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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Welcome to what Reddit used to be
Between this and Mastodon - which feels like the best parts of early Twitter (way before Musk ever was in the picture) - I feel like I've turned back the clock about 15-20 years in the best way possible.
Now if only this made me 15-20 years younger...
My knees have the same request
It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it's a success.
I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet
Same. Honestly I didn’t like it much til today. Today was the first time I actually scrolled through and found a lot of content I liked. I’m just trying to figure out which app to use now which is kind of fun because I miss having 3rd party apps…
On Android I like Jerboa and Liftoff. 👀 Just my random suggestions.
I'm using Liftoff too and am liking it so far. Although, I am waiting for Boost for Lemmy to drop...
Yeah I agree. Seeing all the Linux and programing humor on the All page reminds me of my early Reddit days. I'm hoping some of the niche subreddits I loved pop up
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.
My goodness you are so right, upon seeing your comment, I checked and there it is. Installed it in an instant. Why wasn’t this announced is beyond me. But I’m glad there’s finally an app for iOS
It was announced on a number of spots. I’m surprised you didn’t see it! It’s a great app and works wonders. Feels like Apollo
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 android@lemmy.world which has been locked in order to send their userbase to another instance. So yeah, interesting indeed.
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.
Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the "my ex was crazy" phase endearing.
Fair complaint, but fwiw Reddit went through the same thing with Digg. It passed.
Sync (for the platform which shall not be named) had the ability to filter posts by keyword. I will take advantage of that feature when Sync for Lemmy is available.
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.
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.
😂 This is so true... Being liberal I always second guess myself and I don't want this to be an echo chamber, I want my beliefs and ideas to be challenged, but Conservatives aren't arguing policy nuance... They are fucking trying to exterminate people and elect a sociopath...
So what do we do... I hope we get diverse discussion on here, while keeping the Nazis away.
Agreed. I always look at it like this: Politics should be determining the best way to implement and expand human rights, not debate whether we should have them at all.
If only!!! Instead it's at best a discussion of who deserves it and how much. Can't say how much I appreciate seeing this comment it sums up my strongest feelings so much more succinctly than I ever could.
So what do we do... I hope we get diverse discussion on here, while keeping the Nazis away.
There's still alt-right people on Lemmy, they're just isolated on exploding.heads due to most other instances defederating from them
Dude idk. I love challenging view points for basic things but the challenging view points I've seen here are sketching me out way more than reddit ever did. And I'm just stumbling on them trying to find new communities or from front page. And they aren't Nazis type things either. Sympathy for other governments. Ignoring or outright forbidding criticism of other governments.
I think it is one thing to disagree and discuss aspects of laws and society and how to fix problems etc but so far I don't see that here. I still see a same divide it's just more world focused now and not "are you racist or willing to tolerate racists because reasons " that has been most of US politics on reddit for years now (and imo rightfully so)
Basically be wary of what you see right now. I'm a liberal too and don't mind challenging my beliefs and often re-evaluate them but here... so far all that has lead me to is being more alarmed because it feels more innocuous and if I was just a little bit less aware of certain things I could feel myself slipping into it. Oh and they present themselves as liberal.
As for American politics sure. I haven't seen any nazis yet and haven't yet. I think ive heard plenty enough from the other side over the last 10 years though I would love to hear something new but haven't yet.
Sorry for the ramble.
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.
I like that the Fediverse in general feels much smaller (because it is) than normie websites. You get the feel of old school forums here but not this endless feed of garbage that lends itself to addiction and doom scrolling.
You’re a lot more likely to get a conversation here, or at least have someone read what you write.
It’s like Reddit was before everything was so huge. Whatever you say there gets buried before you even have a chance to have any kind of discussion.
And I’ll tell you something else amazing that has happened for me.
It’s like dropping Reddit cold turkey has changed something in my brain. I’m dropping a ton of bad habits like it’s nothing. I was a chain smoker this time last month. Recently I smoked two and a half packs in one day and I was really upset with myself. I said, “no more.” and I’m down to 4-8 cigarettes a day. It’s like it made me realize that I have control over myself.
