It's a learning curve. I think it'll be great in the long run though. Not sure which app I'm going to stick with. Using jerboa currently.
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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.
The content is really bounded by tech stuff, but I guess that's due to migration being important for tech-savvy users. It is true that appending "reddit" to search queries and following the results is still inevitable (but hey, libreddit and teddit still work). But vibe is completely different, very organic, very active, I like it a lot. I think there is a lot of potential in this feeling of authentic communication. Let's hope it grows.
Lemmy is much better replacement for Reddit than Mastodon is for Twitter.
Everyone's nice and there activity, but I miss some subs. I could make them them all, but creating content for all of them would be too much work... I already do that outside reddit/lemmy. π£
Decent so far, I do want a redditisfun type app for it, and it could use more people, but other than that good
I really like it here. Im on connect for lemmy which is giving me boost for reddit vibes
I've been in Lemmy for a month now and I've never seen the need to come back to reddit at all. I like it here.
It's aight. I just want to see all the billionaire bastards burn
I'm slowly figuring out things and slowly finding communities. There seems like there's a lot more genuine engagement. It's rad.
I'm glad Star Trek came over. Really hoped for some Stellaris and Xcom, maybe eventually.
I've been on the fediverse before, but never thought to use Lemmy/Kbin until the Reddit exodus. Joined a small community for the domain name and enjoyed it thus far.
That being said, some communities are missing or inactive, definitely gonna help out in that regard.
I think it's really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I'm following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
I like Lemmy for the more serious conversations. Still think itβs missing a lot of βcasualβ communities but thatβs something that hopefully comes later.
It feels like people are genuinely excited to be part of the community, which is something I haven't felt from reddit in years. I really hope that's able to stick around in one form or another. The community makes the site fun. I don't think reddit has been "fun" for a while, it's just been a content-firehose to the face, and it's nice to not be drowned by it.
But also I'm bored and don't know what to do with the internet anymore lol
I'm liking it so far, but a couple of things confuse me about the multiple instances thing.
I've made an account in lemmy.world and for the most part, have found my favorite communities are on the grow here.
However, I know there are other popular instances like lemmy.ml and such. Do our accounts not work cross compatible across the various lemmy instances?
I like it better so im using it as much as i can and just hoping its not a fad and people actually move over enough to unseat reddit
the fediverse has done a great job replacing reddit for my scrolling-though-random-stuff needs! as for more niche stuff, it's still not there yet (as has been pointed out many, many times already), but i'm trying to help! i'm posting and commenting regularly on !kirby@lemmy.world. "be the change you want to see" and all that. i encourage everyone else to do the same with their niche communities!
edit: though at this point i have 4 accounts across different instances (here, lemmy.world, kbin.social, feddit.online), thanks to various things. so it's not entirely smooth sailing for me right now
Reddit felt so damn simple to use where this is an absolute cluster fuck of complexity in comparison. It really needs to be simpler if there are hopes to take down reddit. Hopefully with boost and sync devs making a client things may improve.
Yeah the content isn't quite as niche yet, but I way prefer it
So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me
The only thing I miss is my smaller subs is that I really enjoyed for my specific interests. Hopefully they grow here. For general content I enjoy Lemmy much more
Seems OK, hoping Sync for Lemmy client adds a bit more polish, most current clients seem unfinished or a bit janky in some ways.
Ultimately, it'll just take me time to adjust to the new way of things and more users/content.
The only way I'll be going back to reddit is if I can use Sync, and that definitely isn't happening so I'll have to adjust.
It's fine, but I don't enjoy having to deal with federation stuff. It's doable, but it's not intuitive, and everything is a bit too disorganized.
Iβm certainly enjoying it. As others have mentioned itβs a lot slower content wise and the smaller subreddits I was in arenβt here. Lots of niche content is missing, but things like news, politics, gaming, tech, security, are all here and doing fine.
Its great! I was on pleroma before and didn't even know Lemmy was a thing u til recently. Love federated social media.
I really like it, except I'm still constantly getting "network error" messages. Not sure if it's a Jerboa app glitch or if the networks are still incredibly overloaded.
For example, every comment I post will buffer for a bit then tell me there's a network error, as if my comment didn't get posted. But if I refresh the post, my comment shows up. It's going to happen this time, too.
I think I sort of understand in theory how instances and the communities work, but I am confused about how it works in practice. I'll hopefully figure it out in time. I signed up via reddthat, so as long as they stay federated... I should still be able to see everything and do everything and have my comments be seen by everyone? Right?
I signed my mum up for Reddit 6 years ago and she's a daily user of that (lmao I help her with subreddits and try to help her not fall into weird rabbit holes, but over all she just looks at cat pictures and fun things) but I don't think she'd manage Lemmy. Maybe, if there were already more communities and more posts related to her interests, and I set Lemmy up for her, and nothing ever changed about how she would learn to use Lemmy. But I think just the nature of Lemmy - it's too new and the idea of instances and how they are federated is too confusing for now. Or maybe I just need to understand it better myself.
Liking it so far. It feels a bit like the early days of the internet. You know the potential is there and canβt wait to see this grow.