Ask Lemmy

I actually prefer this over reddit. Currently, I’ve yet to come across any infighting or holier than thou types and it’s nice. People on here are more real and don’t seem like keyboard warriors who think they know everything with no real world experience. I’m sure they are here, but I haven’t come across any yet.

I’m here until the next inevitable decay due to corporate or self greed ruins this place too. The counter has officially begun.

Still better than any alternative at this point.

My current replacements for reddit are:

1. A kbin account for serious-posting
2. This Lemmy account for the shitposting (and for communities on lemmy.ml which blanket bans all kbin instances)
3. Tildes.net for the extra-serious-posting
4. (Eventually) an RSS reader
5. Libreddit and a redirector extension for search results

I personally prefer to keep my shitposting from my serious-posting and I also wanted to see what kbin was like, so it kinda worked out well enough (aside from .ml)

The only problem right now is content. We still have a small userbase. Discussions have been good, tho, and time will bring more people.

I'm trying, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to discover new content.

The default view just shows the same three or four communities on lemmy.world. if I change to show stuff from all, it just shows some three or four global communities instead.

Lots of memes from Memes@Lemmy.ml but basically nothing else.

Where am I supposed to discover communities?

At this point I like Lemmy more than I've ever liked Reddit. I tried Raddle too and it was fine but I prefer Lemmy.

Moving somewhere else? Where?

The only other options are back to Reddit, or somewhere else in the Fediverse. There aren't other options.

This is fine.

I am not sure what other alternatives there are? I'm receptive to anything good. Right now this looks like it has promise, so I'll go for the ride.

I think I'm seeing things settle down and seeing more actual content now. It was mostly posts about Reddit to start with.

Tbh i wasn't really sure at first. But now that I've built up a pretty good collection of subscriptions to various communities id say I'm totally on board. So far I've been very impressed so I'd like to stay.

Reddit used to be able to do two things. 1. Allow me to express myself and 2. Entertain. They really stopped entertaining me a long while ago. They also didn't engage me enough for me to want to express myself. I already had a foot out the door.

Point 1 is filled with Hacker News, Lemmy and tildes. They are all similar but different. With lemmy... you kind of take your shoes off and relax (respectfully). With HN and Tildes: you are the best version of yourself.

Point 2 is taken up by TikTok. I use TikTok on an older dedicated secondary tablet with a fake gmail account, no contacts. The tablet only does TikTok and nothing else in order to alleviate privacy issues, etc.

HN, Lemmy, tildes and TikTok provide an experience that far surpasses that of reddit.

Lemmy is the future!

I plan on staying here. It offers everything I expect from reddit: enough people in the topics that I bother looking into, a handful of silly or shitty memes, and posts (hopefully) remaining visible for a number of years.

Not everything I wanted moved to the fediverse, but I'm not going to check back on reddit

It's difficult to replace Reddit considering it was/is this combination of multiple communities wrapped in a neat little bow. But lacking an ease of access on mobile and blatant disregard for 3rd party apps is what has caused my own browsing on the site to drop considerably during my free time.

Hopefully as time goes on and with 3rd party apps under development, Lemmy can begin competing with Reddit since this is a genuinely fun site.

Hate using it in browser, but Memmy app is awesome, so for me it’s “mobile only” as of now. We need a proper desktop client

Yes.

I'm not going back to Reddit.

I spend all that time on Lemmy now.

I'm home.

discussed lemmy with a friend the other day, who agreed people need to stop nerding out over how it functions, and just let it do what people are wanting it to do, which is replace reddit.

not to mention, the people discussing it just act like how it functions is a common knowledge that just makes sense.

instances, “federated”, “defederated”, user in one spot can have the same name as a user in another spot. does lemmy interact with kbin, wtf is a kbin.

dont make your acct here, make it somewhere else?

I like it, it is kind of like Reddit, but confusingly different. But I am not looking for anything else currently.

I'll stay as long as it doesn't become reddit and former reddit ppl stop trying to force it to be reddit.

This is frankly better than reddit was and if they don't come around to that they are gonna ruin it for me.

As a lurker, lemmy is bustling with content, will be scrolling here for a while.

the only thing stopping people, is lack of content, which according to the stats, over 1 million posts recently, won't be an issue for very long

Lemmy is the most reddit-esque of the things I've tried. I might add other services on top of lemmy, but I feel like I've found (sever)a(l) home(s) here

I've just found "imsorryjon" group. This is my home now.

I sure want it to be

Federation and an open source code base should prevent one team's dumb decisions from being able to wreck a whole platform, like reddit, twitter, digg, and others before

Fedivwrse is scratching my itch, so I'll be staying

Maybe. Federated sure seems to be what I'm going to stick with for now. Hopefully more seemless interaction will happen (in time) between platforms... but I'm already fully converted

Lemmy seems to be working out fine for me. Reminds me of the old days of Reddit.

I've only gone back to reddit for one or two niche communities, but I am trying to do my part here to bring content to the same smaller communities.

I'm honestly not a fan. I'm not sure if the site just isn't active enough or what, but I see the same posts over and over again. Doesn't matter whether I'm sorting by active or hot. Is that just me?

Lemmy isn't THE reddit alternative for me. In fact, I don't think there can be a single reddit alternative that can fill reddit's shoes. This whole debacle was a reminder to diversify and try out different platforms.

Coming to reddit from digg, I found that I still visited slashdot after the move. Reddit's had previous issues that has prompted people to try to migrate to other sites over the years. I joined Tildes a few years back, and before that, I was on Voat until it became clear that it was a cesspool. I also lurk occasionally on Raddle.

This migration attempt, I picked up Lemmy, and I might try a couple of other sites like Squabble. I gave up using reddit on my phone, but I still use old.reddit.com when I'm on a computer. And I still lurk on slashdot after all these years.

Having used the web before any of these sites existed, I've found that what's past is prologue. There is no one size fits all, but rather a plethora of sites that host various communities.

I want to try Tildes once /u/talklittle releases rif (TIF?) for it. But I'll keep using Lemmy too. I see no reason to limit my options.

I haven’t really explored any other options, I like it here. I was already on board with the fediverse with Mastodon since the end of last year

I'm here to stay. Just like reddit, only free and "community owned".