That we still can't use a single account to comment and post outside of our home instance is the most frustrating part of the fediverse and the main contradiction to "you just need one sign up".

I am only on lemmy.world so far

I like the people and moderation much more than Reddit. I've had a couple interactions with mods, and it's so weird, it was like they are actually people or something. Very reasonable comparatively.

No advertisements for Jesus is pleasant, also. Thanks!

I don't understand the politics. .ml, hexbear, etc. It's like going to Christmas dinner with your girlfriend's family for the first time.

I don't understand the broader structure, something about Mastodon being part of all this? How everything interconnects, etc.

I'm happy enough here, I read, I make comments, I move on. Just like I did on Reddit. It's a bit empty, so many of the communities are ghost towns. I get that I'm supposed to help with that, but I'm not much of a poster.

Learning recently that apparently anyone can track my upvote/downvote stats was offputting. I'm going to stop upvoting and downvoting now, I don't want people making inferences from that, but I'm fine with what I write, because there I always say what I mean.

Honestly not great. I was permanently banned from Reddit and the admins wouldn't tell me what I did. I came to Lemmy thinking it was a better alternative to Reddit, only to find out how toxic Lemmy is. It's even worse than Reddit in terms of toxicity.

I joined a month ago, and I like Lemmy much much more than Reddit. The federation makes it visible that you're part of a large community, there's no advertising, and I find the discussion to be of a generally higher quality. I also like that one can see upvotes and downvotes. Not sure whether it needs to be fuzzified or embargoed to fight abuse in future, but either way, it's nice.

I'm absolutely sold on Lemmy vs Reddit. I dumped Twitter when Musk took over, and by then I was already on Mastodon, but I don't actually use it much. Didn't use Twitter much either. Any comments on Mastodon vs Bluesky?

I'm a redfugee came with the big exit about a year ago. I post prolificaly, comment sporadically and have a couple of comms. I love it, it feels more like the olden days of the Internet when everything was smaller and you knew people. I sometimes idly scroll Reddit but not even once a week, it's fucking dire and atmosphere is shit. Insta I'm on a few times a day for memes and Reels.

Long live the fediverse!

I've been here for a few weeks now, and I've already grown very fond of it. I love the decentralized approach and how things are managed here. It's the best alternative to today's mainstream social media platforms. Hopefully this project has a long life ahead of it

I've been on Mastodon for almost a month, I enjoy it. I started in the mastodon.social instance then moved to mstdn.plus. I'm still trying to get a hold of Piefed, but it has been good.

I gave Lemmy a dedicated year. A few notes:

Very few people click through.

Lots of rage bait.

Communities split over instances make it pretty hard to know where to post things, what with defederation and such.

I didn't miss much "news"; lemmy was functional for reporting what people were talking about.

No notification of moderation actions taken against you is a choice.

Those who post small websites that do cool things: thank you! I did discover several other cool places and tools.

I found that about 1/10 of the top lemmy posts (after filtering out jokes and sports) are links to AI slop that nobody bothered to check, comments just take the headline as real if they affirm. Pointing this out in the comments did not reduce engagement or drop the posts.

Cutting it out of my routine, at last for awhile.

One thing I really hoped for from the social Internet was access to people and data that could correct me/fill in gaps. But lemmy doesn't do this, as people see what is upvoted and upvotes are used for affirmations to the reader.

Been on here since August and I like it. Left Reddit after I got a permaban for expressing how much I'd love to see the death of billionaires so I came here. Haven't had to worry about a ban for things I say and haven't been banned from groups cause I commented on other groups (I don't know what they're called and I don't want to call them subs). I'm still getting messages from mods of subreddits saying I've been banned cause I commented on an anti-Nintendo sub despite my profile being perma-banned from the site.

It gets better the more familiar you become with it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

It's the same as reddit. platforms don't make a different. people make a difference

It's all the same people, with the same arrogance and same entitlement and egotism, who take themselves way too seriously and think that justifies their to harass, insult, and report/ban anyone who says stuff they don't like. to the point they will go into other communities to take your commentary out of context to prove how 'evil' you are over a different of opinion or perspective, even if it's a more complex or nuanced take on what they already agree with.

It's just got a lot of extremist weirdos who think their extremists beliefs are some deep profound truth that they must use to browbeat other into submission. A lot of them with superiority complexes that cannot tolerate any admission of limitation or flaw in the glass house from which they throw stones all day.

And the userbase and voting systems generally rewards short, shrill, outlandish, and hyperbolic headlines, commentary, and personalities more than it does thoughtful commentary. Thoughtful commentary with nuance and acknowledging the limits of your understanding... will get you harassed and banned.

It's not an open forum for diverse discussion among a respectful group of people that it wishes it was. It's just tiktok with text.

I’ve been on the Fediverse since mid-2023, and I’m sticking around!

I bailed on Reddit, FB, and IG, and I’m only on Mastodon and Piefed now. I find that not being on algorithm-driven social media makes me less angry, and I have a much easier time avoiding getting caught up in a mindless scrolling marathon.

I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience

As far as improvements, my main complaint is that I wish there were more people and that the people who are here comment more. Bigger isn’t necessarily better, but there are a lot of communities that just don’t have enough people posting and commenting to make things feel lively yet.

I've only been on the fediverse for a total of like 10 minutes, but it seems so far like a perfectly viable alternative to big tech's data collection schemes disguised as websites.

Good! I'm a long time lurker, new user.

If you dedicate a day to figuring out how lemmy works then imo it's quite straightforward. I appreciate the expansion of free speech (i got banned from reddit for telling an AFD member to kill himself) and generally most people here seem ok. it's still rather niche but oh well. We can fix that by inviting friends! It's also much more authentic. A lot fewer covert advertisements and more actual people.

I stayed permanently since middle of last year thanks to piefed.social. it has a great onboarding system for anyone that might not have the gumption or will to self curate raw lemmy, mbin and now piefed outputs. A.k.a being lazy like myself.

Although for my close online friends I'm likely to suggest other piefed based instance just because tobspread the load around.

It feels like reddit back when it was smaller and before the abhorrent new UI and their aggressive algorithm. Well we all know the fediverse is practically without algorithm for good and bad.

So with this view it semi forced me to be more active in the communities I'm in. I mostly comment though rather than making posts but hey any little thing helps.

And besides I just love piefed has topics i.e. multireddit a.k.a a group feed of multiple communites, where I either I can subscribe to premade topics by the instance admin or make my own grouping of topics/communities.

I still to my chagrin dip back to reddit for some communities or topics but it's none of the big ones. Things like psychotic people that has way too many x (bags, retro games handheld devices, headphones, fountain oens, paper notebooks, ereaders, knives, pocket trash, etc) and spending way too much money on them.