I like it a lot. I come here often, it’s a good addition to my reddit use, it has some nice people and some interesting content.

I love that it is decentralized, which means that there will always be a server without ads, tracking or bad governance.

Also it feels like being part of Lemmy is being part of something new and novel. The idea of decentralizing services online, away from corporate silos, should be resurrected.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    281·
    2 years ago

    Platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other are precisely the way social media should work in my opinion. The internet was always intended to be a decentralized system that’s not controlled by commercial entities.

    We have mountains of evidence that commercial social media platforms are manipulated to serve the interests of the companies that own them, and this manipulation is harmful to the users of these platforms. There is a conflict of interest at play on commercial social media platforms between the interests of the companies that own them and those of the users of the platforms.

    • Sr Estegosaurio
      12·
      2 years ago

      I was going to write something but this commet resumes it all. Compleatly agree.

  • dreamLogic@slrpnk.net
    20·
    2 years ago

    Not enough people, or not enough participation by current members. Basically not enough activity/liveliness. This will probably solve itself given enough time.

    • krolden
      171·
      2 years ago

      It seems like a lot of Lemmy users are still active reddit users which IMO weakens the platform. People need to stop participating in corporate controlled social media. I know this is sometimes not possible for whatever reasons but if you can break away then you really should, and just submit content to the fediverse.

      I think Lemmy would flourish if there were more topical instances with general-ish shared communities, like how mastodon is. However that kinda goes against the whole shared sublemmy type of platform where topical discussion is shared between every federatedinstances. I guess that may be the whole reddit type of platform being inherently centralized by design. I guess we will just have to see what the future brings and try to guide it in the right direction.

      • Boomsharkala@lemmy.perthchat.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        I know this is sometimes not possible for whatever reasons but if you can break away then you really should, and just submit content to the fediverse.

        imo keep submitting content to reg social medias, but like watermark it or link back to lemmy in the comments

  • poVoq
    256·
    2 years ago

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  • mholiv@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    It reminds me of when Reddit was first starting to kick off before the digg exodus. The fact that it brings those feelings leads me to be hopeful that things will go well.

  • hanabatake
    14·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy is working great on the web (desktop + mobile) but it should be noted that some people are still complaining about the app. Furthermore, genzedong might turn away some new people and repost are frequent on some lemmunities (lemmy communities). But discussions are different (in a good sense) from the one on reddit. I think the lemmy is great and I hope it will have a bright future

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      I don’t use it with an app but I totally think that lemmy deserves a really well made app. Who has the time though ;)

      • hanabatake
        6·
        2 years ago

        I agree, I don’t use neither the app but I might to help debug it

      • DessalinesA
        8·
        2 years ago

        I would genuinely like to work on jerboa more than I do lemmy-ui, not only because kotlin is a much language than javascript, but also to get away from web-bloat, and back to native apps. Android is currently ( and trending more to be )the most popular OS worldwide.

        Problem is, I’m not much of an android dev, and could really use some help with it.

  • DessalinesA
    91·
    2 years ago

    I think the software, even though we’ve been adding and working on it a lot, is in a really good place. As others said below, we just need more users, and non-tech-oriented communities.

    The only large growth that the lemmy federated network experiences, is when reddit messes up, and there’s a large exodus of users to a new instance. We really have to do a better job of bringing over reddit communities, or encouraging them to start their own instances, as they can fully control their content.

    • vitaminka
      7·
      2 years ago

      reddit largely owes its success to digg’s failings, nothing wrong with that user acquisition approach imo 🤷‍♀️

  • wiki_me
    8·
    2 years ago

    I like some parts of it (showing how many upvotes and downvotes you got beside just a sum is good).

    But it’s mostly less good version reddit (It does not have it’s ecosystem, Like the excellent RES that makes it possible to incrementally read a post , no multireddits , and of course no big communities with good content like on reddit) .

    I feel like improving the platform is the way to make it a more worthwhile use of most people time (As it should among other things will bring more people).

      • wiki_me
        5·
        2 years ago

        I can click on a comment to mark it as read and then just display read comments (and set this as the default, by default it marks as read just comments you “looked at” which does not seem to work as well).

