[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

I’m doing just fine 💙 need to get out on the water though…

It'll be nice if more and more migrate over.

There's something amusing about opening up what's almost a Reddit clone a day after and seeing content and subs that would have been exactly like it was on Reddit here instead.

As long as momentum continues, we may see more and more leaving Reddit for what's nearly the same thing with a lot less BS.

I just hope Lemmy servers and infrastructure can handle the growing popularity, especially once there's popular native clients that switch from Reddit to it.

Would be very happy if spez ends up having killed his own platform in future retrospection though.

I uninstalled sync when Reddit committed suicide. Using connect now and it's pretty good. Slowly building things back up and communities are coming to life. I don't think Reddit will ever recover.

I've mostly lurked so far, but I was compelled to create an account after seeing how much responses on assorted lemmy communities remind me of the old phpbb days. Significantly more cordial and well thought out than the average reddit/twitter/what have ye replies. I'm pretty optimistic about the fediverse now that I've experienced it despite initially not thinking much of it; it seems to combine the best elements of web 1.0 and 2.0.

Enjoy the fediverse !

Checking in at 2 weeks without Reddit, and I'm so happy that this forcing function got me to discover Lemmy and the fediverse. I enjoy it so much more, I'm browsing multiple instances and it feels like the days I discovered Reddit.

As for apps, just FYI Lemmy and KBin are progressive web apps so you can click "add to home screen" and get an app for free, I've been using it that way exclusively so far and it works well enough for me.

So glad I had the push to get off reddit, so nice here, and its always nice to start over with a fresh slate, hopefully I will be here for another 7 years

I think I need to redirect reddit.com in my DNS to lemmy.world, because my muscle memory always brings me back to reddit

Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable

I am finding myself absentmindedly clicking my Apollo icon every hour. I’m happy to say screw Reddit for years and years of bucking user preferences and accessible 3rd party apps, but this is definitely an unfortunate transition to leave behind all the many years of content and critical mass of activity Reddit has. I’m still having to use the browser version to access subreddits related to school admissions stuff because there’s extremely valuable content I just can’t get elsewhere yet.

I just hope something pushes another big wave of users off of the platform soon and keeps the momentum going. Knowing Reddit admins it’s only a matter of time.

So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn't a big fan (and couldn't work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

But Boost is coming out at some point! I'm really looking forward to it!! <3

So far I'm doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it's early days so I'm patient :-)

I could never even get into Reddit. I couldn't post because I didn't have karma so it was useless to me.

I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.

But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.

It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.

Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”

I'm loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!

I like Summit best of the three apps I've tried (Lemmy and Thunder being the other two). It's a pretty bare bones layout and style of navigation, which I prefer.

As for missing reddit, well... it seems like most of the community spirit/attitude was slipping away following the API changes. I'm hoping to find it again here and I like what I see so far!

Edit: yeah no, wefwef blows the rest out of the water, fr

I never used any Reddit app other than the official one but I wanted to check out Lemmy as an alternative and I’ve gotta say, I’m liking it a lot so far! I’m on wefwef as well and it’s a pretty good experience. I’ll probably start contributing to some of the communities I’m interested in to help them grow and hopefully the growth continues across the platform!

I’m also looking into hosting my own instance, I might work on getting that set up in the next couple weeks.

Only issue I’ve seen is that it’s been a little slow here and there, but I understand that it’s in the growing pains stage so I’m not too worried.

Not bad, feels a little bit like going on a reddit detox, the slower speed of the different communities is kind of nice.