I’m gonna try to go this whole day here at work without a cigarette. At this rate I will have quit completely in no time.
So far this seems like the one. I primarily browsed Reddit using Sync, and Lemmy is where Sync has decided to go.
If there's a really compelling app for Kbin, however, I might give that a try at some point.
I still don’t really understand the difference in Lemmy and Kbin.
Kbin is host for both Lemmy + Mastadon (a federated twitter replacement) where you interact over both with the same login/username.
Thanks! So I guess the question I have now is why would I not move to Kbin if that means I get two services for one account?
I mean you can do whatever you want. The fediverse is provided as a free service by a bunch of hosts. It not like hosts are offering competing services.
I guess that’s pretty clear. I guess I meant more of what are the advantages of just having one or the other or both.
So, I'm still confused with Instances and how usernames interact with different Instances. I hear there's different content on different Instances, but I'm not sure if I need a new username to log in there, or if I just don't know how to log in using my lemmy.world username.
I hope I'm not too rambly. I'm getting used to the jargon and a little confused.
An instance is like your email provider.
You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.
With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.
e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I'm from lemmy.one
Brooooooooooooooo
Thank you. I've been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn't need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording
Thank you! That analogy clicks nicely in my head, so it's very appreciated.
An additional note: if you want to subscribe to a community on a different instance, you need to search for it through your home instance
I don't know either, but as long as federation works between them, it makes no difference to me. I follow communities on both from one Friendica account. If I decide to self host one day, I'll choose one based on the software stack.
This, to me, is the marvelous power of federation.
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.
Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn't drop off before then
That's my problem so far. I've been leaving subreddits I can live without and trying to use Lemmy for general browsing, but some of the smaller subreddits can't be replaced.
The 2 subs on reddit I really cared about were for Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire. I can't devote enough time to build multiple communities and figured DQ has enough fans that it had a better chance of growing.
No doubts about it. With the decentralization it truly just feels like being on forums again. Just needs more content for nicher topics but that's slowly growing, i'm happy here away from the larger internet.
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!
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.
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?
Right now it is. It's still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it's slowly getting traction.
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.
I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don't deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.
I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.
All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I'll miss now.
Yeah that's a perspective I understand and I will miss some of that. However for myself at least the removal of Reddit appears to be beneficial to me to such a degree as to out weigh the loss.
But I already have had the benefit of 13 years of reddit opening my eyes andt 13 years of growth and experience from teenager to a responsible adult at the same time so don't feel the mind broadening the same extent any more.
Yeah, that was my immediate next thought as well. I've gotten so much benefit, developed so many interests from large scale community postings. I don't know where such a thing will exist in the future for my kids, if at all. I hope time proves this to be a foolish concern and I'll look dumb for posting such a question on the platform that answers the question.
I think reddit changed a lot in the last 10 years. It went from lots of small unique communities where there was really good discussion to everywhere kind of just being an echo chamber where if you disagreed you were just down voted out of the discussion rather than being able to just talk about your different points of view.
Like you, I'm here until something better comes along.
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.
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.
Lemmy is my new home.
It scratches the itch that needs scratches.
Same here, I get the random images, humor and conversations that I apparently desire, and actually being away from reading the same crap on reddit that i read every day for years is a relief. I feel better and better every day.
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.
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
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.
The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren't other options.
Tildes, Discord, Slack, old-school fora... there are other options.
But they're very different types of platforms that offer a completely different experience
Tildes is ranked-thread discussion, but otherwise, yeah, fair point. That's why I never got into Discord or MetaFilter.
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
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.
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.
I think I'm seeing things settle down and seeing more actual content now. It was mostly posts about Reddit to start with.
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.
What is Tildes? I'm on 2/3 but haven't heard of that one.
It's all personal preference. There's certainly pros and cons to both. I think Tildes tends to have more in-depth and thoughtful conversation than what I've seen on Lemmy so far.