        I can also tag a certain user, so stuff like “lemmy developer” will appear next to his name.

        I also shows the sum of upvotes and downvotes i made to a guy, so if he has “-4” that means his judgement is probably not very good and i should avoid engaging in conversation with him, if it’s high it might be especially “useful” to start talking to him.

        Another advantage of reddit (at least old reddit) that given the front page has a few default subscriptions i can remove some i am not interested in, on Lemmy “all” stream it looks like basically just communism propaganda/advocacy (So you are not going to start looking for regular stuff there, which makes people post less regular stuff and the circle continues), having the ability on the client side to block a specific instance or community could be useful (not to mention some people know people who lived on communist countries and heard some pretty bad stories, even if you think it was not “true communism” or something like that it can still give a pretty bad impression). There is the “remove” button but it is not clear what it does (It should have a pop up when hovering over him).

        • DessalinesA
          3·
          2 years ago

          Could you add some of these as issues to the github, they seem pretty useful.

        • Boomsharkala@lemmy.perthchat.org
          11·
          2 years ago

          I also shows the sum of upvotes and downvotes i made to a guy, so if he has “-4” that means his judgement is probably not very good and i should avoid engaging in conversation with him,

          Oh i was wondering how that worked! This way, if i see i have a guy at -4, i can automatically downvote everything he posts when i bump into him XD

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      But it’s mostly less good version reddit (It does not have it’s ecosystem, Like the excellent RES that makes it possible to incrementally read a post , no multireddits , and of course no big communities with good content like on reddit) .

      what’s RES?

  • remram
    8·
    2 years ago

    I think it would benefit from specific communities or content creators adopting it. As long as it’s only general topics (technology, Linux, …) it has basically the same info as Reddit/Hackernews/… but less up to date and less commented. It is useless if you already use those other platforms and probably can’t get ahead this way.

    I could see Godot/Blender/… adopt it though. Blender already uses PeerTube. That would help kickstart this place.

    The software is great but the people aren’t there.

  • Duchess@yiffit.net
    6·
    1 year ago

    mostly i like the sense of community here. people are actually interacting with me lol

  • SudoDnfDashY
    6·
    2 years ago

    It’s pretty great. There’s a lot more content than when I first joined. Plus, the software itself is very fast and usable.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      yeah I really love the feeling of a browser not being slowed down by useless telemetry and advertising.

  • Thann
    6·
    2 years ago

    I think the software is great!

    If we could follow people, post to our own profile, and host/play videos, then it would be the only fediverse website anyone needs!

      • Thann
        4·
        2 years ago

        yeah, but, I need 3 accounts across 3 websites to participate in the fediverse. those features would make lemmy the one-stop-shop.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      If lemmy would support videos it would be a much more difficult software to host. I like that it’s very lightweight.

      • Thann
        2·
        2 years ago

        I completely agree, but I think video hosting would be great as an optional addon

  • yxzi
    6·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy could be compared to the comment section on news sites or YouTube, with the added advantage of allowing for more interaction between users in threads that are more structured

  • pancake
    4·
    2 years ago

    As always, nice discussion and interesting info on a variety of subjects from sorting by new, especially coming from lemmy.ml, plus a small dose of lemmygrad for my political needs (although genzedong is sometimes too based even for myself…).

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I think it’s cool. It has filled the niche that Reddit filled for me before, and I don’t need to deal with all the Reddit drama.

    But there’s also no shortage of Lemmy drama. People talk about defederation, Nazi/tankie mods/communities/instances, etc. Hopefully this is all excitement over a new platform and not a sign of how this platform will continue.

    I just want a link aggregator where people discuss articles, and having a place for other discussion is nice too. But it seems that even the most technical communities discuss irrelevant drama.

    But on the whole, I’m enjoying it. I sub to the communities that interest me and ignore most of the stuff I don’t like. I’ve even contributed to some lemmy-adjacent projects, and I’ll probably contribute to Lemmy itself eventually.

  • jimmyjazx@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s enough content for some of the biggest communities but it will take quite a bit more migration to fill out some of the niche/hobby ones.