[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

The best thing for me: I cut me sm consumption to a fifth of what it used to be. A few minutes Lemmy, a few minutes mastodon and I'm done. There is just enough stuff on here to scratch my itch for some content.

It's all right. But it's a ghost town compared to reddit.

I like it but tbh I miss the NSFW Gifs/Videos. I also have learned some topics not to talk about. Like Windows/Linux, bashing furries, or anything that is not far left (gender stereotypes, guns, etc.).

I don't browse enough maybe to find active niche communities. Typically spend most of my time browsing all on top 6 hrs. Else I see the same posts for like 2-3 days.

It's a change but feels more like... I'm talking to real people instead of guessing who's a bot.

It's a great place to wildly spout crazy nonsense and general gibberish with an underlying theme of overthrowing the system.

To me, it feels like old Reddit, so it's very comfortable despite all the differences and initial growing pains picking an instance. Like finding an old friend and meeting up with them for lunch after many years.

I like it.

I spent some time reading a significant number of the replies, so I'll offer this as a suggestion for some of the repeated themes regarding overbearing political stance, decisive topics, etc:

• encourage and support people discussing matters from an open perspective, trying to take a less decisive stance, or being open to different sides

• encourage people and participate in conversation with people who show compassion or agree to disagree rather than write people off

• ask questions instead of assuming

• sometimes, opinions don't have to be right/wrong

• opinions aren't facts

Honestly, not that great

It was really good at the start of the exodus, when I felt like I could write and be read, instead of missing the post by like an hour and being the 10,000th comment

And the community was good, too But now it seriously feels stagnant in an active way

I don't really know if it's because of Lemmy itself, or because "Eternity for Lemmy" was named after it's update schedule, but every day on this app feels completely identical to every other day Just politics, Linux, and bad memes That is basically the reddit experience, I will admit, but on here there are basically zero active niche communities, and basically deserts of fandoms

I think Lemmy did get a sort method to try and accommodate more niche communities, but like I said "Eternity" is the update schedule, so whatever that may be I don't have access to it

And I think that's a really big thing, actually My app of choice is abandonware compared to other clients, I've reported a bug that gets under my skin 6 months ago and there hasn't been a single update, so i have to live with accidentally opening posts all the time and I hate it

I really really like this client otherwise, but I might just move to a better client or a fork of the same project, I don't know

I also don't have instance blocking, either, so that's fun

I like it. Just wish niche communities were more active.

Under populated, but I come here often!

I do like it here, but would like to see more activity in specific communities like automechanic help or RV repair.

If I could just make a dumbass joke comment without someone trying to debate me on it (poorly) I would be sooooo happy.

It's super political and tech based. Feels like if you don't use Linux or Firefox you're an outcast. I still use it often just not as often as I did with reddit.

I get attacked by hyperfixated debatelords here just like reddit, 10/10 would recommend as reddit replacement.

Its also interesting that you can recreate an accurate miniature reddit with a fraction of the users, in that regard I guess its a more efficient reddit?

As open as discussion seems, it feels like there are still certain opinions that can't be shared because they're simply not the majority, and not even talking about hateful or discriminating points of view.

I've started when lemmy.ml was the only instance, and stopped when !all was populated mostly by posts from lemmygrad.ml. I rejoined once Reddit cut off their API, and it certainly feels like the usual crowd has joined. So far, it has been a pretty effective Reddit replacement for the largest subreddits that migrated ([email protected], [email protected]), but it's still missing a lot of active smaller communities.

My main complaint is that the default sort type (Active) needs to be tweaked.