particularly with the Jerboa app, but also on the web. That’s part of the early days for any software, though, especially one undergoing an explosion in its userbase. I’m happy to stick it out, and Lemmy is already a ~90% replacement for what reddit has been to me for the last 10+ years (feels weird to say that).
Creating an account was hell. Between making requests, confirmations going to my spam folder, and the system just straight up not working it was super unfun. Not a huge fan of the UI either. I basically just want old.reddit back. Oh well, hopefully Sync for Lemmy makes it more palatable.
As a former reddit sync app user, finding “liftoff” helped make the transition a smoother experience. I’ve been enjoying hunting for new communities to join and watching them grow.
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.
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.
I really like it here. Im on connect for lemmy which is giving me boost for reddit vibes
Totally digging in. I’m still trying to find the easiest way to navigate. I don’t spend nearly as long in Lemmy as I did Reddit, which is a good time. 10-15 minutes every few hours seems healthy. It satisfies that urge just enough.
One of the things I greatly disliked about reddit was the hivemind that formed a couple years after it launched, which has only gotten worse as time passed. Anywhere posts and comments are driven by upvote or engagement algorithms is going to create an echo chamber, but I was curious to see if the decentralized aspect of this place might tone that down a bit. It’s hard to tell right now because my feed is filled with some of the most indignant, extremist people from other platforms who are here as a form of protest.
Feature-wise, this place is functional and not too hard to navigate, but finding and subscribing to communities was pretty confusing and it’s lacking a lot of QoL stuff that reddit has. I don’t expect it to be a 1:1 clone but I sure would like notifications when someone responds to one of my posts. Or maybe the notifications just aren’t working properly for me? I dunno.
Other than being a bit quiet, I am enjoying it more than I ever did reddit. It’s the quiet, the newness, the wait for new communities to pop up, but most importantly, I don’t get the feeling of overbearing moderators.
Thank you for taking all of us in.
I like it enough to host an instance. It’s pretty legit, to be honest. If I can find and join more of the same types of communities I was a part of on Reddit, I can easily see myself spending more time here. Even now, I feel like my time on my phone is an even split between Lemmy and Reddit.
It’s cool. I’ve been on mastodon before this, so I get the whole “looking around to find communities” thing. Lemmy seems to make it easier to find popular communities than Masto though, so that’s nice.
But… After reddit fell, I took it as a sign that I need to get off the social media wagon wheel. I was spending almost every waking minute on reddit or twitching to get on it. I hope it doesn’t get like that with Lemmy, though I fully expect it to.
I’m enjoying the hell out of it. Could be the novelty of everything, but I’m liking it more than Reddit. And like I’ve seen many here say, I tend to respond and have conversations here more often.
Plus, Connect for Lemmy is very nice on my Android phone. I was waiting for Sync of Lemmy to arrive, but I’m not so sure I’ll switch.
It’s great! Definitely satisfies the urges to scroll through a bunch of silly crap. And the Memmy for Lemmy app on iOS feels a lot like Apollo. Very happy to be part of this community, despite it’s intimate size
