I think Lemmy definitely has potential, but I feel like the biggest obstacle for mass adopters will be the sign up process. I personally felt a bit of choice overload when picking which instance to sign up on, especially considering how many of them are the exact same. Now that I’m in, though, I definitely feel more at home than I do with Mastodon and Kbin. I’m excited to see where this goes

Love it! It’s like food truck version of reddit. The apps are now right next to each other on my phone

What app are you guys using on Android? Jerboa?

I made a reddit account over a decade ago, it was by far my favorite social media platform, and pretty much every single change since then has made it slightly worse. I’ve been looking forward to this exodus for a while.

The only downside is how small the communities are in comparison to their subreddit counterparts. I’m afraid that Reddit might be able to keep coasting on numbers alone for long enough to recover and ultimately overshadow this service… But it’s a great alternative, and I for one will not be leaving even if they reverse their API decisions.

Just joined, and I’m curious to see how it compares. I’m still trying to figure out how to add the equivalent of subrexxits (communities?) to my stream here. Wondering if there seems to be a void, should I just create one, add some stuff, and wait for those that are more knowledgeable/active to come and play? Kind of an “if you build it they will come” kind of thing?

I feel like I’m in/on a space ship an communicating with other ships in the fleet.

Yup, migrating from Reddit here. Biggest problem for me is finding a good instance. First one I tried was not in my region, poor connectivity. Then I started trying ones in my region (USA) after looking at the list sortable by country here; https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Next one I tried was beehaw.org. That one turned out to be heavily defederated which means it blocks a lot of outside instances. That’s really bad. I can block any instance I want in my profile so why do I need someone else to tell me what I can and cannot access.

I did pretty well with lemmy.one, performance was good, but was not particularly impressed by the administration, some disabled features and a few blocked instances. Now I’m trying lemm.ee and we’ll see how that goes, so far so good.

The next big hurdle is finding communities. There’s no sort or filter function when you list them all in a search. So it can be hard to zero in on what you’re looking for. There are some 3rd party sites like lemmyverse.net to help in the search for communities, but it would be a lot better if that was not necessary.

You can tell Lemmy is immature in terms of development, rough around the edges. It lacks quality of life features and has some glaring bugs. Still its not anything that makes it unusable, but the user experience could be better at this point. I’m sure it will get there as the software matures.

The huge thing that makes Lemmy superior (and the Fediverse in general) is that it’s community driven by FOSS making it free of corporate influence. That’s just a huge advantage, can’t overstate that too much. Inevitably what happens with corporate driven communities is they prioritize monetization over community interests. That happened with Reddit in a big way as evidenced by the recent strike.

How the hell do you sub to places on other fediverses? It says to paste [email protected] into whatever in lemm.ee, no results

I’ve seen the term rexxitors used (like brexit), and I really like that.

I think it’s finally matured to be worth it, and I’m dividing my time 50/50 between the two. It’s just like.the reddit I fondly remember from 11 Years ago

I too agree with your observation at the quality of discourse seems better here. My experience with Twitter versus Mastodon also was like that

I wonder if anyone would care for an instance that scrapes reddit and just reposts stuff from popular are user requested reddit subs to bootstrap our way out of the content problem?

I’ve been liking it. Funny actually. I used to be really into this site called FunnyJunk back during high-school and got really into it during college. Then it became much more right-wing so I tried out Reddit. Had that for a few years until just recently. Let’s see how long this one lasts.

There are pros and cons. I have been having issues trying to upload pictures and with replying to some comments. I very much like the ability to post a link and have a description at the same time so that I don’t have to immediately write a comment to describe the content of the link. I like the underlying concept of the Fediverse so far as I understand it. I also like that I can edit post titles. As someone who frequently had to delete and repost posts on reddit because I made a spelling error or some grammatical error in a post, being able to edit the post title is a life saver.

I think there is room for some improvement. I think it would be handy if I am looking at comments in a community that the comment showed which post that comment was attached too.

Overall, not too hard to get used to so far and I am really quite loving it.

Well at least lemmynsfw.com is starting to get populated.

I’ve always primarily lurked on reddit. I don’t usually say anything unless I have something to add and by the time a post makes it to the front page who is going to see it anyway? So I’m trying to participate more which is new for me. Besides that I’ve had a little trouble with jerboa but I’m chocking that up to growing pains. But so far so good and I’m looking forward to watching lemmy and lemm.ee grow and thrive.