I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁
I guess yes, it can be kind of biased indeed ^^ but interesting to hear your opinions anyway
while it's a nice echo chamber, its still and echo chamber lol
Yah unfortunately it feels like its even more of one than reddit is/was
But I still plan on sticking it out here since reddit was kinda an addiction of mine that I'm glad to have broken
Like it so far, not looking for anything else.
I think it's an excellent reddit replacement and it gets better every time i check. More and more people posting. I am also using Mastodon. I am all for the fediverse tbh. I don't want my data to be collected by one large corporation anymore.
I won't let something as important as my favorite communities to fall in corporate greed.
I don't know where else to go.
The best thing about reddit for me was an endless stream of information and news propped up by user discussion. I rarely just scrolled endlessly through posts; I loved delving into comments on posts which didn't even interest me at face value to see what I could learn from niche communities.
It was, hands down, the best, most information dense landscape I've ever seen and frankly I feel a little lost without it. I hope that some day, some where I can find something similar.
Unless something happens, I'm sticking with Lemmy. As for interface and everything, I liked kbin more initially, but I feel like Lemmy development is moving much faster, plus all the third-party development at the moment. As I've said in the past, I'm going where the people are. And right now, that's mostly Lemmy - and since it can federate with kbin, picking between the two is kind of a moot point ...at least for now.
Since you have more experience with it, could you elaborate on what the real difference between kbin and lemmy is in your opinion? I keep hearing that kbin can interact with Lemmy and Mastadon, so it sounds like its just "better", but I feel like thats gotta be a very oversimplified understanding.
Mastodon can interact with Lemmy as well as far as posting and commenting. On a basic level, kbin offers microblogging (your Mastodon-style posting) and a more sleek interface. The visual polish is a little better on kbin, in my opinion. Right now, I'd say the biggest thing is that kbin development is slower, so new feature rollouts are slower than Lemmy at the moment as Ernest works to make sure everything is stable as kbin grows. The API might be available now for third-party development of apps, but for a few weeks there, it wasn't, whereas that started almost immediately on Lemmy with API availability. But with Artemis for kbin in beta, it sounds like that might have changed. Otherwise, though different, Lemmy and kbin are both based on ActivityPub, hence why you can interact interchangeably with communities, users, voting, and so on. And maybe worth mentioning, kbin allowed community creation earlier than a lot of Lemmy instances, though that did change quickly.
I think it just depends on what you're looking for - a polished experience with interesting features (kbin) or more cutting-edge feature rollouts and updates more frequently (Lemmy). Of course, I don't know what the future holds for either platform, so that might change if Ernest gets more of a team on board.
Basically same experience. Kbin seems interesting, and I’m in the Artemis beta which helps with browsing there. But Lemmy is just advancing at a way faster pace.
Once I got Memmy it was done. It’s everything I wanted without all the extra bullshit.
Memmy only exists for ios right? I have android and i use jerboa. It's great, but sometimes a bit buggy
There's a bunch of Lemmy apps for android kike Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Lemming, Thunder, and Jerboa itself. Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy are on their way too.
I don’t know if it would be as appealing coming from Android, but I’m an Apollo refugee and I’m enjoying wefwef because it indulges my muscle memory. It’s a progressive web app you can try out without needing to install anything.
In theory Memmy should work on Android since it’s written in React Native.
Memmy is as good as Apollo I’m sure if it.
It has the potential, sure. But you can’t really compare an app that got years of development to one that was developed in such a short time as Memmy.
Well, true. I may have gotten here though Reddit. But now I'm taken aback by what's happening here.
I mean, the whole thing is open, FOSS developed, decentralized, being everywhere and at the same time nowhere? Call me crazy, but this in itself is awesome!
On top of that, I was greeted here by a community of communities where people are kind, helpful, full of beautiful and interesting insights.
So why would I be thinking of going somewhere else? I've posted more comments here in the past weeks than in the last ten years on Reddit. And I've done that because I'm genuinely excited with this setting.
So no, I'm not joining the herd moving to greener pastures. This field is green enough for me.
This is my permanent go to. Community already seems great and I hope it gains more traction. The main difference with the change from Reddit is I've gone from lurker to trying to be more engaged and posting.
To be honest though, some of the communities I frequent to in reddit do not have their counterparts here. If they do, they aren't active. Best example is AskHistorians. They have a Lemmy here but it's basically dead. Which is why I still go to reddit. Fingers crossed that majority of subreddit communities will relocate to here so the community will thrive.
Nothing wrong with lurking but you're helping get content out there to make it stick so that's good!
Amen to that
So far it replaced my casual Reddit browsing when I'm bored. But when I want to look at some specific stuff I still need to go to reddit but it's just to get some information and not really to engage with the community.
It seems the the majority agree with you on this hence the up votes but I'm just gonna come out of and say something cuz I'm trying to stop being a lurker. Agreed.
It's going to be a very slow progression for anything federated to take the lead with specific stuff. reddit just has the knowledge at this point.
Hopefully that knowledge will eventually carry over over to the fediverse. Untill then, I'm gonna need reddit in small doses.
Yeah this is the reality. We don't need to be so tribal about it.
For example I despise facebook, but occasionally I log in there to sell some junk.
Reddit has been on the nose generally for a long time, but some of the smaller subs were / are great communities.
I went as far as deleting my entire reddit post and comment history, and then I deleted my reddit account.
And it's funny because I've already spent more time on Lemmy than I ever did in 6 years on Reddit. Something about it just sucks you in.
I really like it. The community is also really cool. More like a small town feel than a huge city like reddit. I hope I don't have to move anytime soon.
So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.
I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.
The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.
I don't think it's a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.
So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.
I'm curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.
Up until just 2 days ago, searching Lemmy on the iOS App Store returned no results. Now there’s Memmy and more apps on the way. That will make a huge difference for casual users who hear about Lemmy but wouldn’t bother trying to figure it out before jumping in. I can’t predict what will cause more waves, but a steady stream of new users seems likely.