There's docs that details the Philosophy if you want to take a look. I'm personally interested in both for different reasons.
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 Memes@Lemmy.ml 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.
Am I the only one who never uses r/All on Reddit? I'm subbed to a lot of subreddits, but I like to scroll through all the posts, so I visit each individual subreddit that I'm subbed to seperately. I only started using All here on Lemmy due to the lack of content.
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 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
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?
As a lurker, lemmy is bustling with content, will be scrolling here for a while.
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 like it, it is kind of like Reddit, but confusingly different. But I am not looking for anything else currently.
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
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
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 want to try Tildes once /u/talklittle releases rif (TIF?) for it. But I'll keep using Lemmy too. I see no reason to limit my options.
I've really been enjoying tildes - I'd say it's less casual than Lemmy or reddit however. People there generally write incredibly long and detailed posts. Lemmy seems a bit meme-y already
I'd love to give Tildes a go, the content seems a lot more "grown up" with a more substantial discourse. But its still invite only shrug
Finally got my invite to tildes. It’s … fine. I think the governance is sensible, but I think governance also has high potential in the fediverse. Same though, that I prefer to keep doors open rather than pick something.
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.
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.
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 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'm here to stay. Just like reddit, only free and "community owned".
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.
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.
1: Yep.
2: Nope.
Waiting for third parties apps to pop up, but so far I’ve been pretty satisfied with “wefwef”. The future looks very promising!
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.
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.
I'm too happy here to go elsewhere 🙃 I love this place
I use both Reddit and Lemmy now.
Lemmy for general browsing and Reddit for more niche things that are dead on Lemmy.
Lemmy and Tildes are 2 sites I'm very interested in seeing grow. Lemmy is ahead of most, and I think the community here feels like the Reddit I joined back in 2011 or so. I'm sticking around, for now.
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.
I like it here so far, came from reddit and not going back.
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.
I want it to be, and it has a good chance too.
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.
Absolutely love it and looking forward to helping communities grow. I only go back to reddit to check on /r/Ukraine
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.
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.
Kbin. It federates with Lemmy but I like it better so far.
4chan legitimately still beats lemmy and anything else. Slap on a bunch of decent filters and it's far more entertaining and useful than both reddit and lemmy combined.
That’s a rather interesting take. Care to share your filters?
Yes, Lemmy is my Reddit Alt not just cuz it's awesome but also i don't know any other reddit alts.
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.
Yep, I think so. I look at reddit periodically and while they haven't had performance issues lately (I wonder why, lol). The posts don't seem geniune anymore. Instead they are forced and lame.
Apparently they just got a bunch of bots to repost old content to make up for the lack of users.
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.
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.
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.
Have a Tilde account now too, more users, but less active? Odd space...
There's a chance I'll move to kbin, although I have a community here. But in general, Lemmy makes a good Reddit replacement.
I'm happy so far and I'm enjoying watching the community grow.
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.
I'll probably stick with Lemmy until another solution comes around that makes federation easier.
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
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.
Yes it is. Tried Imgur for a while, but that place is… lost.
Now with the Memmy App, I feel right at home here on Lemmy
I wasn't aware imgur was even a social media, I thought it was just an image host
I split my time between Lemmy and Tildes, Lemmy is the most Reddit-like, Tildes is more of a place for contemplation and I like it a lot, but when I feel like doomscrolling a la Reddit, I go to Lemmy.
Just checked out tilde for the first time. I appreciate that it isn't simply a collection of posts about or from reddit. Thanks.
Yeah, Tildes is actively trying to be something else. I like that.
I'm liking it the more I use it and seeing the development of the platform is a nice experience.
I love it. It's fun to watch it grow too.
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.
Nope, for me also, Lemmy works fine!
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Literally just signed up. Don't quite get the instances thing I'll read about that tonight but right now I'm on world which I think is the 'big' one?
Either way liking it so far
World is one of the big ones you can see them listed here https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. The instances are just servers running lemmy. The servers can communicate with each other with the activitypub protocol if the admins allow it.
