Meta (lemm.ee)

I feel like I'm in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.

I was actually hesitant at first, because I didn't know of a good alternative. Then, there's Lemmy that I've heard of. Since lemmy.world has been compromised, I chose this server. I still haven't escaped Reddit fully. However, the fact the board at Reddit Inc. accepted and implemented the new API pricing made my decision to come to Lemmy quicker.

Lemmy itself seems fine reading wise. The main issues I have with it are that the communities are spread to thin with everyone making their own niche communities that have little to no activity and thousands of 0 comment posts. Wouldnt be that bad except the sort options for lemmy seem to not work that great and I dont want to spend the time curating from an every changing list of communities just to propagate my feed... because at this point it seems like a waste with servers federating and unfederating. The 3 main servers I tried sofar have been unfederated from the largest gaming community of lemmy which makes them almost useless to me.

Lemmy still needs a lot of work to be a good replacement for reddit. Better sorting options would go a long way and maybe allowing each server to have a "home page" that lists their own curated and popular communities as a home page.

I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I'm in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I'm excited to see where this goes