People have been really vocal about their desire to group communities. Whether that happens on the communities’ end or on the user’s end via apps (like Multi-Reddits), or both, I’m confident it’ll happen eventually. I feel like either of those are a better solution than encouraging communities to consolidate, personally. Embrace the beauty and quirks of decentralization.
It’s exciting to see all the growth and improvements happening so quickly. The sky’s the limit for Lemmy.
I am honestly not sure why it seems to bug people so much to have multiple communities, but I’ve seen this brought up a bunch.
It existed on Reddit too, they just weren’t the exact names so it wasn’t as obvious.
If there are two communities for the topic you’re interested in, join them both! There’s no reason not to.
I think you have to look at it from the point of view of people who are less technically skilled. The hurdle of Lemmy versus Reddit is greater anyway because the structure is more unfamiliar and complex.
And as a "new" platform you also have a chicken-and-egg situation that you have to overcome.
Imagine you don't know Reddit and someone sends you a link to a subreddit for a topic that interests you. You see many members and a lively exchange. This makes it interesting and you subscribe/follow it and in the best case participate.
Now imagine someone sends you a link to a Lemmy community for a topic that interests you. Since the userbase is already much smaller, there will be much less going on there. If you now also splitting things up, it will look even less alive than its really is. And that makes it less attractive for most people and they leave.
If you had one big community instead of many smaller ones for a topic, the chance of faster growth would be higher.
As I said, always from the perspective of someone who is not clear about the concept and may not see that there is actually a much larger number of users for the topic.
I can understand why you like the concept, I'm not saying it's bad in principle. But in my option the most important thing for Lemmy is to quickly become attractive for a large number of people.
And since most users would rather join an already alive platform than build something from scratch, the last thing you want is to make things look smaller/less alive than they are.
Interesting indeed. I already saw some of this coming up over [email protected] which has been locked in order to send their userbase to another instance. So yeah, interesting indeed.
edit: grammar
I also miss the change to list all post under a community (e.g. "technology") regardless of where it is. I have multiple accounts, which works as a safety insurance against slow severs. However, I find it a pain being unable to group similar communities under the same umbrella. Hope such functionality is implemented at some point.
Its just a matter of time for the apps to start having a feature to link together communities with the same name for easy subscribe/block.
There was a dev who said they were working on this but the app was still in early acces. I think the app was Nemmy
yes :3
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
In my opinion, the only viable way to go for social networks like this is to be decentralized and run by the people. Anyone who is jumping on one of the corporate run Reddit alternatives is just delaying the deadline a bit. Eventually, Profit motives will turn those to shit as well. To me, federated services are the future.
Also, because it’s slightly harder to use than normal sites, the boomer nazis haven’t overrun Lemmy yet, so currently it just feels really great.
Lemmy is the only decent alternative I've seen, besides the other ActivityPub federators. There was literally nothing else besides Mastadon (I had heard of this before and considered it) and kbin (only know about this since I joined lemmy.) Lemmy had the right combination of features, and a cuter name, so it won the most of us (I believe that's a big part of the reason.)
Every other alternative to the big social media is too niche, and often dominated by a particular world view or specific community grievance. Lemmy picked up a broad sample of users that reddit just suddenly and indiscriminately cut off without a moment for second thoughts. We're not a monoculture the only thing we have in common is we used alternative apps for reddit and we were too stubborn to move to the official app. That gives us a lot of diversity in the community and an edge on passionate eccentricity.
Im cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Short / mid term I’ll be here as it provides probably 90+% of what I was getting out of Reddit. I’m not sure long term how it will work out but so far I have no reason to leave.
I’ve also noticed I just don’t interact with any of it like I used to with Reddit. I used to spend a lot of time just doom scrolling on Reddit. Now I get the highlights of the news, check the sports sun for updates, and then I’m back to the real world. I like that.
As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels... empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.
I'm using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.
I'd say it is for me, I feel like I'm invested in Lemmy's potential for growth, and it being based on ActivityPub makes it the one I want to stick with in comparison to some of the others.
People seem really pleasant here which is a nice change from Reddit, it certainly feels like there are less trolls (for now at least).
Lemmy is getting better day by day, 0.18.1 seems to be fantastic and has smoothed out a lot of the rough edges that I was seeing, and not to mention we're getting quite a circle of various apps for both Android and iOS, along with some alternative web-based frontends as well!
As long as content keeps showing up on my feed I've got no reason to go anywhere else.
Right now it is. It's still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it's slowly getting traction.
I'm happy with Lemmy, except I'm honestly getting tired of the somewhat elitist attitude and fear/anger towards anything that isn't in the fediverse. I noticed it when I left Twitter for Mastodon too, and it's kind of getting old.
I'm not saying some of what's being said isn't justified, it's just not what I feel like seeing every time I open the app/site.
Towards Threads and Reddit is understandable given recent events on Lemmy. Are there others that you're seeing?
I'm undecided at the moment.
I'm now mostly past the muscle memory of instantly opening Reddit any time I'm not actively busy.
Lemmy isn't ready to fill the hole that has left. But honestly as it stands I'm not sure that I want to fill that hole. It would probably be better for my mental health, concentration, social life and many other things if I could successfully leverage this moment to become a whole lot less of an online person.
Until something better comes along, lemmy.world is the place.
wefwef (now Voyager), the Memmy app (iOS), and the "old.reddit" view (https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world/) make it REALLY easy to use Lemmy.
Wow! Thanks for letting me know about https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world, this makes lemmy so much better!
Like you, I'm here until something better comes along.
woahhh, i never stopped using old.reddit. it's a far superior content delivery scheme to anything they came up with after.
thanks for sharing that one.
