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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?

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[โ€“] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

It is like being in the early stages of reddit so liking it so far. I think i may start contributing since there isn't a ton of content yet

[โ€“] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 5 points 2 years ago

I really like it. Though, my experience massively increased after I switched away from a bigger instance.

[โ€“] curiousmonkey@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago

I am liking it, community is friendly. I am slowly replacing my reddit addiction with lemmy. everyday I am finding new instances/communities to join. all in all, this journey so far has been exciting

[โ€“] xilliah@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I enjoy it so far. But I wish more stuff was tagged as NSFW and filtered out. Often I get girls in bikinis in my feed and I don't want to know about that. I've been banning endless communities from my feed but it seems new ones pop up daily.

[โ€“] charlytune@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 2 years ago

It's pretty good actually, thanks for asking.

[โ€“] AlmostDachshund@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I totally replaced my Reddit usage with Lemmy. Jerboa is fine and I feel every time I want to spend some time I find something here to read. And I feel it's less useless than Reddit as well, with its nonsense ads and bots.

[โ€“] alottachairs@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Its okay. But im happy to be rid of my reddit habit.

[โ€“] blendedracer@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Lemmy is great. Altho now it's full of Linus apologists so it sucks atm. Also Memmy is fantastic!

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[โ€“] Ferminho@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

The lemmy experience is so much better than reddit in one way: the Lemmy website on the phone just let's you use it, no more "This community is only available from the app" and have to use the desktop website, or the log in with Google pop up. I don't want to use the app, I don't want to log in on mobile.

[โ€“] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I think it still needs to grow and get more stable. I find any browsing all that there isn't enough there for me to use it in the same way I used reddit.

For the first month or so, I would say it was about 40% of my SNS usage, now it's probably about 20-30%. Hopefully as more and more people use it, we get more users and more stable instances.

[โ€“] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago

Going better than I expected, especially now that we have so many capable clients like Sync. I don't miss Reddit at all, and I really like that there aren't any annoying posters like Schnoodle and his circlejerking fanbois, or the LTT fanclub in subs like r/pcmr who'd downvote anyone who criticizes LTT, or Windows fanbois who'd always downvote anything Linux related (I also like that there's a larger representation of Linux and OSS folks here which is awesome).

I spend like an hour here daily and I'm looking forward to see how much it grows.

[โ€“] AlternActive@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Regretting thr instance i chose and checking for migration options.

Lemmy world is showing some weird reddit vibes when it comes to shoving admin decisions down users throats, even if they dont affect me.

I mostly use Lemmy these days, especially after my preffered third party reddit app got ported over to Lemmy. I only use reddit for a few communities, Lemmy for everything else. I also only use reddit on desktop, never on mobile.

[โ€“] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Overall, I do like it most of the time, but as of right now my biggest issue is the massive amount of downtime on Lemmy.world. How am I supposed to like it if I can't even use it?

[โ€“] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Personally I'd suggest switching servers then, you'll still get all the content anyways. I started out on lemmy.world, but moved over to kbin.social and haven't had any issues after that

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[โ€“] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With third party apps added and new niche communities its getting alot better. I'm enjoying it. Also has a high level of discussion a higher level of discussion without karma.

[โ€“] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I don't miss Reddit at all. I deleted my account over a month ago.

Voyager is just like Apollo, and it's been fun to try other apps as well. I also have accounts on kbin, Discuit, and Squabblr, but Squabblr is basically a dead platform at this point, and Discuit is yet another centralized platform so who knows if that one will last.

Lemmy's been my favorite of the bunch.

[โ€“] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming

I'm a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in 'lemmy' and get the answer to my question.

Otherwise there's just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.

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[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

It's literally just reddit for me at this point, i use mlmym.org which gives me the old reddit interface so i barely notice even the slightest difference.

If people didn't make so many posts about drama in the fediverse i would have had no clue there were any problems.

[โ€“] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, I've loved it. I recommend Alexandrite for desktop and Voyager for mobile.

I've had rich discussion within various communities, and I'm excited to see Lemmy grow, even if it takes some pitfalls and time.

[โ€“] geno@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Browsing Lemmy's front page has replaced reddit's r/all for me, usually checking top of 12 hours from all instances.

But I still use reddit for specific forums of certain things, because it's just the biggest community for the particular subject. I usually try to check if I can find the particular subject from Lemmy and check that out first though.

I'm more of a commenter/lurker and I quite rarely make new posts, but when I do make one:

  • If it's a question about something I need help with, I'll start with a Lemmy post and then possibly also make one on Reddit - more readers, more answers.
  • If it's just a shitpost/meme/"content", I only post it on Lemmy.
[โ€“] u202307011927@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I personally was in for lemmy since the beginning, actually participated a bit building the first idea for another similar idea in 2018 to the fediverse, but I didn't have the capacity to participate more.

Now, I love that people seem to enjoy Lemmy and I'm excited for its growth!

[โ€“] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm having fun. Would like to see some of the niche hobbyist coms get more visibility.

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