What are your thoughts on the Lemmy ecosystem?
I’ve been trying it out for the last week. I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear others and see if we have common ideas on what is good/bad/indifferent about the Lemmy ecosystem.
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Nah. Lemmy is nothing like Reddit, it’s actually good.
Best I’ve found, but definitely suffers from lack of network effect
As much as I’d like it to be, it doesn’t have the network effect/popularity that Reddit does. It covers maybe 70-80% of my Digg+ needs, but there are many topics/subs I want that Lemmy just doesn’t have.
“Be the change you want to see” is always there: if a topic/sub doesn’t exist, you can always create it yourself. But no good deed goes unpunished, so you’re now the owner/moderator…
Also, [email protected] is dedicated to community growing
Nice. Thanks for sharing that.
I was a 15 year Reddit veteran and modded a couple dozen communities over there. I’ve moved over here with no regrets. The only thing that takes me back to Reddit is search results, and that’s getting less and less as more people have abandoned it and deleted comments.
The amount of bots there now is astounding. It’s making me believe in the Dead Internet Theory.
Mostly agree with what others said, it’s fine for me.
Perhaps just a subjective opinion that isn’t bound to technology - I find moderators much more trigger happy when it comes to deletion and even banning.
This biggest thing that helped me was putting the app icon in the same spot on my phone as my old reddit app
80% effective. The porn quality is weak.
I spend a lot of time blocking the lewd communities, it’s not good for my mental health
Also true. The lewd communities are numerous and botty and weak
Well that’s (porn) what reddit is for!
Yes for me it’s absolutely a viable alternative. It’s still small and that has pros and cons. The overall quality of discourse is high because it’s a fairly hip crowd that has found Lemmy and joined. Feels more like the early days of the social web, before social media shat the bed. But being small has cons too. Some communities just aren’t here, and a lot of the ones here are small and less active. But there’s absolutely a viable base here that can grow over time. I’m glad that the internet figured this out because we were too dependent on Reddit before - it had totally consumed all concepts of online community and that was okay before the enshittification got into high gear. Lemmy from its inception is structurally designed not to go down that path. So spend time here. Share it. Help it grow. Start a niche sub and feed it.
It’s not bad, it doesn’t have the massive amount of people to keep niche communities going, but for big broad general topics it’s fairly solid. It could use some video and GIF support, but maybe it’s just my instance that doesn’t support it.
https://catbox.moe/ can be used to host videos and gifs
But if it doesn’t display in the page and I have to go to a secondary site, it makes it cumbersome enough that I look for that experience elsewhere, like Bluesky.
It displays on the Lemmy web UI. What interface do you use?
Ah maybe it’s the Jerboa app that’s the issue
Is water an effective alternative to Soda Pop? yes i’d like to think so
Lemmy communities have the potential to be just as toxic.
That said, the broad majority of interactions I have are very positive.
It really depends on the community choice. I tend to choose Lemmy communities rather than “reddit refuge” communities.
I imagine that plays a big part in my personal experience.
Yeah, I have made the experience that most communities on the german-speaking feddit.de were great, but after that had technical issues and went down for 4 months (!), the content isn’t as good anymore and the users are more frustrating.
I figure with Lemmy having much fewer users, there’s less potential for toxic communities to form.
And toxic instances can get defedarated
It works for me because I’m into a lot of the stuff discussed on Lemmy. My biggest problem with reddit was that at some point they seemed eager to smoosh all the subs together into one big Basic Betty fest. For example having r/all be a mandatory sub and having a million default subs…It kind of felt like towards the end everyone was discussing the same stuff on every sub, and it was basically the same stuff being discussed on Twitter (and many posts were just pics of tweets).
I know Lemmy kinda has some similar issues, but because the whole ecosystem is its own niche it still works for me.
On r/, i only really followed my interests - cats, cannabis, crochet, etc. Those topics getting less action here forced me to follow more communities. It surprised me how much i enjoy the general ask, news, eli5, til, art communities that i never would have followed when i had more niche content.
Why do all your interests start with a c… :)
Can probably add chicks in there if you are a guy too.
I was going down the list, got high, and forgot what i was doing.
I just love it here. But I also know that while most communities are really nice, we rely a lot on two (2) individuals who provide a sizeable part of Lemmy’s content (Picard and PugJesus). We should all try to do our part!
@[email protected] : am I a joke to you?
hell, you post all the time yourself, blaze!
Trying to be the change I want to see!
And both of them indeed!
Me, dreaming of the day when I am no longer a prolific poster
And FlyingSquid
It’s alright but I think the low res weird mouse thing mascot isn’t the best, I’ve always hated reddit’s smug bastard shitty alien thing though.
Also it feels relatively empty even though there’s data to back there being half a million users.
Also the language filtering is super imperfect to the point I can’t use it, so I have to manually filter out 500 non-english communities.
It’s a Lemming!
Also it feels relatively empty even though there’s data to back there being half a million users.
45k monthly active users
