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It's alright but I think the low res weird mouse thing mascot isn't the best, I've always hated reddit's smug bastard shitty alien thing though.
Also it feels relatively empty even though there's data to back there being half a million users.
Also the language filtering is super imperfect to the point I can't use it, so I have to manually filter out 500 non-english communities.
It will take years for Lemmy to take off in much the same way as Reddit had slowly built up.
As I and other mentioned before, the main downside of Lemmy is that the community you care about isn't here (and frankly, I don't know if they will even come here at all). Like, we don't have AskHistorians here, and the Lemmy for your hometown or country is either quiet or just completely died. So, I end up having no choice but to return to Reddit to keep in touch with those communities. However, as someone who is privacy conscious since Reddit now sells your data to train AI, I try to log in to Reddit with Tor. But even with the Onion site of Reddit, it won't let me log in at most times because of technical discrepancy with stupid captchas or something. Sometimes I could log in via Tor but most times I'm not able to.
Anyhow, I would love Lemmy to take off as soon as possible but there is teething problem common in new communities. But the pessimistic side of me thinks it may not since so many people have become too invested in Reddit. And the latter intentionally hooked people in for the worst reasons.
No. Lemmy posts are always left leaning. There is no right and no center. Thats disheartening. Next to that most communities are too small so no viable discussions follow. Most communities die in months.
Then again, reddit.com doesnt exist anymore because some schmucks have taken over, resulting in obtrusive ads, profiling and tracking.
I dont post on reddit anymore. Still follow some subs though because they just dont have an alternative.
I went from 1 source (reddit) to several(lemmy, mastodon, 4chan, 9gag). And still it feels empty. Mostly because while some memes are nice, 4chan is filled with morons and 9gag... That's a "racist app" according to its own users. But it doesn't stop there. A lot of posts there are just vile. Not just right wing nut job, no, they are worse. And masto is mostly the same as lemmy.
I've stopped using reddit completely. I do tend to check twitter a lot though.
Yeah on Reddit at this point it feels to me by bots for bots. Maybe the bots here are just better but it feels more human.
I've had no need to return to Reddit at all.
Using mbin at fedia.io,
I have access to Lemmy (Reddit-like) and Mastodon (Twitter-like)
I grew very tired of Reddit's Bot-Spam and AI-bot drivel, over 50% of the shit you see/read on Reddit is copy-pasta old shit or completely fabricated.
On r/, i only really followed my interests - cats, cannabis, crochet, etc. Those topics getting less action here forced me to follow more communities. It surprised me how much i enjoy the general ask, news, eli5, til, art communities that i never would have followed when i had more niche content.
Why do all your interests start with a c... :)
Can probably add chicks in there if you are a guy too.
I was going down the list, got high, and forgot what i was doing.
Been on Lemmy a few months now and it feels like moving from shitty Digg to fresh Reddit. I had canceled my account on Reddit even before the last enshitification, and kept just reading. Lemmy feels good enough to participate in posting and commenting. Small is good.
I would say no to me it's more like IRC. Its small enough to be not noticed by influence operations as much and each instance has its own personality just like IRC networks. It's a great mix of local community and access to a wider view points.
Less niche topics, but higher quality content
And whoa man is that a bigger deal that I realized. I still comment and snoop on Reddit infrequently but I'm active here. Less trolls. Minimal bots. Lots of high quality comments.
Yes I miss the niche at times but honestly? This is home now.
Depends on the topic. From what I can tell, Lemmy skews young and technical and towards certain personalities and interests, so there are going to be topics that go to those strengths, but also topics where the discussions get mired down in either discussing the basics or get stuck in a pretty unsophisticated understanding of the topic.
It's obvious with the hyper local discussions (where should I eat in this city when I visit), because there just aren't enough knowledgeable people to form a quorum for quality discussion. But it's also true in many of the hobby/interest discussions, simply because there aren't enough people to where good discussion encourages more high quality discussion in a feedback loop.
i like the fact that it is not karma driven. like vote on me how you want i don't look at my karma and care at all how people react
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I switched from Reddit to Lemmy cold turkey, not willing to put up with that user hostile enshitification shiticane reddit was going through. There are a few communities that I really miss (/r/weightroom) but new Lemmy things (/c/tenforward) that give me joy. The Internet is getting pretty shitty but Lemmy is a great small corner of it that's resistant to much of that fuckery
It reminds me a lot of Reddit in the first few years.
I initially joined Reddit because Aaron Swartz’s involvement convinced me it wasn’t going to go the route of other corporate social platforms, but I think Swartz would have been far more at home on Lemmy.