Ask Lemmy

I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁

I don't know where else to go.

The best thing about reddit for me was an endless stream of information and news propped up by user discussion. I rarely just scrolled endlessly through posts; I loved delving into comments on posts which didn't even interest me at face value to see what I could learn from niche communities.

It was, hands down, the best, most information dense landscape I've ever seen and frankly I feel a little lost without it. I hope that some day, some where I can find something similar.

Well, true. I may have gotten here though Reddit. But now I'm taken aback by what's happening here.

I mean, the whole thing is open, FOSS developed, decentralized, being everywhere and at the same time nowhere? Call me crazy, but this in itself is awesome!

On top of that, I was greeted here by a community of communities where people are kind, helpful, full of beautiful and interesting insights.

So why would I be thinking of going somewhere else? I've posted more comments here in the past weeks than in the last ten years on Reddit. And I've done that because I'm genuinely excited with this setting.

So no, I'm not joining the herd moving to greener pastures. This field is green enough for me.

Unless something happens, I'm sticking with Lemmy. As for interface and everything, I liked kbin more initially, but I feel like Lemmy development is moving much faster, plus all the third-party development at the moment. As I've said in the past, I'm going where the people are. And right now, that's mostly Lemmy - and since it can federate with kbin, picking between the two is kind of a moot point ...at least for now.

It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it's a success.

I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet

This is my permanent go to. Community already seems great and I hope it gains more traction. The main difference with the change from Reddit is I've gone from lurker to trying to be more engaged and posting.

Like it so far, not looking for anything else.

So far it replaced my casual Reddit browsing when I'm bored. But when I want to look at some specific stuff I still need to go to reddit but it's just to get some information and not really to engage with the community.

As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels... empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.

I'm using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.

Yes. With the added bonus of decentralization.

1:1 complete replacement - been very happy with Lemmy and Fediverse so far

I'll check out Tildes if given an invite or it opens up. But I'm content here given it's where more people went and I seek conversation which is easier to have when there are more people on a thing.

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?

So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.

I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.

The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.

I don't think it's a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.

So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.

I'm curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.

Nah, more of a Kbin fan, but I also have some other forums/BBS sites I go to (and reddit still because the community around life in Japan and such never got going over here, but only those subreddits and nothing else).

I really like it. The community is also really cool. More like a small town feel than a huge city like reddit. I hope I don't have to move anytime soon.

Right now it is. It's still a bit empty compared to Reddit, but I see it's slowly getting traction.

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 [email protected] but basically nothing else.

Where am I supposed to discover communities?

I feel like there’s people just taking top posts from Reddit and getting them here as fast as they can. Sometimes it seems like a “best of” Reddit site.

Im cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Short / mid term I’ll be here as it provides probably 90+% of what I was getting out of Reddit. I’m not sure long term how it will work out but so far I have no reason to leave.

I’ve also noticed I just don’t interact with any of it like I used to with Reddit. I used to spend a lot of time just doom scrolling on Reddit. Now I get the highlights of the news, check the sports sun for updates, and then I’m back to the real world. I like that.

Once I got Memmy it was done. It’s everything I wanted without all the extra bullshit.

I joined multiple to have many feeds

Only if this place moves on from complaining about reddit and posts content. No one finds the "my ex was crazy" phase endearing.

I tried communites.win and squiggles and some other stuff but they felt like reddit clones. This feels like its own platform and it feels like the future.

give it time and dedication. it will grow if we want it to.

Yeah, aside from the porn. The lemmy porn scene just isn't here yet. Also lemmy nsfw just moved servers to Ukraine where porn is illegal, so who knows?