So far, I've been a Reddit user for like two to three years now, and a Lemmy user for like 3 days. It's definitely a transition, but so far, it seems to have potential. This instance's mod team is doing a good job, and the content is pretty good so far. I just need to let go of older social media habits, I guess lol.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I'm leaving behind reddit after 10 years of on and off use, in the last 5 years almost constant use. I'm happy because I feel rhus platform seems really great , I really like the layout and stye of it all. I hope to understand it better going forward
So far I've mostly used jerboa. It's a usable app, and a good starting point. That said, from a UI/UX perspective, it does seem to be missing a lot of quality of life features that were in Reddit apps.
Overall Lemmy seems like a decent Reddit replacement and I'm sure it will only improve with time.
It's pretty cool, Rick.
Wish it was easier to subscribe to communities. For some reason It hangs when I try to. But its still ongoing development so I expect bugs. Hopefully it gets fleshed out soon.
Devs are actively developing stuff and are very responsive on GitHub. They indicated a new backend version is potentially only a few days away. Probably won’t be feature rich but should help with performance which is important as a lot of instance admins are discovering.
So far it's not bad. I'm also using Jerboa and it's ok. There's a few features from RiF that i would really love to see in an app that aren't there yet,
-The ability to automatically collapse child comments so you only see top level until you expand the conversation
-The ability to change comment sorting.
-And although it doesn't relate to the app, I'm really hoping for a Lemmy Enhancement Suite extension in the future.
Overall it's not bad, It's a fairly young, community and those things will take some time to develop.
overall Lemmy is pretty good. Better than I expected tbh.
The communities are smaller, which feels more old-school, and it feels friendlier and more accepting. On reddit if you bought up nu-metal in the metal subreddit you'd be downvoted and harassed, here I saw someone bring up nu-metal in a metal community and people were super accepting of it. However, because of the smaller population, the more niche interests don't have a community, or if they do, there's basically no content.
The federation thing takes a second to 'get' and with it, comes problems of discoverability, but we have browse.feddit.de to help with that. The upside to the fediverse is the fact the users are in control of the platform instead of a for-profit organization make me very happy, I no longer scroll with shame, I scroll with pride.
There are pros and cons to Lemmy but the biggest cons are related to the relatively low number of users which will grow with time (I hope). Overall I'm enjoying it so far and I really hope more reddit communities make the switch
I got Jerboa right where RIF used to be on my home screen, it's almost like nothing changed.
Reddit refugee here. I like it so far! Really dig the federation between the instances.
I joined a Lemmy instance first (infosec.pub) but joined fedia when I found out about it this morning. Overall, I'm finding kbin much more responsive, better UI, and easier to grasp concepts and searching is definitely easier.
I'm hoping some of the developers of the third party Reddit apps shift their apps to Lemmy/kbin.
I've tried https://lemmy.ml/c/mlemapp and it's definitely a good start, but a long way to polished. I'm excited to see it's growth and development.