I’ve had a great time here. The people on the various communities I’ve joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven’t encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.

I’ve had really cool conversations and I haven’t been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.

What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.

People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.

I’m excited to see your experience as well?

I’m really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D

    • Ferris
      1•1 year ago

      Thunder is working well for me. oh this post is OLD woops

  • chillbo_baggins
    3•1 year ago

    Love it! It’s like food truck version of reddit. The apps are now right next to each other on my phone

  • @magmaus3
    1•1 year ago

    I’m personally happy since I’m less dependent on proprietary social media, which is nice :3

  • @ubernard@lemm.ee
    1•1 year ago

    Just joined, and I’m curious to see how it compares. I’m still trying to figure out how to add the equivalent of subrexxits (communities?) to my stream here. Wondering if there seems to be a void, should I just create one, add some stuff, and wait for those that are more knowledgeable/active to come and play? Kind of an “if you build it they will come” kind of thing?

  • @ericthered926@lemm.ee
    1•1 year ago

    So far so good! It’s been cool to see activity slowly pick up over the last few days

    I’m on iOS beta testing the Mlem app and that’s already improved a lot over the last few days, too.

    I’m really optimistic about Lemmy, it feels like cool things are happening here!

  • @Kettlepants@lemm.ee
    1•1 year ago

    It seems a lot quieter. But in a nice way. Like, city centre shopping vs village store.

    People seem a bit nicer.

    And, there’s a greater sense of optimism here. About everything.

  • @Master@lemm.ee
    1•1 year ago

    Lemmy itself seems fine reading wise. The main issues I have with it are that the communities are spread to thin with everyone making their own niche communities that have little to no activity and thousands of 0 comment posts. Wouldnt be that bad except the sort options for lemmy seem to not work that great and I dont want to spend the time curating from an every changing list of communities just to propagate my feed… because at this point it seems like a waste with servers federating and unfederating. The 3 main servers I tried sofar have been unfederated from the largest gaming community of lemmy which makes them almost useless to me.

    Lemmy still needs a lot of work to be a good replacement for reddit. Better sorting options would go a long way and maybe allowing each server to have a “home page” that lists their own curated and popular communities as a home page.

  • Pixlbabble
    1•1 year ago

    I feel like I’m in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.

  • C.Ezra.M
    1•1 year ago

    I was actually hesitant at first, because I didn’t know of a good alternative. Then, there’s Lemmy that I’ve heard of. Since lemmy.world has been compromised, I chose this server. I still haven’t escaped Reddit fully. However, the fact the board at Reddit Inc. accepted and implemented the new API pricing made my decision to come to Lemmy quicker.

  • @Dead@lemm.ee
    1•1 year ago

    I like it but for some reason it won’t let me create a community but other than that it already better than reddit, no karma farming, bots, or only fans

  • @A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee
    0•1 year ago

    The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I’m afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service… But it’s a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.

    • @GoodEye8@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

      They won’t recover, because Reddit is going to get only worse. There was an NBCnews interview with Huffman, where he more or less let it slip that the next big step is trying to monetize subreddits. People will eventually migrate to the fediverse because Reddit is going to gut very core of what makes Reddit Reddit. Of course Reddit won’t magically disappear but it will slowly drift towards irrelevancy as it transforms into something else.

    • @Monomate@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

      It could be argued that some of the best content creators of Reddit have left, or are considering leaving out of disgust due to disrespect from the admins. If Reddit alternatives prove to have quality over quantity, Reddit might continue hemorraging users, and the ones that stay will be folks that appreciate dopamine-heavy content from TikTok.

  • dune
    0•1 year ago

    I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I’m in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I’m excited to see where this goes