I think, despite rough things (performance, ui bits I dislike etc etc) its one of the better alternatives with lots of potential.
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I'm a fan of Lemmy, for the memes and link aggregator aspect of it. And sense of community, there are trolls but it's generally pretty positive.
I also like the Old Internet feel that the Fediverse in general has. I'm going out and looking for things that interest me again rather than hoping for something new to come into my feed. Actually reading articles. Commenting more than twice a year.
We'll see what happens but overall, I think I'm staying.
I like it a lot and I never really used reddit often.
I like it so far, lemmy and mastodon are replacing reddit and twitter for me. Yes, is more quiet and there's less people, but also less bullshit (from users and CEO) and in general a great atmosphere.
The fediverse is great!
Nah, more of a Kbin fan, but I also have some other forums/BBS sites I go to (and reddit still because the community around life in Japan and such never got going over here, but only those subreddits and nothing else).
Yes. I am used to appolo and wefwef.app is a life saver.
I feel like there’s people just taking top posts from Reddit and getting them here as fast as they can. Sometimes it seems like a “best of” Reddit site.
I'm definitely sticking around. It was slow going on Lemmy after Reddit's third party app shutdown on 6/30 but there's been a noticeable uptick in posts and comments in the communities I follow which is great. I don't need 5,000 responses per post and Lemmy's discussion volume works just fine for me.
There are still a few interests I follow that aren't present on Lemmy that I'm aware of (pro wrestling and NFL being the big ones), but hopefully those arrive soon.
I'm sure the answers here will be biased in favor of Lemmy, but I think I'll be sticking around here for a while. There's some communities on Reddit that, unfortunately, are too niche and don't have an equivalent on lemmy. While I'm trying to create the equivalent of r/presidents, there's other communities like r/aceattorney, r/slaythespire, etc. that to my knowledge, don't have a large community outside of it.
Despite this, I don't think I'll be moving elsewhere. I prefer Lemmy to kbin as of now, and as far as forums go, the only non-reddit or non-lemmy one that I'd even remotely consider being more regular on is Historum. Though with Historum, I find it better to just browse older threads rather than partake in current ones.
Yes(in a way), hopefully not.