1: Yep.
2: Nope.
I like it a lot and I never really used reddit often.
Personally I’m still not feeling it. My feed is just full of memes and rules posts. All the stuff I blocked in bacon reader. I can’t find communities for any of the stuff I was interested in on Reddit.
I won’t go back to reddit, but I do miss it.
i think most of the things you miss will come with time, as lemmy becomes more mainstream. Have faith brother!
discussed lemmy with a friend the other day, who agreed people need to stop nerding out over how it functions, and just let it do what people are wanting it to do, which is replace reddit.
not to mention, the people discussing it just act like how it functions is a common knowledge that just makes sense.
instances, “federated”, “defederated”, user in one spot can have the same name as a user in another spot. does lemmy interact with kbin, wtf is a kbin.
dont make your acct here, make it somewhere else?
It’s a tough hole to fill. Lemmy is neat but still has a lot of growth to do.
Lemmy on Memmy is feeling very Apollo
Been here 3 years already.
This is fine.
I’m happy with Lemmy, except I’m honestly getting tired of the somewhat elitist attitude and fear/anger towards anything that isn’t in the fediverse. I noticed it when I left Twitter for Mastodon too, and it’s kind of getting old.
I’m not saying some of what’s being said isn’t justified, it’s just not what I feel like seeing every time I open the app/site.
I sure want it to be
Federation and an open source code base should prevent one team’s dumb decisions from being able to wreck a whole platform, like reddit, twitter, digg, and others before
THE for me
The best of the options we have so far. Really wish Christian from Apollo fame would make an app for it.
Check out wefwef, it looks and feels extremely similar to Apollo.
I have. And from the look perspective, you’re right. I just find it to be unreliable in fetching and refreshing compared to some of the other apps. Hoping a polished app store version gets released.
FYI - the Lemmy devs fixed a serious bug this week that was affecting database performance and wefwef has been working MUCH better the past couple of days. I am trying other clients but keep coming back to wefwef because it provides basically the same experience on my Android phone and on my iPad.
I’ll probably stick with Lemmy until another solution comes around that makes federation easier.
It’s difficult to replace Reddit considering it was/is this combination of multiple communities wrapped in a neat little bow. But lacking an ease of access on mobile and blatant disregard for 3rd party apps is what has caused my own browsing on the site to drop considerably during my free time.
Hopefully as time goes on and with 3rd party apps under development, Lemmy can begin competing with Reddit since this is a genuinely fun site.
Right now it is. It’s still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it’s slowly getting traction.