Thx for the link to old.reddit
I'm liking jerboa. It definitely has a feel similar to RiF.
Yup, Jerboa is great
Was planning to learn the app for a day or two but didn't even have to. It's all very intuitive and reminds me of RIF on Android (R.I.P. btw). And it's foss too. Although I don't mind paying a bit, with RIF it was very worthwhile for the many years I used it.
I just added wefwef web app today. Is voyager on the iOS App Store, or has the web app link migrated somewhere else?
Still a web app.
There's a somewhere else?!
Some like squabbles.io. There was another startup I don't recall that had a pretty slick interface...
But they're corporate. Lemmy isn't.
I actually like Tildes. It’s much much smaller though. For if I like it more than Lemmy? I don’t think so.
The discussion there seems to be much more in depth, which is very nice. But I’ll stick to Lemmy for my “junk food” scrolling and go to Tildes when I want more nuance about something.
It already seems significantly better than reddit has been lately. I was just mentioning to a friend how it felt like 2010 reddit did.
The community is good, it scratches the same itch, think I'm here for a while.
I was telling some friends that I actually like the awkward state Lemmy is in. Reminds me of "the old days" when things felt new and mysterious. I have worked in tech a long time (almost 20yrs) and I still feel like I'm dialing up to the internet for the first time again and rediscovering things. I love it.
It's like a bastion of the interwebs that I didn't realize was still happening. I was wondering where everyone went lol
Absolutely. It isn't all that much different than reddit once you get used to it.
It took me a while to curate a list of interesting subreddits. I am doing the same thing with lemmy and since kbin is also part of the fediverse I don’t see the point of having a kbin account on top of lemmy+mastodon. I’m spending some time discovering what is around lemmy and all its instances so it will be unlikely that I’ll move somewhere else, unless lemmy collapses somehow
Is there any option to export your subscribed communities ? I'd love a bit is inspiration
I exported from Apollo, but Idk if you can install an old version
I’m here until the next inevitable decay due to corporate or self greed ruins this place too. The counter has officially begun.
Still better than any alternative at this point.
So far, so good.
I actually prefer this over reddit. Currently, I’ve yet to come across any infighting or holier than thou types and it’s nice. People on here are more real and don’t seem like keyboard warriors who think they know everything with no real world experience. I’m sure they are here, but I haven’t come across any yet.
Just like Reddit used to be a while ago
I was a late comer to Reddit really. Only had my account for a little over a year. I rarely went looking for subs to join unless I saw something that piqued my interest there. Here not only am I finding more relatable content to my likes, although I’m still looking for some of my fav sub refugees to start some of the subs I followed here, I have also started my own community here for something I am passionate about.
Yeah, the hostility in conversations for innocuous things that was prevailing Reddit seems to be minimal here.
I went back today and posted about how it’s not so bad here, and holy fuck did I get attacked. Although, I think like two people from all that liked what they saw. So it was worth it.
People don’t like change.
At this point I like Lemmy more than I've ever liked Reddit. I tried Raddle too and it was fine but I prefer Lemmy.
The only problem right now is content. We still have a small userbase. Discussions have been good, tho, and time will bring more people.
Personally, I'm already content with the current stream of, well, content on Lemmy right now, at least for doomscrolling.
There's a lack of niche communities right now of course, but I made one that I missed, and I'm sure other people will do the same as the user base increases.
Make any communities you miss guys!
My current replacements for reddit are:
- A kbin account for serious-posting
- This Lemmy account for the shitposting (and for communities on lemmy.ml which blanket bans all kbin instances)
- Tildes.net for the extra-serious-posting
- (Eventually) an RSS reader
- Libreddit and a redirector extension for search results
I personally prefer to keep my shitposting from my serious-posting and I also wanted to see what kbin was like, so it kinda worked out well enough (aside from .ml)
Have you been able to consolidate lemmy and kbin into a single reader app? I've read they're compatible but I'm using Connect on android and it's been temperamental
kbin does not have an API yet, and even if it did it probably wouldn't use the Lemmy API.
They're compatible in that a Lemmy instance can federate with a kbin instance. Otherwise they're completely separate stuff
Tildes admins enable bully accounts that bully other users on the platform
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I have a kbin account but don't use it yet.
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I have this Lemmy account too.
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I don't have an invite to Tildes but it seems nice. Everyone I know declined to invite me so far, probably for everyone's own good actually.
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I use one. I have always used one actually. It's good to just read and not participate in the cesspool called the comment section. Try it!
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I'm trying, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to discover new content.
The default view just shows the same three or four communities on lemmy.world. if I change to show stuff from all, it just shows some three or four global communities instead.
Lots of memes from [email protected] but basically nothing else.
Where am I supposed to discover communities?
Try looking by new and scrolling quite far.
Let's be honest though, there isn't much content here and so many communities have barely any posts or comments.
Reddit used to be the same.
Let's create something great together.
Yeah that seems to be an issue with Lemmy's algorithms. On Reddit, I was always discovering new communities. Feeds were balanced such that small communities and large communities had a similar amount of representation on my front page. Here, it just seems to be a numbers game. The communities with the most posts "win" and flood out all the smaller communities. So spamming a large quantity of posts will make your community rise to the top, no matter the quality of posts.
For context, I do greatly enjoy meme communities...But I do share your frustration that I effectively only see meme communities because they flood out every other community from sheer volume.
Sorting by "new" does help a little bit, like other users suggested, but still not that much.
It would be interesting to see if Lemmy devs one day alter the algorithms on how content is viewed on the main page. A more balanced feed of communities despite size disparities (like Reddit does) would be a great addition imo.
I am not sure what other alternatives there are? I'm receptive to anything good. Right now this looks like it has promise, so I'll go for the ride.
Tbh i wasn't really sure at first. But now that I've built up a pretty good collection of subscriptions to various communities id say I'm totally on board. So far I've been very impressed so I'd like to stay.
