I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
I think the content level has gotten better even in the past few days.
I predict at ~200,000 users, there will be a good enough flow of posts and comments that it won’t feel as empty compared to Reddit.
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
Ok so far. Missing some subs that i was active on at Reddit, but maybe they will show up eventually.
Only thing i don’t realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is, when it is all going to show up everywhere else anyways. I go to Lemmy and i get kbin and mastodon post, i go to kbin and i get lemmy posts…
Only thing i don’t realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is
You can think of them like different email clients. Sure, different email clients all send and receive the same messages via IMAP / POP / SMTP, but they offer different user experiences. Some users might prefer Thunderbird, others Outlook, etc.
Same thing with Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon. They all post content via ActivityPub, but some users might prefer the microblogging experience of Mastodon, or the UI of Lemmy or Kbin. I am sure other projects will come along too if the Fediverse takes off that caters to other users’ needs.
Now no one has full control over everything and fucks it all up like reddit
Ditto here. I’m using wefwef as the front-end on my iPhone (it’s a decent PWA Apollo clone for Lemmy - very well polished!).
It reminds me a lot of the early days of reddit when it was just the tech bros, those niche subs will fill in as the user base grows
I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
My impression of lemmy changed a lot once I’ve read this updated from the lemmy devs from less than a month ago. TL;DR: Lemmy was developed by just two people and with reddit self-destructing everyone jumped to it, and lemmy wasn’t really ready for that.
With that info I’m now all the more impressed that lemmy is working as well as it currently is and not crashing every few minutes!
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Nice overall but still a bit silent here and there.
But I actually have more motivation to interact here than I ever had on Reddit.
With it being a little quieter it’s so much more calmer feeling
GOTTA BRING UP THAT INTENSITY LEVEL! THIS AIN’T NO YOGA CLASS! GO ARGUE WITH SOMEONE! CONTENT GAINZ! 💪😁
Wait: That’s Meta Threads. Never mind.
Commenting in Reddit felt very claustrophobic in a way. And saturated. Kind of sad, also, if you were some days late to some nice topic, and get buried under thousands and thousands of comments made prior yours, and have zero interactions at that point from anyone, even if you asked a very relevant question or whatever.
But I suspect Lemmy will get to that point too. Right now, though, it’s light enough to actually warrant wasting energy writing anything as a response to anything.
Part of the reason you got no interaction is half your comments were shadowbanned by automod because it contained a random word and you had no idea. Most mods keep their automod config private so you don’t know which benign words are banned. For example, I found out the word “snowflake” was banned in a specific subreddit where literal snow was frequently part of the discussion. I had a browser plugin called reveddit-realtime that would tell you when comments got shadow banned.
Reddit is a farce.
From my PoV:
- The activity around memes, image sharing, memes, shitposting, memes, memes, and memes have not felt too different from Reddit, but unsurprising as it’s very easy to consume content
- The typical communities that have coalesced in a grassroots fashion are thriving well as long as one can accept there’s a lot of duplicate threads (like the Twitter related stuff in technology communities). Some communities are populated by Reddit content porting bots and these feel so barren because it’s a wall of submissions with a small number of comments each and the bot owners have no visible intent to stop.
- Niche communities are incredibly quiet. That’s understandable but also unfortunate, more so if it is a niche community that did not move over.
Things will hopefully get better with time.
Completely agree.
One thing I’ve noticed I always do, is I’ll play a game, then hop on the subreddit for that game once I can no longer be spoiled. It’s nice to have a community with years of content and information waiting for you.
But the communities are gradually being formed here too, literally before our eyes. Someone just made a dragon’s dogma community like an hour ago for example. I’m happy to give them time to grow, and to help them along myself.
But hopefully communities everywhere will increasingly recognize the importance of having well organized, dedicated wikis, rather than trying to stuff everything into an existing forum community or into a Discord.
Discord is by far the worst place for a community to retreat to because it’s resources and discussions are impossible to find through cursory searching and I’m so sick of adding to my list of Discord servers just to get information that belongs on a Pastebin or Github readme.
In many ways though, Lemmy has grown into something that is active much faster than so many other kinds of social media platforms. Does anyone remember Disapora or Google+ being the next Facebook or Facebook replacement? What about Wit social? Most definitely do not.
Fucking loving it, bringing back the early internet nostalgia
Never really posted before Lemmy and feel the need to express how much I enjoy this platform
Since I switched to Connect for Lemmy, I’m really liking it. I found Jerboa to be a bit unintuitive, which is a reminder of how much a third-party app can mean for the enjoyment of a platform and why people have so strong feelings about their Reddit app of choice that they’re willing to leave the platform if that app doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know if I’d have kept trying to get into Lemmy if I hadn’t found Connect.
