I’ve had a great time here. The people on the various communities I’ve joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven’t encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.
I’ve had really cool conversations and I haven’t been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.
What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.
People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.
I’m excited to see your experience as well?
I’m really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D
Love it! It’s like food truck version of reddit. The apps are now right next to each other on my phone
What app are you guys using on Android? Jerboa?
I use them all, but have settled into Thunder
Yep, jerboa gets better with every update, but it feels kind of janky overall.
Thunder is working well for me. oh this post is OLD woops
I feel like I’m in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.
Digging it… Finally took the plunge, joined, and started learning how this all works just a little while ago and it’s definitely familiar and feels like the right replacement.
I’m also convinced after what little time I’ve been here that it’s going to grow like crazy sooner or later.
Lemmy itself seems fine reading wise. The main issues I have with it are that the communities are spread to thin with everyone making their own niche communities that have little to no activity and thousands of 0 comment posts. Wouldnt be that bad except the sort options for lemmy seem to not work that great and I dont want to spend the time curating from an every changing list of communities just to propagate my feed… because at this point it seems like a waste with servers federating and unfederating. The 3 main servers I tried sofar have been unfederated from the largest gaming community of lemmy which makes them almost useless to me.
Lemmy still needs a lot of work to be a good replacement for reddit. Better sorting options would go a long way and maybe allowing each server to have a “home page” that lists their own curated and popular communities as a home page.
I’m still browsing and learning how lemmy works. So far I’m quite happy. Reminds me of the old days lol But just figuring out how to find interests and such when I have a min, reading things that interest me. The breath of fresh air from Reddit has been amazing honestly. Didn’t realize how toxic it was until I came here
I was shocked that you could talk openly about Piracy and other naughty things. Jerboa has been a bit hit or miss and I am still at a loss on how to join another server’s community from thier New Community announcement thread.
It seems a lot quieter. But in a nice way. Like, city centre shopping vs village store.
People seem a bit nicer.
And, there’s a greater sense of optimism here. About everything.
So far so good! It’s been cool to see activity slowly pick up over the last few days
I’m on iOS beta testing the Mlem app and that’s already improved a lot over the last few days, too.
I’m really optimistic about Lemmy, it feels like cool things are happening here!
Just joined, and I’m curious to see how it compares. I’m still trying to figure out how to add the equivalent of subrexxits (communities?) to my stream here. Wondering if there seems to be a void, should I just create one, add some stuff, and wait for those that are more knowledgeable/active to come and play? Kind of an “if you build it they will come” kind of thing?
I’ve always primarily lurked on reddit. I don’t usually say anything unless I have something to add and by the time a post makes it to the front page who is going to see it anyway? So I’m trying to participate more which is new for me. Besides that I’ve had a little trouble with jerboa but I’m chocking that up to growing pains. But so far so good and I’m looking forward to watching lemmy and lemm.ee grow and thrive.
Same here, mostly lurked and looked for any interesting topics. Every now and again would catch a debate gone sour and would read it out of curiosity. Never really cared to accumulate karma, didn’t care. Joined reddit years ago when it was simpler and I enjoyed it more. Now its more, karma focused and seeking approval from the mods/masses. I’m glad I left, happy here now.
I like it but for some reason it won’t let me create a community but other than that it already better than reddit, no karma farming, bots, or only fans
I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I’m in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I’m excited to see where this goes
Agreed! I wish an app could’ve just forced me to join a general instance.
We need a Harry Potter sitting hat type deal
“okay… mhhmm… you’ll fit well in… lemmynsfw.com”
The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I’m afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service… But it’s a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.
It could be argued that some of the best content creators of Reddit have left, or are considering leaving out of disgust due to disrespect from the admins. If Reddit alternatives prove to have quality over quantity, Reddit might continue hemorraging users, and the ones that stay will be folks that appreciate dopamine-heavy content from TikTok.
They won’t recover, because Reddit is going to get only worse. There was an NBCnews interview with Huffman, where he more or less let it slip that the next big step is trying to monetize subreddits. People will eventually migrate to the fediverse because Reddit is going to gut very core of what makes Reddit Reddit. Of course Reddit won’t magically disappear but it will slowly drift towards irrelevancy as it transforms into something else.
I’m loving my experience here, it really feels like I’m a part of something special that’s happening.
I’ve not found anyone to be unhelpful, it’s a really great community & I’m so greatful to be a part of it!
Thanks to everyone for making this place amazing!
I’m glad you’re having a good time! This place does feel different doesn’t it? In a good way.
no karmafarmers, no onlyfans bots, no spez making trashy decisions powermods may still exist but i haven’t seen one yet
