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Yes, but
The site needs a ton of UX polishing to keep "lazy users" hooked (something I think it's critical if you want to harvest as much users as possible from this fire). I feel like software developers tend to be more conscientious internet citizens that fight for their rights and seek independence, so I'm hoping that gives an influx of fixes/bug reports on lemmy's github repo leading to stability, but maybe we also need to find ways to collaborate with front-end/brand design people (?)
I've been around Lemmy for under a week so far. This feels enough like Reddit (more than Kbin) and...seems(?) to have more activity than Kbin so I deleted my account there and decided to stay here. I've already created a bit of content here to grow this place! ❤
I hope I'll see more communities arrive here what are not yet here but in Reddit 👀
Leaving Reddit for sure. Lemmy is top candidate right now.
I don’t think so, for the moment at least.
Why? Because it’s me! Hi! I’m the lazy casual Reddit user you guys have mentioned a couple of times!
I have basically only come here because I smell blood in the water, and I’m really annoyed by some of my favorite subs still being privated. But at the same time I recognize that what that sack of human waste at the head of Reddit is doing rn is enforcing a dictatorship.
This site for now is, at least compared to many other mainstream social networks, very rough and unintuitive. And this really doesn’t help to grow the number of potential users, considering the overwhelming majority of people using social network nowadays is 10 times even more casual than I am
But, there’s a butt. This change from Reddit to the Fediverse is necessary. Maybe not now or in six months, but I can already see myself relieved in the future because I had already started dipping my toes in other sites.
Also while I’m not an expert I recognize the technical advantages offered by the Fediverse compared to Reddit, all thanks to a devoted and positive community.
Time will tell, but for now I’ll openly admit to play both sides
I think I've figured out Lemmy and this Fediverse thing. So with that, I'll be sticking around.
Yee
So far, so good. Keep the bigotry and fascists in check and I'll stick around. I tried to make a community (a page for my band) just now and it just loads and loads when I hit submit. Anyone else had that problem? I turned off all my ad blockers. The issue persists.
edit: I was able to make a community today. Check out !jambands if you're into that kind of thing! :)
edit2: 12/13/23 Lemmy has lots of bigots and incels now.
edit3: 2/14/24 Lemmy now seems to have bigot and incels mods running many "front page" communities.
Absolutely. I'm on a few instances with different moods/themes, and I toggle between them depending on what I am interested in at the moment (sciences, programming and tech, ...).
It has already entirely replaced Reddit for me. It's much nicer here.
Yes, but only on the condition that HeGetSus doesn't make an appearance.
Still trying to get head around kbin vs lemmy vs Mastodon and the interoperability therein. It's starting to click. (Intellectually I get it, but from a workflow perspective it's taking time, as there are too many ways to go about it. The tryanny of choice, etc..)
So. Likely. Yes.
It comes down to the UX. I use BaconReader for reddit, and since that's going away I might as well find something else. I don't think kbin/lemmy/Mastodon are there yet as far as UI is concerned, but it'll come. (FWIW the twitter app is, for me, not half bad - it's workable - but I'm gradually weaning off it for more obvious reasons).
I think it’s looking very promising. I’ll agree with others here that if the users come on, some of the bugs get worked out, and an Apollo like app gets created Id be happy to call this home.
I’ve been a serious Reddit user since the digg incident so it really is like the end of an era.
It’s the only alternative so far which hides on opening comments and upvoting which is Big for me.
Also using the Memmy app to post this and it feels great - so yeah, here to stay!
Time will tell, I like it atm.
Been looking for a viable alternative to reddit for a long time!
No, unless at some point, most content is no longer about Reddit and Lemmy! Trying to give it a good chance for now.
Yea, probably, the default reddit app is so bad the site is barely usable. Unfortunately lemmy's android app has a good gui but it's so buggy, like after the last update I can't even go to all or subscribed anymore, it just goes back to local. At least I can browse lemmy on my phone browser.
It depends on the content & communities I can find here and how well things function here. So far the lack of content I'm interested in has been my main issue with Lemmy, but otherwise it seems like a fine place to be.
I'm still on the fence. I've been having a lot of issues with lemmy after creating an account
Totally understandable. What issues have you been facing? For me, the web sockets issue with the feed has kept me to browsing primarily on mobile. Once that is fixed I should be fine.
It's very difficult to find content that I'm actually interested in, Any time I try to browse anything on the main feed outside of "Local" and "Active", the site freaks out and loads a bunch of posts that have no relevancy to what I selected. I selected "All" and "Active" and it loaded a bunch of furry porn from 2 days ago. The feed just kind of defaults to a glorified "new" feed and loads posts as soon as they're made regardless of my sorting options, and there is no variety when I'm looking through the main feed. It's the same 4 communities with like six posts each. The UI is pretty user unfriendly and there aren't really any ways to allow me to customize what I see, and it's difficult trying to navigate around, especially when new posts keep automatically popping up, throwing what I'm trying to click on down suddenly with no warning.
Depends on the content, really.
I really hope this migrating-from-Reddit thing will work. I'd really like to stay.
If there's a good enough android app then yeah I will stick around. It is in my view the better reddit. Just needs more communities.
Yeah it is pretty nice. I like the simplicity of the interface. I am still trying to figure it all out, and figure out why even when im "sorted" to most comments, but after a few seconds brand new posts begin popping up at the top.
If i can get the "home" and "all" views from reddit i would be very happy
Yep! This place is great!
Part of the crew, part of the ship
Maybe, it seems cool. Still got alot to learn. Like why am I seeing stuff I'm not subscribed to when I filter by subscribed. At this point I don't know if it's a problem with the app, the instance or what. But I'll learn I'm sure.
So far no reason to not to stay and see how community develop
Probably, if lemmy become searchable in generic search engine. The one thing that made reddit great is searching a keyword + reddit, and most likely you'll find others who haved reviewed, discussed, fix, experience, what i'm searching before. So far can't do it with lemmy.
Time will tell. Digg was great until it wasn't. Reddit killing my favorite app of 10+ years can fuck off (long live Bacon Reader). Lemmy by design is fragmented which is great, but will introduce momentum problems. Really it's going to come done to; Is their a Lemmy app and server that I can encapsulate most of my interests into and be able to ignore the rest?
First comment here, but yes. Reddit has shown zero interesting in responding to community feedback about the API changes and u/spez is a complete waste of oxygen.
That is the goal, yes. One thing I've noticed is that the relative scarcity of posts here, especially news, has me frequenting a lot of news sites directly. Which I think is a good thing. Of course, one can't expect Lemmy to rival Reddit's content and engagement from the get go. We'll see where the platform is headed in the future.
I want to. But in all honesty, it depends on how much of the communities I'm used to migrate here as well. Right now my typical reddit content is mostly missing here. It has potential, but like any other social media site, it depends on the community and the content. I'm hopeful though, I think reddit is in its final days either way.