Yes, very happy so far. I haven’t posted this much even on Reddit.
Lemmy
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
Definitely has felt like a more welcoming community. Each comment on Reddit I made I had to mentally brace for the inevitable bot and troll replies. Constant fights.
Here I haven't seen much of it. Some people honestly trying to understand my points of view! Very refreshing
Hi former redditor here. I shall now insult your mother to help you feel at home.
Here it comes.
Are you ready?
I hope you are ready.
Your mother is slightly overweight.
I hope this helps in the transition process .
Glad you’re here! I was a Reddit 1%’r and left when the3rd party apps were killed off. Wasn’t sure where I was going to go but I knew it wasn’t there.
Ram across a post on arstechnica about this app and the feddiverse, and here I am.
I can tell the paint isn’t even dry yet but damn, I’m happy to be here, too.
I ran across a couple of comments on Ars Technica that mentioned moving to Lemmy. I'd never heard of it before.
I never posted my photography on Reddit because I knew it would be 3 votes and forgotten in a sea of botted "professionals" trying to get their pictures on r/all. I feel here I get a lot of appreciation from real people and the comments are thoughtful and kind.
Yeah it's reaching critical mass I feel. So much more activity compared to a few weeks ago
.world's 40% growth on July 1 blew me away. Really convinced me this place will be the next Reddit in time, in the way we used to know Reddit.
The fact the user experience has gotten smoother and more responsive on top of that is just insane. Huge props to the .world team.
This will be like Wikipedia replacing Encarta CDs all over again
But... But... What about that 3D tour of the colosseum? That rocked.
Growthrate has settled at 2000 new active users a day. It's been holding for several days now.
Agreed! And less buggy. 2 weeks ago the servers were constantly crashing or the apps were glitching out. You can see the progress day by day.
What I really like is the fact that the comments are not just the same jokes or the stupid puns over and over again trying to harvest that sweet sweet karma.
It is refreshing to see comments that bring a different perspective or information to the subject.
The community feels way more welcoming and Lemmy and related apps are developing fast.
Let's hope it stays that way as the user base continues to grow 🤞
Yah, huge difference in just a couple weeks. I think it's hit the tipping point and we got here just as it happened.
We did it, Reddit.... wait
we lemmied it? lemme help u?
As soon as Boost is released, Lemmy will be even more active.
aswell as sync.
I've actually picked up app development just to help out with Thunder. There's several of us working on it now and it is REALLY starting to come together. Next release is gonna have so much stuff, and I've got even more ready for the one after that.
By far the slickest looking lemmy app yet (aside from Memmy maybe which is only iOS atm). Not yet feature complete, and only on github right now, but already my favorite to actually use.
Always great to have alternative. Thanks to you and all other foss devs who make the internet bearable
I was here early June when there was very little activity. I didn't really understand the fediverse, and how instances worked. I remember thinking "this has so much potential!" The average instance had about 4000 users. And now it's exploding. I know many people are going to continue to use Reddit, there's still more users on Reddit then there are on here, there probably always will.
I feel the users that end up on here are smart, informed, fed up, we see past the lies, we are mature and chill as fuck.
The fact Lemmy takes time to learn is a good thing.
I‘m pretty sure that‘s how literally everyone in their respective information bubble feels. Of course we‘re the only ones who are right ;-)
I'm LOVING it suddenly. A week ago it felt like not enough, today I'm saving more memes and commenting way more than I did on reddit.
I'm looking forward to more niche communities picking up on this speed, but the Frontpage is definitely scratching my quick burst attention span itch now. Tip: Sort by hot, top 6hrs, or new if you need the more rapid change of pace reddit had.
Saving memes? Son, memes don't need to be saved. They self-perpetuate.
I remember when memes were just text, and it was just something stupid like posting "the best" over and over again.
Once the quality of the porn and the memes went up I knew I had found a replacement
heads up, someone even ported the old reddit interface to lemmy: https://mlmym.org
And the apps! So many aloha builds in active development rapidly became available.
"Aloha" builds honestly sounds better than "alpha" builds 😂
That's been the craziest part to me
I have been pleasantly surprised the last several days. I was a little disappointed with the content at first (though I did enjoy how it felt like the "old" internet), but now that the apps have rapidly improved (connect is great!), and I've started subscribing to some interesting communities I really love it. It's like a kinder gentler reddit.
The experience has gotten a lot smoother for sure! We are also getting better at using Lemmy to begin with.
I give credit to the admins of Lemmy.world. Because their instance blew up in popularity, they went through and did some optimizations to DB and other queries. What's even better is they've submitted the PRs so all instances can scale as smoothly going forward.
Yeah this is wild ... every instance seems a lot smoother, and there is massivh more and better content. It's feeling awesome
I think this is because sudden growth and the apps improving day by day (or sometimes even in less amount of time).
I'm so happy with Lemmy as what it is right now, and the forecast looks even better.
After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, "Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets." Can't say that now, it's getting busy. There's more content than I can review in a day now, and that's just from the front page in Subscribed view.
Totally agree! The number of posts and comments have gone way up already. Now that the main Reddit migration has lessened, I hope word of mouth keeps it going.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg started a clone…both lol and terrifying.
Yep. I'm a month in. I took a couple days break, and came back yesterday and it's moving along nicely. No drop in quality or anything, just more good content, and slightly faster paced discussion.
At least Lemmy has gotten a lot more stable in the past few weeks too
The second I visited lemmy it immediately felt like the reddit of old. Damn it feels good to be back to basics.
I think for me personally is that with Reddit I was scared to comment on posts because I felt like the Reddit hive mind would attack if I even slightly disagreed.
I honestly enjoy this app more than the basic reddit app except for the lack of people in my communities. it wasn't the best experience at first (late june), but now I really like it on here
I agree that the proliferation of quality apps over the past few weeks on Android and GitHub has been pretty incredible considering the broad range of designs and features each one uniquely has
I just joined Lemmy yesterday morning so I don't have a huge frame of reference but I am enjoying it very much so far.
Yup. Much nicer. No sponsored posts and advertisements.