What's cool about this is nobody can ever "shutdown" lemmy as there are multiple servers. Also it won't turn into a cesspit like voat because each admin can make there own rules and defederate from nastier instances. So you can have an anything goes lemmy instance or a curated instance. I really hope lemmy comes out the victor of reddit alternatives because I love the idea of it.
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.
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
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.
The sports stuff is pretty empty. Team specific (my teams) are mostly dead still. So I've been on the corresponding SB Nation blogs more than I had for a long time. Otherwise, just here.
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!
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.
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.
Im good here.
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.
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.
No plans on going anywhere else, sticking with Lemmy.
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.
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.
I use reddit.club
Lemmy on Memmy is feeling very Apollo
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.
Yup.
Seems like it is for me, I'm also using snapzu, but I seem to be gravitating towards lemmy more.
You assume I think
But….he’s asking a question, not assuming anything.
Why do you assume he doesn't assume anything? Sounds like a pretty big assumption to assume he doesn't assume anything.
I like it but there is sparse activity on most of the Android instances. 😟 Lemmy kind of seems like several of ants scurrying around on a big mound right now. Am a big BoostforReddit fan and am hanging out on Jerboa until their Lemmy app is released.
I'm not sure what else there is besides, like quora.
I've signed up on tildes.net as well
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.
Not to me. As the community is smaller, my exposure is larger.
I had no voice on Reddit or any community.
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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 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.
Welcome to what Reddit used to be
Between this and Mastodon - which feels like the best parts of early Twitter (way before Musk ever was in the picture) - I feel like I've turned back the clock about 15-20 years in the best way possible.
Now if only this made me 15-20 years younger...
My knees have the same request
It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it's a success.
I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet
Same. Honestly I didn’t like it much til today. Today was the first time I actually scrolled through and found a lot of content I liked. I’m just trying to figure out which app to use now which is kind of fun because I miss having 3rd party apps…
On Android I like Jerboa and Liftoff. 👀 Just my random suggestions.
I'm using Liftoff too and am liking it so far. Although, I am waiting for Boost for Lemmy to drop...
Yeah I agree. Seeing all the Linux and programing humor on the All page reminds me of my early Reddit days. I'm hoping some of the niche subreddits I loved pop up
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.
My goodness you are so right, upon seeing your comment, I checked and there it is. Installed it in an instant. Why wasn’t this announced is beyond me. But I’m glad there’s finally an app for iOS
It was announced on a number of spots. I’m surprised you didn’t see it! It’s a great app and works wonders. Feels like Apollo
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 android@lemmy.world 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.
yes :3
Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the "my ex was crazy" phase endearing.
Fair complaint, but fwiw Reddit went through the same thing with Digg. It passed.
Sync (for the platform which shall not be named) had the ability to filter posts by keyword. I will take advantage of that feature when Sync for Lemmy is available.
You never met my ex.
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.
😂 This is so true... Being liberal I always second guess myself and I don't want this to be an echo chamber, I want my beliefs and ideas to be challenged, but Conservatives aren't arguing policy nuance... They are fucking trying to exterminate people and elect a sociopath...
So what do we do... I hope we get diverse discussion on here, while keeping the Nazis away.
Agreed. I always look at it like this: Politics should be determining the best way to implement and expand human rights, not debate whether we should have them at all.
If only!!! Instead it's at best a discussion of who deserves it and how much. Can't say how much I appreciate seeing this comment it sums up my strongest feelings so much more succinctly than I ever could.
There's still alt-right people on Lemmy, they're just isolated on exploding.heads due to most other instances defederating from them
Dude idk. I love challenging view points for basic things but the challenging view points I've seen here are sketching me out way more than reddit ever did. And I'm just stumbling on them trying to find new communities or from front page. And they aren't Nazis type things either. Sympathy for other governments. Ignoring or outright forbidding criticism of other governments.
