I’m loving it too- I miss a lot of subreddits and the sheer volume of content from the other site, but it feels quite special here at the moment. Also I am loving how quickly Lemmy and all of the supporting apps are developing! I am using Mlem and am very impressed. I want to like wefwef and agree that it is very similar to Apollo, but I just can’t cope with web apps.
I think the content level has gotten better even in the past few days.
I predict at ~200,000 users, there will be a good enough flow of posts and comments that it won’t feel as empty compared to Reddit.
I feel like I’ve seen a lot more posts in just the past few days since I’ve started coming here.
It was slow when I came in last month, but it has gotten to pretty high levels of interaction since.
We just need the niche stuff for us to customize and we will be good to go.
Lemmy.world server was getting hammered on July 3rd. I was part of the wave on the 3rd. But since then things have been much smoother and I see a lot more activity.
It takes time to develop custom content. Reposts are easy. Culture takes effort. Beans take effort.
As soon as I can get a solid app experience instead of going to lemmy.world I’ll be happy.
I have no plans on going back
If you are on iOS try Mlem (if you can get on the TestFligh). It’s a much better, native experience.
Another one worth a shot is Memmy, which I’ve settled of personally, as a prior Apollo user.
I’d describe it as being halfway the two, but to me, it just feels best to use.
As far as these beta apps go, I’m pretty surprised it’s this smooth to explore and use Lemmy today!
For mastodon, I just found an incredible FOSS app for iOS too; Ice Cubes. It’s mind blowing, really, how far fediverse has got in these past years since I last actively used it!
Trying Memmy now and it feels great! +1 for Ice Cubes.
Memmy just went live on iOS public AppStore for anyone finding TestFlight full.
The servers (instances) aspect and different communities (forums on topics) on different servers and servers blocking others, is a mess if I’m being honest. It’s the biggest flaw. I still find it hard to find communities of topics I want…
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.
Eh, I used reddit before they had their own image and video hosting, it was fine as long as you had RES. Maybe imgur can get some more traffic.
Have you been contributing and participating in some of the content discussions in the Fediverse? I found that I was a consumer and just came to Reddit to read stuff. But with Lemmy I’m far more interactive.
Cool idea on having a public board, similar to the modlog. Perhaps that idea should be suggested to the Lemmy devs if it is important to you: LemmyNet Issues board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/
While I’m not sure about the information for your instance, lemmy.ca, I’m with lemmy.world for now. Lemmy.world is hosted by the same people who run mastodon.world.
Lemmy.world posts a blog update that outlines their hardware and financial costs.
“The current VPS couldn’t be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server.”
“May / Expenses / Mail: EUR 32,52 / Hetzner (server etc): EUR 424,34 / Storage: EUR 75,69”
- Mastodon.world Blog (https://blog.mastodon.world/)
- April and May 2023 - Financial update (https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update)
- Welcome Lemmy.world! (https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world)>
There’s embedded videos, no need to host them yourself - you just need to link to somewhere supported.
It’s on my to-do list for my app, if no one has figured it out on the web maybe I’ll help out. It’s not that hard to do but it’s not exactly fun
I mean that you don’t need to change apps to play a video. I use Jerboa .
Not as many things to mindlessly scroll by, but I’m liking the new community vibe so far!
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).
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…
Only thing i don’t realy get is what the point of having it divided in different service is
You can think of them like different email clients. Sure, different email clients all send and receive the same messages via IMAP / POP / SMTP, but they offer different user experiences. Some users might prefer Thunderbird, others Outlook, etc.
Same thing with Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon. They all post content via ActivityPub, but some users might prefer the microblogging experience of Mastodon, or the UI of Lemmy or Kbin. I am sure other projects will come along too if the Fediverse takes off that caters to other users’ needs.
Now no one has full control over everything and fucks it all up like reddit
Ditto here. I’m using wefwef as the front-end on my iPhone (it’s a decent PWA Apollo clone for Lemmy - very well polished!).
It reminds me a lot of the early days of reddit when it was just the tech bros, those niche subs will fill in as the user base grows
Honestly I’m kind of struggling with the concept. I’m using the connect android app but it’s just not clicking for me… how do I know if I’ve found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
That’s a legit issue with these federated social media sites. The whole idea is to avoid one entity having too much power, but it splinters the discussions and the communities in a way that inhibits them.
How do we know a better gaming discussion isn’t happening some place else?
How does a company interact with fans and grow its brand without spamming every single gaming community on the fediverse?
Not sure what the solutions are, but maybe that’s the point? We’re trying to usher in the older days of internet communities. Smaller, closer forums.
