• moosh@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’m liking it! Scratches the same itch that Reddit did. Content doesn’t roll in as quickly from my subscriptions as it did on Reddit but I guess I’m into some niche-ish things and it’ll pick up steam eventually(?).

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.

    It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.

    As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.

    I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.

  • riyria@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It’s okay. I was optimistic at first, but I don’t think this platform is cohesive enough yet to be worth using consistently, especially with instances defederating from each other off and on. It means you have to have multiple accounts to access certain communities, and then kbin is a whole other thing I guess? Because I can’t log into kbin from wefwef so I can’t even access the stuff posted there.

    Honestly the reason I’m even still continuing to even open lemmy other than to check its growth is because of how nice wefwef is.

    Also, like other people have said, the jerking each other off about leaving Reddit has gotten unappealing. There’s only so much self congratulation I can take.

  • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Well, let’s do a pros vs cons

    Pros:

    • I wasn’t banned for saying Putin should die after he invaded a country
    • It’s a decent time killer
    • It’s growing
    • Idk I just like it

    Cons:

    • /c/NCD and some other instances are too small and not even close to their counterparts levels
    • Jerboa for Lemmy has not been behaving too well for me
    • It’s still fairly small and new so communities need to consolidate still

    Overall I like it better than reddit tho.

  • doctor_han@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Not as many things to mindlessly scroll by, but I’m liking the new community vibe so far!

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    2 years ago

    I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.

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      2 years ago

      I think the content level has gotten better even in the past few days.

      I predict at ~200,000 users, there will be a good enough flow of posts and comments that it won’t feel as empty compared to Reddit.

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    2 years ago

    So far it seems like Reddit but with a lot less content. I’m assuming that’s primarily a popularity problem.

  • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Been here for a month, I’ve noticed that my anxiety levels have dropped significantly. I think it’s because I am not an American and on Reddit I didn’t realize how much American politics I was consuming just reading comments. Here I just haven’t subscribed to American focused subs. It’s nice.

  • 098qwelkjzxc@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy reminds me of why I even liked Reddit in the first place. Honestly, it makes me worry how it’ll change if it grows. Because the downfall of Reddit for me wasn’t really the API changes, or Spez, or the crappy new features, it was just more people flowing in, all desensitised jokers hungry for attention. For now, I’m liking it, though! And now I know there’s other places I can go if a billion-dollar corporation kills the Fediverse :)

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    2 years ago

    I wish I knew of a big instance on the NA west coast, so I could be closer to it. If I understand correctly, I’d still be able to access & comment on lemmy.world stuff, as well as other instances that are federated.

  • kthxbye_reddit@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    There are less people, but I enjoy it a lot. I more and more seldomly look into Reddit these days. I‘m much more active here, hoping that more and more users step over…

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    2 years ago

    I like it. Unlike a lot of comments I see, I don’t want hordes of people to come here from Reddit - I prefer to keep it smaller. Yes, it sucks that super niche communities are hard to get without tens of millions of people, but the drop in overall quality isn’t worth it.

  • Spaht@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    It is a little difficult to find communities if they are not on your specific server and the apps are not quite there yet, but it is promising and I am happily getting settled in.