It has awesome potential as the Reddit alter !
I think potential is underplaying its current state. I feel it’s already on par if not better than Reddit, the apps are better, the experience is better, no ads, the people are generally nicer, discussion is better, no shit comment metas, etc. Haven’t felt a need to go back to Reddit once since leaving.
It lacks the massive audience to bear non-nerd communities. The formula1 subs are not a patch on reddit, nor are the outdoorsy, camping and flashlight communities.
Also more specific communities, even for the geeky stuff. For example gaming communities are decently active, but not much for specific games.
I have created https://level-up.zone to be an instance for gaming communities. Can you tell me which subreddits you are missing, and would you be interested in helping me bootstrap these communities here?
Will check it out, thanks. I was thinking about starting some and put in some work but I woldn’t have the time necessary to invest into it unfortunately. If that changes I will letmyself known though!
No need to worry about keeping them. It would be helpful already just if you tell me what subs you follow, so that I can prioritize when setting up the mirrors.
I followed the bellow gamesnon reddit (excluding those that already have some communities on Lemmy (some reasonably active, some less so) or are almost dead games):
Albion Online (community exists but empty).
Ashes of Creation
Book of Travels (this is super niche though)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (community exists but empty)
New World
Wayfinder
V Rising (community exists but empty)
This is actually a shorter list than expected, but have similar issue with other hobbies as well. Might hve missed some too.
I think the f1 communities here are fine, they post all the big news and every comment thread doesn’t devolve into childish fanboyism!
Yes, yes it does.
I am happy that I joined it 💢 gonna be fun.
Welcome!
How have you found about it? Just curious, as I barely heard bout it during the Great API Exodus when you’d expect it would ve talked about most. It was lucky, really so I imagine your story was even more?
Honestly, I had totally given up on the idea of “social network”. Didn’t know something federated called “Fediverse” existed. I joined Nostr 2 months ago and it was not bad (if we ignore mostly bitcoin posts). So I joined Mastodon, the client was super smooth. Then I researched about Fediverse more and then tried Lemmy. The variety of clients and their customisation and stability is top class. Loving it since then.
I rarely use Reddit anymore. One feature that Lemmy is missing is standarized multi-sub/community groupings.
Only one client I’ve found has implemented it, so I THINK it’s client side, but regardless, I wish it was standard across all clients to create community groups instead of having to go to each individual community, or subscribed/local/all.
Only one client I’ve found has implemented it
Which client does multisubs?
It’s an Android app, not FOSS AFAIK, but it’s still a pretty solid client with a fairly robust feature set. The settings icon on the thread browser page has an option like “create multi-community”.
ok yea this is cool, thanks
for anyone else reading, you get to it by clicking the “…” button in the bottom right corner. It doesn’t mix the results very well, so I think it’s best to sort by Top Today or Top 12 Hours to keep the list short
I’ve been using Summit as my main client for months and hadn’t noticed that, cheers!
Welcome!
