Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Eh, it scratches the itch. I don’t touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.
So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).
This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.
I find I tend to get more replies here.
I’m struggling to find niche communities but overall the comments are more human and not just saying what everyone wants to hear for Internet points. I still plan on hosting my own instance soon and I’m excited for that. I do find it annoying as well when I sort by new and it’s just thousands of repost from reddit.
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Are you planning on some specific communities or “just” a server for anyone to join and use?
Just a server for my friends and I to use
I’m just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.
Other than that… I’d argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that’s great.
Lemmy is great. Altho now it’s full of Linus apologists so it sucks atm. Also Memmy is fantastic!
I mean it beats Reddit’s full time coverage of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
weird that you say that when 95% of what I’ve seen has been very critical of Linus
Where’s the fucking porn?
I’ve only been active on Hexbear really since the cth sub got banned and we built that space, but I really like how federation has gone and the influx of new slop and occasional lost libs/chuds.
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as “slop”.
Is ‘slop’ from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
“If I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” — liberals
(I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that ‘slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)
Haven’t been back to Reddit. It’s going great. Mostly I am relieved I don’t have to see that fucking Jesus ad anymore.
Just to let you know, your ipv6 address for lemmy.catasaur.xyz is misconfigured, pointing to a local address (fe80). I couldn’t send you a dm, maybe because your ipv6 addr is misconfigured, so replying to a random comment.
I too have recently quit reddit. It was getting hard enough to put up with even without seeing the ads.
Oops, thank you for the heads up!
I’d like to see more human posts than just meme posting and news.
Yeah, I’d love to have my niche communities back as well
Same here, so I started an “art” server. We’ll see how it fares.
Care to share?
Check it out here: lemmy.mindoki.com
Small but I’m still proud :-)
It depends. I’m on two instances, sopuli and beehaw. Both of them are really welcoming and cool, and I can interact with people without worrying about being bullied or harassed or attacked by random trolls just because they don’t like what I say (and trust me, suffering those actions while being neurodivergent is way worse than suffering those actions while being neurotypical).
But I think that more than 70% of the content I see comes from one single instance. Excluding beehaw (they defederated that other instance, and I agree with that), I think that sopuli also has similar communities that are like abandoned or with low amount of content. That’s something I don’t like.
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I think it’s fine but I admit I don’t think it’s very fun with one centralized Lemmy instance. Feels like reddit all over again. The idealist in me wanted a distributed network instead, with popular communities spread out across hundreds of instances run by volunteers.
But on the plus side, we can talk without corps being involved and that’s really, really nice. I don’t even use any big tech sites anymore except github.
Not very good. Many communities are just too small for any meaningful stuff, the UI is ugly, the software’s buggy, and Lemmy (and tbh, the whole Fediverse) sometimes feels like a political echo chamber, only favoring a certain side.
The only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming
I’m a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in ‘lemmy’ and get the answer to my question.
Otherwise there’s just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.
If you create a web dev and indie games communities I will join and answer all your questions.
That’s very kind, but I doubt I would be able to moderate should it become even remotely popular.
