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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I hope it will be, and think it has the potential.

It has already replaced the "all" experience for me, and I automatically come here rather than Reddit. On the other hand, most of my engagement on reddit was with hobby/interest communities. Very few of the ones I visited on Reddit have made it across in an active way so far.

One unexpected thing is that I actually enjoy my specific instance and find myself browsing "Local" way more often than I expected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Actually I didn't think I'd move away from reddit but since I found lemmy I have to activelly think about going to reddit to read something there. Most of the communities I already found here and suprisingly, I'm not really missing the ones which I thought I'd miss.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Have a Tilde account now too, more users, but less active? Odd space...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was so hard to find and join this place, I think I'll hang for a while. I lurked on Kbin for a bit, but I hate the way they show images, especially on mobile browsers. I tried Mastadon first, but that was even more confusing.

Still not sure of lemmy Vs. Fediverse Vs. Threadiverse, whether the instance I joined is best for me, or if it even matters. On Reddit it was easy to lurk, then only one way to join, and easy to figure out. If someone figures out how to simplify using and joining their instance or universe or whatever, they have an opportunity to come out on top.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a chance I'll move to kbin, although I have a community here. But in general, Lemmy makes a good Reddit replacement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the recent giant performance boost for lemmy.world and the launch of the ios client Memmy on the app store makes lemmy so great rn

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it is. Tried Imgur for a while, but that place is… lost. Now with the Memmy App, I feel right at home here on Lemmy

[–] AdmiralShat 5 points 1 year ago

I wasn't aware imgur was even a social media, I thought it was just an image host

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I split my time between Lemmy and Tildes, Lemmy is the most Reddit-like, Tildes is more of a place for contemplation and I like it a lot, but when I feel like doomscrolling a la Reddit, I go to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Reddit is gone, long live Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love it. It's fun to watch it grow too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe? With revancing the RIF app i can still use my old app. This being said the protests have salted the earth in many placed i subscribed to. In other places there are more bots and spam then before. Lemmy is still a little weird for me. I barely got the hang of the federation in browser, app was too weird for me.

So ill just vagabond around for a while and see what i see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think lemmy is the only viable reddit alternative for me, and since I don't plan on using reddit much anymore if at all. I'll be here. Most of my subs on reddit were smaller communties that I have not seen pop up yet on lemmy though. I hope they might appear soon, but I don't think some of them will ever be as active as they were there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here since last night. It's been good, feels like Reddit from ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The user interface in my opinion is pretty bad. It looks like old reddit which wasn't that good. I have to manually expand each post to view it instead of just scrolling through.

Kbin is mostly better. But still a little rough on a few points.

Reddit in desktop mode is better.

Sync in card view mode was the best. Still looking for that experience.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So far Lemmy is my new home! I like it here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll probably stick with Lemmy until another solution comes around that makes federation easier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve used both Lemmy and Kbin. I see advantages to both, but I have been finding that Kbin isn’t as flexible with federated posts and is less flexible with smaller instances: my smaller instance of Kbin is missing a lot of posts and images that show up on kbin.social.

My smaller instance of Lemmy (VLemmy) seems to be pretty complete, so I have been been happy with it.

Also, the constant Kbin warnings about missing info on Federated magazines has really pushed me toward Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

4 weeks ago it was empty.

3 weeks ago it was a growing and a little rough to find content.

2 weeks ago it was filling in.

1 week ago it was silly (beans anyone?).

It is growing by leaps and bounds. The main thing missing now is the really good discussions in politics and news. But I think the trajectory is right and it will be the place to be.

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