It's still kind of a mixed bag. I'm getting tired of talking about Linux all the time.
I find comment threads to be more engaging than reddit but the hivemind mentality has definitely started to take hold here.
In terms of stability, sure, the platform has gone down way less. In terms of content? Feels more or less the same that it did when I joined - all we really talk about is tech news with a leftist slant.
I haven't gone back to reddit to browse since I left when the API changes happened, but it's still a way more conducive source of information on a myriad of topics that you get forwarded to through searches.
One thing that I’ve noticed as someone trying to wean myself off of Reddit: Lemmy just feels more chill. Like no I don’t have to open it every few minutes and doomscroll, it’s going to be a lot slower coming than the firehouse that is Reddit.
Tbf I don’t think that’s a design as much as it is just smaller, but it still feels nice.
Found Lemmy’s mom!
Not really.
The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that's coming from somebody who uses Linux.
Behind that, there's very little in the way of niche communities/interests. But I suppose that's just because the total number of users isn't high enough for people with specific interests to reach some critical mass .
So for me, Lemmy hasn't been anything more than a news aggregator interspersed with the occasional funny meme.
Apparently it just needed to get poked with a good stick
It's been pretty stable and usable.
But has there been an increase in hiveminded threads and trolling?
At first it felt like dissenting opinions would lead to an informative discussion, but more and more having an unpopular opinion - or just stepping into the wrong thread - means someone resorting to insulting your mom. Ok, thanks Xbox live gamer.
Using Avelon with a bit of constant filtering effort, my Home feed is quite enjoyable.
Its definitely improved a lot since I joined ~6 months ago, though I've also started to see more of the bullshit that makes all the other social medias icky. But, so far its been easy to ignore/block and its cool to run into familiar users across different communities that comes with smaller platforms.
I was saying the other day there's been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it's encouraging nevertheless.
It's decent after blocking all the fluff/low-quality communities. But it needs a way to follow threads & highlight new comments.
I'm trying to do my part by posting more content.
Slowly and steadily, yes.
i find it's mostly content my older colleges in tech would find funny
Yes, it is so much better, sometimes I forget Sync for Lemmy ain't Sync for Reddit.
Honestly, kind of but maybe not really. I mean, yes there are improvements of course, but a bunch of them aren't very visible, and of course I understand that. It just feels very stable.
It kind of just works, for the most part, which is a good thing - minus this bug which has been fixed over a month ago but I guess is not live yet on every instance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1968 because I still run into this bug, and it's still annoying unfortunately.
Outside of that, there's not really too much going wrong for me to notice any huge improvements.
edit: Oh, it's because 0.19.0 UI has not had a stable release yet (nor has 0.19.0 server), once that releases as long as there aren't many regressions I won't really have any more complaints about Lemmy (other than maybe the non-SEO-friendly URLs).
Meh idk. I only go here for memes and news.
Mastodon too. Like a month ago it was full of neoliberal nazis but they seem to have cleaned house once the dust settled on Israel's genocide.
It's not that important.
