Asklemmy

It's really good for tech, news, and memes - but anything related to sports or culture is pretty much non-existent. Sure sport news make it through into the NBA community for example, but no one is actually engaging - pretty much feels like an RSS reader in there.

I've been spending more time here than reddit since they killed 3rd party apps. I'm liking it so far

I miss some nicher subs, but I really appreciate it. It's a lot less janky than I expected, and it doesn't feel empty.

I like it. Been spending a lot more time here than Reddit. That's for sure.

It seems like it's the same with less poop and more beans.

Jokes aside, my favorite feature is that image hosting is built-in. I have actually been using my own instance as an image hosting site and posting them elsewhere. I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to view a file browser, though.

Everyone's nice and there activity, but I miss some subs. I could make them them all, but creating content for all of them would be too much work... I already do that outside reddit/lemmy. 😣

Honestly, I'm kind of hating it... everything feels like it is in the wrong place, everything has just enough friction in interacting with Lemmy to irritate me as I try and get realigned, and nothing feels like it is at my fingertips. The signup process alone was adamant that it was incredibly straightforward and that instances don't matter... but is also very variable based on the instance you choose... I had to wait until morning because my instance's email verification didn't work and had to be done manually. Then when I look to turn on 2FA, it just doesn't work at all, very unappealing.

Maybe once Boost for Lemmy is out, that will have some quality of life, but currently I am not actively liking anything about Lemmy at all, beside just the basic principle of it.

I was legitimately, saddened and upset when I heard that Apollo was going away and that I would never be able to use Reddit again I am actually quite pleased with Lemmy. I love it.

No more beans, please.

It's complicated enough the masses won't come. But easy enough to not be a pain in the ass.

Still not as comprehensive etc but you can see it growing.

I prefer Lemmy's content/userbase, but there's less of it. Which is fine with me. The bugs could use some ironing tho.

I love the experience so far, but god, do I crave my niche communities.

I'm not particularly impressed, to be honest.

Aside from the performance issues (which I'm sure will be sorted out), the UI is awful. Seriously, how the hell am I supposed to join a community on desktop? The "subscribe" button is just a bit of text!

I understand the idea of the fediverse is to be decentralised, but it just doesn't make for a great user-experience. The whole thing doesn't really "click" in the same way reddit does. On top of that, it doesn't really have a big enough userbase yet. On reddit, big subs like gaming and movies a packed full of users, yet their equivalents seem pretty dead here.

I'm never going to install the official reddit app so I'm sure I'll be fine with Lemmy on mobile when the performance issues are sorted out, but I'll probably stick to reddit on desktop.

Trying to figure things out. I like it so far, just feels a little different. A little more sparse. Using the Jerboa app, which seems okay. I miss Boost, but I think the dev is working on a Lemmy version.

I’m enjoying the beans.

Leaving that toxic s-hole feels great. Reddits userbase had gone pretty horendous in the recent years and don't even get me started over the mods so I always begged for alternatives to be formed, I jumped ship the moment I found lemmy which is today.

It's lovely. Haven't looked back. The only thing I've even thought about going to reddit for in the last three weeks has been the occasional technical answer that comes up in a Google search.

It's a lot better than the last time I was here. Last time a week later the top few posts were the same lol

With apologies for sounding like a McDonald's ad, I'm loving it!

I was very wary when I switched over the day before the app-pocalypse because of my experience trying to replace twitter with Mastodon, but this place has NOT felt like yelling into the void, it's immediately done most of what I used reddit for!

Relatively little going on so I'm still gonna go back to reddit occasionally because for example on the software development side I've found the reddit communities really useful and they simply don't exist here.

Beyond this I'm determined to stick it out with lemmy. There are cute animal pics. There are memes and jokes. And a few other interests of mine are also reasonably active. It's almost enough to satisfy my desires for "doomscrolling" without being a total time trap. So that's nice.

After I took the time to understand it, I love it. Just need my favorite communities to migrate/become more active (yes I’ve thought of starting at least one myself and might do so).

I especially enjoy that I feel good about contributing to a conversation here. I didn’t comment much on Reddit because the mob seemed relentless at times.

I’ve joined two instances and I think I need to do more to understand their differences (Lemmy.world vs discuss.online) before I settle on a “main.”

Decent so far, I do want a redditisfun type app for it, and it could use more people, but other than that good

Noticing a lack of communities that cater to specific interests, like ones for specific video games. Most of the content I see is either porn or shitposting/memes. Hoping it continues to grow.

I like it enough to host an instance. It's pretty legit, to be honest. If I can find and join more of the same types of communities I was a part of on Reddit, I can easily see myself spending more time here. Even now, I feel like my time on my phone is an even split between Lemmy and Reddit.

Much better than Reddit. I no longer get my comments automatically removed by some poorly implemented algorithm anymore. Lemmy is more flexible and diverse.

I am opening Lemmy daily... Most of the posts I see are circlejerking beans post and posts that are still celebrating the death of Reddit while Reddit has posts of real quality. I open Reddit in Firefox mobile now... Still way better than Lemmy... Hope that will change but I am sceptical.

It’s an adjustment. I find there to be far fewer comments on posts. I want to be optimistic, but haven’t achieved the same level of dopamine release. Still, I prefer it to the echo chamber Reddit has become.

I like it so far, although I don't quite understand the whole thing with instances etc yet. But I'll get there eventually. Like many others, I was just lurking on Reddit, but now it feels like it might be worth commenting and maybe even posting once in a while. That's a great feeling

The only thing I miss is my smaller subs is that I really enjoyed for my specific interests. Hopefully they grow here. For general content I enjoy Lemmy much more

I like it and I’m optimistic that it will only continue to grow and get better. I also really like the fediverse as a concept. It feels more like the old internet, where you had lots of smaller communities, rather than everything centralized into one huge space.

Its great! I was on pleroma before and didn't even know Lemmy was a thing u til recently. Love federated social media.

I'm slowly figuring out things and slowly finding communities. There seems like there's a lot more genuine engagement. It's rad.

It’s decent, has a lot of room to grow though. I really miss the niche subreddits.