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I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I'm in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I'm excited to see where this goes

Love it! It's like food truck version of reddit. The apps are now right next to each other on my phone

What app are you guys using on Android? Jerboa?

Just joined, and I'm curious to see how it compares. I'm still trying to figure out how to add the equivalent of subrexxits (communities?) to my stream here. Wondering if there seems to be a void, should I just create one, add some stuff, and wait for those that are more knowledgeable/active to come and play? Kind of an "if you build it they will come" kind of thing?

I made a reddit account over a decade ago, it was by far my favorite social media platform, and pretty much every single change since then has made it slightly worse. I've been looking forward to this exodus for a while.

Yup, migrating from Reddit here. Biggest problem for me is finding a good instance. First one I tried was not in my region, poor connectivity. Then I started trying ones in my region (USA) after looking at the list sortable by country here; https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Next one I tried was beehaw.org. That one turned out to be heavily defederated which means it blocks a lot of outside instances. That's really bad. I can block any instance I want in my profile so why do I need someone else to tell me what I can and cannot access.

I did pretty well with lemmy.one, performance was good, but was not particularly impressed by the administration, some disabled features and a few blocked instances. Now I'm trying lemm.ee and we'll see how that goes, so far so good.

The next big hurdle is finding communities. There's no sort or filter function when you list them all in a search. So it can be hard to zero in on what you're looking for. There are some 3rd party sites like lemmyverse.net to help in the search for communities, but it would be a lot better if that was not necessary.

You can tell Lemmy is immature in terms of development, rough around the edges. It lacks quality of life features and has some glaring bugs. Still its not anything that makes it unusable, but the user experience could be better at this point. I'm sure it will get there as the software matures.

The huge thing that makes Lemmy superior (and the Fediverse in general) is that it's community driven by FOSS making it free of corporate influence. That's just a huge advantage, can't overstate that too much. Inevitably what happens with corporate driven communities is they prioritize monetization over community interests. That happened with Reddit in a big way as evidenced by the recent strike.

The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I'm afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service... But it's a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.

I feel like I'm in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.

I like it but for some reason it won't let me create a community but other than that it already better than reddit, no karma farming, bots, or only fans

I've seen the term rexxitors used (like brexit), and I really like that.

How the hell do you sub to places on other fediverses? It says to paste [email protected] into whatever in lemm.ee, no results

I think it's finally matured to be worth it, and I'm dividing my time 50/50 between the two. It's just like.the reddit I fondly remember from 11 Years ago

I too agree with your observation at the quality of discourse seems better here. My experience with Twitter versus Mastodon also was like that

I wonder if anyone would care for an instance that scrapes reddit and just reposts stuff from popular are user requested reddit subs to bootstrap our way out of the content problem?

I've been liking it. Funny actually. I used to be really into this site called FunnyJunk back during high-school and got really into it during college. Then it became much more right-wing so I tried out Reddit. Had that for a few years until just recently. Let's see how long this one lasts.

There are pros and cons. I have been having issues trying to upload pictures and with replying to some comments. I very much like the ability to post a link and have a description at the same time so that I don't have to immediately write a comment to describe the content of the link. I like the underlying concept of the Fediverse so far as I understand it. I also like that I can edit post titles. As someone who frequently had to delete and repost posts on reddit because I made a spelling error or some grammatical error in a post, being able to edit the post title is a life saver.

I think there is room for some improvement. I think it would be handy if I am looking at comments in a community that the comment showed which post that comment was attached too.

Overall, not too hard to get used to so far and I am really quite loving it.

Well at least lemmynsfw.com is starting to get populated.

Lemmy itself seems fine reading wise. The main issues I have with it are that the communities are spread to thin with everyone making their own niche communities that have little to no activity and thousands of 0 comment posts. Wouldnt be that bad except the sort options for lemmy seem to not work that great and I dont want to spend the time curating from an every changing list of communities just to propagate my feed... because at this point it seems like a waste with servers federating and unfederating. The 3 main servers I tried sofar have been unfederated from the largest gaming community of lemmy which makes them almost useless to me.

Lemmy still needs a lot of work to be a good replacement for reddit. Better sorting options would go a long way and maybe allowing each server to have a "home page" that lists their own curated and popular communities as a home page.

I was actually hesitant at first, because I didn't know of a good alternative. Then, there's Lemmy that I've heard of. Since lemmy.world has been compromised, I chose this server. I still haven't escaped Reddit fully. However, the fact the board at Reddit Inc. accepted and implemented the new API pricing made my decision to come to Lemmy quicker.

I've always primarily lurked on reddit. I don't usually say anything unless I have something to add and by the time a post makes it to the front page who is going to see it anyway? So I'm trying to participate more which is new for me. Besides that I've had a little trouble with jerboa but I'm chocking that up to growing pains. But so far so good and I'm looking forward to watching lemmy and lemm.ee grow and thrive.

I was shocked that you could talk openly about Piracy and other naughty things. Jerboa has been a bit hit or miss and I am still at a loss on how to join another server's community from thier New Community announcement thread.

I'm still browsing and learning how lemmy works. So far I'm quite happy. Reminds me of the old days lol But just figuring out how to find interests and such when I have a min, reading things that interest me. The breath of fresh air from Reddit has been amazing honestly. Didn't realize how toxic it was until I came here

Digging it... Finally took the plunge, joined, and started learning how this all works just a little while ago and it's definitely familiar and feels like the right replacement.

I'm also convinced after what little time I've been here that it's going to grow like crazy sooner or later.

So far so good! It’s been cool to see activity slowly pick up over the last few days

I’m on iOS beta testing the Mlem app and that’s already improved a lot over the last few days, too.

I’m really optimistic about Lemmy, it feels like cool things are happening here!

It seems a lot quieter. But in a nice way. Like, city centre shopping vs village store.

People seem a bit nicer.

And, there's a greater sense of optimism here. About everything.

I'm enjoying the lemmy communities set up by some of my subscribed reddit subs. I'm okay with the potentially offensive communities and happy to block the communities that have content I don't want to consume.
I'm a little confused still, about the "federated" thing and accessing certain communities on other servers and now have accounts on 3 federated servers because I cannot otherwise access some of the communities from the other servers.

I'm loving my experience here, it really feels like I'm a part of something special that's happening.

I've not found anyone to be unhelpful, it's a really great community & I'm so greatful to be a part of it!

Thanks to everyone for making this place amazing!