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.
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
I love it tbh. Just wish my niche communities had more people. But that just takes time
I like it but can’t wait until we stop talking about Reddit
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’ve been lurking for a few weeks now but finally made an account and I’m really liking it here. Less content but higher quality is preferable to tons of content but most of it is garbage like on reddit.
My main complaint is the fediverse isn’t big enough to have a lot of activity on the more niche communities so I find myself going to reddit for a few of those subs still but only on my desktop so I can use old reddit and block ads.
Gonna try and contribute more here since it’s much less toxic and noisy than reddit is.
LOVE the username. Tenye wa diye gut, beltalowda.
Oye, fo keng to im gut, beltalowda.
I finished the whole show, worth reading the book series?
YES PLEASE READ ALL THE BOOKS! They’re absolutely amazing and I’ll go to my grave holding the opinion that The Expanse(book AND tv show) is the greatest piece of media ever created. A bit hyperbolic for most people but it’s my genuine opinion. There’s also shorter 100ish page novellas in between each main book that are absolutely worth reading and give more backstory to the characters and universe, but it’s not strictly necessary. I’ve read through the series twice, first time was just main books and the second time was with all the books and novellas as well.
If you do start the books, make sure to start from book 1, the shows and books follow the same general plotline but there’s definitely some differences between the two such as multiple characters being combined into one character for the tv show, or characters being introduced later or earlier etc. The books will be mostly the same but different enough to be a thoroughly entertaining read. I’ve heard of others that finished the show and picked up right from book 7 and had a good time so that is a viable option, but I strongly recommend going through the whole series. It’s so worth it.
There’s also audiobooks, and the narrator Jefferson Mays does a top tier job, that’s how I went through the series for my 2nd time since I had a job that allowed me to use earbuds while working. A ship in the show was named after him which was a nice little homage to him.
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.
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.
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?
6 of my most lurked subreddits have no equivalent over here. I have no hope as they are niche and it will take a lot of momentum for them to migrate over here
I like it, definitely more politically aligned than reddit, but I still find it a bit empty. On one hand, I like that my comments don’t drown in a sea of similar comments, on the other there is rarely a lively discussion. So: mostly good, still hoping for a bit of growth
It’s buggy and flaky and wonderful. I can’t believe A) how quickly it’s grown over the past two weeks, and B) how great the communities seem to be. I’ve only asked one question so far but I got more and better answers than I would have on Reddit. I was feeling pretty down about the internet during the last week of June, but now I’m feeling hopeful.
One of the things I greatly disliked about reddit was the hivemind that formed a couple years after it launched, which has only gotten worse as time passed. Anywhere posts and comments are driven by upvote or engagement algorithms is going to create an echo chamber, but I was curious to see if the decentralized aspect of this place might tone that down a bit. It’s hard to tell right now because my feed is filled with some of the most indignant, extremist people from other platforms who are here as a form of protest.
Feature-wise, this place is functional and not too hard to navigate, but finding and subscribing to communities was pretty confusing and it’s lacking a lot of QoL stuff that reddit has. I don’t expect it to be a 1:1 clone but I sure would like notifications when someone responds to one of my posts. Or maybe the notifications just aren’t working properly for me? I dunno.
Loving it. Reminds me of the olden days of Reddit where the communities were smaller but everyone was contributing more.
The bugs and the issues help sell the fact that it’s a smaller community so even those don’t bother me so much.
