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It's far from perfect, but I'm taking a stand.
Half the reason I used Reddit was to cure boredom. I've decided to find other things to do. The other main reason I loved to check in was to make sure I don't miss big news. So far, Lemmy seems to scratch that itch. It'll take a long time for niche communities to establish, but I'll just deal with that for now. Maybe I'll just go back to some old forums for that purpose.
Yeah, that's been my experiance too. The platform only has about 12,000 active users on it. Mastadon, in comparison, has 1.2 million active daily users. it's alot more than previously, but still nothing in the grand scheme of things. More people are coming in though and it is still growing but at this rate, what I believe to be 3,000 new active users in a day, it'll take a bit.
In the mean time, thank you for taking the initiative and posting. To others be the change you want to see, try posting a bit.
Edit: up to 19,000 now
I just love it, but you have to make sure to subscribe to a lot of communities from lots of different instances.
Im also on Android which I think has a better mobile client.
Beehaw is very chatty, join their popular communities. :)
What is your experience with lemmy?
Personally I am glad that decentralization is slowly picking up again with things like Lemmy and Mastodon. To me using it does not feel all that different from Reddit actually (UI-wise).
I grew up in the days of the old internet where newgroups and mailing lists were the way to interact with other "netizens" (a term I have not heard being used in years btw). Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it. Lemmy has that advantage too currently of smaller, ideologically-inclined, and willing-to-jump-a-few-hoops people.
TL;DR: I've no issues with using Lemmy and I like it so far, including smaller size of the community.
Any new platform will have far less content to begin with. And far less tools. I hope that people do create apps like Infinity, Relay and Apollo for Lemmy soon (or that Jerboa grows to that quality level).
The content will come, as Reddit becomes a shell of it's former self to satisfy the VCs.
I find it exciting. Very reminiscent of the Digg exodus. Sure, it can be a little frustrating at times. But reddit was going downhill for me long before the API stupidity. Lemmy feels like returning home in a way.
The mobile browser version is pretty much unusable for me. I select view All, then organize by either Hot or Active, and what I get is an endless stream of posts, but newly made and from two years ago (so, neither Hot not Active). And the page becomes unresponsive because of the endless stream.
The app works better but kept timing out when trying to upvoted stuff. Just updated to see if that fixes it.
So far, I gotta say squabbles is working better for me as a reddit alternative.
I hope they disable the live-update stuff soon.
I got the beta Mlem for iPhone. I’m liking it better than the mobile web. For two days it seems to be growing ok. I don’t miss the ads every other post for sure! (Didn’t have on Apollo either)
Mlem is off to a good start, but it’s just not far enough along for me to switch full-time. Once the dev rounds out some of the QoL improvements (collapsing), I think it can be great.
I find the mobile web to be great though, for the most part. I love to look (I use dark mode), and I have it saved to my home screen so it feels like a dedicated app.
Give it some time, you'll start to see more and a bigger variety of posts. Additionally, change your sort of posts once in awhile, and enable the "all" selection and you'll see a bigger variety of posts
I’ve had old posts pop up a few times, but not often.
I mostly lurked on Reddit, because it felt pretty useless to comment in larger subreddits. So far, it’s a lot more pleasant to comment here and see how communities might grow.
Getting out of the habit of doom scrolling has been the most positive change for me. I pop in a few times a day and check active and then new, then find other things to do. It’s better for my mental health and I’m more productive.
The long and short of it is that it is rough around the edges, but it's a good foundation that can get better over time. It definitely needs some UI improvements and better onboarding
On Reddit I sometimes see the same posts for days. In that respect I don't think there's anything different. It's about how you sort / filter and how much content is posted.
people need to remember that apps like apollo were around for years. iterating and improving to produce an incredible product.
it wasn’t always like that. you’re at the cutting edge. like reddit was 10 years ago.
This stuff takes time
I think it's just going to take some getting used to. I've been riding the struggle bus for the last couple of days but it's getting better. I'm just excited to be somewhere new for a change. The echo chambers were getting pretty bad.
Mlem (iOS app) isn't great but I'm sure it will get better. The official reddit app is atrocious.
I was on reddit for over 12 years. I mostly lurked because my comments were never seen by the time I saw a thread. That's not super important tot me but I'd like to have more of a voice. Sure, things are easy now, but back in the day it was a pain in the ass in some regards. I'm still shocked the search sucks so bad over there. Give it some time to grow and see what happens.
Coming from Apollo I’m quite liking the mlem app. It’s already doing the things I want it to do.
Same! It just needs the ability to collapse posts or a compact mode for the feed. And to be a bit less crash-ey. But it’s in beta I expect stability and features to improve.
I know what you mean. The biggest issue I'm having is finding and subscribing to communities that are not a part of the instance I joined with.
I kept seeing links that listed communities I was interested in subscribing to, but then it would ask me to log in, I'd put in my credentials, only for the log in to not work. I finally realized I had to make a new account with that instance, and then i could log in and join it. I don't want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to enjoy content, plus much if it is duplicated as some instance are linked, but others are not.
Also I use Jerboa to browse lemmy, don't have a PC, and would rather use an app than my web browser(Brave).
You don’t have to create an account for each instance. You hsve to get the link for the specific community you want to subscribe to/interact with and search for it within your home instance.
That's not how it works.
You can subscribe to remote instances from your own instance. You shouldn't be using multiple accounts.
For example, you are on lemmy.world, and the group you replied to is on lemmy.ml. I'm replying to the conversation from lemmy.blahaj.zone. The instances communicate with each other.
What you need to do is search for the instance you want to join. So if you see a cool group called CoolGroup on a server called some.instance, you would go to the search box and search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]). That will let you find it.
Yes, that could and should be easier, but lemmy is not a finished product, and it was not prepared for the reddit influx, so it will take time to iron out usability stuff.
It's not going to replace Reddit overnight. Those communities have to be built here. If people stick around, it will happen.
I know the feeling, but the way I'm dealing with it is twofold.
Create content. If the commuity you like has few posts, then start something. If the community doesn't exist, create it. I'm doing my part by creating maliciouscompliance (quick shoutout: /c/[email protected] , https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance , [email protected] ).
Recognise that I used to spend too much time on Reddit and I should spend less time on social media in general. "Not as doomscrolly" is a feature for me, although I recognise this isn't for everyone.
Does anyone know why so many subs I've subscribed to say pending? Does a mod need to approve it?
I Think its a bug. if you subscribe to lemmy.ml communities it will say waiting or something else. but if you actually check your communities, you are actually subscribed to them. It's happening to me as well.
I’m on an iPad and using the web experience and am really liking it. I was able to find enough similar communities that I’m getting a similar feed to Reddit and it’s growing like crazy. I’m not seeing posts and content pop in very fast. On the home page I sort by new and subscribed