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I have been using Lemmy for a few weeks now. I was sceptical before I signed up but I have to say I generally enjoy it a lot and it is a good replacement for Re

I have been using Lemmy for a few weeks now. I was sceptical before I signed up but I have to say I generally enjoy it a lot and it is a good replacement for Reddit for the most part. I am mostly using it to follow communities related to tech-related things like programming, FOSS, selfhosting, etc. Positives: - The communities I frequent are surprisingly active, with plenty of links being posted and a good pace of discussion. Lots of non-Lemmy-related content as well which is great. - Discussion is generally of a pretty high standard so far. - The tankie stuff seems pretty self-contained, or at least, has not spread to the communities I follow. - The platform itself is developing at a very quick pace. At first both the web UI and the app I use (Jerboa) were very buggy but there are new updates every few days and each one fixes a lot of issues. Some negatives: - Stability of instances has been an issue. Early on, one of the largest instances (BeeHaw) defederated from two others, meaning that users on any three of the instances would be cut off from a lot of content. So I went with one called VLemmy.net. All went well for a week or two until VLemmy completely disappeared of the face of the internet one night. To this day it's not back up and no one really knows what happened to it. Around the same time, an XSS exploit was found that affected a number of major instances, causing some of them to go down temporarily. All of this is just growing pains but it felt fairly chaotic for a bit. - Whenever I look at the "All" listing rather than just my subscribed communities, it's like 90% memes, which I don't love. Maybe Reddit was like that too and I just never went to /r/all. - A lot of non-technical communities I followed on Reddit don't seem to have established over there yet or are very small and inactive. All in all I'm pleasantly surprised with Lemmy. I still visit Reddit occasionally but my usage of it has dropped significantly and honestly over time I can see myself leaving it altogether.

flutas 3y ago
> - Whenever I look at the "All" listing rather than just my subscribed communities, it's like 90% memes, which I don't love. Maybe Reddit was like that too and I just never went to /r/all. This is kinda by design, one popular community can outweigh hundreds of others, but there's a PR open to fix it. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378
rglullis 3y ago
Care to share the communities you are following? I've subscribed to a bunch on programming.dev, but they've been too quiet. Regarding stability: consider joining a commercial instance? [0] [0] https://communick.news https://communick.news (sign up via communick.com and the first 250 people will get free access forever, after that it will be $8/year.
- NoboruWataya 3y ago
  Some of the ones I frequent often are: - fediverse @ lemmy.world (about the Fediverse so a lot of meta-content) - selfhosted @ lemmy.world - archlinux @ lemmy.ml - books @ lemmy.ml - linux @ lemmy.ml - asklemmy @ lemmy.ml - fossdroid @ social.fossware.space (FOSS Android apps) - technology @ beehaw.org - python @ programming.dev There are drawbacks to the fact that each instance can have its own Linux community (for example) - it can be hard to know where is "the" place to go. Generally I just go to the /communities page on an instance, select "All" and then go from the top (which I believe is generally the more active communities) down, subscribing to the ones that interest me.
  - rglullis 3y ago
    Thank your for the recommendations. I think I've browsed/subscribed through all of them except /c/books and /c/fossdroid. The other ones you mentioned are actually becoming too popular for my liking: there are some good things there, but overall they were starting to dominate my front-page too much so I decided to unsub them for now. I know that the devs are working in a new sorting algorithm, so that might help. In the meantime, may I interest you on https://communick.news/c/emacs https://communick.news/c/emacs ? :)
- jochem9 3y ago
  Not who you asked, but maybe also interesting: - !coffee@lemmy.world - !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml (if you want to follow the demise of reddit from a distance) - !thenetherlands@feddit.nl (not interesting if you don't speak Dutch/care about the country, but I mention it because it's surprisingly active for such a small country).

flutas 3y ago

> - Whenever I look at the "All" listing rather than just my subscribed communities, it's like 90% memes, which I don't love. Maybe Reddit was like that too and I just never went to /r/all. This is kinda by design, one popular community can outweigh hundreds of others, but there's a PR open to fix it. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378

rglullis 3y ago

Care to share the communities you are following? I've subscribed to a bunch on programming.dev, but they've been too quiet. Regarding stability: consider joining a commercial instance? [0] [0] https://communick.news https://communick.news (sign up via communick.com and the first 250 people will get free access forever, after that it will be $8/year.

NoboruWataya 3y ago
Some of the ones I frequent often are: - fediverse @ lemmy.world (about the Fediverse so a lot of meta-content) - selfhosted @ lemmy.world - archlinux @ lemmy.ml - books @ lemmy.ml - linux @ lemmy.ml - asklemmy @ lemmy.ml - fossdroid @ social.fossware.space (FOSS Android apps) - technology @ beehaw.org - python @ programming.dev There are drawbacks to the fact that each instance can have its own Linux community (for example) - it can be hard to know where is "the" place to go. Generally I just go to the /communities page on an instance, select "All" and then go from the top (which I believe is generally the more active communities) down, subscribing to the ones that interest me.
- rglullis 3y ago
  Thank your for the recommendations. I think I've browsed/subscribed through all of them except /c/books and /c/fossdroid. The other ones you mentioned are actually becoming too popular for my liking: there are some good things there, but overall they were starting to dominate my front-page too much so I decided to unsub them for now. I know that the devs are working in a new sorting algorithm, so that might help. In the meantime, may I interest you on https://communick.news/c/emacs https://communick.news/c/emacs ? :)
jochem9 3y ago
Not who you asked, but maybe also interesting: - !coffee@lemmy.world - !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml (if you want to follow the demise of reddit from a distance) - !thenetherlands@feddit.nl (not interesting if you don't speak Dutch/care about the country, but I mention it because it's surprisingly active for such a small country).