Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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zeekaran@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m pooping on the toilet right now.

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thawed_caveman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  catbox.moe can be used to host videos and gifs
  
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  - Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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