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[–] Dallimjp@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much potential! All that has to happen, in my opinion, there needs to be 3 instances( at minimum) that will promise to never defederate anything! And I mean keep corporate meta bs included and as long as it's not illegal ( looking at you, r/jailbait) it should be included. This platform will take off!!!

Let everyone have an opinion, a voice. Even if it's offensive. There should be a place for racism, fat phobia and discourse of any kind. And then we can have a place for everything else in between. As long as we have that yin and yang on the Internet lemmy will take off! like nothing else in the world because if you don't want to see something just don't join that community or that a federation.

A truly open source and free place curated just for you based on what you want, what you desire and what you would like to learn, that, that's what this place is all about!

It's the pipe dreams that the internet should have always been.

That's just my 2Β’. Let everyone have a place and let it be free!

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[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Gerally it's decent.... I don't use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I'm not sorry to see the back of that place.

It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)

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

I like it so far. Everyone seems so helpful and nice. There isn't a ton of content here yet, but I know we're all working on it. Some of my niche interests have already had communities pop up since I've joined.

Currently, I'm using Connect. The UX is similar enough to Baconreader that I haven't had many issues with my transition. The future looks bright!

[–] GaryL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that I come across the same posts more frequently on my front page here than on Reddit. Perhaps it would be solved as the userbase continues to grow. Other than that, I have no complaints. This platform is a perfect substitute for Reddit, if not better.

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[–] Bison1911@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

r/NCD and various firearms related subreddits are all I miss from reddit.

Think it would be cool to start an instance dedicated to firearms where there's a general community and separate smaller communities dedicated to certain popular platforms or topics like r/longrange or r/ak47. If I take it upon myself to start this I'd try to keep it apolitical other than maybe a community dedicated to gun rights/control/policy discussion only.

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[–] f4te@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i found it challenging to understand how to subscribe to communities across instances until i discovered the Home icon in the top right of lemmiverse.net. i wish there was a quick 'subscribe' button there that would help you build up your subscriptions fast.

generally, i feel good about it. waiting for a few communities i really enjoyed to pop up- watchexchange and watches are big ones imo.

glad to see two huge F1 communities though!

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

Good so far. Communities here are less active and I am still using old.reddit.com for stuff that has no equivalent community here yet, but just gonna give it time and re-search for the missing stuff every so often to see if any of it has been added anywhere.

[–] LeTak@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I like it. The memes and entertainment are growing and good enough for me. But the knowledge base needs more input so that it can be used at some point as discussion forum for problems in different categories. Like the old Reddit were you could search if people had this problem and solved it etc etc.

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

Not sure yet. Still getting the hang of it. I'll give a few more days/weeks but I thin the promise is there.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.

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

I'm trying to like Lemmy, but too small of a community, therefore, not enough activities.

A lot of my favorite subs aren't here.

Signing up for non tech savvy ppl is a complete disaster. Took me more than. 30-45 minutes of reading to get to signup. Most of the top Instances are closed for registration. Even if those that are open would take hours to confirm our signup.

Oh, if you go on Google, search Lemmy, it is on the top list. Even the related article is a Wiki. Lemmy needs to be less complicated, as in, everyone go sign in and get on it.

[–] G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's Much faster than reddit, no ads. it makes me think reddit should die at earliest

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

I like it a lot, but I do miss the multi-reddit feature, several communties in one feed. But so far, so good!

[–] Lordgeoffery@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm loving it, here is my slogan. "When life gives you lemons, make Lemmy-ade"

[–] Bebo@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I am enjoying out here. There are a lot of interesting posts and good discussion. However almost 80% of subs I am subscribed to on reddit are not here because they are niche subs. So now my browsing is divided between reddit and lemmy.

[–] zozo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I find the idea of instances and being able to have a home instance while seeing others so great. It's like IRC with a server of choice and channels, but I even have the opportunity to see other servers, so it's a fun idea to me. Also Lemmy users are so nice! You're the best, and it must be a bit awkward for so many Reddit folk to very suddenly arrive.

[–] HelterSkeletor@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd like to be able to group multiple subs into a mult-iLemmy that I can save to refer to. e.g I have multiple gaming subs I'd like to group into a single browsable page titled "games". Any way to do multi-subs?

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Great but there’s some frustrations. My instance appears overloaded and often voting or commenting fails. I’m also using alpha software so it’s unstable. And the communities are much tinier and quieter.

I’m sure in a few weeks there will be some big improvements. Early mastodon was like this too.

[–] klinefgc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like it but definitely miss some of the more niche subreddits that I followed back on reddit, but hopefully those come over as Lemmy grows.

[–] Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand how I can find and subscribe two "subreddits".

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