I'm having fun. Would like to see some of the niche hobbyist coms get more visibility.
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With third party apps added and new niche communities its getting alot better. I'm enjoying it. Also has a high level of discussion a higher level of discussion without karma.
Iβm liking it. The comments are nice and the content for the most part have been enjoyable. I do miss larger niche communities in reddit. Some really small communities are so small or dead its hard to get it going.
I donβt spend as much time on lemmy as I did reddit. I think Iβve now spent a bit more of that time spread with instagram and YouTube as well.
I learn something new every week about subjects I was decided on for a long time, forcing me to re-evaluate. It seems like there are more knowledgeable people here than on Reddit. I do wish our visualnovels community was more active, but alas, it's a more niche subject that's bound to grow slowly.
It depends. I'm on two instances, sopuli and beehaw. Both of them are really welcoming and cool, and I can interact with people without worrying about being bullied or harassed or attacked by random trolls just because they don't like what I say (and trust me, suffering those actions while being neurodivergent is way worse than suffering those actions while being neurotypical).
But I think that more than 70% of the content I see comes from one single instance. Excluding beehaw (they defederated that other instance, and I agree with that), I think that sopuli also has similar communities that are like abandoned or with low amount of content. That's something I don't like.
Still not as good as Reddit as a platform despite the apps are getting really good. I haven't discovered interesting /c/ and my frontpage is filled with memes and tech news only, it gets boring. The local regional /c/ is pretty much dead. No one bother posting or start a convo.
Regretting thr instance i chose and checking for migration options.
Lemmy world is showing some weird reddit vibes when it comes to shoving admin decisions down users throats, even if they dont affect me.
The memes are good and I find out about news and stuff the same way I would on reddit. So pretty good.
I use it just as much as Reddit and generally enjoy the home/all experience much better. What you miss is the niche communities but I feel like the better experience on the βbigβ communities like [email protected] or [email protected] make up for it.
It also got me to join mastodon over twitter, so Iβm grateful for that as well
Signing up for some instances can be annoying, when a few want you to type out a cover letter of why you want to join them. I get trying to weed out bots but god is it tedious.
I use it but some of the smaller communities pretty much are non existent here
I'm here for the community and to be honest - the people in the Fediverse are very smart and share their smarty brains in a nice and parsable way.
edit: with the exception of c/asklemmy.world because apparently all the judgey shitheads that make the internet suck all live there.
When I sort by All I see 90% of what I would be looking for on other sites, so it's a drop in replacement (at least for now). I spend less time overall on lemmy, but the time I do spend is less mindless scrolling, and more actually interesting posts.
Pretty good so far, miles ahead of reddit, it's been nice seeing it grow, have been here for a year and change
I run out of content to read much more quickly than I did with Reddit, so I'm antsy/restless more often, because I pick up my phone and then have nothing to do on it.
Very good. Seems like a nice place to be in.