Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I'm testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It's in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

ada,
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Even though it was twitter that spurred me joining the fediverse nearly a year ago, I was more of a reddit user than I ever was a twitter user, which is why it was one of the first things I came looking for when I joined the fediverse.

We spun up lemmy.blahaj.zone around 6 months ago so that I could scratch that itch, but it always lacked enough traffic to really do the job.

However now? The amazing growth and huge burst of activity? It's honestly shifted my perspective on what the future of the fediverse might be. I find myself really active on lemmy (and kbin before they had to go behind the Cloudflare CDN), even moreso than I was on the microblogging fediverse, because of its topic centric view.

I think the future of the fediverse might be one in which microblogging is "a" fediverse feature instead of the spotlight feature.

atomicpoet,

I agree with you, Ada. For a long time, I've said that the focus on Mastodon (and consequently microblogging) has been myopic. And I've urged developers to explore more of the Fediverse. It's exciting that a different use case has opened peoples' eyes to further Fediverse possibilities. Maybe the will cause people to re-think what is possible.

CodingAndCoffee,
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I hope the sours adoption

I think you meant spurs lol

Anyway yeah I’m liking Lemmy and the fediverse so far. I actually prefer the UI/UX of kbin.social more for desktop, but Jerboa is great for mobile. If they stay actively in development it’s going to be hard to beat IMO

I’ve followed from Fark to StumbleUpon to Digg to Reddit, and now many years later, to Lemmy. I think the communities being spread across instances is extremely powerful for overall global community resiliency (if the separation is respected and we don’t end up with a bunch of duplicated “subs” everywhere).

I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of people say this today, but the one thing I feel the most is excitement. The chaos reminds me of the early-ish days (~1996?) of the web when everything was discoverable and not already aggregated to be served up to you inbetween advertisements.

atomicpoet,

Yep, I actually caught that typo and edited it, but it’s frustrating that the edit didn’t federate to your server. Oh well, maybe that will improve with time 🤷‍♂️

Woozy,

I’m very impressed. It just needs more 3rd party apps!

MyNamesNotMatt,

3rd party apps and hide on read

brianala,

I signed up for Mastodon awhile back but never really got into it since I don’t really do Twitter much either. I have been reading about lemmy but didn’t sign up until today.

It was a little confusing trying to sign up, the first instance I tried to sign up with had a waiting period for account approvals but I finally found one I could sign up with instantly and then I started poking around. I think I am getting the hang of it!

I have also downloaded Mlem to test on my iphone. It’s easy and simple to use, not a lot of features yet but it seems promising.

So far outside of a bit of focus time to figure out how to actually get signed up and find communities to subscribe to I’m cautiously optimistic. This seems more like how the older days of the internet were, before the enshittification of social media. Let’s see if this trend continues!

worfamerryman,

I was never much of Twitter user, but I like mastodon due to the community. It’s such a wholesome place. Lemmy seems to be going that way as well.

Stumblinbear,
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The apps need some work, but overall it's "okay." The rest of my gripes lie entirely around the lack of content, which can't be helped

palitu,

it can be helped!

psudo,

Just remember: Only You can prevent dead communities!

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/765d6f94-8557-4cac-86da-a04479c7dd38.jpeg

unique_hemp,

It's looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!

Also written in Rust, btw :)

Penguincoder,

How do you know something is developed with Rust?

Don't worry, the devs will tell you.

flickertail,
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I've also found this to be true with Julia devs

Source: am Julia dev

knova,

Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)

nii236,

Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)

Osnapitsjoey,

What makes rust so special?

J_C___,

https://c.tenor.com/OK4F8gftpM4AAAAC/tenor.gif

Osnapitsjoey,

God damn! Okay now I'm fully behind it

CanadaPlus,

Fast because it's pointer-based like C/C++, but better because it's memory safe, which means it won't crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it's own data constantly.

CanadaPlus,

PHP!? They're writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?

nii236,

Exactly right?

https://lemmy.jtmn.dev/pictrs/image/3fd913ce-5724-46b3-aedd-125bce3c8a4e.png

To the average Redditor I guess its fine, but to me its unacceptable haha.

Repo link: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

CanadaPlus,

Welp, I guess I chose right after all.

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