I tried out a growing Reddit alternative, Lemmy, for a week, and its clear that federated apps aren't ready to replace Reddit yet.

Yeah, this describes my experience so far. I really want to like it here, but so far it’s been an effort.

I am using Mastadon more, hopefully with time we see a similar level of polish. However, even there it don’t see a dent in Twitter.

  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like this place. A lot. Yes, everything is not super polished. Yes, I have to be more active to find the content I want. Yes, there’s a lot less content than on reddit. But the people here feel like real people, not people and bots who push agendas.

    And I’ve always been somebody who contributes, so I’m here to help build the place I want.

    • callyral@readit.buzz
      1·
      1 year ago

      But the people here feel like real people, not people and bots who push agendas.

      that’s what my experience here has been too, it’s really nice to be honest

    • kriss0706@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      i feel that, i have lerked on reddit for so many years. But i am ready to make a change, and do my best to make these platforms the new home of the internet.

    • lohrun@fediverse.boo
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been a lurker on Reddit for the last decade so contributing here has definitely been a learning experience. One issue I’m running into is, how does one easily share what they are contributing with everybody else? Discoverability is somewhat of an issue on here whether you are trying to make a new community or a new instance.

      • chefdano3@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean, you’re on fediverse.boo, and I’m on kbin.social, and I saw your comment here, and am replying to it. I’m pretty new here myself, but I’m finding no issue discovering communities on other instances and subscribing to them to have them show up in my feed. So I’d say subscribe to the communities you want to contribute to, and post. I’m sure we’ll all be able to see it and interact with it.

  • cassetti@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reddit wasn’t all that amazing either when they first started - it took a while for things to get ironed out. Then they had to go and ruin a good thing

  • dan96kid@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    As a new kbin user from Reddit, it’s… jank to say the least. My biggest gripe is the new comment box being at the BOTTOM of the page.

    • JanoRis@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      wanted to try mastodon, but what really annoyed me was the the blinding bright post box in dark mode. Everything was nice and dark, but the post box had to be white. tried to find a user script to fix it, but there were none

  • LostCause@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I‘m actually relieved if it doesn‘t become too big, I‘m afraid if it does, the corporations and other bad actors might come to destroy it again. I‘ve gone through this often enough.