I think it is one thing to disagree and discuss aspects of laws and society and how to fix problems etc but so far I don't see that here. I still see a same divide it's just more world focused now and not "are you racist or willing to tolerate racists because reasons " that has been most of US politics on reddit for years now (and imo rightfully so)
Basically be wary of what you see right now. I'm a liberal too and don't mind challenging my beliefs and often re-evaluate them but here... so far all that has lead me to is being more alarmed because it feels more innocuous and if I was just a little bit less aware of certain things I could feel myself slipping into it. Oh and they present themselves as liberal.
As for American politics sure. I haven't seen any nazis yet and haven't yet. I think ive heard plenty enough from the other side over the last 10 years though I would love to hear something new but haven't yet. Sorry for the ramble.
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.
reddit has redditors
lemmy has... lemmings?
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.
I like that the Fediverse in general feels much smaller (because it is) than normie websites. You get the feel of old school forums here but not this endless feed of garbage that lends itself to addiction and doom scrolling.
You’re a lot more likely to get a conversation here, or at least have someone read what you write.
It’s like Reddit was before everything was so huge. Whatever you say there gets buried before you even have a chance to have any kind of discussion.
And I’ll tell you something else amazing that has happened for me.
It’s like dropping Reddit cold turkey has changed something in my brain. I’m dropping a ton of bad habits like it’s nothing. I was a chain smoker this time last month. Recently I smoked two and a half packs in one day and I was really upset with myself. I said, “no more.” and I’m down to 4-8 cigarettes a day. It’s like it made me realize that I have control over myself.
I’m gonna try to go this whole day here at work without a cigarette. At this rate I will have quit completely in no time.
So far this seems like the one. I primarily browsed Reddit using Sync, and Lemmy is where Sync has decided to go.
If there's a really compelling app for Kbin, however, I might give that a try at some point.
I still don’t really understand the difference in Lemmy and Kbin.
Kbin is host for both Lemmy + Mastadon (a federated twitter replacement) where you interact over both with the same login/username.
Thanks! So I guess the question I have now is why would I not move to Kbin if that means I get two services for one account?
I mean you can do whatever you want. The fediverse is provided as a free service by a bunch of hosts. It not like hosts are offering competing services.
I guess that’s pretty clear. I guess I meant more of what are the advantages of just having one or the other or both.
So, I'm still confused with Instances and how usernames interact with different Instances. I hear there's different content on different Instances, but I'm not sure if I need a new username to log in there, or if I just don't know how to log in using my lemmy.world username.
I hope I'm not too rambly. I'm getting used to the jargon and a little confused.
An instance is like your email provider.
You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.
With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.
e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I'm from lemmy.one
Brooooooooooooooo
Thank you. I've been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn't need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording
Thank you! That analogy clicks nicely in my head, so it's very appreciated.
An additional note: if you want to subscribe to a community on a different instance, you need to search for it through your home instance
I don't know either, but as long as federation works between them, it makes no difference to me. I follow communities on both from one Friendica account. If I decide to self host one day, I'll choose one based on the software stack.
This, to me, is the marvelous power of federation.
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.
Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn't drop off before then
That's my problem so far. I've been leaving subreddits I can live without and trying to use Lemmy for general browsing, but some of the smaller subreddits can't be replaced.
This is why I made !dragonquest@lemmy.world
The 2 subs on reddit I really cared about were for Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire. I can't devote enough time to build multiple communities and figured DQ has enough fans that it had a better chance of growing.
No doubts about it. With the decentralization it truly just feels like being on forums again. Just needs more content for nicher topics but that's slowly growing, i'm happy here away from the larger internet.
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!
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.
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?
Right now it is. It's still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it's slowly getting traction.
Yes. With the added bonus of decentralization.
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.
I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don't deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.
I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.
All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I'll miss now.
Yeah that's a perspective I understand and I will miss some of that. However for myself at least the removal of Reddit appears to be beneficial to me to such a degree as to out weigh the loss.
But I already have had the benefit of 13 years of reddit opening my eyes andt 13 years of growth and experience from teenager to a responsible adult at the same time so don't feel the mind broadening the same extent any more.
