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Good! I'm a long time lurker, new user.
If you dedicate a day to figuring out how lemmy works then imo it's quite straightforward. I appreciate the expansion of free speech (i got banned from reddit for telling an AFD member to kill himself) and generally most people here seem ok. it's still rather niche but oh well. We can fix that by inviting friends! It's also much more authentic. A lot fewer covert advertisements and more actual people.
how has your experience been?
Posts and comments cannot be easily deleted, for one.
Otherwise, the general experience is like being at an anarchists' beer hall.
came last april ish after a reddit purge, was on another instance before it was shutdown forever. there has been less content though. and i dont like the tankie, or anything related to "tankie politics"
I stayed permanently since middle of last year thanks to piefed.social. it has a great onboarding system for anyone that might not have the gumption or will to self curate raw lemmy, mbin and now piefed outputs. A.k.a being lazy like myself.
Although for my close online friends I'm likely to suggest other piefed based instance just because tobspread the load around.
It feels like reddit back when it was smaller and before the abhorrent new UI and their aggressive algorithm. Well we all know the fediverse is practically without algorithm for good and bad.
So with this view it semi forced me to be more active in the communities I'm in. I mostly comment though rather than making posts but hey any little thing helps.
And besides I just love piefed has topics i.e. multireddit a.k.a a group feed of multiple communites, where I either I can subscribe to premade topics by the instance admin or make my own grouping of topics/communities.
I still to my chagrin dip back to reddit for some communities or topics but it's none of the big ones. Things like psychotic people that has way too many x (bags, retro games handheld devices, headphones, fountain oens, paper notebooks, ereaders, knives, pocket trash, etc) and spending way too much money on them.
I joined two years ago after the Reddit API thing, full of hope and with bright eyes. I even got a couple of doggos in my PMs, which was nice. It got even better after I finally blocked enough weird porn communities so I stopped bumping into them all the time.
Now I only open Lemmy when I’m having trouble sleeping at night. I browse All/Active, and 90% of what I see are bot news reposts about Trump doing something stupid or scary, or some “are .ml tankies” shitstorms.
Also, I got banned on the Linux community at .ml and I have no idea why or even when it happened, which I actually find kind of funny.
lemmy is a mess since the same community can be found on a different server. same news have 2 comments, but 62 on the other. this thing is just gonna stay as an underground social media until someone solves this.
We make a lot of effort to consolidate communities by closing on one instance, and opening it on another.
But sometimes multiple communities for the same topic make sense depending on different local moderation methods and instance rules.
In my opinion this platform is great. Most people here are friendly, and smart. Although there are a few exceptions.
I've been here since a year, i think. And its the first contact i made with "the fediverse".
All in all i would say that, apart from power tripping mods, and a few weird users, its a great platform i would definitely recommend.
There's one problem tho, where no android lemmy client, that is compatible with android 7 has avif support
I don’t feel good about being on mainstream social media any more. Any time I spend on Reddit or YouTube is minimal and with a sense of distrust.
I’ve been on lemmy for a few months now and it’s grown since I joined and grows more every day as people hear about it.
Never looking back.
You do realize Reddit always was and has been a forum right? Understanding the difference between social media and forums is an “early use”learning moment.
I created my first fedi account in 2017. It’s still a bit strange to hear people say there’s no content because to me this place is bumpin. It’s the same as anywhere — it what you make of it. With some careful curation, it’s plenty fine for my needs, and the underlying idea of internetworking social networks is something I believe in very strongly.
I've only been on the fediverse for a total of like 10 minutes, but it seems so far like a perfectly viable alternative to big tech's data collection schemes disguised as websites.
Welcome!
It gets better the more familiar you become with it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone irl either, mostly because the community is so small that they'd inevitably find one of my posts haha
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.
Ugh, this. And I hate that it's like that.
Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn't overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it's just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.
My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn't tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will ~~probably~~ definitely not look good on me by association despite that I'm nowhere near that.
So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.
Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts
No idea. Maybe they're still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?
My confusion is in no way lessened
They're particularly toxic tankie servers on Lemmy
I find it hard to believe you have any friends, pat
Lmfao he definitely does okay, some that are cool enough to know he's active on reddit and nobody who's cool enough to know about the lemmy
I’ve been on the Fediverse since mid-2023, and I’m sticking around!
I bailed on Reddit, FB, and IG, and I’m only on Mastodon and Piefed now. I find that not being on algorithm-driven social media makes me less angry, and I have a much easier time avoiding getting caught up in a mindless scrolling marathon.
I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience
As far as improvements, my main complaint is that I wish there were more people and that the people who are here comment more. Bigger isn’t necessarily better, but there are a lot of communities that just don’t have enough people posting and commenting to make things feel lively yet.
I agree with everything you say here. I would say even some kind of consolidation for communities might be needed as a lot are defunct but I don't know if that will work or is possible.
