I like it. As an IT guy I tried to set up my own instance and failed because the guides and READMEs are shit. So I chose the idiot proof way, now here I am. I'm missing the content, but hey, we Redditors just joined. Let's wait a while.

It’s buggy and flaky and wonderful. I can’t believe A) how quickly it’s grown over the past two weeks, and B) how great the communities seem to be. I’ve only asked one question so far but I got more and better answers than I would have on Reddit. I was feeling pretty down about the internet during the last week of June, but now I’m feeling hopeful.

I'm liking it a lot. Completely replaced Reddit. Hopefully there will be fewer posts about how Reddit sucks soon as that will start to smell of obsession very quickly.

Kinda like how conservative subreddits were nothing but complaining about progressives, or how r/sino is nothing but trying to shit on America

With apologies for sounding like a McDonald's ad, I'm loving it!

I was very wary when I switched over the day before the app-pocalypse because of my experience trying to replace twitter with Mastodon, but this place has NOT felt like yelling into the void, it's immediately done most of what I used reddit for!

It's OK so far but I think I'll be more engaged when Sync for Lemmy launches. The UI isn't streamlined enough and I would like to stumble on communities by accident but I'm not sure if it's possible.

I like Lemmy for inheriting all of Reddit's positive traits. Tough moderation, bots in the comments, stupid upvote/downvote hells, and many other virtues. I remember how it all started and all the sweet utopian tales of those who shouted "f*ck u/spez" on every corner. You can delete your Reddit account, but you can't delete Reddit from your head.

Really enjoying it, especially with the wefwef app (apollo refugee :( ). Compared to my experience on Reddit I actually feel the urge to contribute to discussions here and not lurk.

The only downside so far is that I kinda miss my niche subreddits... I've been checking sub.rehab on and off to see if they've migrated to Lemmy.

I like it so far. But I think the large amount of reddit users won't like how separate everything is. Most of my friends and colleagues I've mentioned and shown it to, didn't like it for that one reason. Reddit is a singular easy to access place with communities for everyone that is popular.

Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) needs to simplify I think for people to be able to adapt to it. My girlfriend made an account and is having trouble finding groups for herself, but willing to take the time cause I'm next to her all the time. But not everyones got that.

edit: also, i am using Memmy for Lemmy now on IOS, nice to have when not at my PC. Good app so far.

Loving actually having conversations with people, instead of talking into the void where by the time you see a post it's already so old that commenting is useless

I love the concept of a federated network, it definitely feels way more punk than just being another data set for a corporation

I do wish a few of the more niche subreddits had similar communities here, but I'm trying to do my part by making that content

Generally I like it. It has a lot going for it. So for some constructive (uninformed probably, I only signed up today, but I have been lurking for about a month) criticism:

I don't really like how there can be 10 "Official Linux" subs, because 10 self-hosted servers can create it locally. But Okay, I can deal with it, searching for subs I can see where everyone has mostly subscribed to for a particular topic.

Which leads me to, Although its distributed, it should be distributed with common "global subs" which sit on all instances of self-hosted. This would allow me to see that "/g/Official Linux" is the main one (others might exist and that is fine but they are local self-hosted and accessible globally but might be more niche). This would eliminate some small popup Lemmy's self-hosted since they would need a reasonable amount of storage. But I'm not sure this is good or bad, if you want to self-host and not participate in sharing/storing that data, then fine but your local subs are not replicated to the distributed network. I don't know in my own mind if this is all good or bad, but something like this should be explored.

Currently, it appears to me in my limited usage, some sub on some self-hosted (lemmy.cheapdomain.for.fun) could blow up and that self-hoster cannot afford to maintain it, and shuts down. Boom, sub gone? (see previous, note I have not explored self-hosting a Lemmy server yet).

Server blocking/banning: This one concerns me, since its hardest to manage and deal with. Firstly, IMO you are going to get bad actors setting up bad servers with 'nazi love' subs or worse, and they should be filtered from the main distributed service. However currently this is in a terrible state of affairs and needs to be addressed, since free speech is what its about. People may disagree with things and even reddit had dubious subs. But you could choose to ignore it and not subscribe. There needs to be a way to inform users of a selfhosted site, and *why" the decision to block it was. So not just a federated list of "blocked" but with clear reasoning as to why it was blocked by lemmy.world or lemmy.me . Users could then at least identify a site that is blocked and if the reasoning for the block is against their belief they can at least go and check it out for themselves.

While being distributed, perhaps there can still be a self managed tagging system for subs and guidelines for how to tag your local sub, for global acceptance. You dont have to tag as the system says, but not doing so may prevent you from being shared across the federated net.

Everything else is great. Most of the reddit communities I had anything to do with exist here, albeit smaller. The Jerboa app is great (and another that I tried which I forget the name of off the top of my head).

