My experience is that it’s 95% of the way there and has the potential to do it all. I think Lemmy needs time to coalesce as a thing and for defacto groups to emerge that replace the ones over on Reddit.
It would be much better without the constant references to Reddit
that’s fair, but there are bound to be ghost pains at the site of amputation
I wonder if the same thing happened during the digg migration.
It did. This is normal and expected.
mfw Lemmy is just metal gear solid phantom pain
ghost pains at the site of amputation
This is quite clever
Lemmy talks about Reddit like its an recent ex.
Fug yea
soooo much better
I use all the tools I can. Reddit has a great community in a lot of subreddits that are extremely helpful. So are many standalone forums for the topics I enjoy. Lemmy is just another option for great content. I prefer Lemmy to Reddit as a platform, but the content - I really don’t care where it’s hosted as long as it’s free (free as in freedom of information, not just cost).
Reddit’s gone to shit, but I’ll still hit those SysAdmin and other subs for information. Too valuable not to.
Yup. It’s better.
It’s definitely turned me from a lurker to a commenter 😅
Same here. I mostly lurked on Reddit but there’s just such a good vibe going here, I think I will be commenting more.
Literally same. People are too calm here maybe ;)
I feel seen.
Yeah, actually people and communities look less toxic but I guess that would soon change.
Ay! Hope for the best and maybe it won’t!
Ay! Hope for the best and maybe it won’t!
Ay! Hope for the best and maybe it won’t!
Ay! Hope for the best and maybe it won’t!
I like how you accidentally replied four times and people upvoted all of them.
This is the spirit of Lemmy right now! Everyone knows that this person didn’t mean to reply so many times, and it likely happened because they’re struggling to get involved with alpha software giving them erroneous error messages, so we’re gonna upvote each reply to show that we get it, and we know this is a temporary condition (like youth) that will end soon, making it even sweeter to devour now with abandon
Lol maybe cuz I’m on an app
Yeah, could be. But in any case, I upvoted all of them as well. Cheers!
Lemmy is one chill af mofo 🤙
I’ll be honest, I have not weened myself 100% off Reddit just yet. However, I notice with each passing day since Reddit sabotaged third party apps that I am opening and scrolling through Memmy first and more often than I am doing with Narwhal. So while I have not left Reddit behind just yet, leaving it behind is getting easier by the day as more people start coming over to Lemmy and is becoming more active.
It’ll be even easier when Narwhal starts charging you for the privilege
Agreed, at that point is probably when I’ll cut myself off for good from Reddit.
Good so far. Though I miss seeing videos in the feed
It has a few weird glitches that happen every couple of days, and I haven’t been able to find a way to 100% stop non-English languages from showing up. Every other day my feed will get filled up with posts in Dutch or German or something, I’ll go through block communities and try to keep them out (I just can’t read what they say, so I don’t care to see it). I tried changing my language in the settings, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped it. That and random problems with being logged in seem to affect Memmy on iOS. Otherwise, I’m liking it so far.
Hopefully the momentum continues and the community builds. I was worried about finding a barren wasteland after leaving Reddit, but it seems to be doing well so far.
log in at the web portal of your instance, like lemmy.world and set your language prefs there
The old memes and posts about a dude not wanting to poop for 3 days has given me pure joy.
But everyone here has also been really great, and I’ve had no shortage of posts and comments to interact with.
I haven’t missed Reddit once since I started using Lemmy. This place is a vibe.
Some of that real fediverse freedom
Truth. There’s a nice, positive vibe here.
There’s a lot less inflammatory content. Sure, the occasional, “X tech company is screwing you over in a new way,” but nothing like Reddit’s vitriol.
Yeah? Well you’re an idiot.
Since we’re bringing back ancient memes:
Nu-uh! My echo chamber says YOU’RE the idiot!
Tbf, I have a slight feeling the users here might have a FOSS bend at a higher clip, so that perspective is to be expected.
I know because I’m one of these guys. Insert any tech company in for X and I’ll have something to grumble about after a few beers 😅
I’d grumble about any tech company before any beer, afterwards it will be an uncontrollable rant xD
feeling it!
Does thou feel it now, Mr. Krabs?
yes SpongeBob I’m feeling it now lol
