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.
The other 5% were furious
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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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I’m looking for Reddit alternatives and so far Lemmy does a fairly decent job.
I’m hoping to recapture the old Reddit feel where there was enough content but not so many users where everything just turned into drama or a flame war in the comment section. So far Lemmy seems fairly slow with content but that’s probably a good thing for me, I shouldn’t be using this stuff to fill my time as much.
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I’m still getting a feel for how all of this works together, so I haven’t bothered blocking any communities yet. Were you just seeing those while browsing Local/All? I tend to stick to Subscribed unless I’m going adventuring for new stuff.
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I have blocked like 6 meme shitposting comms, because it was annoying as shit
I feel your pain. lmao. I haven’t blocked any, though. But during the beans shitposting period I almost blocked a few.
LGRW!!
I guess yes, it can be kind of biased indeed ^^ but interesting to hear your opinions anyway
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
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.
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.
Unless something happens, I’m sticking with Lemmy. As for interface and everything, I liked kbin more initially, but I feel like Lemmy development is moving much faster, plus all the third-party development at the moment. As I’ve said in the past, I’m going where the people are. And right now, that’s mostly Lemmy - and since it can federate with kbin, picking between the two is kind of a moot point …at least for now.
Once I got Memmy it was done. It’s everything I wanted without all the extra bullshit.
Memmy only exists for ios right? I have android and i use jerboa. It’s great, but sometimes a bit buggy
There’s a bunch of Lemmy apps for android kike Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Lemming, Thunder, and Jerboa itself. Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy are on their way too.
I don’t know if it would be as appealing coming from Android, but I’m an Apollo refugee and I’m enjoying wefwef because it indulges my muscle memory. It’s a progressive web app you can try out without needing to install anything.
In theory Memmy should work on Android since it’s written in React Native.
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.
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.
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.
It’s no longer just a Reddit alternative for me. Lemmy is Lemmy, and I like it. I’m still waiting for the 3rd party apps of Kbin though.
I really like it. The community is also really cool. More like a small town feel than a huge city like reddit. I hope I don’t have to move anytime soon.
Welcome to what Reddit used to be
Between this and Mastodon - which feels like the best parts of early Twitter (way before Musk ever was in the picture) - I feel like I’ve turned back the clock about 15-20 years in the best way possible.
Now if only this made me 15-20 years younger…
My knees have the same request
It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it’s a success.
I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet
So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.
I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.
The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.
So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.
I’m curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.
Up until just 2 days ago, searching Lemmy on the iOS App Store returned no results. Now there’s Memmy and more apps on the way. That will make a huge difference for casual users who hear about Lemmy but wouldn’t bother trying to figure it out before jumping in. I can’t predict what will cause more waves, but a steady stream of new users seems likely.
People have been really vocal about their desire to group communities. Whether that happens on the communities’ end or on the user’s end via apps (like Multi-Reddits), or both, I’m confident it’ll happen eventually. I feel like either of those are a better solution than encouraging communities to consolidate, personally. Embrace the beauty and quirks of decentralization.
It’s exciting to see all the growth and improvements happening so quickly. The sky’s the limit for Lemmy.
My goodness you are so right, upon seeing your comment, I checked and there it is. Installed it in an instant. Why wasn’t this announced is beyond me. But I’m glad there’s finally an app for iOS
I am honestly not sure why it seems to bug people so much to have multiple communities, but I’ve seen this brought up a bunch.
It existed on Reddit too, they just weren’t the exact names so it wasn’t as obvious.
If there are two communities for the topic you’re interested in, join them both! There’s no reason not to.
Interesting indeed. I already saw some of this coming up over [email protected] which has been locked in order to send their userbase to another instance. So yeah, interesting indeed.
edit: grammar
That link also takes me to my phones email
Sorry, haven’t found an easy way of linking to communities like the old
r/reddit. I have fixed the link by linking it physically via markdown.Are text commands like markdown the same as they were on Reddit?
Not sure what you mean by that, but yes markdown works just the same here than how it did in reddit.
Just type /c/[email protected] and it will automatically create a link in your post.
I think I have since found the way, at least on the lemmy.world website.
You need to type ‘!’, then it will prompt you with a nice search of all the communities on the Fediverse and when you choose it, it will automatically create a markdown link with the community.
I also miss the change to list all post under a community (e.g. “technology”) regardless of where it is. I have multiple accounts, which works as a safety insurance against slow severs. However, I find it a pain being unable to group similar communities under the same umbrella. Hope such functionality is implemented at some point.
Its just a matter of time for the apps to start having a feature to link together communities with the same name for easy subscribe/block.
Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the “my ex was crazy” phase endearing.
yes :3
1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far
