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Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 51 points 3 years ago (3 children)

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Fair point. Tye small one’s Re being hugged to death and aren’t letting any more people in, so people are gravitating towards the juggernauts, and the juggernauts are collapsing under their weight. 

    Next couple weeks should be interesting

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I was on world at first because I thought each instance was its own subreddit, so I went with the one with the most users! After a day and a half I somewhat understand instances now and have switched to a smaller one. Hopefully other reddit refugees will do it too.

    Thanks for being so welcoming and patient with us. I'm really glad to be here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Unless it defederates like beehaw keeps doing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    What's going on with beehaw? I'm a bit out of the loop.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Beehaw is a community that wants to create a specific type of experience for its users, it wants to create a safer space and has stricter rules.

    I think it’s personally a non-issue that people get riled up about. They’ve temporarily defederated from lemmy.world because of the large spikes in new users and wanting to have the moderation tools necessary to handle that while keeping their community the way they want it.

    There is a subset of new Lemmy users who think this experience needs to be Reddit 2.0, that it needs to be perfect and totally smooth for new users, or else it will fail?

    Personally, I don’t agree. I don’t want Lemmy to be Reddit at all. In the last month, I’ve found that I didn’t realize just how bad my Reddit experience had become. I’m okay with the experience being a little rough around the edges here and adjusting together. It has become obvious based on how good my interactions were here. How solid and interesting the content was. I’m not fiending for my specific subreddits, I’m good to move on and find new areas to focus on the internet.

    I have a separate account for Beehaw, all the iOS apps already have way way better functionality than the Reddit official app, I can seamlessly switch between accounts. It’s been absolutely amazing to see how much this site and experience has evolved in one month. I’m super excited for the future here.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One thing I don’t miss is the "culture"… I hope this shift into the fediverse frees comment sections of the endless same dumb low effort puns, and even worse puns in the replies. Or fucking award speeches in comment edits, the same shitty jokes that nobody likes but somehow still perpetuate…

    I really look forward to something new

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm late to the conversation. Yeah, that's what I hated about Reddit. I've been using it since 2009, and I noticed that it got progressively worse the moment they introduced karma.

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