I like it and there's probably about as much traffic here was there was on reddit when I was started using it in the early 2010s. The design is nice and I like the federated concept although it is going to be a learning curve for some users. My particular home server is slow and down sometimes but in a way I feel its necessary to take some ownership and contribute to server improvements as we get more users if we want to sustain this.

it shows promise, but the federation leads to much confusion. In order to truly replace the likes of reddit and such, it needs to be more cohesive.

I haven't found my groove yet. There were a lot of niche communities on Reddit that I was part of (lurked). Have to rebuild that over here.

TBD, the organization seems more chaotic and seems like alot of duplication of communities of the same topic

I love it! I love the energy of everyone trying to figure out what the future will be. And it feels good to be out of this corporate dystopia that reddit has become.

I dont really like UI, its one of the things that will make me go back to Reddit

I'm a fan of it so far. It's slower paced at the moment and I feel like I can keep up with a smaller number of communities.

A bit rough on the edges and scarce in content but I'm hopeful it will improve with time.

It is like wild west here and I like it!

It's a nice fresh start. Been lurking for 7 years and plan to comment more on Lemmy.

Signed up today, liking it a lot. Looking forward to learning more about it, seems like a viable reddit alternative.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They're not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they're smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it's definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don't have to worry about that happening again!

The interface is simple and reminds me of old Reddit, which I like. There are some bugs, but that's normal. It's important for people who create communities to actually participate in them. On the mobile version, I wish there was more random stuff in my feed to find new communities easily.

It's early stages but the conversations here feel more "high effort". I think it might also be because of signup approvals which weeds out bots/low effort posters. I do feel the growth pains with the timeouts happening more often but overall content-wise it is quite nice.

Think I'm still trying to get my head around it all, such as trying to join new communities. Trying to take my time to read through guides and such, but so far it's been good!

I like it. I prefer the UI plus it's really refreshing to browse some similar communities i also browse on reddit and not seeing that many memes.

It is like wild west to me and I like it!!

I like it, but there are issues like timeouts when I try to sub/comment on some posts, but I'll take it if it means being free of corporate control

I dislike how in the app there's no functional inline image/video viewer, at least on my end (unsure if it's not working on my end or its just something everyone lives with).

I dig it but I wish there was a more compact view option for the web version.

So far good. Great that it has mobile app on google play already. It just needs little bit more activity to get more users here.

I hope there is some way to implement something like streamable/imgur/redgifs on lemmy. I don't mind if it's these services if fediverse alternatives aren't there yet.

They form the backbone of content creation, from Porn to highlight clips of sports subreddits.

I'm enjoying it more than reddit for the time being for the same reason I enjoyed reddit before it was commercialized. The slight technical barrier to entry is keeping the braindead out for now.

Kind of a catch 22 though, because you need to have some of the idiots to flesh out the population. Time will tell.

I wish the layout was more responsive. When I look at it on desktop it still looks formatted for a phone.

It's been taking like 20-30 seconds to submit a comment or post.

I've gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I'm loving this so far, there'll be things I'll miss of course.

frontend is bootstrap as fuck lol, but it does the job

I've been going back and forth between Lemmy and kBin (?). Can't decide which I prefer at this point. I like that kbin has 'tags' when I post a link. (I post a lot of links in my mod role over on reddit.)

I did most of my fediverse learning curve late last year during the twitter migration, so this was no sweat for me.

So far I miss being able to see a graphic associated with links I post--but maybe that feature will arrive one day... I'm prepared to have plenty of patience and look forward to watching how things improve.

It will be interesting to see if this migration matches the twitter adoption curve: lot's of initial excitement, then a big dropping off of participation (which may be a typical pattern of any online adoption?)

Quite frankly I'm not on the same boat as most people. Don't get me wrong, I prefer having an alternative that can at the very least push Reddit to act with more regard for its user base. At most, it can prove to be a viable alternative to Reddit.

However, again and again I see Reddit alternatives come and go and repeat the same old formula of providing just a Reddit clone with little changes to the user journey. You still have the same old structure of communities where you post content, people commenting, and curation being determined by an upvote and downvote system.

I do realize that some level of familiarity needs to be preserved for people to be jumping from Reddit to an alternative. But when a platform is so similar (in regards to UX), I see this not only as a huge missed opportunity, but also as a sentence – a lot of Reddit’s problems stem from how the site is organized, and the fact it has devolved into a bunch of politically extreme echo chambers where dissenting opinions are distolerated and everything is a race to the bottom. An upvotes/downvotes system is a surefire way to silence moderate and reasonable voices.

On top of everything, I'm not sure I'm fully buying the fediverse model, and I'm not sure Lemmy in particular has long-term viability. What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance. Add to that the uncertainty of any given instance's life expectancy, and I can definitely see why the majority of people would be hesitant to give Lemmy a try. Nevertheless, it seems the Fediverse is still in its period of early adoption, and thus I don't expect it to be popular with the average Joe. It's still not September 1993.

That said, I am giving Lemmy its fair chance. Ironically, this is my first comment on here, but I definitely don't intend it to be my last. I even created an ADHD community here for serious ADHD discussions at Lemmy.world which I plan on promoting, especially since I've never been a fan of how partisan and immature r/ADHD has been (no real antagonization, just not my place). So I am also looking at Lemmy and Lemmy.world in particular as a new opportunity.

And even if it doesn't pan out, I definitely plan on spending much less time on Reddit. I already spent a lot of time these past few days unsubscribing from communities that didn't go dark not out of spite, but because I realized many of them added little value to my life and just provided an endless stream of useless or irrelevant “content”.

It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.

Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.