Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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    So far so good. In a smaller community I feel more responsible for contributing to discussions. Others seem to be engaging too with thoughtful comments (not just karma-farming inside jokes).

    This is helped by the fact that new interesting threads are not immediately buried in heaps of new content, so you actually have time to think of an answer that someone might actually read and reply to. I realize that this is mostly a function of the current scale of the Fediverse and that the more it grows, the more it might just turn into Reddit.

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    It’s the Fediverse that I have been searching for.

    Somebody on Lemmy made this quote I really like:

    Twitter is people you care about posting content you don’t care about. Reddit is people you don’t care about posting content that you do care about

    Twitter-like Fedi never clicked for me. I made a bunch of accounts over the course of two, maybe three years, each starting with the intention of maybe making new friends and having a good time. I met a ton of cool people but we never became good friends because I never got really invested into it, simply because my feed was never something I hoped it would be, something exciting.

    Lemmy gives me exactly what I was searching for. I didn’t use it prior to thr Reddit migration because there were too few people but now I am very happy

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      Just another quote I read about twitter/Mastodon:

      “You simply shout into the void and hope someone answer.”

      Lemmy and Reddit feel more like the old forum culture. And that’s better, imo.

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      Yeah Twitter style never appealed to me either. Though I’m wondering if I should try Mastodon since it’s supposedly more active than Lemmy.

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        In my experience, no. I’m not a fan of the microblogging style of discussion as well. I never had a personal twitter account, only my artist account I use to post once a week. I thought I’d try Mastodon, and while it’s nice to be in the fediverse and there a lot of interesting people and posts there, the microblogging format still doesn’t work for me and I basically stopped using my account after 2 weeks. I feel more at home with Lemmy.

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          Sounds like me. I signed up to Twitter in 2010 but practically never used it. The short message format never appealed to me and I always thought it was dumb. The heavy focus on politics also put me off.

          However if Mastodon is interesting I’m willing to give it a try! Do most people use it anonymously or with their real names?

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            There are instances that bump up the max length. The word you’re generally looking for is “glitch” (instances will say they’re running “the glitch fork” or “glitch edition” or will have version numbers ending in +glitch, which has a few features on top of regular Mastodon), although some regular Mastodon instances may also increase the char count the hard way.

            Alternatively, Firefish/Misskey by default has ~3000 characters but it’s a completely different experience altogether (although it still federates with Mastodon (like kbin and Lemmy)). I’m not exactly sure on how Akkoma instances are usually set up but that’s worth taking a peek as well.

            Of course this doesn’t address the politics stuff but that’s more on you to curate your own experience.

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    I’m just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.

    Other than that… I’d argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that’s great.

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      It’s a give an take. I do miss some of the communities but at this time lemmy is more intimate. Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind. As an early adopter on lemmy you can help build and participate more readily. Nothing like having a comment on a thread with 1,000 comments and thinking ‘fuck it no one cares.’ Or worse trying to hamstring your comment into the top 6 or 7 threads for visablity alone.

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        Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind.

        I dig the analogy and had to chuckle.

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    Eh, it scratches the itch. I don’t touch reddit anymore, outside of web searches. Still, I miss the niche communities that only a massive site like reddit can give life.

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      Same, I do all of my browsing here but still look up things like “baldurs gate 3 quest/item/enemybugged reddit” because it’s the only place I can find answers, outside of the occasional steam forum post.

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        Yeah, it’s crazy how bad search engines have gotten and how good companies now are at SEO.

        You basically have to end every single search with “reddit” if you want to so words written by humans.

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    i moved to lemmy before the reddit api changes. in january 2023 i stopped using all proprietary software and was looking for alternetives. its way better than reddit, im never going back…

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        That would be nice. I yearn for the day when I can stop putting “site:reddit.com” into all my web searches cause the answers are all on Lemmy.

        Right now this place is good for browsing All, but trying to convince the smaller subs to migrate over here just gets you downvoted and flamed.

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          Yeah I completely agree, even though I’m subscribed to my favourite communities, they are nowhere near big enough to even fill 5 minutes of scrolling a day

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    I’m struggling to find niche communities but overall the comments are more human and not just saying what everyone wants to hear for Internet points. I still plan on hosting my own instance soon and I’m excited for that. I do find it annoying as well when I sort by new and it’s just thousands of repost from reddit.

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      I dunno, there always seems to be a dog pile of people ready to be outraged. The LTT stuff, especially the un-verified, tweets from the disgruntled ex employee.

      People are ready to string up Linus and torch his community even though the response video today is all you could ask for. Then she piles on and somehow her word is not inpugnable.

      Any voice of reason is down voted and dumb hot takes and up voted.it feels worse than reddit tbh.

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        Yeah been noticing it can be pretty hit or miss, the vibe is pretty chill here but people still come out of the woodwork to dog-pile on people. The unverified allegations with LLT / Madison are a perfect example of that

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      Are you planning on some specific communities or “just” a server for anyone to join and use?

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    Lemmy is great and all. Love it more then I ever did reddit. But it seems like instances are more politically polarized than your average subreddit. It kinda harshes my mellow.

    I do like that people feel more genuine as opposed to just broken records repeating overused talking points.

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    I do use it regularly, but I miss some of the niche gaming communities. You can definitely tell there’s a lot less activity on here, but hopefully it keeps growing with time.

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      Same here. Really hoping the non-lemmy-focus communities can start to get more active now that the commotion is settling down a bit.

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      Yeah, people need to post in a lemmy drama community or something, I’m sick of it and would like to read about something else.

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      Lol yeah I know what you mean that bothered me a while ago too, I just wanted to check in

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    Pretty good, it’s my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn’t work that well…).

    Choosing an instance sucked though.

    I went like:

    1. sh.itjust.works: Found out they’re Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
    2. lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a ‘bitch’ on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see ‘removed
    3. lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
    4. lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I’m staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over
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        The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.

        If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it’s gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you’re the only admin and you die? Gone.

        In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my “private” messages.

        If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.

        So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.

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            I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.

            The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.

            So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

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              Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.

              Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.

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                In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).

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          dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha… reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month

          I’m sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what’s your threat model?

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    Honestly I’m not having a great time. Most of the hobby communities are graveyards. I spend a lot less time here because I’m not interested in tech communities at all.

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    It’s a lot less of a time sink for me now. I’m on maybe 15 minutes a day.

    It’s probably because most of my other most frequented forums aren’t quite here yet.

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      Same here. It’s simply not as active as Reddit, obviously. But I found that I was wasting way too much time on Reddit anyway. Infinity was still working for free this whole time, which was the 3pa I used for years, but I still deleted it about a week ago. My sub feed was way less active and the all page was even worse than usual with 80% just aita kind of text posts. I’m on lemmy maybe 30 minutes a day, but that’s a good thing for me.

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    Most of the niche communities I followed aren’t on here so my usage is drastically lower than before. I find Lemmy to be generally nice as a platform-especially now with infinity for Lemmy out, I’ve come to forget that I’m no longer on reddit!

    Just wish that there was more to go on here. Memes and tech can only keep me scrolling for so long.

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      Open up the communities you feel are really missing! I did so with !apocalypticart@feddit.de and so far, it’s going great judging from the subscribers.

      I just wish other people than me would start posting there, but that’ll come eventually :)