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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

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.

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

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.

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

What app are you guys using on Android? Jerboa?

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.

It's going to take a while re-building a list of communities, and getting familiar with the new UI (I'm using Jerboa on Android). But otherwise, same vibes as when moving from twitter to mastodon, it feels good to rely on decentralized networks where we aren't the product.

I have to say, I absolutely love it! Their isn't as much engagement or users to produce content, which can be a bit hard for more niche subjects. But that is okay, and I am very confident that over time those needs will fill in the fediverse.

Learning the technology behind federated social media has been extremely exciting! I really do think that this is the future of the space, and learning it has been like learning Linux or Python for the first time. I guess I am lucky that I have a bit more of a background in computers, so I get to be a bit more patient than most people when it comes to learning how the instances talk to each other, but I really believe that with the right user interface, everyday people will get the hang of it.

It seems a lot quieter. But in a nice way. Like, city centre shopping vs village store.

People seem a bit nicer.

And, there's a greater sense of optimism here. About everything.

It really does have the same feel as the Digg exodus, I'm enjoying the camaraderie with the other Reddit refugees.

The software is a little rough around the edges still, but I'm having a whale of a time here. Honestly it's pretty exciting thinking about what this could be if enough communities grow here.

The first few days was the refugee camp outside Reddit City, where we were all scrambling between our tents and looking for places that would take us. Now those camps are flourishing and buildings are popping up, while new citizens are joining every day!

This is all giving me strong Digg vs. Reddit comic vibes and I love it!

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

I'm still browsing and learning how lemmy works. So far I'm quite happy. Reminds me of the old days lol But just figuring out how to find interests and such when I have a min, reading things that interest me. The breath of fresh air from Reddit has been amazing honestly. Didn't realize how toxic it was until I came here

I'm missing my niche subreddits because the only thing I used Reddit for much anymore were r/synthesizers and r/printsf, and there aren't very many people talking about synthesizers and science fiction lit just yet. I started the former anyway!

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.

I'm having a great time. It feels a lot cozier than Reddit, and like I'm talking to actual people who I occasionally manage to recognize when I see them later (like you OP, for example). I've posted more within a few days here than I did in years of being on Reddit. Which isn't saying much, but it's something.

It's also been a great opportunity to jump into the Fediverse and get more comfortable with it. It's an exciting time!

I'm loving my experience here, it really feels like I'm a part of something special that's happening.

I've not found anyone to be unhelpful, it's a really great community & I'm so greatful to be a part of it!

Thanks to everyone for making this place amazing!

There simply isn't enough here yet to rival my use of reddit as an information depot. I mean the people here seem overall cooler, but that's a big problem. I will likely have to pop into reddit at some point in the future to find something out. However, I will stay away from there as much as possible otherwise.

So far so good. Only thing missing are niche interests. I'm doing my part by creating 2 communities for my interests that I can play the long game and simply submit daily content. Thinking marathon rather than sprint.

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?

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 was pretty new to Reddit, only about 14mo on (mostly because I got sick of husbo sending me reddit links that I finally caved and downloaded Sync). I found some great subs that introduced me to great things.

I'm excited for Lemm.ee and figuring all this out. I'm hopeful to see some of the same type of content I looked forward to from reddit.

Here's to the future 🥂

I'm super excited, the Fediverse feels right. Like this is what the internet is supposed to be like.

It's still a bit rough around the edges, and sometimes comments just don't get posted on desktop, and I get a "deleted" popoup on Jerboa for no reason.

But I sure won't leave here anymore, regardless of how the whole reddit kerfuffle goes down. There's so much potential and freedom.

I'm feeling really good about the Fedivere.

I started out being "social" on the Internet with IRC in 1994 and it was so exciting to have people in my computer to talk to; it felt so cutting edge and so much cooler than chat rooms on AOL and such.

Then I moved into StumbleUpon, which was my first link aggregation type of site. Not much social about it but it let you pick categories and you could submit links to it. I found tons of awesome and weird stuff on it, it was like discovering a "find cool shit" button on my browser; I'd click that button for hours, for better or worse. I don't know how popular SU was but it felt so innovative to me; I was so sad it was gone one day or at least just a shell of it's former self.

Digg came next, and I had no idea what it was but once I got into it it was amazing; new interesting/funny stuff and a community that comments on it, everyone was hilarious and clever. We all know where that went.

Then it was Reddit, it felt like such a breath of fresh air after digg. It has all the edge of old digg and hilarious commentary that I liked from digg, without since of the stifling ideas that digg had. I have a fond memory of holding back laughter while sitting in a waiting room every week; of course there was no Reddit app back then so I used Reddit is Fun. And I never stopped until last week.

Fedivere has that vibe for me again. I loved the insane amount of content and communities that Reddit has with it's 13+ years of history and Internet culture. But it's just time to move on. Fedivere will probably have hiccups and might even fail to get a meaningful grip but this is such an interesting take on the social link aggregation site and I'm really excited to see where it goes! Thanks to all the hard work being done behind the scenes!

I was shocked that you could talk openly about Piracy and other naughty things. Jerboa has been a bit hit or miss and I am still at a loss on how to join another server's community from thier New Community announcement thread.

I'm liking the experience here so far. It's quieter and niche subs aren't populated yet, which is to be expected.

The main problem to me is that it's harder to find subs across instances.

Jerboa being the only app has been a bit derpy. I hope that once Reddit goes all Lion King on 3rd party apps that they'll focus on Lemmy and we'll have more options. Other than that, it's been great.

I'm enjoying the lemmy communities set up by some of my subscribed reddit subs. I'm okay with the potentially offensive communities and happy to block the communities that have content I don't want to consume.
I'm a little confused still, about the "federated" thing and accessing certain communities on other servers and now have accounts on 3 federated servers because I cannot otherwise access some of the communities from the other servers.