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Definitely a learning curve but WefWef has solved a lot of my initial issues. Definitely seems like a lot less obvious bits and garbage than Reddit, which was getting pretty bad.
But so far Iβm glad to be on something decentralized and excited to see what this looks like a year from now.
I just posted this in another unrelated thread, but relevant here as well: https://wefwef.app was the key for me. It's nearly EXACTLY like Apollo. Installed on my Home Screen and put where the Apollo icon was. (Apollo moved to a special folder to commemorate its memory.) You guys, I've got to be honest, I didn't think Lemmy was going to work out for me, but with wefwef, I don't feel like I'm missing a beat. Looking forward to Lemmy and the fediverse continuing to grow!
This has been a big part of it for me. This makes it feel like home. Reminds me of getting a new iPhone where it is just a tweak of the same formula.
It feels like people are genuinely excited to be part of the community, which is something I haven't felt from reddit in years. I really hope that's able to stick around in one form or another. The community makes the site fun. I don't think reddit has been "fun" for a while, it's just been a content-firehose to the face, and it's nice to not be drowned by it.
But also I'm bored and don't know what to do with the internet anymore lol
It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy
Not gonna lie it was really confusing to begin with, even with a guide. Partially because I dropped by kbin first.
This is literally my first ever comment on Lemmy - been lurking since Apollo went dark. Going to try and be way more active here than I ever was on Reddit, need to start throwing more upvotes around too.
I have a nice little folder on my homescreen full of apps Iβm switching between which is fun in itself watching them develop super fast, with great updates from the devs and server hosts which adds to the feeling of being in on the ground floor (typing this on Memmy, but also enjoying wefwef when it works for me).
Thereβs a real feeling here of βsomethingβ happening, but no one quite knows what it is yet. I wasnβt there for the really early days of Reddit, but I presume it felt a bit like this. The Beans situation was fun to watch come and go.
I havenβt built up a sub list of communities yet like quite like I had, so mostly just browsing All to soak in the entire platform, but that will come with time as it did over there.
Overall, itβs solidly filling the Apollo sized hole in my heart and in my day-to-day doomscrolling. Iβm definitely sticking around for the long haul here - fuck you u/Spez.
Very little content here. But I'm glad the crowd is more diverse than on Mastodon
Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.
It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)
Liking it so far. It feels a bit like the early days of the internet. You know the potential is there and canβt wait to see this grow.
It's complicated enough the masses won't come. But easy enough to not be a pain in the ass.
Still not as comprehensive etc but you can see it growing.
I miss Relay, my reddit app.
Sometimes it's really slow but besides that, it works and I believe it will take off as a successful project, Reddit can go duck itself.
Good quality memes so far, content for specific communities such as games or sports is lacking
It's lovely. Haven't looked back. The only thing I've even thought about going to reddit for in the last three weeks has been the occasional technical answer that comes up in a Google search.
I hope that in time the fediverse will become the same sort of resource.
The only thing I miss is my smaller subs is that I really enjoyed for my specific interests. Hopefully they grow here. For general content I enjoy Lemmy much more
Iβm not bad about it. Trying to contribute more and hopefully help this place grow!
For now it feels like a nicotine patch, but in a good way.
I like it but definitely miss some of the more niche subreddits that I followed back on reddit, but hopefully those come over as Lemmy grows.
Made my account yesterday. I'd never heard of Lemmy so I decided to check it out. So far, it translated pretty well to what I was used to with reddit but it feels a lot like reddit did 12 years ago which is great. Also, there's NSFW posts on my feed! As soon as I saw that, I signed up so fast.
I don't know what the process is to create a community, but I have a few I want to try and bring to the table that may hopefully attract some quality users from subreddits i frequented. Audio production, magic the gathering, thunder basketball, etc.
Also, each and every comment I read from lemmy users feels...genuine? Like everyone has something to add instead of the same stale "this" comments. Overall, it's been great getting to know this website!
I like it very much! Everything comes naturally into place for me, I've had no issues adapting as of today. Already feels like home, and it's really nice to be here.
It would be nice to have a place to discuss world events without trolls brigading every thread.
Getting better as more people are on onboarded