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.
Amen to that
Nothing wrong with lurking but you’re helping get content out there to make it stick so that’s good!
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.
I had really only one sub I wanted to keep up with. They have no intentions of leaving Reddit AFAIK so I just added them into an RSS reader, and explore Lemmy the rest of the time
an RSS reading…huh i might have to do that too
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.
It’s no longer just a Reddit alternative for me. Lemmy is Lemmy, and I like it. I’m still waiting for the 3rd party apps of Kbin though.
Once they sort the feeds out and a few other kinks it’ll be good as gold.
Yeah Im on Lemmy until kbin has an app that works as well as connect for lemmy.
I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁
Our voluntary survey shows that 95% of people who participated in it don’t mind participating in surveys.
I don’t know sir or madam; my wife will suggest food she doesn’t want for dinner.
When my wife asks me what I want for dinner, my mind doesn’t go to what I want to eat, it goes to what I’m willing to cook.
The other 5% were furious
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
It’s kind of a dumb question. Everyone who doesn’t like it just leaves immediately. That’s like going to a Detroit Red WIngs game and asking the crowd who their favorite hockey team in the state is.
“Dumb” is too strong a word for the way the questions were worded. I know some users here are on Tildes as well, or Squabble (idk if that’s how you spell it). Doesn’t mean lemmy is THE alternative - just one of many minor ones. Also, being on lemmy doesn’t mean you’re not thinking of moving away specially with Meta’s arrival.
Meta is a twitter replacement not reddit if I went over there I wouldn’t leave lemmy
Ok, I guess I could see that. I’ve just not felt the need to use other link aggregators, but Mastodon and Pixelfed have been a cool experience for me so far.
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
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.
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I’m genuinely curious, why do the points matter?
brain
Why not post at both places?
I’ve got one post up. I need to learn how to use Jerboa, because I could only figure out how to post one pic instead of a whole album.
I’ll post all future pics to both places
If you make it, I’ll join.
I’ve started posting to microgrowery@lemmy.ml
12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else’s platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
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Because Reddit is overflowing with bots and it’s about to get way worse https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
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To try and look like real users. Then they sell out upvotes to companies wanting to promote their own posts.
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In order to interact in many reddit communities, a certain amount of karma is required. The idea behind this was that it would be harder to just make a million new accounts and start spamming posts. The reality is that it just means that anyone who wants to spam or scam on reddit now has to build a bot infrastructure that can make itself seem legitimate by artificially interacting with the site to gain karma. The bots do this by interacting with the site, making posts to gain karma, etc.
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?
Towards Threads and Reddit is understandable given recent events on Lemmy. Are there others that you’re seeing?
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.
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.
Thx for the link to old.reddit
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.
I’ve been wanting to move to lemmy for a while it just wasn’t active enough so I stayed on reddit. Fuck reddit and fuck proprietary software
Took the words right out of my mouth
It must have been while you were kissing me.
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
Yes. With the added bonus of decentralization.
Indeed!
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.
Right now it is. It’s still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it’s slowly getting traction.
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.
