[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable

Liftoff app is my favorite at the moment. Very responsive and handle well multiple account.

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

Hello fell Reddit Refugees! Yeah I've been a near daily reddit user on Sync for Reddit (Sync Pro) since 2014 or so. Now leading up to the API shutdown I was using reddit about once a week and you already know I had to use Sync one last time on the final day, but

I've mostly been using Lemmy for about two weeks now. I've tried a lot of apps (Jeroba, Thunder, Liftoff), but ultimately I also ended up on wefwef. It's seems to be the one of snappier ones so far. It's super strange because since it is themed after Apollo, it looks like I have an iPhone app on my Android! I know that when Sync for Lemmy comes out (about six weeks I think) I'll jump ship immediately, but for now I'm really liking wefwef.

I've made it my mission to lurk less on Lemmy then I did on Reddit so I can try and help the platform succeed with some small amounts of content that I can contribute. Recently I've been very interested in AI image generation, so I made a community centered around that. I also made a community centered around video game giveaways to hopefully share more wholesome content on the platform. Overall, I'm hoping that since Lemmy is so new that all of us can take some control in steering it in an overall better direction than Reddit. I'm personally on team No Karma, since I think it makes Lemmy a lot less toxic and a lot less about having something to brag about and more about being something to be proud of.

Good luck to everyone who's a recovering Reddit addict with their quests to become Fediverse addicts!

Edit: Wefwef accidentally posted my comment 3 times saying it failed to post. So I guess there's still some kinks to work out!

I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.

It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.

Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”

I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.

But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.

I'm loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!

Is Lemmy.World a bit laggy for everyone else?

I wonder is it on my end or is it because of the new traffic it's getting?

It'll be nice if more and more migrate over.

There's something amusing about opening up what's almost a Reddit clone a day after and seeing content and subs that would have been exactly like it was on Reddit here instead.

As long as momentum continues, we may see more and more leaving Reddit for what's nearly the same thing with a lot less BS.

I just hope Lemmy servers and infrastructure can handle the growing popularity, especially once there's popular native clients that switch from Reddit to it.

Would be very happy if spez ends up having killed his own platform in future retrospection though.

Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put "Connect for Lemmy" in its place on my home screen. So far it's been a pretty easy transition!

95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)

For some reason, wefwef was very buggy for me and kept throwing errors at me.

I use Memmy and I’ll probably stick with it!

I desperately miss RIF, and I have a community I care about on Reddit that I mod.

But I'm going to see if I can rebuild it here. I think Reddit has basically committed suicide.

It is quite sad and yet at the same time also an exciting time. I was on Reddit for 9 years and it has kind of become the internet for me.

I myself was 99% only a passive user, so I have contributed nothing to the value of the site. But the site itself had a lot to offer for me.

But I also realized that Reddit, the platform itself, hardly provides anything relevant.

I probably would never have used Reddit much without a 3rd party app, I also use it exclusively on mobile.

For me, the value of the site comes exclusively from the content, i.e. the community. And fortunately, that's something Reddit has no direct control over.

I realize, of course, that not everyone will be here now in 6 months instead of on Reddit, but it doesnt matter.

I think the majority of users are like me rather passive, but more important are the active users of the community.

It is much more important to have these pillars of the community on board, as they will sooner or later ensure that something new is created that will then attract the larger number of passive users.

And I think it's this usergroup that has angered Reddit for the most part. These are power users who probably all use 3rd party apps.

Nevertheless, many will of course stay, if you have put a lot of work and heart and soul into building up your community/subreddit for years, letting go is of course much harder than for someone like me.

Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won't be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I'm following for example, I'll still have to rely on Reddit.

15 year club on reddit. I've parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.

I hope lemmy gets good and better content.

So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn't a big fan (and couldn't work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

But Boost is coming out at some point! I'm really looking forward to it!! <3

So far I'm doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it's early days so I'm patient :-)

Its been one day without Reddit

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry."

Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

I'm using firefox on desktop and the UI looks awesome, no RES necessary.

One of the most impressive things to me: I've got ublock origin up and there are zero things being blocked! I'm so jaded of the years that I expect every website to have something blocked.

Honestly, I'm pretty excited about being a "pioneer" (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.

I visited Reddit for 16 years. RIF on android then Slide on iOS. Slow to learn how Lemmy works.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the site’s burned. But it’s an adjustment - with how often I check my (now broken) app mindlessly, I actually think the scummy CEO did me a favor!

Wefwef as a web app is really really good. I’m also enjoying liftoff! App for iOS.

So from the user experience side, I'm actually liking Lemmy even just with the mobile site, which I'm guessing varies instance to instance. There's a couple quality of life tweaks I'd make but it's a lot smoother than expected.

A problem I am having though, which I hope clears itself, is that I'd say upwards of 90% of the posts I'm seeing are either "Reddit is dead to us" or "Wow Lemmy is great!" Both of which are fair viewpoints that they around certainly be allowed to share, but when that is the vast majority of the content, it does not entice me to regularly return.

The two things I regularly used Reddit for (Keeping up with a couple hobbies and educational materials) have communities but are largely inactive at the moment. I am aware that I can help the situation by engaging with them--and I will!--but so far the pervasiveness of the Reddit posts has definitely taken the enthusiasm out.

This post isn't quite what I am talking about, though, as you are at least promoting discussion, which is good!

As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.

Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?

The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.

I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.

There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.