Yeah, that was my immediate next thought as well. I've gotten so much benefit, developed so many interests from large scale community postings. I don't know where such a thing will exist in the future for my kids, if at all. I hope time proves this to be a foolish concern and I'll look dumb for posting such a question on the platform that answers the question.
books are pretty cool
I think reddit changed a lot in the last 10 years. It went from lots of small unique communities where there was really good discussion to everywhere kind of just being an echo chamber where if you disagreed you were just down voted out of the discussion rather than being able to just talk about your different points of view.
As long as content keeps showing up on my feed I've got no reason to go anywhere else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lemmy is my new home.
It scratches the itch that needs scratches.
Same here, I get the random images, humor and conversations that I apparently desire, and actually being away from reading the same crap on reddit that i read every day for years is a relief. I feel better and better every day.
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.
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
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.
Seems fine now, just needs more people/content, and to settle down.
Some people were hesitant as they heard the creator of this place was some crazy Stalinist; what happened to that?
It turns out that when stuff is FOSS and not controlled but an individual or a corporation, their opinions don't actually matter all that much.
The lack of content is a double edged sword, though.
Sure, I can't scroll endlessly, but then again, I can't scroll endlessly. I kind of like that there's not always some new discussion to jump into.
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.
Moving somewhere else? Where?
The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren't other options.
Tildes, Discord, Slack, old-school fora... there are other options.
But they're very different types of platforms that offer a completely different experience
Tildes is ranked-thread discussion, but otherwise, yeah, fair point. That's why I never got into Discord or MetaFilter.
My current replacements for reddit are:
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
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!
This is fine.
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.
I think I'm seeing things settle down and seeing more actual content now. It was mostly posts about Reddit to start with.
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.
What is Tildes? I'm on 2/3 but haven't heard of that one.
https://tildes.net/
Why would I use that over Lemmy?
It's all personal preference. There's certainly pros and cons to both. I think Tildes tends to have more in-depth and thoughtful conversation than what I've seen on Lemmy so far.
There's docs that details the Philosophy if you want to take a look. I'm personally interested in both for different reasons.
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 Memes@Lemmy.ml 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.
Am I the only one who never uses r/All on Reddit? I'm subbed to a lot of subreddits, but I like to scroll through all the posts, so I visit each individual subreddit that I'm subbed to seperately. I only started using All here on Lemmy due to the lack of content.
I'm home.
Lemmy is the future!
Yes.
I'm not going back to Reddit.
I spend all that time on Lemmy now.
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
It has a PWA, use that to get the "app" feeling.
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 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
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?
As a lurker, lemmy is bustling with content, will be scrolling here for a while.
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 like it, it is kind of like Reddit, but confusingly different. But I am not looking for anything else currently.
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'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 seems to be working out fine for me. Reminds me of the old days of Reddit.
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
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 want to try Tildes once /u/talklittle releases rif (TIF?) for it. But I'll keep using Lemmy too. I see no reason to limit my options.
I've really been enjoying tildes - I'd say it's less casual than Lemmy or reddit however. People there generally write incredibly long and detailed posts. Lemmy seems a bit meme-y already
I'd love to give Tildes a go, the content seems a lot more "grown up" with a more substantial discourse. But its still invite only shrug
Finally got my invite to tildes. It’s … fine. I think the governance is sensible, but I think governance also has high potential in the fediverse. Same though, that I prefer to keep doors open rather than pick something.
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.
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.
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 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'm here to stay. Just like reddit, only free and "community owned".
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.
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.
1: Yep.
2: Nope.
Waiting for third parties apps to pop up, but so far I’ve been pretty satisfied with “wefwef”. The future looks very promising!
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.
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.
I'm too happy here to go elsewhere 🙃 I love this place
I use both Reddit and Lemmy now.
Lemmy for general browsing and Reddit for more niche things that are dead on Lemmy.
Lemmy and Tildes are 2 sites I'm very interested in seeing grow. Lemmy is ahead of most, and I think the community here feels like the Reddit I joined back in 2011 or so. I'm sticking around, for now.
