Asklemmy

As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.

Reminds me of early days Reddit with smaller communities and content. Reddit has more than a decade to build on its community, so naturally it has more content and more niche communities. But Lemmy doesn't have big cooperate influence like Reddit, so hopefully it can have more balance and unbias contents in the future.

I like it so far. Everyone seems so helpful and nice. There isn't a ton of content here yet, but I know we're all working on it. Some of my niche interests have already had communities pop up since I've joined.

Currently, I'm using Connect. The UX is similar enough to Baconreader that I haven't had many issues with my transition. The future looks bright!

I'm trying to like Lemmy, but too small of a community, therefore, not enough activities.

A lot of my favorite subs aren't here.

Signing up for non tech savvy ppl is a complete disaster. Took me more than. 30-45 minutes of reading to get to signup. Most of the top Instances are closed for registration. Even if those that are open would take hours to confirm our signup.

Oh, if you go on Google, search Lemmy, it is on the top list. Even the related article is a Wiki. Lemmy needs to be less complicated, as in, everyone go sign in and get on it.

So much potential! All that has to happen, in my opinion, there needs to be 3 instances( at minimum) that will promise to never defederate anything! And I mean keep corporate meta bs included and as long as it's not illegal ( looking at you, r/jailbait) it should be included. This platform will take off!!!

Let everyone have an opinion, a voice. Even if it's offensive. There should be a place for racism, fat phobia and discourse of any kind. And then we can have a place for everything else in between. As long as we have that yin and yang on the Internet lemmy will take off! like nothing else in the world because if you don't want to see something just don't join that community or that a federation.

A truly open source and free place curated just for you based on what you want, what you desire and what you would like to learn, that, that's what this place is all about!

It's the pipe dreams that the internet should have always been.

That's just my 2¢. Let everyone have a place and let it be free!

It's good but it doesn't have all fixes for all problems yet like reddit had

I've tried a few lemmy apps, but none of them (as far as I can tell) support swiping between posts

As in: you see a list of posts, click one to view, and after viewing: swipe from right to left to see the next post

Hopefully I'm wrong and someone can correct me!

Currently I use Connect Lemmy for Android as with Jerboa there was a login issue when the server version wouldn't match. Not sure if this app is more resilient to this but it wasn't a good start. I couldn't use Lemmy properly for about a week or two. I also don't like that Lemmy is hard to search for new SubLemmy or search for results via Google. Before I just added "Reddit" to get the good results, I wonder how this will evolve if Lemmy gets bigger. Well and the whole kbing/Lemmy/mastodon link of the Fedyverse is really confusing for new people.

It's Much faster than reddit, no ads. it makes me think reddit should die at earliest

The biggest issue is discoverability. There's not federated way of linking to posts or comments and it's really hard to find the content that's there.

For example, if you subscribe to one of the bigger meme communities, your feed will be 95% memes and it drowns out everything else. But if you unsubscribe, you get 0% memes. So it's virtually impossible to get like ~20% memes.

The hot and active sortings, which should help you find worthwhile content are far too stable. They only push the same stuff over and over. Good new stuff often gets burried, because it doesn't have enough engagement to make it into hot/active which would provide engagement, while the stuff that's already there stays there.

Search is another big issue. On Reddit, if I read a post before, I could just search for it and find the post quite quickly. On Lemmy this hardly works at all.

Reddit's SEO is also really good, Lemmy's doesn't exist.

Other than that, it's a nice place. Discussions are civilized. I miss a lot of the more niche content, but maybe it will happen in the future.

I don't understand how I can find and subscribe two "subreddits".

Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.

It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)

I find it refreshing, for the most part. I've found that comments and replies are much more civil, I'm still getting used to the way users here disagree with actual reasoning while maintening respect for the other perspective. I had ads blocked before, but being absolutely ad free, without even the blank space where an ad would go is even better. The only downside is the amount of space dedicated to complaining about reddit. I don't wish to stop anyone from processing in whatever way they need, I just need to spend more time in my subscriptions instead of "all".

Managed to make me post and comment at all, which is more than reddit has ever done to me. Literally made my account around an hour ago too.

I like it. The memes and entertainment are growing and good enough for me. But the knowledge base needs more input so that it can be used at some point as discussion forum for problems in different categories. Like the old Reddit were you could search if people had this problem and solved it etc etc.

It has been fun so far. Just wishing more content eas here, but hopefully it'll increase with time.

I’ve really been liking it for the most part and hoping there’s a real app soon. After all the subreddit blackouts last month Reddit started to feel like the big, empty hollow worlds of some video games. That’s when I stopped using it.

For the most part, there are maybe one or two subreddits I miss (ukrainianwar and wrexhamafc) and while I have found something for Ukraine, it's the quantity of content that was there. Beyond that, don't miss it at all, loving the vibe of lemmy, and glad I found a place to land. Oh and f$@% spez

Good quality memes so far, content for specific communities such as games or sports is lacking

Now that I've gotten used to the differences I'm enjoying it, fills a lot of the whole left by reddit. The only thing I'm missing is the scale of the user base making some of the more niche subreddits I used to spend the most time on not have a very active analog here

Pretty good, the experience has been smooth so far. I think it would be rather hard to convince friends who aren't as into FOSS as I am to use it though.