Fediverse

I stopped using my lemmy instance for the most part and moved back to my lotide instance.

There was some sort of bad upgrade that killed my lemmy instance, and when I got back incoming federation was ok but outgoing wasn't.

Discovered that I need to rate limit federation or it pwns both lemmy and lotide.

I unsubbed from a lot of communities that seemed like they couldn't help from constantly bringing politics into stuff, leaving my feed a lot quieter. I'm sure you hate candidate X, but this is a knitting community...

There is more interaction, but also a lot more crazy far-right assholes the past few weeks at least (in my experience).

It seems to be more active than the first time that I made a lemmy account. I'm looking forward to some of my favored subreddits making the switch.

I'm new to Lemmy, migrated here as of June 30. So since then I've been learning where to avoid reading comments. Basically just stop reading if I see enough toxicity.

But overall I like Lemmy, it still give me decent news to keep me somewhat up to date like reddit used to.

I joined during the great exodus and it's gotten better since then. At the time it felt like Lemmy's content was only consistently better than reddit at its worst, but that's not a high bar. I'm not sure how people have found it worse since most communities are still empty husks with like one post a week.

So far better, more people actually chat, and Lemmy.world goes down less

Well....it exists, now.

It's gotten better for me, since the mobile apps available have gotten better. Initially I was using the website on mobile which felt clunky and filtering options aren't great. But now with apps like Connect I'm able to curate instances and communities I see more easily, so it's a more focused experienced than the default I had before. Apps really do make a difference. If these type of apps had been more mature in the beginning it would have helped initial adoption and retention.

Recently links have started working in-app instead of sending me out to access lemmy through firefox. But it is still next to impossible to link someone else to a place, you need to know a lot of new stuff.

Not that I would want to. There is still very little interesting content, it is almost all yank-oriented, with occasional input from Europeans. The euro input is nice, but doesn't relate much to Oz, it's more relatable than the stuff made and commented on by Americans, that's all.

It's fun, but like looking through a window at someone elses social area. It isn't homelike by a longshot. And if I ever mention this, all the yanks stacks-on by calling me a c**t, which is actually rude to someone you don't have a long term positive relationship with of a very specific agegroup, and causes me to leave their community because it was rude.

All in all, not really bothered if Lemmy doesn't succeed, but hopeful it might evolve one day.

Why can't I downvote!?