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[–] francisco1844@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

When federation works it is good. The instance I signed up for was missing quite a bit of posts across many of the different communities I had signed for. It seems better now after a recent upgrade, but unless one checks manually there is no way to know for sure if one's instance is federating properly.

The other issue I find is that because anyone can create a topic on any instance, that can cause fragmentation of less popular topics so basically none of the instances has a good representation on that given topic because the few people interested in the topic are scattered.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been on the fediverse before, but never thought to use Lemmy/Kbin until the Reddit exodus. Joined a small community for the domain name and enjoyed it thus far.

That being said, some communities are missing or inactive, definitely gonna help out in that regard.

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[–] sethal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s decent, has a lot of room to grow though. I really miss the nicheοΏΌ subreddits.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago

I like it. Been spending a lot more time here than Reddit. That's for sure.

Scratches the itch but like others I miss the more niche stuff.

But I'm trying to be the change I want to see

[–] OtherAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Other than being a bit quiet, I am enjoying it more than I ever did reddit. It's the quiet, the newness, the wait for new communities to pop up, but most importantly, I don't get the feeling of overbearing moderators.

Thank you for taking all of us in.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still don't know what instance to use or if it matters. But I like it, the community is similar enough to reedits. I'm looking forward to using Sync for lemmy though. I miss sync for reddit lol

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[–] wutamisposedtodo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer it. The concept of federation has been hard to wrap my mind around, but I think the issue with current-day reddit is that many communities became so large that interactions between users and even interactions with posts that are more than an hour old almost completely dried up (or at least that was my experience) which made the website a lot less interesting as a social platform and more of just a time-wasting doomscrolling link aggregation platform.

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[–] kthxbye_reddit@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

There are less people, but I enjoy it a lot. I more and more seldomly look into Reddit these days. Iβ€˜m much more active here, hoping that more and more users step over…

It's aight. I just want to see all the billionaire bastards burn

[–] GaryL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that I come across the same posts more frequently on my front page here than on Reddit. Perhaps it would be solved as the userbase continues to grow. Other than that, I have no complaints. This platform is a perfect substitute for Reddit, if not better.

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[–] G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's Much faster than reddit, no ads. it makes me think reddit should die at earliest

[–] Punk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So far I'm enjoying it! There have been a few hiccups, but things have been coming together, especially since Memmy and wefwef have taken over the void that Apollo left.

I've also got a Squabbles account, which is I guess where the people who got mad at Reddit but insist the Fediverse is too confusing ended up, but Lemmy seems to be advancing faster in features and app functionality. At this point, between Reddit and Twitter's bullshit, I'm trying it all.

[–] Poob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm liking it a lot. Completely replaced Reddit. Hopefully there will be fewer posts about how Reddit sucks soon as that will start to smell of obsession very quickly.

Kinda like how conservative subreddits were nothing but complaining about progressives, or how r/sino is nothing but trying to shit on America

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[–] n00b001@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried a few lemmy apps, but none of them (as far as I can tell) support swiping between posts

As in: you see a list of posts, click one to view, and after viewing: swipe from right to left to see the next post

Hopefully I'm wrong and someone can correct me!

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Currently I use Connect Lemmy for Android as with Jerboa there was a login issue when the server version wouldn't match. Not sure if this app is more resilient to this but it wasn't a good start. I couldn't use Lemmy properly for about a week or two. I also don't like that Lemmy is hard to search for new SubLemmy or search for results via Google. Before I just added "Reddit" to get the good results, I wonder how this will evolve if Lemmy gets bigger. Well and the whole kbing/Lemmy/mastodon link of the Fedyverse is really confusing for new people.

[–] HiImYourDadsSon@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm really liking it. It's still missing a few of my old reddit communities but feels very much like reddit used to, it at least feels like I'm getting my fix. I'm using Connect to navigate Lemmy and it reminds me a little of my dear old Baconreader.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It's good but it doesn't have all fixes for all problems yet like reddit had

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.

Lemmy scratches the Reddit itch for me. It doesn't have all my old niche communities yet, but it's got enough for me to log on and see what's happening in the Internet.

Also, I haven't been pestered to use an app since I got here, which is so nice. Reddit was getting more and more aggressive about that before I quit.

[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like the considerate people who are able to act like adults are the majority here, and it feels really nice. Thank you all.

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[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like it so far. Everyone seems so helpful and nice. There isn't a ton of content here yet, but I know we're all working on it. Some of my niche interests have already had communities pop up since I've joined.

Currently, I'm using Connect. The UX is similar enough to Baconreader that I haven't had many issues with my transition. The future looks bright!

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