I like it. Lots of memes, I’m learning a lot. Less people to help, tho.

I’m really hoping that the smaller communities dedicated to a topic start getting more traction, although I’m not doing much myself to make them grow

I think matured reddit is literally correct. People here at least seem older.

However people here definitely are also of a certain group. Which is not too surprising - it’s a certain demographic taken from Reddit, not a random subsample. This is not really a good thing.

People here also seem more extreme in their political opinions (as in, not very “usual” or “casual” political views). This makes discussions a bit one-sided and polarized… But then again political discussions on reddit have always been so nice and proper and productive in comparison right /s

However I also see a lot of reasonable people and a lot of hope. I see more politeness (mostly outside of any political stuff).

I also like that people have choices - choice of instance and choice of client for example.

There’s some good and bad but for me it’s basically reddit with a bit less activity and slightly different experience but not significantly so. I’m confident that more people will come over time and that will solve most issues. And the benefits will still be there by then.

Comfortable, but a little meh.

There’s a handful of users I see posting and commenting. I read the Everything feed, but most of the posts are US politics, technology (with a FOSS/greybeard bent), or centre-left political takes.

There was a burst of activity during the Reddit exodus, but everything seems to be slowing down. I feel like I see fewer Canadian posts than the summer/early fall.

I appreciate

• the handful of conservatives who are trying to build a community here. We aren’t very forgiving to folks outside our Overton window, but it’s nice to see other perspectives.

• the Star Trek communities. I don’t know if they’re posting OC, but it’s new to me.

• PugJesus, the Picard Maneuver, and girlfreddy for their posts. Lemmy would be a quiet place without their content.

I found a lot of people who are willing to put effort in posting and commenting.

Honestly, not that great

It was really good at the start of the exodus, when I felt like I could write and be read, instead of missing the post by like an hour and being the 10,000th comment

And the community was good, too But now it seriously feels stagnant in an active way

I don’t really know if it’s because of Lemmy itself, or because “Eternity for Lemmy” was named after it’s update schedule, but every day on this app feels completely identical to every other day Just politics, Linux, and bad memes That is basically the reddit experience, I will admit, but on here there are basically zero active niche communities, and basically deserts of fandoms

I think Lemmy did get a sort method to try and accommodate more niche communities, but like I said “Eternity” is the update schedule, so whatever that may be I don’t have access to it

And I think that’s a really big thing, actually My app of choice is abandonware compared to other clients, I’ve reported a bug that gets under my skin 6 months ago and there hasn’t been a single update, so i have to live with accidentally opening posts all the time and I hate it

I really really like this client otherwise, but I might just move to a better client or a fork of the same project, I don’t know

I also don’t have instance blocking, either, so that’s fun

What is kind of putting me off Lemmy is the amount of tankies. I understand they are actually far left from Reddit who migrated, but they’re just damn idiots and are simping for Putin (yes, I’m aware that some of them could be St Petersburg-based Russian trolls larping as tankies).

I like it. Just wish niche communities were more active.

There’s a lot of IT/software engineer here. I’m fine with it, especially since I’m a software engineer myself, but it would be better if there’s more variants of people here.

Even more US centric. This means that all the political posts are too US-centric, I’m fine with political discussion, but damn, I don’t care about that country too much.

For non political content, not bad, of course a lot smaller than reddit, but it’s a good start.

But the left wing populism echochamber is a bit annoying. It’s ok to have an opinion, but all the silly so easy to refute things that get repeated here over & over again because it sounds nice & fits the agenda is just annoying… “Why do billionaires need more money?” because they’re addicted to ego & power, it’s not about the money. “The right wing are so violent, we are the good guys”, every other thread: eat the rich, prepare the guillotines. -insert a not so common incident that supports an agenda- 'see, this happens all the time, we should do -insert short sighted measure that will just cause different problems-. etc…

I’d love all those topics to be actually seriously discussed here, but so far it feels like it’s just edgy teens shouting whatever fits the popular narratatives…

Under populated, but I come here often!

I have noticed that many users are highly technical. I am not technical at all yet I am here because my technical friend showed me how to sign up and which app to use. I think people from marketing background should create guides / poster on how to use Lemmy for people like me who dont have a technical friends.

I do like it here, but would like to see more activity in specific communities like automechanic help or RV repair.

Matured? Really? I guess you haven’t had a taste of the defederation drama. Users are great, but discussion between admins feel like the constant bickering of small children. And I say this as an admin myself, who at times does take part in those discussions. I think we still have a long way to go, when it comes to being matured.

I have ended up in a “view all and block” mode rather than a “subscribe to a curated list” mode because of the smaller community. That means I need to block a lot more communities I am not interested in and users that are just… Outside my window of civility or politics that I can handle. Raging tankies, for example.