[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

So from the user experience side, I'm actually liking Lemmy even just with the mobile site, which I'm guessing varies instance to instance. There's a couple quality of life tweaks I'd make but it's a lot smoother than expected.

A problem I am having though, which I hope clears itself, is that I'd say upwards of 90% of the posts I'm seeing are either "Reddit is dead to us" or "Wow Lemmy is great!" Both of which are fair viewpoints that they around certainly be allowed to share, but when that is the vast majority of the content, it does not entice me to regularly return.

The two things I regularly used Reddit for (Keeping up with a couple hobbies and educational materials) have communities but are largely inactive at the moment. I am aware that I can help the situation by engaging with them--and I will!--but so far the pervasiveness of the Reddit posts has definitely taken the enthusiasm out.

This post isn't quite what I am talking about, though, as you are at least promoting discussion, which is good!

I visited Reddit for 16 years. RIF on android then Slide on iOS. Slow to learn how Lemmy works.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the site’s burned. But it’s an adjustment - with how often I check my (now broken) app mindlessly, I actually think the scummy CEO did me a favor!

Wefwef as a web app is really really good. I’m also enjoying liftoff! App for iOS.

Currently using Liftoff but can't wait for Sync to release.

Nice OP!

Same here, if anything this whole thing has done me a favour. Many times the past year i've considered giving up reddit. I tend to scroll reddit when I play with the dog after walkies, and the amount of time my brain says 'why you do this shit?' as I scroll past nothing, looking at comment chains of constant bickering. Why am I scrolling pasts hundreds of pointless comments, meandering bad takes, puns, the time wasted...for what gain? It was kinda an addiction I guess.

The first day has been great tbh, Memmy feels good despite the instance' slowness. The Hot filter is pretty good for catching newISH posts, or light comment posts which i've been tagging onto.

It really feels like old school forum days, and it's been really awesome to have my inbox popping off with replies. What's the point of lots of comments like a big reddit thread when no one replies or even sees your comment? Really looking back, it was just pissing in the wind.

Or if you did get a reply over on pigboycity, it would be some massive drangus trying to start a fight. Just ugh. I deleted my posts and account yesterday, now reddits just gonna be my suffix for google searches when I need something (until the fed starts getting indexed over the coming months/years).

I also really like the look here. old.reddit to me always looked shit from a UI standpoint (Despite being massively better than New, of course). lemmy.world just looks concise without being overwhelming. I'm excited to see growth and engage with real people again just like the old days.

Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.

Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!

After a few days without Reddit, I don't miss it that much for daily browsing. But it'll probably still be useful to find people with the same PC issues as me and find a solution 😎

Wefwef is incredible. I've never seen a web app that's even half as technically impressive, and it gets 2-3 major updates a day. Huge hats off to the devs.

It's been one day without Reddit and I've realized that I don't really need it, despite being on the site since 2009 and by far my most used social network. At the end of the day, the community is more important than the site, and I think most of the communities have far since declined on Reddit, then moved on to Discord/ Lemmy/ whatever.

I like that I have yet to encounter the N-word unlike some other "reddit alternatives"

I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity

I'm using WefWef. It much slower than RiF but the growing pains must be absolutely massive.

I'm here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it's definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!

Liftoff seems like a good one. I honestly had so many issues with the way Reddit operates, and the experience was so horrible on many subredddits. I love the idea of a decentralized service where there can be entirely independent instance operators. It's been liberating to start over with these small forums here. Once more people join in it'll be so much better than Reddit ever could have been.

I'm using Liftoff until Boost is released

I'm surprised at how easy it was to make the switch. Now that servers are stabilizing here this is pretty much a very similar experience.

I feel no desire whatsoever to go look at reddit. I don't know, reddit just feels lame now

I had been using reddit daily for about 10 years for a multitude of reasons. It was a great place to waste time, an amazing tool to get help on niche subjects and a wonderful way to learn… but recently it suffered from it’s own success and generally felt more and more of a cesspool…

I am grateful of the events that transpired, because it has forced me to find an alternative, and evolve my knowledge on different options. I had no idea what Lemmy was yesterday, nor federation or anything… I was thrust into the option of stick with something that was getting bad, or figure out how to do something new that has the potential to be even better! I’m glad I went into uncharted territory.

It’s a little bittersweet that while lemmy does not have the scope that reddit had, resulting in less of a pool to get help from… the prospect of what might become with Lemmy is more than enough to keep me away from reddit.

Boost + my NSFW account were my Fap App. I almost didn't know what to do with myself.

I could easily see this being a more seamless switch than we feared. So far I am hopeful!

I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

I've been here since the blackout and I haven't touched Reddit for at least a week. It feels closer to what the web used to be when it was cool.

I'm using the web along with Jerboa.

Lemmy is keeping me busy, and is like how Reddit should have been

I'm waiting for boost for Lemmy.

This truthfully reminds me of the oldschool forums quite a bit right now. A smaller user base and being able to participate without being buried immediately by thousands of other posts and get some engagement is nice. Its also nice not to see the same thing on my main page in 12 different subs being reposted to karma whore.

The recent stuff was the extra little kick I needed to go somewhere else and stop scrolling infinitely.

I refuse to download the app from Reddit. If they would have done some good faith negotiation and somehow still didn't work out for Apollo, I would have gone with it. But now, fuck them, fuck spez and fuck the power hungry mods that supported him.

I am happy to call Lemmy and specially lemmy.world my new home. We are in this together and we will push this project further.

I've only tried one Lemmy app so far, Jerboa. It's fine...

I'm still struggling with the muscle memory of opening baconreader pretty much all the time. I spent some time on Reddit too, on my PC, and it's kinda bland.... Since everyone seems to be here. But this place is still ramping up, so I'm interested to see what happens in the coming weeks.

Im still waiting for sync for lemmy. It's the main reason I'm making the switch. I can't use reddit without the sync app and I'm looking forward to using lemmy with it.

I’m still on a browser. I tried to get into the Memmy beta today, but its full. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Christian moves Apollo to Lemmy’s API. I’d gladly pay for the one time thing again.