Good to know I was doing jerboa but will try this app as well.
Yeah, give it a go! There are a couple of other apps for Lemmy already and a couple of others in development( I think the Reddit apps Boost and Sync are coming to Lemmy soon) so if Connect doesn’t fulfill your needs, maybe one of the other ones will.
It’s honestly confusing, seems janky, and I don’t understand how the post aggregation works at all (I want my “front page of /r/all” equivalent). However, it’s all better than continuing to support Reddit. Digg–>Reddit–>Lemmy–>???.
I’m using the jerboa app and it lets me browse by all.
The front page of r/all equivalent is by selecting all rather than local and subscribed? I am not sure what you are missing. It doesn’t aggregate it to its own page but it is effectively the same thing.
I’m selecting all and sorting by hot, which is the closest I can come to, but there’s so little activity compared to Reddit’s algorithm. Here’s to hoping for more activity!
I was never a hardcore Reddit user, just a casual scroller, and I have to say, with the Connect android app and after subscribing to a few communities, my experience has largely been the same. It’ll be better when/if more people migrate over I feel like, but in terms of the actual experience, it’s already slightly improved from Reddit.
Other than the occasional bugs, but anything getting stress tested is going to experience growing pains, and it’s kind of charming. Like, new mmo launch charming. :D
Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I’m in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there’s more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.
I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?
The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.
I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.
Have you been contributing and participating in some of the content discussions in the Fediverse? I found that I was a consumer and just came to Reddit to read stuff. But with Lemmy I’m far more interactive.
Cool idea on having a public board, similar to the modlog. Perhaps that idea should be suggested to the Lemmy devs if it is important to you: LemmyNet Issues board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/
While I’m not sure about the information for your instance, lemmy.ca, I’m with lemmy.world for now. Lemmy.world is hosted by the same people who run mastodon.world.
Lemmy.world posts a blog update that outlines their hardware and financial costs.
“The current VPS couldn’t be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server.”
“May / Expenses / Mail: EUR 32,52 / Hetzner (server etc): EUR 424,34 / Storage: EUR 75,69”
- Mastodon.world Blog (https://blog.mastodon.world/)
- April and May 2023 - Financial update (https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update)
- Welcome Lemmy.world! (https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world)>
Loving it. Reminds me of the olden days of Reddit where the communities were smaller but everyone was contributing more.
The bugs and the issues help sell the fact that it’s a smaller community so even those don’t bother me so much.
I’m trying to like Lemmy, but too small of a community, therefore, not enough activities.
A lot of my favorite subs aren’t here.
Signing up for non tech savvy ppl is a complete disaster. Took me more than. 30-45 minutes of reading to get to signup. Most of the top Instances are closed for registration. Even if those that are open would take hours to confirm our signup.
Oh, if you go on Google, search Lemmy, it is on the top list. Even the related article is a Wiki. Lemmy needs to be less complicated, as in, everyone go sign in and get on it.
I’m loving it, here is my slogan. “When life gives you lemons, make Lemmy-ade”
It’s a bit of a mixed bag. I do enjoy Lemmy. I think that the conversations that take place here are interesting (though many now revolve around Reddit in one way or another). I don’t really find the front page to be as good as Reddit’s.
And then, of course, I think the most important difference is that Lemmy draws a specific type of person, even after the Reddit migration, and there aren’t as many of us as there are average Internet users. I’m not saying Lemmings are a special breed; rather, I’m saying that we’re the sort of people who might have used Usenet at its peak. We’re the sort who might be Linux users. Many of us are morally aligned with open source technology and the ethics thereof. This makes the discussions a little less diverse on Lemmy than they are on Reddit (which can be good and bad, depending on the sort of conversation).
The servers (instances) aspect and different communities (forums on topics) on different servers and servers blocking others, is a mess if I’m being honest. It’s the biggest flaw. I still find it hard to find communities of topics I want…
Maybe freedom isn’t for you. They say you can’t unplug from the matrix after a certain age.
I think my main problem with the fediverse in general is that if I click a link to something on a different instance from an external site, I can’t instantly interact with it on my account (subscribe, vote, comment etc). I have to go back to the instance my account is on, then search for that post and hope that the fediverse has connected those two servers, then hope I’m actually able to find it, then I can interact with it. This could probably be best mitigated by some sort of solution like an app or browser extension that does those steps automatically.
