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Honestly, I like it here. I've started to migrate mid-June and I got involved way more than in 5y of reddit. I'm definitely not looking back.

[โ€“] neptune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Its great, every day more and more people are creating content and the quality of discussions is rich and contextual in most cases, back in reddit most of the times a huge chunk of the top comments where just reddit comedians making a low effort comment to try and gain upvotes.

One of the things I like about lemmy the most so far is the ability to view both a local All and the All with every instance there is, so if my local instance gets stale I can just look at whats happening on all instances!

[โ€“] Rapokki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of early days Reddit with smaller communities and content. Reddit has more than a decade to build on its community, so naturally it has more content and more niche communities. But Lemmy doesn't have big cooperate influence like Reddit, so hopefully it can have more balance and unbias contents in the future.

[โ€“] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm loving hanging out with y'all.

[โ€“] GaryL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that I come across the same posts more frequently on my front page here than on Reddit. Perhaps it would be solved as the userbase continues to grow. Other than that, I have no complaints. This platform is a perfect substitute for Reddit, if not better.

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[โ€“] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like it so far. Everyone seems so helpful and nice. There isn't a ton of content here yet, but I know we're all working on it. Some of my niche interests have already had communities pop up since I've joined.

Currently, I'm using Connect. The UX is similar enough to Baconreader that I haven't had many issues with my transition. The future looks bright!

[โ€“] Punk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)

[โ€“] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.

It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy

[โ€“] f4te@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i found it challenging to understand how to subscribe to communities across instances until i discovered the Home icon in the top right of lemmiverse.net. i wish there was a quick 'subscribe' button there that would help you build up your subscriptions fast.

generally, i feel good about it. waiting for a few communities i really enjoyed to pop up- watchexchange and watches are big ones imo.

glad to see two huge F1 communities though!

[โ€“] AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used twitter, so i had no expectations when I used Mastodon.

I was a little hesitant with Lemmy since I use reddit so much. I'm liking it way more than I thought!

It's obviously less content, but as far ss my day-to-day use, i don't miss much. Hardest part was finding different communities to sub to, but there are enough directory sites around to help out with that.

[โ€“] fidodo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It has less content, but enough for me to scratch that itch, and it's not necessarily a bad thing that it's not an infinite stream of addiction. There's definitely an onboarding and discovery problem, but I think it's a solvable problem.

[โ€“] Madnessx9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit felt so damn simple to use where this is an absolute cluster fuck of complexity in comparison. It really needs to be simpler if there are hopes to take down reddit. Hopefully with boost and sync devs making a client things may improve.

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[โ€“] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I realy like it, but I miss RIF. I use Jerboa now, but might switch an app. RIF was realy usefull for not looking at stuff (loading it) for seccond time. I saw purple link and just skipoed the post, without needing to open it or to load the image again.

Little bit on struggle bus. Looks like work blocks the instance I registered on so tried lemmy.world, but I guess I need a totally separate account to login to that? Seems a little fussy

[โ€“] justmike@pnw.zone 3 points 1 year ago

@alphapro784 I feel like I'm using it wrong. I only see replies in my feed, not the original question. Probably user error on my part. Just haven't had the time to explore it.

I miss some of the subs from reddit but I don't want to deal with their app.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

[โ€“] wee_butterfly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was able to join Lemmy fairly easily at first. Then the updates happened on Lemmy World. Was almost about to give up because I was kind of made to log off then I couldn't log back in for the life of me.

Knew I had to be patient, but at one point I got so frustrated I just deleted the whole thing.

Downloaded it again a couple of days later and all was good. All sorted. Still learning though.

[โ€“] LeTak@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I like it. The memes and entertainment are growing and good enough for me. But the knowledge base needs more input so that it can be used at some point as discussion forum for problems in different categories. Like the old Reddit were you could search if people had this problem and solved it etc etc.

[โ€“] Anders@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Really miss Sync, but am living well enough with Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released.

I really love it. Even though I miss a few subreddits, Lemmy feels much like early Reddit, and it scratches an itch I've felt for many years.

[โ€“] Heku@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Still learning how to use it, but so far i like it. I wish to find an app that would use less mobile data tho, RIF was nice and light, but Connect atleast feels like good ol' RIF.

[โ€“] Lateralking@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of reposted content or no content changes because of lack of user activity unfortunately.

That's driving me to use my phone less though so that's a plus.

[โ€“] InigoMontoyota@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the most part, there are maybe one or two subreddits I miss (ukrainianwar and wrexhamafc) and while I have found something for Ukraine, it's the quantity of content that was there. Beyond that, don't miss it at all, loving the vibe of lemmy, and glad I found a place to land. Oh and f$@% spez

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