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[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really unironically loving it. The range and depth of topics and discussions is growing by the day and it's a wonderful feeling to realise that these communities are, by design, safer from the clutches of Silicon Valley capitalists than they ever were on Reddit. I'll pitch in, I'll donate, shit I'll even try host stuff if needs be. I can contribute to this project and I find that immensely exciting.

I wish it hadn't taken me so long to realise what was going on here but I have only spez to thank for making me see the light. Attaboy, Steve.

[–] forklifted@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty damn confusing. So far I’m not liking it. I can’t find the type of subs I followed on Reddit and yeah idk man

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[–] AletheCrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Enjoying it so far. It is definitely taking some getting used to. Was testing Liftoff! And now on Memmy. Finding Memmy to be more enjoyable especially with being able to set dark for ease of visibility.

[–] MarioBarisa@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Its better in a lot of ways and I have fully switched, didnt look back since.

I am using one of the top iPhone apps, that is openly being feverishly upgraded, and wow do I still miss Apollo.

Lemmy is OK, just not a lot of niche subs yet. If there were more people active here it would be fine.

Been using Thunder through Test Floght and it’s been pretty nice. I’m sure with time it’ll get better and more populated but I don’t mind the calm right now.

High quality content makes my scrolling more enjoyable and less depressing.

BUT vastly smaller community means it's harder to get questions answered. Reddit was my goto for all kinds of things that I have now turned to ChatGPT for.

Enjoying it a lot. Set up my own instance to try out, and exploring a lot of others. I enjoy the community a ton!

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite well. It motivated me to build my own Lemmy client and it makes me enjoy Lemmy a lot more!

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm interested in doing the same. Can you walk through what you did?

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the site loads way faster for me than reddit ever did, to the point that I'm actually stoked about it

[–] GordonShumway@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Things can only get better!

I am enjoying the experience I must admit and I can't wait to see how things pan out 6 months from now. I am certainly sticking with it for the long run. Wefwef.app is amazing to interact with.

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a cat and currently I'm loafing in a corner of the room on my own cushion.

Translation: I am enjoying the peaceful moment looking at people doing their things here.

[–] irondale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

just joined and i’m happy to be here! using wefwef as i miss apollo a lot.

[–] OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's good. It has the pre-Digg.com migration vibe that early Reddit had. Niche communities are hard to get started, but that's to be expected.

Lots of positivity.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's good. You get accustomed to something, so there's still a little loss there, but this platform has a lot of promise and I appreciate all of you who make it what it is!

[–] Sinker1345@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Is actually really nice, I like the separated servers. I can generally filter the amount of communities I see from just my interests, to my local server and then wider. One I found out I could search for and join communities I realized I could stay here

[–] Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying the discovery phase a lot more than I did with Mastodon, which I've largely abandoned now. It still has a way to go but it's fun seeing it grow.

[–] Joe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I haven't been able to find an answer for this, so here goes... How many accounts on different instances does everyone have?

I have three and have started subscribing to different stuff to try and curate my experience (I'm missing multi-reddits), but I'm not sure what's the optimal experience as my all timelines often show very similar content on each account

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[–] rustyriffs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is really good. It's not perfect, but obviously has great potential.

My only issue has been telling other people (in real life) about it, or convincing anyone to try it. The whole concept of the fediverse and related platfoms is too technical for the commoner to understand why it's so important in the first place.

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