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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[–] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Niche communities aren't taking off as well as I'd like, but I've enjoyed these past few months on my different accounts.

However, I've recently noticed an increase in the kind of behaviors that made me quit Reddit in the first place (more trolls, brigaders, smarter/holier-than-thou types, you name it...) If this trend doesn't pass, or worsens, I'll have to expand my blocklist or just be more active on my accounts made on instances blocking those I see as problematic. That's a good point for Lemmy when you think about it; just having to jump ship instead of abandoning sailing altogether.

[–] HanDuo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sync user so it looks and basically feels the same. Just the volume of posts is missing. My other issue is I used a lot of smaller communities and they haven't migrated.... Yet. So it's hard to get answers to things without going back to the /r which I try to avoid.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Successful! A full reddit replacement!

The cons is the Sync app (or maybe it's deeper), comments seem to be under the wrong parent threads?

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair it's still in beta and that's a known issue, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

[–] Deno@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty good. haven't even been to reddit after I switched!

[–] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s a LOT of extremist left wingers but it’s ok because there’s a down arrow and block buttons. Oddly enough I haven’t seen much extremist right wing stuff plus I don’t have to care if someone doesn’t like me here so I’m less concerned about being honest.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I think a distributed, democratically oriented platform that makes no effort to rank people in a hierarchy or score their performance naturally appeals to a lot of leftists. Can't say I've seen much I would describe as extremist, but I haven't looked so it seems plausible.

Of course there's nothing actively stopping right wing instances from spinning up, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before one blows up.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Too left wing, too much circlejerk. One sided discussions that feel AI generated. Controversial comments will get you banned in many cases. Worse mods than reddit easily.

It started out ok but is just a pointless echo chamber everywhere I look. Maybe I'm weird, but I WANT to view opposing viewpoints. That's how you learn things.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 years ago

Lemmy blows and is missing vitally important features. In a decade, other people will finally figure it out once the tankies who control development exploit the information they've been farming against the users, put in updates that prevent defederation from their instances, fill the Lemmyverse with propaganda and/or start doxxing the liberals and alt right dipshits they hate.

I am personally trying to figure out what alternatives I could use. This instance seems alright for now, but after the last few I have been to, I don't really have faith in the platform. We'll see how this instance turns out, I guess.

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