Reddit used to be able to do two things. 1. Allow me to express myself and 2. Entertain. They really stopped entertaining me a long while ago. They also didn't engage me enough for me to want to express myself. I already had a foot out the door.
Point 1 is filled with Hacker News, Lemmy and tildes. They are all similar but different. With lemmy... you kind of take your shoes off and relax (respectfully). With HN and Tildes: you are the best version of yourself.
Point 2 is taken up by TikTok. I use TikTok on an older dedicated secondary tablet with a fake gmail account, no contacts. The tablet only does TikTok and nothing else in order to alleviate privacy issues, etc.
HN, Lemmy, tildes and TikTok provide an experience that far surpasses that of reddit.
I think I'm seeing things settle down and seeing more actual content now. It was mostly posts about Reddit to start with.
Hate using it in browser, but Memmy app is awesome, so for me it’s “mobile only” as of now. We need a proper desktop client
Have you tried http://mlmym.org on desktop? It’s like old.reddit
It's difficult to replace Reddit considering it was/is this combination of multiple communities wrapped in a neat little bow. But lacking an ease of access on mobile and blatant disregard for 3rd party apps is what has caused my own browsing on the site to drop considerably during my free time.
Hopefully as time goes on and with 3rd party apps under development, Lemmy can begin competing with Reddit since this is a genuinely fun site.
I'm home.
Yes.
I'm not going back to Reddit.
I spend all that time on Lemmy now.
I plan on staying here. It offers everything I expect from reddit: enough people in the topics that I bother looking into, a handful of silly or shitty memes, and posts (hopefully) remaining visible for a number of years.
Not everything I wanted moved to the fediverse, but I'm not going to check back on reddit
Lemmy is the future!
As a lurker, lemmy is bustling with content, will be scrolling here for a while.
I like it, it is kind of like Reddit, but confusingly different. But I am not looking for anything else currently.
discussed lemmy with a friend the other day, who agreed people need to stop nerding out over how it functions, and just let it do what people are wanting it to do, which is replace reddit.
not to mention, the people discussing it just act like how it functions is a common knowledge that just makes sense.
instances, “federated”, “defederated”, user in one spot can have the same name as a user in another spot. does lemmy interact with kbin, wtf is a kbin.
dont make your acct here, make it somewhere else?
I'll stay as long as it doesn't become reddit and former reddit ppl stop trying to force it to be reddit.
This is frankly better than reddit was and if they don't come around to that they are gonna ruin it for me.
I've just found "imsorryjon" group. This is my home now.
The love of anything-Garfield has always been the great unifier in this world. This truly is the sign that lemmy.world is our new home.
Lemmy is the most reddit-esque of the things I've tried. I might add other services on top of lemmy, but I feel like I've found (sever)a(l) home(s) here
Fedivwrse is scratching my itch, so I'll be staying
I sure want it to be
Federation and an open source code base should prevent one team's dumb decisions from being able to wreck a whole platform, like reddit, twitter, digg, and others before
I've only gone back to reddit for one or two niche communities, but I am trying to do my part here to bring content to the same smaller communities.
Yeah there's probably two subs that I can't really see making their way here. So I'll use it purely for those.
the only thing stopping people, is lack of content, which according to the stats, over 1 million posts recently, won't be an issue for very long
I need to start engaging more.
Maybe. Federated sure seems to be what I'm going to stick with for now. Hopefully more seemless interaction will happen (in time) between platforms... but I'm already fully converted
I'm here to stay. Just like reddit, only free and "community owned".
Lemmy isn't THE reddit alternative for me. In fact, I don't think there can be a single reddit alternative that can fill reddit's shoes. This whole debacle was a reminder to diversify and try out different platforms.
Coming to reddit from digg, I found that I still visited slashdot after the move. Reddit's had previous issues that has prompted people to try to migrate to other sites over the years. I joined Tildes a few years back, and before that, I was on Voat until it became clear that it was a cesspool. I also lurk occasionally on Raddle.
This migration attempt, I picked up Lemmy, and I might try a couple of other sites like Squabble. I gave up using reddit on my phone, but I still use old.reddit.com when I'm on a computer. And I still lurk on slashdot after all these years.
Having used the web before any of these sites existed, I've found that what's past is prologue. There is no one size fits all, but rather a plethora of sites that host various communities.
I'm honestly not a fan. I'm not sure if the site just isn't active enough or what, but I see the same posts over and over again. Doesn't matter whether I'm sorting by active or hot. Is that just me?
Top six hours or top twelve hours tends to reveal the small but active convos to me. And those can be interesting.
Have you tried checking that you have selected "all" or "subscribed" as local sometimes does that. I also play around with "new" and "new replies "to get content to change too.
I have Lemmy set to show me subscribed by default. I will check out new though.
Best thing you can do is curate your experience by subscribing to the communities that you want to subscribe to and then just sort everything by subscribed and new.
Seems good so far.
My only concern is that the general infrastructure isn't 100% there when it comes to user friendliness/app support.
When I first tried Lemmy a few weeks ago, it was on mobile, and my only choice at the time was Jerboa (when it came to app options).
It felt pretty incomplete, and the user journey wasn't 100% clear (and heck, I'm a programmer myself). The login drop-down was hard to find, and user was expected to register manually on one of the instances. To anyone else, that would have been very unclear.
We do have alternatives now, like Connect for Lemmy (which seems good so far); and the likes. Connect in particular actually links to registration page and has some of the popular instances available for quick select out the box. That said, there is still more to be desired in terms of user journey. I feel like the community could do some work with improving that 'out-of-the-box' experience.
Federated approach is good, just gotta make sure there's no monopolies; so instances can keep each other in check.