I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience
This is one if the most useful features and I think more people should customise Lemmy/Mastodon to their needs.
I'm not new as such. I joined up on kbin initially and tried to establish my communities on there, but kbin kinda collapsed. Then I gave up for a while.
When I came back, I moved to lemm.ee and set up television and obscuremusic and got them going (the former especially) and then unfortunately lemm.ee shut down and then I moved to Piefed and rebuilt it all over again.
Thank you for sticking with it!
I’m new here and it’s quite a relaxed experience. I think there are more friendly and reflected people. It’s like people here are able to criticise properly and take criticism and also encourage and praise a little. I thought this was lost since early internet. But also very political / activist. I feel like in a bubble of people who want to change things for the sake of people and not capital. As much as I like it we’re not enough. I don’t care there are not many comments. Less comments, less fomo.
I used an apk called Relay when I was on reddit. Now I use an apk called Thunder on Lemmy.
My experience is almost exactly the same (very similar gui). Only difference is all the missing more niche sub\instances.
For me, the biggest downside is there just isn't the same amount of content/engagement as reddit. Also, it's even more of a left wing echo chamber than reddit (and I say this as someone left of centre).
Kinda shit, actually. It's mostly just reddit reposts, nazi bot reposts, and furry porn.
The internet is like that, yes.
At least there are no advertising here.
I like it here. I'm staying.
Got tired of the tankies on lemmy, was about to go to piefed, heard about the censorship of piefed, went back to lemmy. So idk
i just block tankie instances, and any single accounts that uses the same language.
Personally, I came here because Reddit mods play king when they're less than a pauper. It is also full of pedos and rapists. Simple questions when people actually need to know are met with mockery and ridicule.
There is less to see here but the vibe is less fucky and I'm staying.
Not much has changed. I might move to Piefed.
I joined today! I tried to post some images, but could only have one image per post. Then someone was rude, and I wasn't able to downvote him. I keep refreshing the front page, but nothing happens since there's no algorithm, the latest posts just stay there.
I think I'll stick around here in parallel to Reddit. Maybe some day I'll understand how instances and all of that works.
Sorry you ran into those issues and the rude person.
I think new accounts have some restrictions for the first 3(?) days. My understanding is that this was implemented to try to counter an annoying person who keeps making accounts doing shitty things and then deleting that account and making a new one.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to add multiple images to a post, but I've never done it.
For the new content, you may want to try switching your view to "New" or if it's your first time looking at piefed during the day "Top (x)" [x being how long since you last opened at Piefed]. Those methods usually bring me a bunch of new content.
Hope your experience gets better :)
Edit: It didn't occur to me earlier, but are you on "Subscribed" feed or "All" feed? If you aren't on all, I would suggest switching to that until you have enough subscribed communities.
It takes little time until you have subscribed too enough communities so that your home feed feels natural. I use the "Hot" sorting in home, but there are some people who prefer "Scaled", which is hot but favors smaller communities, so that you don't only have memes and shit posts in there.
For the All feed I Dan really recommend "Top of 6 hours". But, yeah, the Threadiverse is not big enough to spend here hours a day, I usually come here twice a day. What I really like is that you have much more user engagement, where on Reddit your comment usually disappears in the void. Welcome and have fun here, hope you'll stay a little longer ;)
But, yeah, the Threadiverse is not big enough to spend here hours a day
I spend 3-4 hours on the Threadiverse daily. I'd say it depends on how you use it, how you curated your subscriptions and what you're interested in.
It's definitely possible to spend a lot of time here. But to be fair, I'm bilingual and there's a lot of content in German in addition to English content.
As someone who has been exploring the Fediverse for about 2 weeks, it's been an overall good experience. I've been trying to use it instead of Reddit as much as possible, but it's also apparent that there's a lot less content.
I hope that the verse will continue to grow and that it will solve the content problem.
Otherwise the clients feel like a breath of fresh air and less enshittified than Reddit..
edit: Also the first comment talking about experiences that are just too jarring. I haven’t encountered anything like that but maybe I am just a sweet summer child.
Welcome! I've seen you started two nord instances already. More instances are always a good thing. But I wonder, why did you start two very similar instances?
The first one was my an experimental instance and I will shut it down soon. Initially I planned to migrate the database to new hosting but I also regretted using a domain that was essentially a reference to reddit (.red). So I decided to start clean on another domain while it was only me who used it for a limited time.
I see. Good thinking!
Lemmy really needs to get its shit together in the UI/UX dept for the default look of an instance. Mastodon does this much better.
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
Yeah, I use eternity and I'm grateful for the theme settings.
Also for godsake why isn't swipe left for the next post a standard thing on these applications.
I tried all of the apps on the google playstore before reaching the last in the list, eternity which had a setting for swiping left for the next post.
That said the lack of advertisements is refreshing as is the horrifically bad "AI" moderating system that is so prevalent on reddit.
It's been a great experience for me since first joining. The spark is still there and it gets better ever day.
