JuanIs Lemmy THE reddit alternative for you? Are you thinking about moving somewhere else?
magmaus3yes :3
JeenaActually I didn’t think I’d move away from reddit but since I found lemmy I have to activelly think about going to reddit to read something there. Most of the communities I already found here and suprisingly, I’m not really missing the ones which I thought I’d miss.
Hotwarioinyourarea ⓋYeah, I’m pretty happy here. It’s nice and close knit and not full of shit. Kbin also seems cool but needs a bit more time in the oven and an app to really be useful to me.
I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁
NineMileTowerIt’s kind of a dumb question. Everyone who doesn’t like it just leaves immediately. That’s like going to a Detroit Red WIngs game and asking the crowd who their favorite hockey team in the state is.
LGRW!!
Our voluntary survey shows that 95% of people who participated in it don’t mind participating in surveys.
The other 5% were furious
DreamButtwhile it’s a nice echo chamber, its still and echo chamber lol
Slayer 🦊Yah unfortunately it feels like its even more of one than reddit is/was
But I still plan on sticking it out here since reddit was kinda an addiction of mine that I’m glad to have broken
I like it, it is kind of like Reddit, but confusingly different. But I am not looking for anything else currently.
Once I got Memmy it was done. It’s everything I wanted without all the extra bullshit.
Memmy is as good as Apollo I’m sure if it.
It has the potential, sure. But you can’t really compare an app that got years of development to one that was developed in such a short time as Memmy.
this shit workin for me
Over here shit just works.
Le me is staying.
There’s a somewhere else?!
I actually like Tildes. It’s much much smaller though. For if I like it more than Lemmy? I don’t think so.
The discussion there seems to be much more in depth, which is very nice. But I’ll stick to Lemmy for my “junk food” scrolling and go to Tildes when I want more nuance about something.
mr_m00Really enjoying lemmy at the moment. I feel at home.
For now y’all are stuck with me.
Seems like it is for me, I’m also using snapzu, but I seem to be gravitating towards lemmy more.
I feel fine on it so far, I haven’t said too much. I just want a platform where I can go, say things without dealing with as many snarky, bad faith, shitposting users that Reddit seems to endorse having itself contaminated with.
If Lemmy can be the exception, in due time, then I will hail it as a true alternative.
Hate using it in browser, but Memmy app is awesome, so for me it’s “mobile only” as of now. We need a proper desktop client
darrsilIt has a PWA, use that to get the “app” feeling.
I guess I’ll have to learn what PWA is as well as improve my understanding of how Fediverse works. 😅 It’s all very new to me
Installing the PWA is simple (in Chrome). In the URL bar at the right side on the Lemmy homepage, you should see a little install icon that looks like a monitor with a downward facing arrow. Click that, and it will install the site like an app.
Progressive Web App, it’s the “modern” kind of apps
The dogspaw Wefwef.app is what your looking for i love wefwef
Doesn’t come close to a good desktop experience, feels more like Instagram
bdonvrYou’re right, that’s a mobile client. I don’t know why they’d recommend that.
There’s alexandrite.app in development currently for desktop
Can I ask why? I’ve felt the browser experience is significantly better than any app I’ve tried so far. At least for lemmy.world it is.
It feels like using new reddit’s UI, while I got used to Reddit Enhancement Suite addon, which enhances old reddit’s UI.
Which instance did you try for that? Lemmy.world definitely didn’t have a new reddit feel to me but I can’t speak for the others.
I’ve seen there are some front-ends for desktop that you can use and there are some that make it look like old reddit. I haven’t used any of them but you can try this one:
I think you can just replace lemmy.world with whatever instance you use.
Of course I use lemmy.world, because at first I thought it was the one and only instance.
Maybe I’m wrong in terms of comparing it with new reddit UI, I’m sure that lemmy is way better, but viewing media isn’t as convenient as it was with RES addon.
I’m sure that things will get better soon. Memmy feels like Apollo at its early stages already.
No to me. As the community is smaller, my exposure is larger.
I had no voice on Reddit or any community.
Yeah, aside from the porn. The lemmy porn scene just isn’t here yet. Also lemmy nsfw just moved servers to Ukraine where porn is illegal, so who knows?
Abie Nathan/TheyThemIt’s called quality control & there are porn websites for that.
Im good here.
jecht360No plans on going anywhere else, sticking with Lemmy.
Moving somewhere else? Where?
The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren’t other options.
ToppyTopologythe recent giant performance boost for lemmy.world and the launch of the ios client Memmy on the app store makes lemmy so great rn
I actually prefer this over reddit. Currently, I’ve yet to come across any infighting or holier than thou types and it’s nice. People on here are more real and don’t seem like keyboard warriors who think they know everything with no real world experience. I’m sure they are here, but I haven’t come across any yet.