I made my .world account on my mobile browser, then tried Jerboa as well and couldn't figure out how to log in lol. Switched to connect, kept having issues for some reason, didn't seem like anyone else was. Now I'm on liftoff and haven't had any issues but do miss some of the swiping features that connect had
Case in point, if tech savvy users struggle; then imagine how bad it would be for the typical person who would just probably give up after their first app.
I haven’t really explored any other options, I like it here. I was already on board with the fediverse with Mastodon since the end of last year
I have accounts on a few other sites, but ended up liking Lemmy the best. I'm sticking around. It's completely replaced reddit for me and at this point I don't miss reddit at all.
I've only gone back to Reddit as search results since about the start of the protests. I kind of drifted a bit on looking for an alternative and it's only been a couple of days here, but this seems to be a good substitute.
I'll probably stay.
Waiting for third parties apps to pop up, but so far I’ve been pretty satisfied with “wefwef”. The future looks very promising!
I'm too happy here to go elsewhere 🙃 I love this place
Tildes would be THE Reddit alternative for me. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the users, and it's invite only. However, the creator of RIF is currently working on a project for them, and that was my preferred 3rd party Reddit app.
1: Yep.
2: Nope.
I use both Reddit and Lemmy now.
Lemmy for general browsing and Reddit for more niche things that are dead on Lemmy.
Lemmy is it for me. I lost too much time to Reddit. Reddit was like a fire hose, way too much information coming too fast to be useful for anyone that did want make it their full time job to learn to handle it. I like Lemmy, it's like my garden hose, I can turn it on, get a nice flow of information and turn it off when I'm done. I look forward to the day when Lemmy is like a hose with the new fancy nozzle on it with 9 different flow patterns and a thumb control, but I have faith the aps will get there, in the mean time I can drink from the hose and not drown, it's nice.
I mean, I try and test drive all new social media platforms that don't actively make my skin crawl, but. I've really bonded with it super fast, and not the way I did with Mastodon where I really sat down to make myself adapt. Don't get me wrong, I love it and pretty much use constantly, but there's always an adjustment period; the very worst was tumblr's hellscapy postingness, but reddit was a very close second. My first social media was livejournal, so for me, everything is compared to that. When I went to dreamwidth, I had enough experience scripting and remembered enough from doing web design to build my own layout and theme straight from the available source, so my friendslist there (dw: circle) is literally customized as close as my skill level then could get to exactly how I want to read, and the right sidebar is customized to only want I personally want there that aren't distracting to me, which is basically a fancier and more idiosyncratic version of my livejournal friendslist. I do me, okay.
Back to Lemmy: from the first, it was super comfortable and familiar. Community posts to the left, right sidebar, almost the exact amount of white space I need, so it was effortless to follow along and add communities and post comments. No weird distractions, nothing unnecessary or fancy to take my attention from content, and I can open up pictures directly in my feed and close them there without having to go to the community or change my scroll rhythm much. Joyous.
I just went back to DW to search for one of my posts and while there, I paused on my circle page and took a moment to realize: oh. They are not the same, no, but Lemmy is basically a less idiosyncratic minimalist version of my specific reading aesthetic; the base elements of both are the same.
(The only thing I might want to change is coloring the post titles since I'm very trained to see plain uncolored black text as text and not links, but three entirely different colors on a general feed page like this one might be a dealbreaker for me; I can adapt to seeing 'post title is link even if black' but tossing in a green or something with blue and orange in close proximity feels like a nope and I do like the blue for user and orange for community very, very much.)
So tentatively: this may be my new community-oriented home.
For me personally, it is a ‘wait and see’ situation.
I’m giving Lemmy a fair shot, and expect rough edges and limited features because of its newness and design model. But it has a long way to go in terms of ironing out the wrinkles adding features, and most of all improving privacy, security, and the underlying system. There is a lot that still needs to be figured out and thought through.
It feels great to be using a federated, open, user respecting, not solely profit driven platform, but we’ve still got a long way to go in terms of privacy and security and such.
Been here 3 years already.
I like it here so far, came from reddit and not going back.
I want it to be, and it has a good chance too.
Absolutely love it and looking forward to helping communities grow. I only go back to reddit to check on /r/Ukraine
Really enjoying lemmy at the moment. I feel at home.
Seems like the best one right now, but the dust hasn't settled.
I can tell you I will NOT join another closed platform. I will join a different open, federated platform if it looks good. I never want to contribute to another corporate or bound-to-eventually-be-corporate social ecosystem.
Lemmy still needs a lot of work, particularly the apps. I'm switching between Jerboa, Wefwef, and Connect, each of which has some pretty big problems, particularly with media and link integrations. The third-party Reddit apps were very mature and well-designed. I'm sure we'll get there with Lemmy in time, but we're not there yet.
Yes and no. I'm opening Lemmy instead of Reddit to scroll / for fun, but with searching I still have to rely on reddit unfortunately.
Wanted to Google good books about Diablo (the videogame) lore and it directed me to a reddit thread with PDF's to the book that some share has on their Google drive. Hopefully Lemmy will get there in a few years, and searching will be easier.
When that happens, try to create the same content on a lemmy community.
It's absolutely my redditlike of choice, but I'm also one of those people who never left a few independent forums/communities and had been bummed about the way the internet felt like it was shrinking over the past decade. So the whole federated aspect is more appealing to me on that front than reddit was, conceptually.
Yes, Lemmy is my Reddit Alt not just cuz it's awesome but also i don't know any other reddit alts.
Reddit is gone, long live Lemmy!
I really hope we get a great community here like we had (in places) at Reddit and Lemmy thrives. The great thing about non-corporate entities like this is that nobody needs endless growth of users and participation to satisfy advertisers and investors, a small group of great folks can be enough. Call me idealistic, but I am hopeful smaller communities of like-minded people can find each other and make a place that is fun.
Kbin. It federates with Lemmy but I like it better so far.
