I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
I think the content level has gotten better even in the past few days.
I predict at ~200,000 users, there will be a good enough flow of posts and comments that it won’t feel as empty compared to Reddit.
I feel like I’ve seen a lot more posts in just the past few days since I’ve started coming here.
It was slow when I came in last month, but it has gotten to pretty high levels of interaction since.
We just need the niche stuff for us to customize and we will be good to go.
If you are on iOS try Mlem (if you can get on the TestFligh). It’s a much better, native experience.
Another one worth a shot is Memmy, which I’ve settled of personally, as a prior Apollo user.
I’d describe it as being halfway the two, but to me, it just feels best to use.
As far as these beta apps go, I’m pretty surprised it’s this smooth to explore and use Lemmy today!
For mastodon, I just found an incredible FOSS app for iOS too; Ice Cubes. It’s mind blowing, really, how far fediverse has got in these past years since I last actively used it!
Trying Memmy now and it feels great! +1 for Ice Cubes.
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
Lemmy is really good. It’s not perfect, but obviously has great potential.
My only issue has been telling other people (in real life) about it, or convincing anyone to try it. The whole concept of the fediverse and related platfoms is too technical for the commoner to understand why it’s so important in the first place.
It’s reminding me a lot of when I first joined Reddit (nearly 15 years ago). Not too much is happening day-to-day so I’m checking in every couple of days or so.
I think this is a much healthier relationship than checking a site compulsively every couple of hours. I’m liking it so far, also a crazy repercussion is that I’m using the internet like the early days again. I think of a topic and I do a deep dive on my own, researching into it and going down weird rabbit holes.
I feel like Reddit discouraged this behavior by having a non-stop flow of communities that “mostly” interested me enough to not go “browsing the web”
As a long time reddit lurker. Loving it here so far.
When I heard about it I was kind of expecting it to be contentless and bare. Oh boy was I wrong and so pleasantly surprised.
The amount and the quality of the posts and comments is very high. The people super friendly and I’m loving the sense of community and respect. Bonding over something new and exciting also enchances this feeling.
I also visit reddit now and then but I noticed my browsing sessions leave me more satisfied here on Lemmy, than on Reddit.
Obviously there are some communities that I miss, but I’m sure with time replacement tor those will start to appear.
Lemmy and the community not only fills the “gap”, but for me, it also stands by itself providing something that reddit didn’t .
Super excited about what is being created here.
I like it but can’t wait until we stop talking about Reddit
I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
I love it tbh. Just wish my niche communities had more people. But that just takes time
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I like Lemmy for inheriting all of Reddit’s positive traits. Tough moderation, bots in the comments, stupid upvote/downvote hells, and many other virtues. I remember how it all started and all the sweet utopian tales of those who shouted “f*ck u/spez” on every corner. You can delete your Reddit account, but you can’t delete Reddit from your head.
I like it, but I miss how plentiful yet niche reddit communities could be
Also, I doubt people that don’t like the app are more likely to interact with this thread
I’m liking it! Scratches the same itch that Reddit did. Content doesn’t roll in as quickly from my subscriptions as it did on Reddit but I guess I’m into some niche-ish things and it’ll pick up steam eventually(?).
It’s just a bit too small right now, lots of communities that don’t exist yet or are barely active. I do think there’s potential here though. I’m not the most techsavvy so I don’t really understand the whole fediverse thing, and I think that’s the thing keeping a lot of people away. Once you’re here though it barely matters.
Been on Reddit since 2010. I’m hoping that Lemmy and other Fediverse apps sort of grow out of the meta-talk and comparisons to their centralized counterparts.
Otherwise, the communities themselves seem pleasant (or swiftly defederated from by the good ones). We don’t quite the critical mass to get active niche communities, or hyper-specialized ones yet, which I kind of miss. Stuff like “here’s a subreddit for each of these very specific habits that cats can have”, or “talk about a particular species of parrot”, y’know?
Primarily a mobile user, which I’m assuming most migrants are. I like it so far, but have some minor complaints about the available apps. I was so used to Apollo, and a lot of the apps like wefwef and Mlem are frustratingly close but not quite there yet. Mlem Is missing some things like being able to zoom images, make image posts, (Correct me if I’m wrong, but Mlem doesn’t appear to be able to post anything except links) automatically fetch inbox messages, or view comment replies in threads. Wefwef seems more like Apollo so far, but it has its own quirks since it’s entirely web-based.
That’s something that I expect to improve with time though, as the apps are all still under development. So here’s hoping that things improve.
