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?
I’m liking it. The comments are nice and the content for the most part have been enjoyable. I do miss larger niche communities in reddit. Some really small communities are so small or dead its hard to get it going.
I don’t spend as much time on lemmy as I did reddit. I think I’ve now spent a bit more of that time spread with instagram and YouTube as well.
I comment and post more than on Reddit partially because it feels more personal, partially because I want the platform to grow
The two problems I have that I can think of right now are there aren’t as many communities/they’re smaller/fractured across instances, and the classic internet hivemind dogpile on topics and stances
I’d like to see more human posts than just meme posting and news.
Yeah, I’d love to have my niche communities back as well
That would be nice. I yearn for the day when I can stop putting “site:reddit.com” into all my web searches cause the answers are all on Lemmy.
Right now this place is good for browsing All, but trying to convince the smaller subs to migrate over here just gets you downvoted and flamed.
Yeah I completely agree, even though I’m subscribed to my favourite communities, they are nowhere near big enough to even fill 5 minutes of scrolling a day
Back before Hexbear re-federated we used to have a sorting algorithm that was a bit better for smaller communities. Right now, Active posts stay for too long and Hot posts don’t yet have enough engagement to encourage people clicking through. I believe there’s talks of adjusting the sorting algorithms, hopefully soon.
Same here, so I started an “art” server. We’ll see how it fares.
Care to share?
Check it out here: lemmy.mindoki.com
Small but I’m still proud :-)
It’s pretty good actually, thanks for asking.
I still prefer it to Reddit. I think there was a noticeable increase in activity after Sync was released - unfortunately since then I have noticed more argumentative / defensive interactions. I guess that just goes with the territory though as more people join and become active, I wish people would just chill though. I feel like I’m having to deal with more children, but it’s still nowhere near as bad as Reddit was.
I’m still missing the diversity of Reddit as I liked lurking in (and learning from) communities I would never come across in the real world, but I hope I will stumble across them in time as I’m sure they’re out there.
Lemmy is great and all. Love it more then I ever did reddit. But it seems like instances are more politically polarized than your average subreddit. It kinda harshes my mellow.
I do like that people feel more genuine as opposed to just broken records repeating overused talking points.
I love beehaw but I’m starting to feel disconnected from the community. I feel like overall beehaw and lemmy are creating this echo chamber that is repeating the same talking points over and over again. Reddit and Twitter both offered insight from industry leaders or at least those in the industry in question. Lemmy seems to lack those type of folks. I’m also noticing an abundance of opinionated folks. This is good and bad. It feels like sometimes there isn’t any worth from engaging in a conversation. Sometimes there is, but a good bit of time I end up regretting it.
Overall it’s like the Linux version of Reddit. It’s not great but you can feel slightly more ethical using it.
The echo chamber is pretty bad here. I also don’t like that people here downvote opinions they don’t agree with, Reddit did this too though. I don’t think opinions should ever be voted on, up or down. People see which types of opinions get the most upvotes and it causes them to not express their true opinions for fear of being downvoted.
reddit has the ability to hide post vote counts for a certain time to mitigate this. It’s a feature that’s worth bringing across.
(I also think it’s worth capping the number of upvotes and downvotes a post/comment can get - and to do so asymmetrically, eg no more than 10 downvotes and 100 upvotes.)
There are instances that disable downvotes, you may want to migrate to one that does. https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances#all-lemmy-instances has a column that indicates if an instance has them turned on or off.
I’m on Beehaw which doesn’t have downvotes and it’s still very much an echo chamber.
Feels like a small club (not that I attended much clubs), I often recognize some usernames. In big social medias, there are so many users posting that you don’t often see the same user often enough to recognize their username. On Lemmy, you get sort of mini celebrities, they’re always on the front page (I sort by All/Hot).
It’s ok. I’ve had some amicable conversations and there’s more content for my train trips. Sometimes the online arguments make my anxiety shoot up.
Ditched Mastodon pretty much entirely and Lemmy has been my go to. Sometimes will fill in content gaps with my RSS feeder. Definitely leaned me off of Reddit and I haven’t touched the site in like 2 months. The desktop site is still rough, but using Sync it feels like I’m on Reddit again. It’s just missing the niche communities I really missed, but the community is still building up here. Lemmy still has a lot to improve but overall the community has been pretty stable. The instance drama is entertaining lol.
I run out of content to read much more quickly than I did with Reddit, so I’m antsy/restless more often, because I pick up my phone and then have nothing to do on it.
I use it daily and don’t go on reddit anymore. I’m missing a lot of things I used to look at but I don’t have anything to post on those topics.
Compared to reddit the quality of discussion is far better. It still feels like you can’t go against the grain without being banned. I haven’t had a spicy enough take on anything to test that yet but I’ve seen people getting instantly labeled as trolls and banned.
Overall it’s a good experience, I think the web ui is better than reddit without RES and I’m liking Jebora even if it’s buggy as hell.
this is the most alive of all the fediverse projects. Not without its problems, but I have absolutely no reason to use reddit anymore.
Mastodon is more active but Lemmy is super fun and growing.
Mastodon keeps getting big injections of new users because Musk is a stupid man baby and keeps pushing users away.
Lemmy, post Reddit protests, is now dependent on word of mouth.
Mastodon feels much less diverse to me, everyone is discussing their sexuality and what Cory Doctorow just said, on Lemmy you get a much broader range of topics
follow more people, yo. You GOTS to follow liberally, click more diverse hashtags and follow them too! My feed is super gay, very POC, and a blast!
Mastodon has imo dogshit discoverability. For Lemmy it feels like posts across the federated instances are all elegantly aggregated onto my front page. I can also easily subscribe to subs on other instances.
On Mastodon the client has to work around the backend to do simple stuff like aggregate the posts of multiple instances. Most stuff in the federated feed is pretty much random and the local feed is restricted to your account’s instance.
User discoverability is also awful. If I dont have a user’s exact name and instance it’s nigh impossible to find them outside of my own instance. Searching lemmy is much more effective when it comes to external instances.
Mastodon is trying too hard to be a twitter clone in some ways I feel. If it had instance subscriptions a hit like how lemmy lets you subscribe to subs it would be way more useful. Right now it feels like everyone is shouting into the void.
I use it just as much as Reddit and generally enjoy the home/all experience much better. What you miss is the niche communities but I feel like the better experience on the “big” communities like [email protected] or [email protected] make up for it.
It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so I’m grateful for that as well
I like Lemmy, it’s nice not having ads on here or feeling like posts are taken over by shills/bots. But the flip side of that is it feels a bit too small to get any interesting conversation, especially about anything niche or local.
I really miss my old reddit communities. I’ve stopped using reddit completely but Lemmy hasn’t filled that hole for me.
