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 joined two years ago after the Reddit API thing, full of hope and with bright eyes. I even got a couple of doggos in my PMs, which was nice. It got even better after I finally blocked enough weird porn communities so I stopped bumping into them all the time.
Now I only open Lemmy when I’m having trouble sleeping at night. I browse All/Active, and 90% of what I see are bot news reposts about Trump doing something stupid or scary, or some “are .ml tankies” shitstorms.
Also, I got banned on the Linux community at .ml and I have no idea why or even when it happened, which I actually find kind of funny.
Got tired of the tankies on lemmy, was about to go to piefed, heard about the censorship of piefed, went back to lemmy. So idk
lemmy is a mess since the same community can be found on a different server. same news have 2 comments, but 62 on the other. this thing is just gonna stay as an underground social media until someone solves this.
We make a lot of effort to consolidate communities by closing on one instance, and opening it on another.
But sometimes multiple communities for the same topic make sense depending on different local moderation methods and instance rules.
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.
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.
Kinda shit, actually. It’s mostly just reddit reposts, nazi bot reposts, and furry porn.
The internet is like that, yes.
At least there are no advertising here.
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!
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.
I find it hard to believe you have any friends, pat
Lmfao he definitely does okay, some that are cool enough to know he’s active on reddit and nobody who’s cool enough to know about the lemmy
Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts
No idea. Maybe they’re still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?
My confusion is in no way lessened
I’ve been on the Fediverse since mid-2023, and I’m sticking around!
I bailed on Reddit, FB, and IG, and I’m only on Mastodon and Piefed now. I find that not being on algorithm-driven social media makes me less angry, and I have a much easier time avoiding getting caught up in a mindless scrolling marathon.
I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience
As far as improvements, my main complaint is that I wish there were more people and that the people who are here comment more. Bigger isn’t necessarily better, but there are a lot of communities that just don’t have enough people posting and commenting to make things feel lively yet.
I agree with everything you say here. I would say even some kind of consolidation for communities might be needed as a lot are defunct but I don’t know if that will work or is possible.
I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience
This is one if the most useful features and I think more people should customise Lemmy/Mastodon to their needs.
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.
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!
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 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.
