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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

High quality content makes my scrolling more enjoyable and less depressing.

BUT vastly smaller community means it's harder to get questions answered. Reddit was my goto for all kinds of things that I have now turned to ChatGPT for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never used twitter, so i had no expectations when I used Mastodon.

I was a little hesitant with Lemmy since I use reddit so much. I'm liking it way more than I thought!

It's obviously less content, but as far ss my day-to-day use, i don't miss much. Hardest part was finding different communities to sub to, but there are enough directory sites around to help out with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It has less content, but enough for me to scratch that itch, and it's not necessarily a bad thing that it's not an infinite stream of addiction. There's definitely an onboarding and discovery problem, but I think it's a solvable problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm loving hanging out with y'all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I like it here. I've started to migrate mid-June and I got involved way more than in 5y of reddit. I'm definitely not looking back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I love it and created my own instance!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It definitely feels emptier, but I imagine that with time that will change. Still, I don't mind it, because that means that people here are generally more active.

I still miss some subs, but I know those will also come with time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

For now it feels like a nicotine patch, but in a good way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Really miss Sync, but am living well enough with Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released.

I really love it. Even though I miss a few subreddits, Lemmy feels much like early Reddit, and it scratches an itch I've felt for many years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I like it as a social media and news source (maybe better than a social media tbh) but looks like I was using Reddit wrong before because I can count the times I surfed around r/all so I never was one of the more trendy guys (or what Reddit wants to be), I spent most of my time there in retro gaming communities, homelab, selfhosting, data hoarding, networking and alike, so in a nutshell more niche fields and sadly not all of those are highly active here (although the selfhost community and alike is! Who would have guessed haha).

It will take time to fill all the needs for the different users, but I really think this can evolve in a better place, and the new Meta app will bring more people to the Fediverse, for the better or the worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I’m really enjoying it and feel like it’s easier to reply here than in Reddit. I love seeing how fast it’s growing as well. People also seem nicer here - it feels less toxic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just found out how to add more…instances? I want to call them subreddits but that’s not it lol but I like it, and so far I’ve curated enough for it to keep me interested while scrolling. I do understand that everyone is still getting their footing, I definitely am, so it won’t be perfect or exactly what I want. You really gotta take time to discover and explore the feddiverse, it seems quite big.

I think if we want this space to be a great reddit alt, we gotta put the effort in making it so!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Made my account yesterday. I'd never heard of Lemmy so I decided to check it out. So far, it translated pretty well to what I was used to with reddit but it feels a lot like reddit did 12 years ago which is great. Also, there's NSFW posts on my feed! As soon as I saw that, I signed up so fast.

I don't know what the process is to create a community, but I have a few I want to try and bring to the table that may hopefully attract some quality users from subreddits i frequented. Audio production, magic the gathering, thunder basketball, etc.

Also, each and every comment I read from lemmy users feels...genuine? Like everyone has something to add instead of the same stale "this" comments. Overall, it's been great getting to know this website!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

With the improvements Ruud and team put into Lemmy.World, my experience has gotten infinitely better. Lemmy is completely satisfying my Reddit addiction, and Memmy is an incredible app to navigate it all.

Overall, I’m really happy I made the switch. Had a 12 year run on Reddit, but Lemmy proves that Spez is wrong about where the value lies. If the content is water, there are dozens of ways to move it to different places, and right now Reddit looks like a leaky bucket in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.

It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I like it very much! Everything comes naturally into place for me, I've had no issues adapting as of today. Already feels like home, and it's really nice to be here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Getting better as more people are on onboarded

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that I come across the same posts more frequently on my front page here than on Reddit. Perhaps it would be solved as the userbase continues to grow. Other than that, I have no complaints. This platform is a perfect substitute for Reddit, if not better.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know how it works, I don't know what I'm doing and I'm loving it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's a bunch of people chopping it up. I'm a fan. Mostly cause it's not apart of any economic system probly.

I prefer the smallish community size over the vast sea of opinion that is reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

i found it challenging to understand how to subscribe to communities across instances until i discovered the Home icon in the top right of lemmiverse.net. i wish there was a quick 'subscribe' button there that would help you build up your subscriptions fast.

generally, i feel good about it. waiting for a few communities i really enjoyed to pop up- watchexchange and watches are big ones imo.

glad to see two huge F1 communities though!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I like it a lot, but I do miss the multi-reddit feature, several communties in one feed. But so far, so good!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's weird, a little quirky, and can be a unpredictable at times. It all adds to charm though and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not sure yet. Still getting the hang of it. I'll give a few more days/weeks but I thin the promise is there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

r/NCD and various firearms related subreddits are all I miss from reddit.

Think it would be cool to start an instance dedicated to firearms where there's a general community and separate smaller communities dedicated to certain popular platforms or topics like r/longrange or r/ak47. If I take it upon myself to start this I'd try to keep it apolitical other than maybe a community dedicated to gun rights/control/policy discussion only.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)

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