Definitely has felt like a more welcoming community. Each comment on Reddit I made I had to mentally brace for the inevitable bot and troll replies. Constant fights.
Here I haven't seen much of it. Some people honestly trying to understand my points of view! Very refreshing
I never posted my photography on Reddit because I knew it would be 3 votes and forgotten in a sea of botted "professionals" trying to get their pictures on r/all. I feel here I get a lot of appreciation from real people and the comments are thoughtful and kind.
I'm posting a lot more here than on Reddit. There was less motivation to post there, for one a post can get buried in minutes so it can be like talking to a wall. Then there's the hostility if a post does get play.
What I really like is the fact that the comments are not just the same jokes or the stupid puns over and over again trying to harvest that sweet sweet karma.
It is refreshing to see comments that bring a different perspective or information to the subject.
The community feels way more welcoming and Lemmy and related apps are developing fast.
Let's hope it stays that way as the user base continues to grow 🤞
I've actually picked up app development just to help out with Thunder. There's several of us working on it now and it is REALLY starting to come together. Next release is gonna have so much stuff, and I've got even more ready for the one after that.
By far the slickest looking lemmy app yet (aside from Memmy maybe which is only iOS atm). Not yet feature complete, and only on github right now, but already my favorite to actually use.
I do hope those apps share at least a small part of their revenue by donating to the Lemmy devs (will be tricky to decide which instances to also donate to though). The app devs should realize that the success of their app business depends on Lemmy still being alive.
I was here early June when there was very little activity. I didn't really understand the fediverse, and how instances worked. I remember thinking "this has so much potential!" The average instance had about 4000 users. And now it's exploding. I know many people are going to continue to use Reddit, there's still more users on Reddit then there are on here, there probably always will.
I feel the users that end up on here are smart, informed, fed up, we see past the lies, we are mature and chill as fuck.
The fact Lemmy takes time to learn is a good thing.
I'm LOVING it suddenly. A week ago it felt like not enough, today I'm saving more memes and commenting way more than I did on reddit.
I'm looking forward to more niche communities picking up on this speed, but the Frontpage is definitely scratching my quick burst attention span itch now. Tip: Sort by hot, top 6hrs, or new if you need the more rapid change of pace reddit had.
lemmy.world has some but there are also two porn focused instances, lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com. Both federate with lemmy.world, you can use this tool to find communities and sub and interact with both instances from lemmy.world or sign up to each one/either one since they both interact with one another.
I have been pleasantly surprised the last several days. I was a little disappointed with the content at first (though I did enjoy how it felt like the "old" internet), but now that the apps have rapidly improved (connect is great!), and I've started subscribing to some interesting communities I really love it. It's like a kinder gentler reddit.
I give credit to the admins of Lemmy.world. Because their instance blew up in popularity, they went through and did some optimizations to DB and other queries. What's even better is they've submitted the PRs so all instances can scale as smoothly going forward.
Totally agree! The number of posts and comments have gone way up already. Now that the main Reddit migration has lessened, I hope word of mouth keeps it going.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg started a clone…both lol and terrifying.
Yep. I'm a month in. I took a couple days break, and came back yesterday and it's moving along nicely. No drop in quality or anything, just more good content, and slightly faster paced discussion.
After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, "Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets." Can't say that now, it's getting busy. There's more content than I can review in a day now, and that's just from the front page in Subscribed view.
Me too - getting to help build the foundations of something great is intoxicating. I was on Wikipedia in its early days and we had to muddle on through and make decisions that would help future editors plug the pages they were creating into the wider framework without having to worry to much about it. I get the same feeling here.
I agree that the proliferation of quality apps over the past few weeks on Android and GitHub has been pretty incredible considering the broad range of designs and features each one uniquely has
I think for me personally is that with Reddit I was scared to comment on posts because I felt like the Reddit hive mind would attack if I even slightly disagreed.
I honestly enjoy this app more than the basic reddit app except for the lack of people in my communities. it wasn't the best experience at first (late june), but now I really like it on here
Took me a little while to figure some things out, with which subjects were active, figuring out nsfw instances, then adjusting themes so it appealed to me more.
I'm really liking the way as I was figuring that out, there has been more user activity and posts.
I hope it continues, but regardless I'm here for the ride. Long live Lenny!! (And Lemmy)
Good for you guys. It's crazy to me how much the lemmy experience have declined since the reddit migration and I'm sad to see the lemmyverse becoming a bit more like reddit every day.
I've started looking for alternative places where I can discuss my hobbies, like marine archaeology, without the fear of being labeled as a nazi. It's absurd.