Ask Lemmy

I love it.

It replaces most of my Reddit time. I still find myself going to some subreddits that have activities wince several here that are more niche have zero activity.

The UI is nice, although seeing duplicate posts can be annoying. Pagination could use some improvement. When browsing by new, new items posted seem to push the list so you could see the same items over and over it enough new items are posted. Adding some kind of timestamp and better list filtering could improve the experience.

The people here tend to be nice. Conversations have been mostly pleasant.

Overall, I have enjoyed it.

I still see and experience blind down voting and people missing each other's points, but much less than on Reddit. Overall I'm more aligned with the viewpoints shared here, especially because the vibe on the other site has really changed a lot after over 10 years.

I definitely use lemmy a lot less for mindless scrolling, due to the lack of content, which is great to be honest.

I spend more time researching stuff through articles, forums, YouTube, and yes, also the other site still when it's through specific Google searches.

I still see way more US centric content than I'd like but there's definitely a good European presence, and it's also on me because I'm still browsing basically the whole unfiltered feed at this point.

I think it's good for broad, serious/informative discussion but lacking for more niche or casual stuff. Niche is just because there's not enough users. Casual is probably partially that, but also because Lemmy just attracts a more serious crowd. Even the general gaming communities disproportionately trend towards serious discussion of industry problems. And a Lemmy that's better for casual stuff is probably worse for serious stuff.

It's okay. I'm certainly not going back to reddit, but Lemmy has its own share of problems. I feel we need better protections with defederating and banning. It is far too easy to get stuck on a dead-end server or have some aspect of Lemmy irrevocably ruined due to minor political squabbles between servers. We are still far too centralized, and lemmy.world/lemmy.ml/beehaw.org/etc control a lot of the Lemmy experience with their defederation posture.

Just today, a community had to do an impromptu shut-down because the lemmy.world admin decided to permaban the main mod for trivial/subjective/biased reasons (read the comments).

One of the larger instances recently defederated another smaller instance and now Lemmy is effectively ruined for those users. It's already annoying enough for normies to sign up for Lemmy and get the hang of it, and now they need to be worried about switching instances every 2 months when some admin decides to effectively wipe out a smaller server because of something out of the users' control. The smaller instance in question had NSFW communities that the larger instance got annoyed by, so the larger instance decided to defederate every community and user from that smaller instance.

I feel we need some sort of infrastructure to limit the effect of these types of things on different parts of Lemmy (users/communities/instances). Users shouldn't be lumped in with communities when defederating (at least not by default). Having an escape plan for communities also seems like it's very important. What if lemmy.world announced it was shutting down tomorrow? All those communities will be gone in the blink of an eye. Maybe we should be able to export communities to other servers somehow, so we can be more decentralized against failures of specific servers and admins.

Even a single community being inaccessible to a certain user can really destroy their experience - the problem isn't fully solved by breaking up "mega-servers" like lemmy.world. What if I couldn't access the main Linux community anymore? Guess I'm fucked? Make a new account somewhere else? Is that really the best solution we can come up with?

good but mapping communities lacking alot

I like

Same for Kbin

To add something that I haven't yet seen mentioned (didn't read the whole thing), porn. It hasn't taken off like it did on reddit, and I do miss that. I don't want my feed covered in porn, but I would like to have quality porn properly covered in an adult instance. Pornlemmy and lemmynsfw just doesn't cut it.

Im on infinity, and I don't love that there's little to no support for popup gifs and videos on the feed, I mostly have to go into a post whose title may catch my attention then wait for something to load (or not to load, redgifs has been incredibly hit or miss for me as of late, lots of forbidden requests and failed playbacks due to it). Idk, it's not the experience or the content that you'd expect on reddit using any reddit 3rd party app.

Other than that particular thing, it's been getting very us-centric, with political memes or stuff that only us people would care about. I might have to try other instances.

Other than that, I appreciate Lemmy, it made me mostly drop reddit except for Google searches, and I feel comfortable interacting with people here.

Me too! In the beginning, I wondered how I would fit in, but that's not a worry anymore.

Lemmy has its own cuddly places

I kinda like it, it's a bit lonely here though. Lot of improvement needed still.

I like it so far. I wish niche communities were more active in comments (I see plenty of upvotes). Beyond that I'd love to see less copy posts but I guess it hard to pick who wins unless it's just some first come first serve for "front page?"

I think about it daily.

I still use reddit for my city subreddit and some niche things but overall it's decent. We've come far from Facebook haven't we?