Been here 3 years already.
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.
I like it here so far, came from reddit and not going back.
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.
I want it to be, and it has a good chance too.
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.
Absolutely love it and looking forward to helping communities grow. I only go back to reddit to check on /r/Ukraine
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.
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.
Reddit is gone, long live Lemmy!
Kbin. It federates with Lemmy but I like it better so far.
4chan legitimately still beats lemmy and anything else. Slap on a bunch of decent filters and it's far more entertaining and useful than both reddit and lemmy combined.
That’s a rather interesting take. Care to share your filters?
What filters do you use?
Lmao I'd be interested in seeing that feed truthfully
Oc only trolls the hentai armpits treads, that's why its wholesome
Yes, Lemmy is my Reddit Alt not just cuz it's awesome but also i don't know any other reddit alts.
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.
Yep, I think so. I look at reddit periodically and while they haven't had performance issues lately (I wonder why, lol). The posts don't seem geniune anymore. Instead they are forced and lame.
Apparently they just got a bunch of bots to repost old content to make up for the lack of users.
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.
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.
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.
Have a Tilde account now too, more users, but less active? Odd space...
There's a chance I'll move to kbin, although I have a community here. But in general, Lemmy makes a good Reddit replacement.
I'm happy so far and I'm enjoying watching the community grow.
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.
I'll probably stick with Lemmy until another solution comes around that makes federation easier.
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
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.
Yes it is. Tried Imgur for a while, but that place is… lost. Now with the Memmy App, I feel right at home here on Lemmy
I wasn't aware imgur was even a social media, I thought it was just an image host
I split my time between Lemmy and Tildes, Lemmy is the most Reddit-like, Tildes is more of a place for contemplation and I like it a lot, but when I feel like doomscrolling a la Reddit, I go to Lemmy.
Just checked out tilde for the first time. I appreciate that it isn't simply a collection of posts about or from reddit. Thanks.
Yeah, Tildes is actively trying to be something else. I like that.
You get some great conversation on tildes
Depends on how much Meta fucks it up, if at all.
I'm liking it the more I use it and seeing the development of the platform is a nice experience.
I love it. It's fun to watch it grow too.
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.
Nope, for me also, Lemmy works fine!
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.
So far Lemmy is my new home! I like it here.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Literally just signed up. Don't quite get the instances thing I'll read about that tonight but right now I'm on world which I think is the 'big' one?
Either way liking it so far
World is one of the big ones you can see them listed here https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. The instances are just servers running lemmy. The servers can communicate with each other with the activitypub protocol if the admins allow it.
What's cool about this is nobody can ever "shutdown" lemmy as there are multiple servers. Also it won't turn into a cesspit like voat because each admin can make there own rules and defederate from nastier instances. So you can have an anything goes lemmy instance or a curated instance. I really hope lemmy comes out the victor of reddit alternatives because I love the idea of it.
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.
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
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.
The sports stuff is pretty empty. Team specific (my teams) are mostly dead still. So I've been on the corresponding SB Nation blogs more than I had for a long time. Otherwise, just here.
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!
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.
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.
Im good here.
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.
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.
No plans on going anywhere else, sticking with Lemmy.
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.
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.
I use reddit.club
Lemmy on Memmy is feeling very Apollo
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.
Yup.
Seems like it is for me, I'm also using snapzu, but I seem to be gravitating towards lemmy more.
You assume I think
But….he’s asking a question, not assuming anything.
Why do you assume he doesn't assume anything? Sounds like a pretty big assumption to assume he doesn't assume anything.
I like it but there is sparse activity on most of the Android instances. 😟 Lemmy kind of seems like several of ants scurrying around on a big mound right now. Am a big BoostforReddit fan and am hanging out on Jerboa until their Lemmy app is released.
I'm not sure what else there is besides, like quora.
I've signed up on tildes.net as well
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.
I joined multiple to have many feeds
Not to me. As the community is smaller, my exposure is larger. I had no voice on Reddit or any community.
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.
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.