Mantis_TobogganYeah, the hostility in conversations for innocuous things that was prevailing Reddit seems to be minimal here.
I went back today and posted about how it’s not so bad here, and holy fuck did I get attacked. Although, I think like two people from all that likes what they saw. So it was worth it.
People don’t like change.
mysoulishomeFor me yes. I am fairly tech savvy (compared to the general population) and I do worry the barrier to entry of understanding and getting started in participation will prevent a good amount of growth…but hoping when more mainstream apps are released it will be easier for people who just want to open an app and have it work. Eventually it could be more feasible for a typical internet user to open an app, sign up, subscribe and be involved.
Right now it is pretty cool because everyone here has made an effort to join and is passionate about the development of the feddiverse. To a certain point we don’t necessarily want it flooded with Facebook users since it would change drastically…but eventually hopefully it will be widely adopted enough so big celebs and politicians will do amas and it approaches an entity that actually drives competition for the big media companies to be less evil since everyone has the option to just join the feddiverse which we sustain through donations and don’t have to satisfy stockholders, make money etc.
I think I generally federated my time reading and discussing stuff online more. What I mean: instead of spending 90% of my time only on Reddit I use more sites and services but spend less time on each one of it. Lemmy is definitely what replaced Reddit the most but as of right now there just is not as much stuff on here and not as many niche communities as there are/were on Reddit. But in combination with /Kbin, Twitter, Mastodon and some other sites with topics of interest for me, I can pretty much read about anything I like without going on Reddit at all (okay, I checked Reddit probably ten times since the protests started.)
bledleyYeah, in for the late haul. Once the knowledge base and communities build up a bit it’ll be great. It’ll take some time… There’s still a lot of good searchable information deep in the subreddits.
So far, yes, but I don’t really have any allegiances to this site and will jump ship to a competitor in a heartbeat if something better comes along. I know some people like the decentralized federation approach here, but I actually see that as the biggest downside to using this site. The value proposition of Reddit in its heyday was that it offered a single landing point for all sorts of discussions that used to be scattered across hundreds of different forums. The decentralized federation approach moves away from that, and while that offers some advantages, it also comes with a lot of disadvantages too.
I don’t think the fediverse paradigm moves away from that, on the contrary. We still have a single landing point, our home instance. Except now it even pulls content from 3rd party servers all over the internet. If you were interested in reddit, hacker news and tildes, you’d have to check out each one separately, and use a separate app for each one. With lemmy, kbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc, you can use one app and one account to follow all of them. We just have to work a lot on the UX of in-app discoverability, which really has a looong way to go.
Defederation works against that though. When I first joined a few weeks ago, a lot of the discussion was taking place on Beehaw. I joined a few communities over there and started to enjoy the experience but in an instant, all of that was blocked because Beehaw decided to defederate from Lemmy.World (and others). That sort of thing will happen more and more in the future. I don’t want to have to create a dozen different accounts on a dozen different instances to view the content I want to see: I want a simple interface with everything in one spot.
Reddit offers the “everything in one spot” piece, but they killed the simple interface possible via apps like RIF and replaced it with an abysmal official app.
Lemmy offers the “simple interface” piece with apps like Jerboa, but the federation aspect of it makes it hard to get everything in one spot.
The second a competitor offers both features with a large enough community to allow for meaningful discussion, I’d be happy to make the switch.
That’s true. I mean, you have to consider beehaw is a bit unusual, most instances federate with all other non-extremist ones. The typical experience with Lemmy is being able to go to one spot, your instance, and pull content from all over. But yeah, defederation is always a risk the design allows for. The best we can do as users is try and pick an instance that seems unlikely to do that.
deliriumI think, despite rough things (performance, ui bits I dislike etc etc) its one of the better alternatives with lots of potential.
Personally I’m still not feeling it. My feed is just full of memes and rules posts. All the stuff I blocked in bacon reader. I can’t find communities for any of the stuff I was interested in on Reddit.
I won’t go back to reddit, but I do miss it.
ThepinyaromaI’m a fan of Lemmy, for the memes and link aggregator aspect of it. And sense of community, there are trolls but it’s generally pretty positive.
I also like the Old Internet feel that the Fediverse in general has. I’m going out and looking for things that interest me again rather than hoping for something new to come into my feed. Actually reading articles. Commenting more than twice a year.
We’ll see what happens but overall, I think I’m staying.
I Like EggsI’m pretty comfy here.
It’s certainly slower and the professional communities I was part of are gone but… I only viewed reddit from mobile and fuck that app sucks.
PherenikeI like it a lot and I never really used reddit often.