What are your thoughts on the Lemmy ecosystem?
I’ve been trying it out for the last week. I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear others and see if we have common ideas on what is good/bad/indifferent about the Lemmy ecosystem.
Submitted 1 day ago by Zansuvobr@lemmy.world to [deleted]
What are your thoughts on the Lemmy ecosystem?
I’ve been trying it out for the last week. I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear others and see if we have common ideas on what is good/bad/indifferent about the Lemmy ecosystem.
Similar, just smaller. It keeps me from going on Reddit but tbh, I would be back there in a second if I didn’t have to use their app or use the browser.
It’s working for me, but might not be for everyone.
I like that when I scroll through the comments, I recognize names. Commenting feels less like shouting into a random crowd, and more like having a conversation at a party where strangers may pop in and out.
There’s definitely less content. If you’re looking for something to doom scroll, you’re going to burn through everything quickly, but for me, I open it up when I’m bored, see what’s new, and in 5-10 minutes, I’m all caught up and back to the real world.
Not everybody is looking to ween themselves back from constant social media, but it’s turned into a benefit for me.
Depends on what you are looking for. I think Lemmy works great and I only really go to reddit when a google search leads me there for something. Though I do miss the niche communities and the “there is a subreddit for everything”.
Lemmy is also healthier, I used to just scroll through reddit for literal hours, it’s possible to reach an end of sort for the time.
its effective for me, but I always find myself going back to reddut due to the data thats already there.
as the fediverse continues to grows, I’m sure my reliance on visiting reddit will begin to go down
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Bad
the non-meme Lemmy content is rather small.
Did you have a look at the active communities promoted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world ?
Comment conversation seems lacking.
Depends on the topic:
The idea of “start your own” mindset in the design makes community formation just as bad as Reddit. There doesn’t seem to be any tools for a more collaborative approach to running subs or instances.
!fedigrow@lemm.ee
Yep. Uninstalled rif is fun and installed Sync. The fediverse is not as active, but fills the same need.
As others have said, as a “front page” with voting and real people in the comments, I like it. It’s like hanging out at the one locals’ coffee shop in a small hippie college town somewhere. You don’t get to talk about everything you might like, and there’s a definite vibe, but the people are generally polite, informed, and surprisingly cosmopolitan. That’s where Lemmy really shines in relation to reddit, the quality and accessibility of conversation on general interest and shitpost threads. Even assuming they’re not overrun with bots, and they likely are, the biggest subreddits are just noise and fake internet points, or at best a passing conversation with a stranger on a bus.
I still go to reddit for (American) football and mechanical keyboards, but for the former I don’t even bother participating, because we’ve got a fun handful of folks here (to extend the coffee shop analogy, imagine a table in the back with a few professors who fondly remember going to a big football school 20 years ago). For the latter I can get the occasional fix here, and I seek that out, but I like seeing the pretty aluminum rectangles and sharing the little bit I’ve learned with newbies. To the extent there’s still a baby splashing around in the bathwater, I’d prefer not to throw it out, but I’m clear-eyed about reddit’s trajectory, and “home” is here.
I’m here because I like the idea of defederated social media, but I hope there will be further attempts at making even better alternatives.
Sure it’s the same thing without all the corporate interference. Reddit was small once.
It’s alright but I think the low res weird mouse thing mascot isn’t the best, I’ve always hated reddit’s smug bastard shitty alien thing though.
Also it feels relatively empty even though there’s data to back there being half a million users.
Also the language filtering is super imperfect to the point I can’t use it, so I have to manually filter out 500 non-english communities.
It’s a Lemming!
Also it feels relatively empty even though there’s data to back there being half a million users.
45k monthly active users
It will take years for Lemmy to take off in much the same way as Reddit had slowly built up.
As I and other mentioned before, the main downside of Lemmy is that the community you care about isn’t here (and frankly, I don’t know if they will even come here at all). Like, we don’t have AskHistorians here, and the Lemmy for your hometown or country is either quiet or just completely died. So, I end up having no choice but to return to Reddit to keep in touch with those communities. However, as someone who is privacy conscious since Reddit now sells your data to train AI, I try to log in to Reddit with Tor. But even with the Onion site of Reddit, it won’t let me log in at most times because of technical discrepancy with stupid captchas or something. Sometimes I could log in via Tor but most times I’m not able to.
Anyhow, I would love Lemmy to take off as soon as possible but there is teething problem common in new communities. But the pessimistic side of me thinks it may not since so many people have become too invested in Reddit. And the latter intentionally hooked people in for the worst reasons.
Like, we don’t have AskHistorians here,
There’s !askhistorians@lemmy.world , but it indeed lacks actual historians
For the country and town communities, I’m always impressed how busy the !melbourne@aussie.zone daily threads are
The only real issue I have is that there aren’t that many active communities for more niche topics. I hope it’ll get there someday, but for now we have Linux or Star Trek, take your pick. :P
What are your interests?
There are plenty of niche communities promoted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
It depends. Usually I’m just looking for some game or show I like. The few of those I’ve looked into that have a community have like a handful of users, infrequent posts, or auto-posted threads with no comments beyond the bot post.
Not yet but its getting there.
I’ve stopped using reddit completely. I do tend to check twitter a lot though.
Mostly agree with what others said, it’s fine for me.
Perhaps just a subjective opinion that isn’t bound to technology - I find moderators much more trigger happy when it comes to deletion and even banning.
Best I’ve found, but definitely suffers from lack of network effect
i like the fact that it is not karma driven. like vote on me like you want i don’t look at my karma and care at all how people react
It’s great. Not enough people, though.
Lemmy is an improvement over Reddit in terms of its business structure. We don’t yet know what the downsides will be of decentralized social media at scale, but we know that it beats a tech company that went from venture capital to publicly traded while already deep in enshittification.
Lemmy is not an improvement over Reddit in terms of design: it’s designed the exact same way, so it has the same set of advantages and disadvantages.
The improvement in community is hard to guesstimate, and will change as the site grows. Aside from the company, it was often the users that made Reddit suck, and Lemmy is completely capabe of sucking in the exact same ways.
For help on current topics, like how certain things work in a newly released game, I check old.reddit.com without an account to see what they have.
For doomscrolling/visiting regular subs?
Lemmy works equally fine, and with a clearer conscience to boot.
It depends on your tastes. It’s effective for me as I enjoy quite a bit of the popular content here (like Linux stuff), but we need far more activity for other topics.
It’s not bad, it doesn’t have the massive amount of people to keep niche communities going, but for big broad general topics it’s fairly solid. It could use some video and GIF support, but maybe it’s just my instance that doesn’t support it.
catbox.moe can be used to host videos and gifs
But if it doesn’t display in the page and I have to go to a secondary site, it makes it cumbersome enough that I look for that experience elsewhere, like Bluesky.
It has a long way to go but it’s a good start. The community is very homogenous right now (maybe excluding some of the mainly politically focused servers). It’s predominantly male tech people right now and it shows in what is active and the general vibes of discussions. My hope is not only for more niche communities to grow, but also for a lot more diversity of interests and of people in general. We need more women’s voices on here for sure. I miss that diversity from reddit. Things have been steadily, if slowly, growing so far from what I can tell, so hopefully over time all this will improve.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It feels like a more-manageable, more-personal, bite-sized version of Reddit. It scratches the itch, but I spend less time here overall than I used to on Reddit.