It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
We’re all still processing what happened to us over there.
I mean naturally.
Give it a few weeks. Most people on here probably come from Reddit. A bit like finding out your wife cheated and getting used to new environments and situations, just on a much smaller scale.
Nice overall but still a bit silent here and there.
But I actually have more motivation to interact here than I ever had on Reddit.
With it being a little quieter it’s so much more calmer feeling
Commenting in Reddit felt very claustrophobic in a way. And saturated. Kind of sad, also, if you were some days late to some nice topic, and get buried under thousands and thousands of comments made prior yours, and have zero interactions at that point from anyone, even if you asked a very relevant question or whatever.
But I suspect Lemmy will get to that point too. Right now, though, it’s light enough to actually warrant wasting energy writing anything as a response to anything.
Part of the reason you got no interaction is half your comments were shadowbanned by automod because it contained a random word and you had no idea. Most mods keep their automod config private so you don’t know which benign words are banned. For example, I found out the word “snowflake” was banned in a specific subreddit where literal snow was frequently part of the discussion. I had a browser plugin called reveddit-realtime that would tell you when comments got shadow banned.
Reddit is a farce.
There will always be new and smaller instances tho. Like it was true for smaller communities in reddit. It’s all good and well until they get exceedingly popular and a shitshow.
I get more responses here than I ever did at Reddit. Like you can engaged in a conversation, not just try to figure out the stupidest thing to say to get the most votes and making sure you post at like, 4am for maximum exposure
From my PoV:
- The activity around memes, image sharing, memes, shitposting, memes, memes, and memes have not felt too different from Reddit, but unsurprising as it’s very easy to consume content
- The typical communities that have coalesced in a grassroots fashion are thriving well as long as one can accept there’s a lot of duplicate threads (like the Twitter related stuff in technology communities). Some communities are populated by Reddit content porting bots and these feel so barren because it’s a wall of submissions with a small number of comments each and the bot owners have no visible intent to stop.
- Niche communities are incredibly quiet. That’s understandable but also unfortunate, more so if it is a niche community that did not move over.
Things will hopefully get better with time.
Completely agree.
One thing I’ve noticed I always do, is I’ll play a game, then hop on the subreddit for that game once I can no longer be spoiled. It’s nice to have a community with years of content and information waiting for you.
But the communities are gradually being formed here too, literally before our eyes. Someone just made a dragon’s dogma community like an hour ago for example. I’m happy to give them time to grow, and to help them along myself.
But hopefully communities everywhere will increasingly recognize the importance of having well organized, dedicated wikis, rather than trying to stuff everything into an existing forum community or into a Discord.
Discord is by far the worst place for a community to retreat to because it’s resources and discussions are impossible to find through cursory searching and I’m so sick of adding to my list of Discord servers just to get information that belongs on a Pastebin or Github readme.
In many ways though, Lemmy has grown into something that is active much faster than so many other kinds of social media platforms. Does anyone remember Disapora or Google+ being the next Facebook or Facebook replacement? What about Wit social? Most definitely do not.
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.
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Seconding that I miss reddit so much less than I thought.
Media handling is a big one for me too!
I love it tbh. Just wish my niche communities had more people. But that just takes time
It’s fine for news, tech and memes but none of the niche subs that I loved are here. I really miss the sub for my city.
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I’ve been seeing some niche subs start to pop up, which is nice.
I kinda miss Reddit, but after browsing it today, it felt kinda weird. Lemmy is starting to feel more and more like home as more people join in and participate. And also the fact that the 0.18 update fixed the numerous issues, it really helps.
There’s tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.
These communities takes years to form. Lemmy will most likely die out before they come.
Pretty nice. I just wish more people were here. The occasional bug is fine it seems to be fixed quickly.
Well, let’s do a pros vs cons
Pros:
- I wasn’t banned for saying Putin should die after he invaded a country
- It’s a decent time killer
- It’s growing
- Idk I just like it
Cons:
- /c/NCD and some other instances are too small and not even close to their counterparts levels
- Jerboa for Lemmy has not been behaving too well for me
- It’s still fairly small and new so communities need to consolidate still
Overall I like it better than reddit tho.
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”
For me, I was a longtime lurker, so I’m trying my best to come out of my shell and actually comment and have discussions. Overall, I like it so far, I just miss some communities and don’t want to run anything myself.
Its nice to have you here ☺️ I’m trying to do the same- and reevaluating kinds of stuff I previously didn’t bother to post because I didn’t wanna fall into needing the validation of strangers
Thanks! You too! And yes, exactly that! Plus on reddit, it was so over-saturated that anything you needed to say was already said for the most part.
Absolutely, the smaller size is both a blessing and a curse. The shitposing sub reddit is actually funny! But the small communities aren’t very active, or don’t exist, and that’s most of what I engaged with before. There’s room to contribute to discussions, and conversion is healthier cause there aren’t so many people its impossible to meaningfullly relate to anyone else! But its a bit harder to lurk.
Regardless, I’m excited this exists, and its neat to engage with an online community that feels different from what I’m used to :)
Hope you have a good one!
Yeah, it’s hard to find some of the little random communities (that were my lil spaces to contribute), but I’m enjoying the content much more as a whole. It definitely feels like conversations are stuff you can have, even if you see a post like 2 hours later or whatever.
I’m super happy this exists too. I’m still bouncing around with apps, but I’m enjoying myself and it definitely does feel like a better space.
Agreed. I need to try some other of the apps myself, I’ve just been using jerboa so far
Very same to my experience so far, I think with more content in more instances it will quickly become the best version of what was good about reddit. Happy to be here though!
Oh totally, there’s new stuff popping up everyday, it’ll get there for sure. I definitely enjoy browsing stuff here more, kind of is already giving shades of the things I used to enjoy about reddit.
I like it so far. But I think the large amount of reddit users won’t like how separate everything is. Most of my friends and colleagues I’ve mentioned and shown it to, didn’t like it for that one reason. Reddit is a singular easy to access place with communities for everyone that is popular.
Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) needs to simplify I think for people to be able to adapt to it. My girlfriend made an account and is having trouble finding groups for herself, but willing to take the time cause I’m next to her all the time. But not everyones got that.
edit: also, i am using Memmy for Lemmy now on IOS, nice to have when not at my PC. Good app so far.
Loving actually having conversations with people, instead of talking into the void where by the time you see a post it’s already so old that commenting is useless
I love the concept of a federated network, it definitely feels way more punk than just being another data set for a corporation
I do wish a few of the more niche subreddits had similar communities here, but I’m trying to do my part by making that content
Honestly if people just went and created the communities they miss from Reddit people will join up faster.
I think the whole creating a sub and modding it was for a specific type of person on Reddit. Will be interesting to see how easily that will flow over here.
A little dull tbh. I still pop over to reddit when I’m on my desktop to visit my favorite subreddits (especially my bumper group). Hopefully Lemmy gets better, but I think step one is the community needs to stop being so goddamn meta and focus on building active communities.
None of the communities I’m interested are here, and a lot of the posts feel like they’re coming from cryptobros. I’m fundamentally interested in the format and tech, but I’m only here because I refuse to use Reddit on mobile, for now. Things could get better or worse, hard to say.
