And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?
What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?
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.
Kinda shit, actually. It’s mostly just reddit reposts, nazi bot reposts, and furry porn.
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!
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.
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.
Lemmy’s UI options are fine for me but I do principally use Voyager.
That said were you a Reddit user before Lemmy? Did you use old Reddit or one of the other options?
I like it here. I’m staying.
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 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
probablydefinitely 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
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).
Yeah I’ve lost faith in this place and I say that as a staunch leftist. It’s an echo chamber so what’s the point, isn’t that just a circlejerk? I wanted to impact change but here you can’t do that you can either agree on everything or be downvoted.
The positive in all this is I spend less than an hour on here a day on average, compared to previously or Reddit where it could be hours.
I’ve been here for a little while now and I still find myself using Reddit to fill the gaps. But hopefully as more and more people join, then we get more content and engagement!
It’s been a great experience for me since first joining. The spark is still there and it gets better ever day.
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.
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.
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 ;)
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 pretty new.
Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.
If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.
I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.
To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.
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.
