Technology

I like it in general and think it has a chance to stay, however I feel it needs a bunch more work than Mastodon, which works close to a full release, except the oddity the Elk Alpha client doesn't have a report button, but is better than the default.

Lemmy has some rough edges that will put off many nontechnical users.

I joined a Lemmy instance first (infosec.pub) but joined fedia when I found out about it this morning. Overall, I'm finding kbin much more responsive, better UI, and easier to grasp concepts and searching is definitely easier.

I'm hoping some of the developers of the third party Reddit apps shift their apps to Lemmy/kbin.

I've tried https://lemmy.ml/c/mlemapp and it's definitely a good start, but a long way to polished. I'm excited to see it's growth and development.

It's very nice! In general it's cleaner. Community so far is much friendlier. I like that there are fewer of us so far. It's more homely?

However, joining communities is still a bit rough and difficult and a bit unreliable for me at the moment.

overall Lemmy is pretty good. Better than I expected tbh.

The communities are smaller, which feels more old-school, and it feels friendlier and more accepting. On reddit if you bought up nu-metal in the metal subreddit you'd be downvoted and harassed, here I saw someone bring up nu-metal in a metal community and people were super accepting of it. However, because of the smaller population, the more niche interests don't have a community, or if they do, there's basically no content.

The federation thing takes a second to 'get' and with it, comes problems of discoverability, but we have browse.feddit.de to help with that. The upside to the fediverse is the fact the users are in control of the platform instead of a for-profit organization make me very happy, I no longer scroll with shame, I scroll with pride.

There are pros and cons to Lemmy but the biggest cons are related to the relatively low number of users which will grow with time (I hope). Overall I'm enjoying it so far and I really hope more reddit communities make the switch

Jerboa made a huge progress in a short time with the wave of attention Lemmy is getting. I'm liking Lemmy a lot more than rexxit.

Hope most moderators stay there and we get fresh moderation here. (Not sure how were you as moderator, but I had lots of bad experiences)

Luckily some communities I enjoyed there are already here, like Foss, android, linux, open source, Nintendo.

Would love to see many of my subreddits here. (Maybe maybe maybe, specialized tools, unexpected, unixporn, kdeporn, to name a few)

@atomicpoet
I like it! I especially like that you don't even need to make a separate account to interact with the communities on there! (I'm literally commenting from a custom fork of glitch-soc right now) That alone makes Lemmy better than any normal Forum out there.

Edit: doesn't appear that Lemmy handles content warnings in replies

I'm enjoying it. I hope that some of the communities get a little bigger, and that some more features are added to the mobile app, but I really like the vibe of this social media site

Love the idea of smaller "indie" social media communities without any profit incentive, just purely spaces to socialize and hang out. Also appreciate that there's solid moderation against hate speech etc. Otherwise it's still clear that it's a new and growing thing and perhaps there's some uncertainty about what the day-to-day realities of it will look like, but it's interesting to be exploring it at such an early time.

So far I've mostly used jerboa. It's a usable app, and a good starting point. That said, from a UI/UX perspective, it does seem to be missing a lot of quality of life features that were in Reddit apps.

Overall Lemmy seems like a decent Reddit replacement and I'm sure it will only improve with time.

So far it's not bad. I'm also using Jerboa and it's ok. There's a few features from RiF that i would really love to see in an app that aren't there yet,
-The ability to automatically collapse child comments so you only see top level until you expand the conversation
-The ability to change comment sorting.

-And although it doesn't relate to the app, I'm really hoping for a Lemmy Enhancement Suite extension in the future.
Overall it's not bad, It's a fairly young, community and those things will take some time to develop.

Wish it was easier to subscribe to communities. For some reason It hangs when I try to. But its still ongoing development so I expect bugs. Hopefully it gets fleshed out soon.

Reddit refugee here. I like it so far! Really dig the federation between the instances.

I have a lot of questions about the whole Fediverse concept but I love the general vibe of hopefulness that there is around here, it's crazy refreshing!

I'm also using Jerboa currently and I love it!

P.S. Don't forget to nuke your reddit accounts!