I've been here 1 month and haven't logged into Reddit since then. I vastly prefer it here. People are friendlier.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I like it!
I'm loving it! There's definitely a learning curve to the fediverse, but it's been an enjoyable process and I haven't felt the need to go back to reddit since switching. All the communities I cared about on reddit either ported over here or have equivalents, and I find the user interactions in comments to be much more level headed and engaging.
Edit: I will add, I have had to supplement some of my news feeds with RSS, but that's been something I've wanted to try for a while. So I'm not particularly disappointed in giving RSS a go.
It's cool but I miss quite a few subs that I think should be big enough to be on here. If there's only memes and tech news I'll get bored soon.
As a former Apollo user wefwef.app is the solution here. Reddit becomes more and more a place I don’t need anymore…
It's alright. Definitely is taking a bit to get used to. Also, I miss down voting. Beehaw has been having a lot of stability issues, so at least I can be nostalgic for old reddit.
I'm loving it except for one thing. I used Boost when I was on Reddit and loved it. The developer of Boost is working on a version for Lemmy and started up a community for everyone to congregate in. So I went to subscribe to it and I can't.
My best guess is that the instance that I signed up for (BeeHaw) defederated from Lemmy.world where the Boost community is. So my BeeHaw account is refusing to allow me to subscribe to it. If this is the case, I might need to consider moving instances.
The multiple instances is both a strength and weakness of Lemmy. It means that no billionaire can buy Lemmy and gut it. At best, a Musk/Spez/Zuckerberg wannabe could buy an instance or two. However, users could easily jump to another instance and escape their grasp. On the flip side, it means that a user on one instance could find themselves disconnected from other instances for various reasons (which the user may or may not agree with). Of course, even if this case, the user could jump to another instance if they think it's too big of a problem.
Whether this is more strength or more weakness remains to be seen, but it'll definitely be interesting.
yes as everyone has said i like it here - engaged more here in 2 weeks than in 5 years on reddit. everyone seems nicer and you get the sense fills are genuinely trying to help build this community by getting out of their comfort zone and contribute. ❤️
I like it. Actually very impressed with how smooth it has been. Just missing all the subreddits I used to follow - but hopefully with more people switching it will be better.
It's fun. But I do get fatigue from making content only a handful of people see
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