So far it is satiating that Reddit itch that I require scratched. Honestly, I would love if Reddit fired Spez and walked back his shit, and if that happened I’d return to my 15yr old account. I don’t know if it will happen, and if it doesn’t this is my new home.
It was so hard to find and join this place, I think I'll hang for a while. I lurked on Kbin for a bit, but I hate the way they show images, especially on mobile browsers. I tried Mastadon first, but that was even more confusing.
Still not sure of lemmy Vs. Fediverse Vs. Threadiverse, whether the instance I joined is best for me, or if it even matters. On Reddit it was easy to lurk, then only one way to join, and easy to figure out. If someone figures out how to simplify using and joining their instance or universe or whatever, they have an opportunity to come out on top.
Try Liftoff app (with amoled black background enabled) 👍
There's a chance I'll move to kbin, although I have a community here. But in general, Lemmy makes a good Reddit replacement.
the recent giant performance boost for lemmy.world and the launch of the ios client Memmy on the app store makes lemmy so great rn
I hope it will be, and think it has the potential.
It has already replaced the "all" experience for me, and I automatically come here rather than Reddit. On the other hand, most of my engagement on reddit was with hobby/interest communities. Very few of the ones I visited on Reddit have made it across in an active way so far.
One unexpected thing is that I actually enjoy my specific instance and find myself browsing "Local" way more often than I expected.
I'm happy so far and I'm enjoying watching the community grow.
I'll probably stick with Lemmy until another solution comes around that makes federation easier.
Have a Tilde account now too, more users, but less active? Odd space...
Actually I didn't think I'd move away from reddit but since I found lemmy I have to activelly think about going to reddit to read something there. Most of the communities I already found here and suprisingly, I'm not really missing the ones which I thought I'd miss.
I love it. It's fun to watch it grow too.
So far Lemmy is my new home! I like it here.
The user interface in my opinion is pretty bad. It looks like old reddit which wasn't that good. I have to manually expand each post to view it instead of just scrolling through.
Kbin is mostly better. But still a little rough on a few points.
Reddit in desktop mode is better.
Sync in card view mode was the best. Still looking for that experience.
Perhaps I'm just stuck in my ways but old Reddit is what I want and how I still use Reddit.
Also I abhor card view in most apps.
Fortunately with Lemmy or fediverse you can choose your own interface and gravitate towards the one that displays content the way you desire it.
I think lemmy is the only viable reddit alternative for me, and since I don't plan on using reddit much anymore if at all. I'll be here. Most of my subs on reddit were smaller communties that I have not seen pop up yet on lemmy though. I hope they might appear soon, but I don't think some of them will ever be as active as they were there
I’ve used both Lemmy and Kbin. I see advantages to both, but I have been finding that Kbin isn’t as flexible with federated posts and is less flexible with smaller instances: my smaller instance of Kbin is missing a lot of posts and images that show up on kbin.social.
My smaller instance of Lemmy (VLemmy) seems to be pretty complete, so I have been been happy with it.
Also, the constant Kbin warnings about missing info on Federated magazines has really pushed me toward Lemmy.
Nope, for me also, Lemmy works fine!
4 weeks ago it was empty.
3 weeks ago it was a growing and a little rough to find content.
2 weeks ago it was filling in.
1 week ago it was silly (beans anyone?).
It is growing by leaps and bounds. The main thing missing now is the really good discussions in politics and news. But I think the trajectory is right and it will be the place to be.
Maybe? With revancing the RIF app i can still use my old app. This being said the protests have salted the earth in many placed i subscribed to. In other places there are more bots and spam then before. Lemmy is still a little weird for me. I barely got the hang of the federation in browser, app was too weird for me.
So ill just vagabond around for a while and see what i see.
I’m hoping it will “stick” and grow in more popularity. I’ve been using wefwef.app and it’s nearly the same as Apollo, so I’ve been enjoying it. Many of my favorite communities are already here, but some aren’t, so it just means I’ll have to get them started!
Depends on how much Meta fucks it up, if at all.
I HAVE to stay here because I like mobile scrolling and I will never use the shitty Reddit app, so lemmy is staying as my Reddit replacement :)
I find it very strange how memes have become more popular than the gaming subs, I thought they would be equally bustling but they’re deathly quiet which is a shame so far.
Also missing SquaredCircle for wrestling happenings so I’ll quickly visit there on my PC, but certainly not interested in other Reddit crap.
Also got Tildes on the side for when I want some more stuff but there’s a lot off guff like sociology n stuff….sometimes you just need a meme or whatever. Glad to have a choice.
I like the concept of ActivityPub (though Tildes feels cognitively easier to use). But I actually think internet forums are a dying format; I enjoy them but I don’t want to talk with bots, read bots arguing, or post more stuff used to train bots. I miss having little online corners of nerds being nerdy, but I think a lot of it will have to come offline to remain "authentic."
Sounds like we just need a captcha to post. What else but bots would make forums and aggregators go away?
I'm liking it the more I use it and seeing the development of the platform is a nice experience.
Here since last night. It's been good, feels like Reddit from ten years ago.
I'm between here and Squabbles, but I am leaning heavily this way, since Wefwef removed some of the annoyances. Sync coming here guaranteed that I would be here eventually.
Seems to be, I tried kbin and it's a wasteland, but no biggie because the big communities from there are already here. There's no other alternatives that I'm aware of.
Probably going to spin up an open identi.ca instance. It federates well with both lemmy and mastodon and does more. After that I'll probably whip up a script to automatically follow new accounts and communities to get it all federated into my instance.
It's good. Apps help alot. Needs to be easier to find shit you like in app. Don't miss reddit. Also Rip Lemmy - 2015. What a great thing to be named after. Cheers
The only “Reddit” feel Lemmy is missing is a mobile app that’s as good as Apollo, which I think will happen soon seeing so many app developments going on
Wefwef
Second that. Wefwef is the best PWA-type web app in the world in my opinion. It's convenient, easy to learn, and it looks really nice and modern. Plus, it's incredibly stable.