I even like that the fanboys of Apple, Raspberry Pi, Docker etc are here to downvote the crap out of anything remotely negatively said, against their favourite thing... (That one might be a bit facetious, but that is what freedom of expression is).

Well, let's do a pros vs cons

Pros:

• I wasn't banned for saying Putin should die after he invaded a country
• It's a decent time killer
• It's growing
• Idk I just like it

Cons:

• /c/NCD and some other instances are too small and not even close to their counterparts levels
• Jerboa for Lemmy has not been behaving too well for me
• It's still fairly small and new so communities need to consolidate still

Overall I like it better than reddit tho.

None of the communities I'm interested are here, and a lot of the posts feel like they're coming from cryptobros. I'm fundamentally interested in the format and tech, but I'm only here because I refuse to use Reddit on mobile, for now. Things could get better or worse, hard to say.

Ok so far. Missing some subs that i was active on at Reddit, but maybe they will show up eventually.

Only thing i don't realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is, when it is all going to show up everywhere else anyways. I go to Lemmy and i get kbin and mastodon post, i go to kbin and i get lemmy posts...

For me, I was a longtime lurker, so I’m trying my best to come out of my shell and actually comment and have discussions. Overall, I like it so far, I just miss some communities and don’t want to run anything myself.

There's one aspect of it that I didn't expect, and that's its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.

I'm not 100% sure it'll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I'll enjoy being here.

It’s okay. I was optimistic at first, but I don’t think this platform is cohesive enough yet to be worth using consistently, especially with instances defederating from each other off and on. It means you have to have multiple accounts to access certain communities, and then kbin is a whole other thing I guess? Because I can’t log into kbin from wefwef so I can’t even access the stuff posted there.

Honestly the reason I’m even still continuing to even open lemmy other than to check its growth is because of how nice wefwef is.

Also, like other people have said, the jerking each other off about leaving Reddit has gotten unappealing. There’s only so much self congratulation I can take.

A little dull tbh. I still pop over to reddit when I'm on my desktop to visit my favorite subreddits (especially my bumper group). Hopefully Lemmy gets better, but I think step one is the community needs to stop being so goddamn meta and focus on building active communities.

Pretty nice. I just wish more people were here. The occasional bug is fine it seems to be fixed quickly.

Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I'm in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there's more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.

I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?

The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.

I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.

gets better everyday indeed

It's kind of a ghost town so far. But if we can wrestle control of social media away from corporate control, democracy across the world will be stronger for it. Regardless, I'm here for the long haul, making contributions FAR exceeding my efforts on Reddit.

For now, not great. It's annoying to have 99% of my feed taken up by posts like this one. I don't care about Lemmy, reddit, or any other related sites. I'd like to just find some actual content thanks.

It's a bit of a mixed bag. I do enjoy Lemmy. I think that the conversations that take place here are interesting (though many now revolve around Reddit in one way or another). I don't really find the front page to be as good as Reddit's.

And then, of course, I think the most important difference is that Lemmy draws a specific type of person, even after the Reddit migration, and there aren't as many of us as there are average Internet users. I'm not saying Lemmings are a special breed; rather, I'm saying that we're the sort of people who might have used Usenet at its peak. We're the sort who might be Linux users. Many of us are morally aligned with open source technology and the ethics thereof. This makes the discussions a little less diverse on Lemmy than they are on Reddit (which can be good and bad, depending on the sort of conversation).

I’m using wefwef, so I honestly forget I’m not using reddit through Apollo half the time. The culture migrated really seamlessly for me

Other than being a bit quiet, I am enjoying it more than I ever did reddit. It's the quiet, the newness, the wait for new communities to pop up, but most importantly, I don't get the feeling of overbearing moderators.

Thank you for taking all of us in.

I was afraid it would a lot like Mastadon 99% of the content being about how Twitter sucks yet having none of the content Twitter has.

I'm pleasantly surprised. Now that 0.18 made Lemmy actually usable, iI have just about eliminated Reddit from my social media habits. Just need to find some sexy instances now...

The communities are a lot smaller as is to be expected, but it feels really good compared to Reddit. People are active enough and the overall design is so much less cluttered.

Although the bar is pretty low, given that half the Reddit app is just ads.

Lemmy is awesome - I'm really enjoying it. Like the early days of Digg, even Fark, etc. Quality stuff happening!

Performance has improved, but many niche communities need more growth and engagement.

Duplicate communities across Lemmy instances are a bit of a nightmare in some ways - although by design, and also have advantages.

r/all on Reddit looks pretty different now, unless that's just my perception. A lot of subs I'd never seen, more low quality stuff with less engagement.

Population is soooo much lower, but that's not necessarily a BAD thing.

I tried searching for a Comic Books group and it doesn't exist. There's one for Comics but it's a ghost town and populated mostly with web comics. :(

So far it seems like Reddit but with a lot less content. I'm assuming that's primarily a popularity problem.

