This is my permanent go to. Community already seems great and I hope it gains more traction. The main difference with the change from Reddit is I’ve gone from lurker to trying to be more engaged and posting.
To be honest though, some of the communities I frequent to in reddit do not have their counterparts here. If they do, they aren’t active. Best example is AskHistorians. They have a Lemmy here but it’s basically dead. Which is why I still go to reddit. Fingers crossed that majority of subreddit communities will relocate to here so the community will thrive.
Amen to that
Nothing wrong with lurking but you’re helping get content out there to make it stick so that’s good!
So far it replaced my casual Reddit browsing when I’m bored. But when I want to look at some specific stuff I still need to go to reddit but it’s just to get some information and not really to engage with the community.
It seems the the majority agree with you on this hence the up votes but I’m just gonna come out of and say something cuz I’m trying to stop being a lurker. Agreed.
It’s going to be a very slow progression for anything federated to take the lead with specific stuff. reddit just has the knowledge at this point.
Hopefully that knowledge will eventually carry over over to the fediverse. Untill then, I’m gonna need reddit in small doses.
I had really only one sub I wanted to keep up with. They have no intentions of leaving Reddit AFAIK so I just added them into an RSS reader, and explore Lemmy the rest of the time
an RSS reading…huh i might have to do that too
Yeah this is the reality. We don’t need to be so tribal about it.
For example I despise facebook, but occasionally I log in there to sell some junk.
Reddit has been on the nose generally for a long time, but some of the smaller subs were / are great communities.
I went as far as deleting my entire reddit post and comment history, and then I deleted my reddit account.
And it’s funny because I’ve already spent more time on Lemmy than I ever did in 6 years on Reddit. Something about it just sucks you in.
I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁
Our voluntary survey shows that 95% of people who participated in it don’t mind participating in surveys.
I don’t know sir or madam; my wife will suggest food she doesn’t want for dinner.
When my wife asks me what I want for dinner, my mind doesn’t go to what I want to eat, it goes to what I’m willing to cook.
while it’s a nice echo chamber, its still and echo chamber lol
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
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“Dumb” is too strong a word for the way the questions were worded. I know some users here are on Tildes as well, or Squabble (idk if that’s how you spell it). Doesn’t mean lemmy is THE alternative - just one of many minor ones. Also, being on lemmy doesn’t mean you’re not thinking of moving away specially with Meta’s arrival.
Meta is a twitter replacement not reddit if I went over there I wouldn’t leave lemmy
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Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the “my ex was crazy” phase endearing.
Fair complaint, but fwiw Reddit went through the same thing with Digg. It passed.
Sync (for the platform which shall not be named) had the ability to filter posts by keyword. I will take advantage of that feature when Sync for Lemmy is available.
You never met my ex.
The ‘Active’ display falsely gives that impression by keeping those posts on the front page for days. Then the more exposure they get, the more activity they get, and the longer they stay there. That algorithm and the default view definitely need to be reworked imo as they give a false impression that the only thing happening on the site is a post about beans and 5 posts about reddit. When I sort by All > New there’s way more content.
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
Im cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Short / mid term I’ll be here as it provides probably 90+% of what I was getting out of Reddit. I’m not sure long term how it will work out but so far I have no reason to leave.
I’ve also noticed I just don’t interact with any of it like I used to with Reddit. I used to spend a lot of time just doom scrolling on Reddit. Now I get the highlights of the news, check the sports sun for updates, and then I’m back to the real world. I like that.
I like that the Fediverse in general feels much smaller (because it is) than normie websites. You get the feel of old school forums here but not this endless feed of garbage that lends itself to addiction and doom scrolling.
You’re a lot more likely to get a conversation here, or at least have someone read what you write.
It’s like Reddit was before everything was so huge. Whatever you say there gets buried before you even have a chance to have any kind of discussion.
And I’ll tell you something else amazing that has happened for me.
It’s like dropping Reddit cold turkey has changed something in my brain. I’m dropping a ton of bad habits like it’s nothing. I was a chain smoker this time last month. Recently I smoked two and a half packs in one day and I was really upset with myself. I said, “no more.” and I’m down to 4-8 cigarettes a day. It’s like it made me realize that I have control over myself.
I’m gonna try to go this whole day here at work without a cigarette. At this rate I will have quit completely in no time.
These communities can make we stop relying on Reddit for many things
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Solutions to your tech problems !techsupport@lemmy.world
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Products recommendations !recommendations@lemmy.world
If you know more I will also add them here
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Honestly I think once third-party apps get sorted with subscription or personal API keys, people will return and reddit will keep growing.
I do like the federated model though, and I’ll probably keep using Lemmy too. Feels much more like the “old” reddit from 10+ years ago. Probably because only the old school users have moved to Lemmy.
Reddit had weaponed Hate to keep you scrolling and raging. At least popular
I don’t know where else to go.