If you're on iOS you could check out memmy, it is heavily inspired by Apollo and has just been published on the App Store
I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Threads...
No, I'm here to stay I think. Reddit was the only social media I used, and this fills the need perfectly, in fact, in a lot of ways, better.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy here. It's nice and close knit and not full of shit. Kbin also seems cool but needs a bit more time in the oven and an app to really be useful to me.
I use reddit.club
I want to like kbin, but mobile UI is just weird. If I tap on a picture, I want to see the picture, not the comment thread.
Gerboa gets me closest to the RIF experience, so that's where I'm at for now.
As of right now, I'm using Lemmy and just getting the feel for it. I think once some of the other larger 3rd party apps start getting released for Lemmy (Sync, Boost, etc.), it'll drive more people to creating an account and creating more communities. When compared to reddit, it's quite dead at the moment, but that can change once people start creating communities and participating. Time will tell if this is the "next reddit" or just the transitional phase.
Yeah I think I like it here, it's different, but that isnt a bad thing. Also no idea where else to go. All other social media is off putting.
No plans on going anywhere else, sticking with Lemmy.
Yes, currently Lemmy is the one. Trust Cafe WTS Social is small but has some interesting aspects.
It will be interesting to see how Lemmy scales and adapts to corporations joining, and also how GDPR compliance unfolds.
I think in my (limited) experience so far, kbin has the features/layout I prefer--but there's "nobody" over there. The community I set up over here is slowly gathering followers--the kbin one is not.
Im good here.
Seems like it is for me, I'm also using snapzu, but I seem to be gravitating towards lemmy more.
Lemmy is popular now, I think people will come here. I'm quite satisfied with user engagement but I think squabble has also had good potential but relatively less user engagement.
It's what I've got for now. I'm no more attached to Lemmy than I was to Reddit for the time being. I clung on to Reddit via Boost just out of convenience but I don't, like, miss it terribly or anything (yet?).
Yeah some of the littler/niche communities I was in are yet to resurface here (from the guilty pleasure Amberlynn Reid drama-watching to the somewhat related anorexia recovery subreddit) but that's to be expected, really.
So far I'm happy with it. There is less mindless content to scroll but the quality of content is much better.
I've signed up on tildes.net as well
give it time and dedication. it will grow if we want it to.
THE for me
Pretty hopeful. I'm in the process of setting up a server to try and host a few communities. Should get it online by the end of the month. I figure if as many people as possible just host a few communities (i.e. cherished Reddit subs that aren't here yet) then we can save the major instances the pain of trying to host everything for everyone and take real advantage of building a truly robust decentralised network
Yup.
I’m using Lemmy and Spyke, both are pretty good although Spyke is rather inactive.
To be honest, I'm just trying to cut down on social media in general. If I could limit my usage to no more than half an hour a day, I would be set.
Not to me. As the community is smaller, my exposure is larger. I had no voice on Reddit or any community.
It's certainly slower and the professional communities I was part of are gone but.... I only viewed reddit from mobile and fuck that app sucks.
I think the only thing Lemmy is missing is scale now. Appears there is adequate dev support currently and every day I'm finding another community I followed on reddit popping up here
And I love the idea of not having one controlling entity for the platform to answer to. This is going to create some problems that will have to be addressed eventually but for now I feel like this is us taking back what the internet should be.
Lemme tell you... Yes the platform and ecosystem are only going to get better.
For now y’all are stuck with me.
For now this is where I've landed and the community seems to be growing at a steady pace. As long as this place keeps growing and evolving, then I'm here for the long haul.
Ironically threads isn't a reddit clone even though the threadiverse exists
I’m pretty comfy here.
Yes here to stay now. With Memmy in the iOS App Store. It’s finally an easier transition.
I'm not sure what else there is besides, like quora.
Personally I'm still not feeling it. My feed is just full of memes and rules posts. All the stuff I blocked in bacon reader. I can't find communities for any of the stuff I was interested in on Reddit.
I won't go back to reddit, but I do miss it.
i think most of the things you miss will come with time, as lemmy becomes more mainstream. Have faith brother!
Yeah, aside from the porn. The lemmy porn scene just isn't here yet. Also lemmy nsfw just moved servers to Ukraine where porn is illegal, so who knows?
It's called quality control & there are porn websites for that.
You really don't want instances flooded with theporn industry, too much corruption in it.
We're dealing with enough already.
It's a tough hole to fill. Lemmy is neat but still has a lot of growth to do.
I'll check out Tildes if given an invite or it opens up. But I'm content here given it's where more people went and I seek conversation which is easier to have when there are more people on a thing.
I have invite you want ?
I found Tildes appealing and will probably join at some point, especially since the RIF dev is pivoting to making an app for that platform. I like their design philosophy better than the Fediverse, but the Feds are here, now and I already feel hooked in. I can't see abandoning that even after adopting Tildes.
I'm loving the fediverse so far, lemmy has been a breath of fresh air compared to reddit. Definitely not going anywhere!
just throwing my random input in to the pot. still using Reddit via Boost but also checking into Kbin and some of the Lemmy servers as well via the Connect app for Android. I like Lemmy I just miss how Reddit had "everything in one place" if that makes sense.
I think I'm doing something wrong because I feel like I have to make an account for each server or "instance" I visit and that's annoying.
So far it's been a nice experience once I find "subs" and stuff I like there's just some growing pains I guess. idk man, I'm a lil inebriated atm
Yes indeed!
I think I generally federated my time reading and discussing stuff online more. What I mean: instead of spending 90% of my time only on Reddit I use more sites and services but spend less time on each one of it. Lemmy is definitely what replaced Reddit the most but as of right now there just is not as much stuff on here and not as many niche communities as there are/were on Reddit. But in combination with /Kbin, Twitter, Mastodon and some other sites with topics of interest for me, I can pretty much read about anything I like without going on Reddit at all (okay, I checked Reddit probably ten times since the protests started.)
