I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive π
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I don't know sir or madam; my wife will suggest food she doesn't want for dinner.
It's kind of a dumb question. Everyone who doesn't like it just leaves immediately. That's like going to a Detroit Red WIngs game and asking the crowd who their favorite hockey team in the state is.
"Dumb" is too strong a word for the way the questions were worded. I know some users here are on Tildes as well, or Squabble (idk if that's how you spell it). Doesn't mean lemmy is THE alternative - just one of many minor ones. Also, being on lemmy doesn't mean you're not thinking of moving away specially with Meta's arrival.
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.
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. Itβs everything I wanted without all the extra bullshit.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the "my ex was crazy" phase endearing.
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
yes :3
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 itβs slightly harder to use than normal sites, the boomer nazis havenβt overrun Lemmy yet, so currently it just feels really great.
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 Iβll be here as it provides probably 90+% of what I was getting out of Reddit. Iβm not sure long term how it will work out but so far I have no reason to leave.
Iβve also noticed I just donβt 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 Iβm back to the real world. I like that.
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.
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.
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
I'm here to stay. The more I get used to how it works, the more impressed I am with how much better the core concept is and how much that concept influences the quality of the stuff I see.
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.
As long as content keeps showing up on my feed I've got no reason to go anywhere else.
Right now it is. It's still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it's slowly getting traction.
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.
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.
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.
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 donβt see the point of having a kbin account on top of lemmy+mastodon. Iβm spending some time discovering what is around lemmy and all its instances so it will be unlikely that Iβll move somewhere else, unless lemmy collapses somehow
Iβm 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.
I actually prefer this over reddit. Currently, Iβve yet to come across any infighting or holier than thou types and itβs nice. People on here are more real and donβt seem like keyboard warriors who think they know everything with no real world experience. Iβm sure they are here, but I havenβt come across any yet.
The only problem right now is content. We still have a small userbase. Discussions have been good, tho, and time will bring more people.