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.
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.
It’s fine but way too much talk about reddit.
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.
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.
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!
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.
There are less people, but I enjoy it a lot. I more and more seldomly look into Reddit these days. I‘m much more active here, hoping that more and more users step over…
I’ve gone cold turkey from Reddit and I’m loving it. My one complaint about Lemmy, that I haven’t figured out if this is setting for, is when logging on you always see the most active posts from your specific instance. I would like to see instead the top post from all instances by default
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
I have never heard of the fediverse before the whole exodus. As soon as I did, I was immediately hooked. Fuck corporate interests.
I think I like more than I liked reddit.
But my NSFW needs are not met yet, reddit have way more fap fuel.
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.
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.
Feeling good. It’s early, and I know we need to keep that in mind. That said, more of the communities I used to follow have started setting up shop here and that is a good feeling. Now with Memmy on the App-store I feel at home and don’t have much if any real reason to go back to Reddit.
I’ve been a lurker… I believe this is my first comment. I’m enjoying it so far and staying patient as I’ve seen significant progress over the past week alone. The app im using has improved as well 👍👍