I am also using raddle.me and squabbles.io. both look promising and slightly less confusing than Lemmy with their instances.
I joined multiple to have many feeds
For me yes. I am fairly tech savvy (compared to the general population) and I do worry the barrier to entry of understanding and getting started in participation will prevent a good amount of growth…but hoping when more mainstream apps are released it will be easier for people who just want to open an app and have it work. Eventually it could be more feasible for a typical internet user to open an app, sign up, subscribe and be involved.
Right now it is pretty cool because everyone here has made an effort to join and is passionate about the development of the feddiverse. To a certain point we don’t necessarily want it flooded with Facebook users since it would change drastically…but eventually hopefully it will be widely adopted enough so big celebs and politicians will do amas and it approaches an entity that actually drives competition for the big media companies to be less evil since everyone has the option to just join the feddiverse which we sustain through donations and don’t have to satisfy stockholders, make money etc.
Yeah, in for the late haul. Once the knowledge base and communities build up a bit it'll be great. It'll take some time.. There's still a lot of good searchable information deep in the subreddits.
Thank you my man! I get it now
The only social media i would move to is Mastodon.
I much prefer Kbin, mainly because of the interface, the quality of the feed, and microblog feature
The best of the options we have so far. Really wish Christian from Apollo fame would make an app for it.
I'm definitely sticking around. It was slow going on Lemmy after Reddit's third party app shutdown on 6/30 but there's been a noticeable uptick in posts and comments in the communities I follow which is great. I don't need 5,000 responses per post and Lemmy's discussion volume works just fine for me.
There are still a few interests I follow that aren't present on Lemmy that I'm aware of (pro wrestling and NFL being the big ones), but hopefully those arrive soon.
I tried communites.win and squiggles and some other stuff but they felt like reddit clones. This feels like its own platform and it feels like the future.
Yes(in a way), hopefully not.
I like it a lot and I never really used reddit often.
I feel like there’s people just taking top posts from Reddit and getting them here as fast as they can. Sometimes it seems like a “best of” Reddit site.
I'm a fan of Lemmy, for the memes and link aggregator aspect of it. And sense of community, there are trolls but it's generally pretty positive.
I also like the Old Internet feel that the Fediverse in general has. I'm going out and looking for things that interest me again rather than hoping for something new to come into my feed. Actually reading articles. Commenting more than twice a year.
We'll see what happens but overall, I think I'm staying.
Nah, more of a Kbin fan, but I also have some other forums/BBS sites I go to (and reddit still because the community around life in Japan and such never got going over here, but only those subreddits and nothing else).
So far, yes, but I don't really have any allegiances to this site and will jump ship to a competitor in a heartbeat if something better comes along. I know some people like the decentralized federation approach here, but I actually see that as the biggest downside to using this site. The value proposition of Reddit in its heyday was that it offered a single landing point for all sorts of discussions that used to be scattered across hundreds of different forums. The decentralized federation approach moves away from that, and while that offers some advantages, it also comes with a lot of disadvantages too.
I don't think the fediverse paradigm moves away from that, on the contrary. We still have a single landing point, our home instance. Except now it even pulls content from 3rd party servers all over the internet. If you were interested in reddit, hacker news and tildes, you'd have to check out each one separately, and use a separate app for each one. With lemmy, kbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc, you can use one app and one account to follow all of them. We just have to work a lot on the UX of in-app discoverability, which really has a looong way to go.
Defederation works against that though. When I first joined a few weeks ago, a lot of the discussion was taking place on Beehaw. I joined a few communities over there and started to enjoy the experience but in an instant, all of that was blocked because Beehaw decided to defederate from Lemmy.World (and others). That sort of thing will happen more and more in the future. I don't want to have to create a dozen different accounts on a dozen different instances to view the content I want to see: I want a simple interface with everything in one spot.
Reddit offers the "everything in one spot" piece, but they killed the simple interface possible via apps like RIF and replaced it with an abysmal official app.
Lemmy offers the "simple interface" piece with apps like Jerboa, but the federation aspect of it makes it hard to get everything in one spot.
The second a competitor offers both features with a large enough community to allow for meaningful discussion, I'd be happy to make the switch.
I considered setting up kbin but Lemmy looked easier and has apps.
Is Kbin considered an option?
I started using both, but it seems like Lemmy is getting more use as each day passes.
Doesn't hurt that there are lots of good mobile apps for Lemmy
I like it so far, lemmy and mastodon are replacing reddit and twitter for me. Yes, is more quiet and there's less people, but also less bullshit (from users and CEO) and in general a great atmosphere.
The fediverse is great!
Yes. I am used to appolo and wefwef.app is a life saver.
I'm sure the answers here will be biased in favor of Lemmy, but I think I'll be sticking around here for a while. There's some communities on Reddit that, unfortunately, are too niche and don't have an equivalent on lemmy. While I'm trying to create the equivalent of r/presidents, there's other communities like r/aceattorney, r/slaythespire, etc. that to my knowledge, don't have a large community outside of it.
Despite this, I don't think I'll be moving elsewhere. I prefer Lemmy to kbin as of now, and as far as forums go, the only non-reddit or non-lemmy one that I'd even remotely consider being more regular on is Historum. Though with Historum, I find it better to just browse older threads rather than partake in current ones.
I feel fine on it so far, I haven't said too much. I just want a platform where I can go, say things without dealing with as many snarky, bad faith, shitposting users that Reddit seems to endorse having itself contaminated with.
If Lemmy can be the exception, in due time, then I will hail it as a true alternative.
I think, despite rough things (performance, ui bits I dislike etc etc) its one of the better alternatives with lots of potential.
