I like Lemmy for inheriting all of Reddit’s positive traits. Tough moderation, bots in the comments, stupid upvote/downvote hells, and many other virtues. I remember how it all started and all the sweet utopian tales of those who shouted “f*ck u/spez” on every corner. You can delete your Reddit account, but you can’t delete Reddit from your head.
It seems like it’s the same with less poop and more beans.
Jokes aside, my favorite feature is that image hosting is built-in. I have actually been using my own instance as an image hosting site and posting them elsewhere. I’m still trying to figure out if there’s a way to view a file browser, though.
It’s good. Unironically better in some ways - the transparent up vs. down votes are nice, and the preview button is indispensable. I used to post something broken and then have to ninja edit it.
I feel like the considerate people who are able to act like adults are the majority here, and it feels really nice. Thank you all.
The vibe is impeccable right now, thank you as well :) let’s keep it rolling!
Currently I use Connect Lemmy for Android as with Jerboa there was a login issue when the server version wouldn’t match. Not sure if this app is more resilient to this but it wasn’t a good start. I couldn’t use Lemmy properly for about a week or two. I also don’t like that Lemmy is hard to search for new SubLemmy or search for results via Google. Before I just added “Reddit” to get the good results, I wonder how this will evolve if Lemmy gets bigger. Well and the whole kbing/Lemmy/mastodon link of the Fedyverse is really confusing for new people.
I’m liking it! Scratches the same itch that Reddit did. Content doesn’t roll in as quickly from my subscriptions as it did on Reddit but I guess I’m into some niche-ish things and it’ll pick up steam eventually(?).
Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I’m in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there’s more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.
I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?
The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.
I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.
There’s embedded videos, no need to host them yourself - you just need to link to somewhere supported.
It’s on my to-do list for my app, if no one has figured it out on the web maybe I’ll help out. It’s not that hard to do but it’s not exactly fun
I mean that you don’t need to change apps to play a video. I use Jerboa .
Have you been contributing and participating in some of the content discussions in the Fediverse? I found that I was a consumer and just came to Reddit to read stuff. But with Lemmy I’m far more interactive.
Cool idea on having a public board, similar to the modlog. Perhaps that idea should be suggested to the Lemmy devs if it is important to you: LemmyNet Issues board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/
While I’m not sure about the information for your instance, lemmy.ca, I’m with lemmy.world for now. Lemmy.world is hosted by the same people who run mastodon.world.
Lemmy.world posts a blog update that outlines their hardware and financial costs.
“The current VPS couldn’t be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server.”
“May / Expenses / Mail: EUR 32,52 / Hetzner (server etc): EUR 424,34 / Storage: EUR 75,69”
- Mastodon.world Blog (https://blog.mastodon.world/)
- April and May 2023 - Financial update (https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update)
- Welcome Lemmy.world! (https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world)>
Eh, I used reddit before they had their own image and video hosting, it was fine as long as you had RES. Maybe imgur can get some more traffic.
High quality content makes my scrolling more enjoyable and less depressing.
BUT vastly smaller community means it’s harder to get questions answered. Reddit was my goto for all kinds of things that I have now turned to ChatGPT for.
I like how default sort for comments is active instead of best, which was just top rated comments
that way, I see recent comments where conversation is still happening and I can participate, gives a better feeling
I’ve been on the fediverse before, but never thought to use Lemmy/Kbin until the Reddit exodus. Joined a small community for the domain name and enjoyed it thus far.
That being said, some communities are missing or inactive, definitely gonna help out in that regard.
loving it so far aside from comments randomly disappearing after i submit them, but im assuming that bug will eventually be worked out. i miss the big card interface reddit switched to but im currently using a custom css that makes lemmy look like old.reddit.com (modified to be amoled black) and it feels great.
I like it enough to host an instance. It’s pretty legit, to be honest. If I can find and join more of the same types of communities I was a part of on Reddit, I can easily see myself spending more time here. Even now, I feel like my time on my phone is an even split between Lemmy and Reddit.
What benefit does hosting an instance do? Why not just add a new group to an existing instance?
For most people, probably not much. I’m a moderator of a few smaller subreddits, and I’m trying to build something bigger than just me. Hosting my own instance gives me more control, which means I can set rules that I feel are both fair and effective, and it gives me a chance to take responsibility for both social and technical aspects of the instance. My ultimate goal is to have the instance pay for itself through donations, which is why I’m also trying to differentiate my instance from others. I’m still paying a fair bit out-of-pocket as things stand, but I’ve already received donations from a few gracious people. So, that’s it really: the total package of what I think a Lemmy instance should be. If people like what I’m doing, I welcome them to join.
Loving in, and it gets better every day
I think it’s really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I’m following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
I quite like it, I generally like how it looks, and there was less of a learning curve than I expected there to be. Things mostly work without needing you to know HOW they work (though that is fun too). I am sure it will get more active as more people move over, but it’s actually the perfect amount of activity for me right now. I can check in and there is usually some new stuff without worrying about things moving so fast that my voice gets lost in the noise.
Big plus is I can be fairly open about my leftist politics, at least around here, and not be downvoted into oblivion. Nor does everything thread even tangentially related to China devolve into racism within five posts.
Are there a couple niche communities I miss? Sure, I might recreate them myself honestly, somebody has to. Otherwise, I don’t miss much.
