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[–] n00b001@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried a few lemmy apps, but none of them (as far as I can tell) support swiping between posts

As in: you see a list of posts, click one to view, and after viewing: swipe from right to left to see the next post

Hopefully I'm wrong and someone can correct me!

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[–] ribboo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I find all to be rather good, and don’t miss r/all that much. There are much less news which I miss. And then there are the niche communities that don’t really exist. I’m very hopeful though!

[–] willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been in Lemmy for a month now and I've never seen the need to come back to reddit at all. I like it here.

[–] Anders@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

Really miss Sync, but am living well enough with Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released.

I really love it. Even though I miss a few subreddits, Lemmy feels much like early Reddit, and it scratches an itch I've felt for many years.

[–] ReducedArc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's weird, a little quirky, and can be a unpredictable at times. It all adds to charm though and I love it.

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a bunch of people chopping it up. I'm a fan. Mostly cause it's not apart of any economic system probly.

I prefer the smallish community size over the vast sea of opinion that is reddit.

[–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm loving hanging out with y'all.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

There are a handful of local/regional subs on Reddit that I'll miss. I typically scanned them for news and current events happening around me. Their analog communities have been created here but the population is still pretty meagre. Which is fine. It means that to make it interesting I'll actually have to participate more rather than just lurk.

[–] TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

So far it's good.I think over time it'll keep growing on me

[–] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Adjusting slowly. I feel about as isolated with a sense of pseudo-connection that dies off the moment I stop typing my reply here as I did on reddit, if anything less content here with a less aggressive algorithm keeps me from getting into scrolling loops and lets me actually do shit with my day.

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m not bad about it. Trying to contribute more and hopefully help this place grow!

[–] Grimr0c@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

LOVING it!!!! It's very similar to reddit as far as content goes, but its better in the sense that im not being bombarded with rage bait!

[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I love it and created my own instance!!

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

The biggest issue is discoverability. There's not federated way of linking to posts or comments and it's really hard to find the content that's there.

For example, if you subscribe to one of the bigger meme communities, your feed will be 95% memes and it drowns out everything else. But if you unsubscribe, you get 0% memes. So it's virtually impossible to get like ~20% memes.

The hot and active sortings, which should help you find worthwhile content are far too stable. They only push the same stuff over and over. Good new stuff often gets burried, because it doesn't have enough engagement to make it into hot/active which would provide engagement, while the stuff that's already there stays there.

Search is another big issue. On Reddit, if I read a post before, I could just search for it and find the post quite quickly. On Lemmy this hardly works at all.

Reddit's SEO is also really good, Lemmy's doesn't exist.

Other than that, it's a nice place. Discussions are civilized. I miss a lot of the more niche content, but maybe it will happen in the future.

[–] kamecha@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like it very much! Everything comes naturally into place for me, I've had no issues adapting as of today. Already feels like home, and it's really nice to be here.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how it works, I don't know what I'm doing and I'm loving it.

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[–] Punk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)

[–] Dardlem@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

For now it feels like a nicotine patch, but in a good way.

[–] AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used twitter, so i had no expectations when I used Mastodon.

I was a little hesitant with Lemmy since I use reddit so much. I'm liking it way more than I thought!

It's obviously less content, but as far ss my day-to-day use, i don't miss much. Hardest part was finding different communities to sub to, but there are enough directory sites around to help out with that.

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It has less content, but enough for me to scratch that itch, and it's not necessarily a bad thing that it's not an infinite stream of addiction. There's definitely an onboarding and discovery problem, but I think it's a solvable problem.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Loving it. Haven't been back to Reddit in days. Don't foresee that changing.

[–] neptune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Its great, every day more and more people are creating content and the quality of discussions is rich and contextual in most cases, back in reddit most of the times a huge chunk of the top comments where just reddit comedians making a low effort comment to try and gain upvotes.

One of the things I like about lemmy the most so far is the ability to view both a local All and the All with every instance there is, so if my local instance gets stale I can just look at whats happening on all instances!

[–] willmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just found out how to add more…instances? I want to call them subreddits but that’s not it lol but I like it, and so far I’ve curated enough for it to keep me interested while scrolling. I do understand that everyone is still getting their footing, I definitely am, so it won’t be perfect or exactly what I want. You really gotta take time to discover and explore the feddiverse, it seems quite big.

I think if we want this space to be a great reddit alt, we gotta put the effort in making it so!

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[–] Rapokki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of early days Reddit with smaller communities and content. Reddit has more than a decade to build on its community, so naturally it has more content and more niche communities. But Lemmy doesn't have big cooperate influence like Reddit, so hopefully it can have more balance and unbias contents in the future.

[–] Mkultron@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm digging it so far. Nothing to complain about. Just being patient with it's growth. Great potential.

It's fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy

[–] Madnessx9@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit felt so damn simple to use where this is an absolute cluster fuck of complexity in comparison. It really needs to be simpler if there are hopes to take down reddit. Hopefully with boost and sync devs making a client things may improve.

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