The best thing about reddit for me was an endless stream of information and news propped up by user discussion. I rarely just scrolled endlessly through posts; I loved delving into comments on posts which didn’t even interest me at face value to see what I could learn from niche communities.
It was, hands down, the best, most information dense landscape I’ve ever seen and frankly I feel a little lost without it. I hope that some day, some where I can find something similar.
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I’m genuinely curious, why do the points matter?
brain
As much as I know it’s stupid, I still miss having a total points count with the karma
Why not post at both places?
If you make it, I’ll join.
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12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else’s platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
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Because Reddit is overflowing with bots and it’s about to get way worse https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
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To try and look like real users. Then they sell out upvotes to companies wanting to promote their own posts.
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As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels… empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.
I’m using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.
Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn’t drop off before then
That’s my problem so far. I’ve been leaving subreddits I can live without and trying to use Lemmy for general browsing, but some of the smaller subreddits can’t be replaced.
This is why I made !dragonquest@lemmy.world
The 2 subs on reddit I really cared about were for Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire. I can’t devote enough time to build multiple communities and figured DQ has enough fans that it had a better chance of growing.
Basically same boat a lot of smaller gaming communities haven’t moved here. Also Combat Footage and Ukraine don’t seem to be moving here enough to keep me off Reddit.
I’m happy with Lemmy, except I’m honestly getting tired of the somewhat elitist attitude and fear/anger towards anything that isn’t in the fediverse. I noticed it when I left Twitter for Mastodon too, and it’s kind of getting old.
I’m not saying some of what’s being said isn’t justified, it’s just not what I feel like seeing every time I open the app/site.
Towards Threads and Reddit is understandable given recent events on Lemmy. Are there others that you’re seeing?
Towards Threads and Reddit is understandable given recent events on Lemmy. Are there others that you’re seeing?
Until something better comes along, lemmy.world is the place.
wefwef (now Voyager), the Memmy app (iOS), and the “old.reddit” view (https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world/) make it REALLY easy to use Lemmy.
woahhh, i never stopped using old.reddit. it’s a far superior content delivery scheme to anything they came up with after.
thanks for sharing that one.
Wow! Thanks for letting me know about https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world, this makes lemmy so much better!
Like you, I’m here until something better comes along.
Thx for the link to old.reddit
I’m liking jerboa. It definitely has a feel similar to RiF.
Yup, Jerboa is great
Was planning to learn the app for a day or two but didn’t even have to. It’s all very intuitive and reminds me of RIF on Android (R.I.P. btw). And it’s foss too. Although I don’t mind paying a bit, with RIF it was very worthwhile for the many years I used it.
I just added wefwef web app today. Is voyager on the iOS App Store, or has the web app link migrated somewhere else?
Still a web app.
Lemmy is my new home.
It scratches the itch that needs scratches.
Same here, I get the random images, humor and conversations that I apparently desire, and actually being away from reading the same crap on reddit that i read every day for years is a relief. I feel better and better every day.
Agreed. With Wefwef (now called Voyager) and Lemmy I’m getting my itch scratched. Haven’t used Reddit for 6 weeks now.
Well, true. I may have gotten here though Reddit. But now I’m taken aback by what’s happening here.
I mean, the whole thing is open, FOSS developed, decentralized, being everywhere and at the same time nowhere? Call me crazy, but this in itself is awesome!
On top of that, I was greeted here by a community of communities where people are kind, helpful, full of beautiful and interesting insights.
So why would I be thinking of going somewhere else? I’ve posted more comments here in the past weeks than in the last ten years on Reddit. And I’ve done that because I’m genuinely excited with this setting.
So no, I’m not joining the herd moving to greener pastures. This field is green enough for me.
It already seems significantly better than reddit has been lately. I was just mentioning to a friend how it felt like 2010 reddit did.
The community is good, it scratches the same itch, think I’m here for a while.
I was telling some friends that I actually like the awkward state Lemmy is in. Reminds me of “the old days” when things felt new and mysterious. I have worked in tech a long time (almost 20yrs) and I still feel like I’m dialing up to the internet for the first time again and rediscovering things. I love it.
It’s like a bastion of the interwebs that I didn’t realize was still happening. I was wondering where everyone went lol
Like it so far, not looking for anything else.
I think it’s an excellent reddit replacement and it gets better every time i check. More and more people posting. I am also using Mastodon. I am all for the fediverse tbh. I don’t want my data to be collected by one large corporation anymore.
I won’t let something as important as my favorite communities to fall in corporate greed.
It took me a while to curate a list of interesting subreddits. I am doing the same thing with lemmy and since kbin is also part of the fediverse I don’t see the point of having a kbin account on top of lemmy+mastodon. I’m spending some time discovering what is around lemmy and all its instances so it will be unlikely that I’ll move somewhere else, unless lemmy collapses somehow
Is there any option to export your subscribed communities ? I’d love a bit is inspiration
I exported from Apollo, but Idk if you can install an old version
