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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It would be nice to have a place to discuss world events without trolls brigading every thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Loving it! The iPhone apps are still rough or buggy, but even in the few weeks I’ve been here, they’ve come a long way. I expect great things X

Also, the beans were a nice touch. I needed some good laughs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty damn confusing. So far I’m not liking it. I can’t find the type of subs I followed on Reddit and yeah idk man

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really unironically loving it. The range and depth of topics and discussions is growing by the day and it's a wonderful feeling to realise that these communities are, by design, safer from the clutches of Silicon Valley capitalists than they ever were on Reddit. I'll pitch in, I'll donate, shit I'll even try host stuff if needs be. I can contribute to this project and I find that immensely exciting.

I wish it hadn't taken me so long to realise what was going on here but I have only spez to thank for making me see the light. Attaboy, Steve.

[–] RomanRoy 2 points 1 year ago

Just fine. Spent last week editing all my comments with PDS. On Monday, I deleted my account and I'm only here so far.

Social media in general has been shit. Not that they ever were very good, but it seems to be worse.

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not bad! UI could use a few tweaks on Mobile though.

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[–] rustyriffs 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is really good. It's not perfect, but obviously has great potential.

My only issue has been telling other people (in real life) about it, or convincing anyone to try it. The whole concept of the fediverse and related platfoms is too technical for the commoner to understand why it's so important in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite well. It motivated me to build my own Lemmy client and it makes me enjoy Lemmy a lot more!

[–] ohlaph 2 points 1 year ago

I'm interested in doing the same. Can you walk through what you did?

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the site loads way faster for me than reddit ever did, to the point that I'm actually stoked about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Enjoying it a lot. Set up my own instance to try out, and exploring a lot of others. I enjoy the community a ton!

[–] GordonShumway 2 points 1 year ago

Things can only get better!

I am enjoying the experience I must admit and I can't wait to see how things pan out 6 months from now. I am certainly sticking with it for the long run. Wefwef.app is amazing to interact with.

[–] Lord_Logjam 2 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying the discovery phase a lot more than I did with Mastodon, which I've largely abandoned now. It still has a way to go but it's fun seeing it grow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a cat and currently I'm loafing in a corner of the room on my own cushion.

Translation: I am enjoying the peaceful moment looking at people doing their things here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

just joined and i’m happy to be here! using wefwef as i miss apollo a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty good actually, android app is neat.

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[–] Tylerdurdon 2 points 1 year ago

It's good. You get accustomed to something, so there's still a little loss there, but this platform has a lot of promise and I appreciate all of you who make it what it is!

[–] seejur 2 points 1 year ago

So far the only complaints I have is the lack of population (my teams communities are so small there is no real conversation going on), and some delays in these days. But tbh, both are to be expected, so I dont mind them too much. Really rooting for the instances admins ramping up the servers, and for people to migrate here.

Functionality wise, I was a bit confused by the federatization concept but it is pretty similar to reddit so except for creating the account it is pretty good!

[–] OsakaWilson 2 points 1 year ago

It's good. It has the pre-Digg.com migration vibe that early Reddit had. Niche communities are hard to get started, but that's to be expected.

Lots of positivity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is actually really nice, I like the separated servers. I can generally filter the amount of communities I see from just my interests, to my local server and then wider. One I found out I could search for and join communities I realized I could stay here

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