So from what I’ve seen… Yeah. There are a lot of redundant communities sometimes with the exact same name scattered across the different fediverse instances. I have noticed that many of those are new within the last 2-3 weeks which is probably attributed to the reddit exodus, maybe with some more time these communities will mature and aggregate a little bit to make it easier on new users.
For now I have subscribed to many small and fragmented communities and I view them all at the same time on my “home page” with the wefwef webapp
I have the same problem. I dont mind the app, it’s similar enough to RIF, but the fragmented communities are confusing, especially since they already are much smaller than their reddit counterparts. I mostly subscribed to specific and thus less populated content, like certain games and had no interest in the big places like r/gaming, but the comparable lemmies I found look fairly empty.
Then again, I would argue that right now most users are still on the fence and only early adopters made the switch, I’m curious to see how it’ll evolve within the next 6-12 months.
You can certainly just join the biggest one, but if you want to catch more similar stuff, join several c/gaming across a few instances. While they are seperate, when you browse your subscribed you won’t really notice I guess.
yes , you can have many communities with the same name. One on each instance. You have two mode of scrolling in lemmy, local instances and federated (connected ) instances. You can also comment in other instances. Although , be careful when you post and comment in other instances . You basically are like a tourist visiting another country . Rules and culture are different between lemmy instances. I see instances just like countries with their own laws and culture. Some countries blocks other and some make alliance and free trade and travel visas. Some instances are free for all, others are more authoritarian. Some are more conservative , other are more liberal , some are communist.
None of them are the one true “gaming”, they all are on difference servers run by different people. This fragmentation is annoying at first, but I usually just go for whichever one has the most subscribers/is most active. Later on there will probably come features for merging/migrating communities.
This is a good question! I don’t know enough to answer correctly, but answering wrong will likely have someone correcting me ;)
I believe each instance will have local posts/comments, e.g. a local version of /l/gaming but there are 3 methods of viewing posts: local instance (all communities/posts for users on that instance), all (all communities on all instances), or communities (all instances, but specific community). I suspect filtering will improve to bring better ways of filtering and sorting, but it’s going to be dependent on the lemmy app, mobile app, and potentially custom mods on an instance.
It’s honestly confusing, seems janky, and I don’t understand how the post aggregation works at all (I want my “front page of /r/all” equivalent). However, it’s all better than continuing to support Reddit. Digg–>Reddit–>Lemmy–>???.
The front page of r/all equivalent is by selecting all rather than local and subscribed? I am not sure what you are missing. It doesn’t aggregate it to its own page but it is effectively the same thing.
I’m selecting all and sorting by hot, which is the closest I can come to, but there’s so little activity compared to Reddit’s algorithm. Here’s to hoping for more activity!
Nice overall but still a bit silent here and there.
But I actually have more motivation to interact here than I ever had on Reddit.
With it being a little quieter it’s so much more calmer feeling
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
I really like it generally. I mostly only miss some of the more niche subreddits I belonged to. There are equivalents for some of them here, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a large enough user base yet to have the active engagement and frequent new content the ones on Reddit have. Other than that I just miss the features of Reddit Enhancement Suite, When I’m browsing on desktop I try to drag-to-zoom some image or another at least three or four times a session, and I really miss continuous scrolling.
lmao the drag zooming happens all the time to me as well
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
Been here for a month, I’ve noticed that my anxiety levels have dropped significantly. I think it’s because I am not an American and on Reddit I didn’t realize how much American politics I was consuming just reading comments. Here I just haven’t subscribed to American focused subs. It’s nice.
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. [email protected]), and add it manually to my instance domain (i.e. lemmy.world/c/[email protected]), 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.
I also use the mobile UI. When I browse through a new community from another instance (but through my home instance) I just expand the sidebar at the top, and use the subscribe button there. No need to copy/paste the community handle.
Join the small sub of your hobbies or create them. If you do nothing it’ll all stay the same
I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
My impression of lemmy changed a lot once I’ve read this updated from the lemmy devs from less than a month ago. TL;DR: Lemmy was developed by just two people and with reddit self-destructing everyone jumped to it, and lemmy wasn’t really ready for that.
With that info I’m now all the more impressed that lemmy is working as well as it currently is and not crashing every few minutes!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m impressed with Lemmy - it’s doing an amazing job handling the migration, its structure makes a lot more sense than I thought it did when I was a newcomer, and its functionality is both adequate and actively evolving. My wishlist is mostly minor usability details and it seems like that’s something they’re actively working on - even the text posts and youtube videos thing I mentioned in my previous message has already been added as a feature on lemmy.world today alone.
Yeah I think In a year or two this will be just as good as Reddit, maybe better. Personally I prefer Lemmy, it reminds me of Reddit before it gained mass appeal. The important thing is now there is a viable alternative to Reddit. Everytime Reddit does something controversial, this site will gain a wave of new users.
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