The “front page” experience of seeing general news I should be aware of is getting better but it’s harder to find active niche communities as expected, and I wish there was combined or less fracturing with communities, like having to choose whether to follow technology@lemmy.ml or @lemmy.world since I would assume they’re somewhat redundant

I'm enjoying the site overall, but I feel like a lot of people are way too die-hard into the philosophy here, to the point where everything seems to come back around to endless circle jerks about how cool and awesome we are for using the superior open platform.

I like it because it's open, but it really isn't THAT big of a thing, and I'm getting pretty burned out only the endless talks about what is and isn't the best pure way to implement the perfect utopia of federation.

I like it a lot. Feels like early days Reddit. I do miss some of the niche reddit communities, but on the other hand the main lemmy continues seem much more approachable. My biggest complaint is that Lemmy can be pretty slow at times.

I've not been back to Reddit for days and I have no plans on returning

I was afraid that there wouldn't be enough content, but there's a LOT.

Totally digging in. I'm still trying to find the easiest way to navigate. I don't spend nearly as long in Lemmy as I did Reddit, which is a good time. 10-15 minutes every few hours seems healthy. It satisfies that urge just enough.

Is missing an active NBA community, which is/was at least half of my reddit traffic along with several other subs I frequented, so I that regard it's a let down.

The interface is already better on jerboa than anything reddit ever made, and I haven't had a ton of issues, just missing the communities.

I like the content but I'm struggling to really dive in regularly without better app support. Hoping Boost for Lemmy gets released before long and that will give a more refined experience.

I definitely don’t ever have a reason to go back to Reddit, knowing that the subreddits I subscribed to will be here eventually if they’re not already

Fucking loving it, bringing back the early internet nostalgia

Never really posted before Lemmy and feel the need to express how much I enjoy this platform

I’ll tell you one thing, I kinda like that it’s small. and that I’m seeing this thread on front page second day in a row.

It’s cool to have the smaller amount of content so it all moves a little slower.

I like it! Main issue for me is that there is not enough content on my hobbies, and "all" content is mostly filled with reddit-this and lemmy-that (or now threads) stuff, which is annoying because I don't want to talk more about the platform than actually using it. But I hope this will change with some time.

I use only the browser, UX and UI is pretty straight forward, but subscribing to communities of other instances is really weird. I need to copy the "handle" (i.e. !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml), and add it manually to my instance domain (i.e. lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml), and then I subscribe to it. I don't know if there are other ways (besides finding new communities via "all").

I'm not into the technicals of lemmy or the fediverse, but I guess this is not easily solvable, as an instance doesn't know that I am the user of another instance.

Getting used to it. I've noticed it's been very stable today compared to the last few days. I've been trying to find communities similar to the ones that I was a member of on Reddit. I miss the volume of info that was available on Reddit that I could drown myself in but I refuse to download the official app. After what spez did to Christian and other third party app devs, it's time to go. So, rock on, Lemmy! (this is my first post btw!)

It's good but I'm hoping the posts mentioning Reddit will stop.

So far really confusing. But honestly I didn't use reddit for 4 years despite having an account because I couldn't figure out how to even begin and I only got it going thanks to boost and my spouse (no one else I know is/was on reddit). So I have hopes that over time it will sort itself out and I will have figured out how this works. Let's see if I can even post this comment.

On reddit, just about any comment made after 12:00 EST would very rarely get more than a few upvotes

So far in Lemmy I feel like my posts get better reach and interaction, which makes it feel like a better social environment.

Android's Connect for Lemmy is buggy as fuck. I get errors just about every other thread. Open to other recommendations for a Lemmy app.

Following instances is kind of confusing.

Is there nsfw content?

It's okay. I miss reddit, but it's clear how steep a cliff they're slipping off of.

So far, 6/10. Needs dramatic improvement. There are some nice differences, and overall I can see how it could eventually fill the void. Eventually. Want to re-emphasize that it needs a lot of work.

Lemmy reminds me of why I even liked Reddit in the first place. Honestly, it makes me worry how it'll change if it grows. Because the downfall of Reddit for me wasn't really the API changes, or Spez, or the crappy new features, it was just more people flowing in, all desensitised jokers hungry for attention. For now, I'm liking it, though! And now I know there's other places I can go if a billion-dollar corporation kills the Fediverse :)

I wish I knew of a big instance on the NA west coast, so I could be closer to it. If I understand correctly, I’d still be able to access & comment on lemmy.world stuff, as well as other instances that are federated.

I have never heard of the fediverse before the whole exodus. As soon as I did, I was immediately hooked. Fuck corporate interests.

It's good. Unironically better in some ways - the transparent up vs. down votes are nice, and the preview button is indispensable. I used to post something broken and then have to ninja edit it.

It reminds me of what reddit was like in the early 2010s. Kind of a wild west.