And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?
What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?
In my opinion this platform is great. Most people here are friendly, and smart. Although there are a few exceptions.
I’ve been here since a year, i think. And its the first contact i made with “the fediverse”.
All in all i would say that, apart from power tripping mods, and a few weird users, its a great platform i would definitely recommend.
There’s one problem tho, where no android lemmy client, that is compatible with android 7 has avif support
I’m friendly but sadly terribly stupid 😔
Not much has changed. I might move to Piefed.
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 posting outside of my instance right now by replying to you
Hello from wherever the fuck I am.
You can definitely do that lol
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 agree with everything you say here. I would say even some kind of consolidation for communities might be needed as a lot are defunct but I don’t know if that will work or is possible.
I like the ability to filter out by keywords, it makes for a much more pleasant experience
This is one if the most useful features and I think more people should customise Lemmy/Mastodon to their needs.
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.
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.
Ugh, this. And I hate that it’s like that.
Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn’t overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it’s just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.
My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn’t tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will
probablydefinitely not look good on me by association despite that I’m nowhere near that.So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users.
I find it hard to believe you have any friends, pat
Lmfao he definitely does okay, some that are cool enough to know he’s active on reddit and nobody who’s cool enough to know about the lemmy
i mean, how many of your IRL friends are furries who use Linux on their home PCs?
Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts
Maybe all the ”what the fuck we just made another-moe" communities?
I swear I used to block three every week, until I figured out it was just a few users who didn’t know how to use content warning tags, and then I just blocked those users.
100% same here. used to be every few weeks, now it’s every other day. and it does help to block certain accounts, but it’s still way more prolific and hard to filter out than it was 6 months ago
No idea. Maybe they’re still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?
My confusion is in no way lessened
They’re particularly toxic tankie servers on Lemmy
lemmy.ml is still rife with crazy tankies who go into other instances and harass the crap out of people.
Ok I guess the only thing I have left to google is tankie lol
furries. linux supremacists. extremist left-wingers of various flavors and identity groups. fetishists of every variety and their weird SFW quasi pornography.
not sure how you aren’t seeing any of that. i see it on a daily basis and to not see it i have to block dozens of communities. at one point on lemmy i had something like 60 communities blocked and 100s of users.
I mean I see it but it’s the internet… do people really not expect them to be posting?
nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.
personally i know furries and I don’t really care, but I’m a weirdo. Yet I still don’t really want weird furry shit that I don’t care about constantly showing up in my feed.
Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html
Oh well yeah I mean furry content isn’t the same as furry porn. I immediately blocked the nsfw instances from my feed. Idk why that isn’t done by default
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone irl either, mostly because the community is so small that they’d inevitably find one of my posts haha
For me, the biggest downside is there just isn’t the same amount of content/engagement as reddit. Also, it’s even more of a left wing echo chamber than reddit (and I say this as someone left of centre).
Yeah I’ve lost faith in this place and I say that as a staunch leftist. It’s an echo chamber so what’s the point, isn’t that just a circlejerk? I wanted to impact change but here you can’t do that you can either agree on everything or be downvoted.
The positive in all this is I spend less than an hour on here a day on average, compared to previously or Reddit where it could be hours.
I’ve been here for a little while now and I still find myself using Reddit to fill the gaps. But hopefully as more and more people join, then we get more content and engagement!
I have been using Lemmy for about 6 months and truth be had I am still really completely lost on the structure.
But that really doesn’t matter. I have found the communities (I thought they were called instances) that have the content I enjoy and they are reasonably active.
That is has been the biggest surprise for me, so many communities are completely dead. There is one movie community. Whose last post was 1.5 years ago.
I think the strength of the federated model also works against it. It really delutes the community’s content.
Also Lemmy is a total dead zone for any sports discussion. I have discovered an NFL community that seems active but I found it at the end of those year’s season.
That is has been the biggest surprise for me, so many communities are completely dead. There is one movie community. Whose last post was 1.5 years ago.
No that one is the most active of all the ones I have checked out. It tends to have daily activity.
I have unsubbed to a lot of communites that were dead, so I don’t have a link.
Oh sorry, I misread, I thought you meant “one movie community” as if that was the only community on the Fediverse about movies.
The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.
The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.
New-ish (I joined during the reddit hooplah a while back) and my experience has been hit or miss.
I’m on my third instance. First I joined lem.ee and that got shut down. Then I joined midwest.social because I thought hey I’m a Midwest leftist, but that instance has been slow as shit and never loads for me. Tried on multiple lemmy clients with the same result. So now here I am on lemmy.world.
Federation is a good concept but I don’t think it will ever catch on on a large scale. It’s just too user-unfriendly.
No judgement here but what didnt work for you? Just the slowness? Or some other thing that made it hard to use?
Nothing ever loaded. Most of the time it would timeout, best case scenario it took a good 30-60 seconds to load a single comments section. Tried on several different clients and it was always the same for that instance.
I’m not new as such. I joined up on kbin initially and tried to establish my communities on there, but kbin kinda collapsed. Then I gave up for a while.
When I came back, I moved to lemm.ee and set up television and obscuremusic and got them going (the former especially) and then unfortunately lemm.ee shut down and then I moved to Piefed and rebuilt it all over again.
Thank you for helping build this place!
Thank you for sticking with it!
couple months, its pretty ok.
id like more users, but thats about it.
For me I started out on Mastodon, has some fun with individuals I knew. Got into lemmy(world) for about a year. Then decided this piefed thing is fun (and found out about scheduled posts). Now I am here.
I also use Gotosocial, Peertube, and for a little while there bookwyrm, funckwhale, and friendica.
So this whole posting and other people on other platforms commenting/sharing has worked out quite a few places! Its awesome to open up a thread somewhere and see many different accounts on many different servers all talking to one another. I enjoy the interactions here much more than traditional social media.
For improvements, I would still very much like an all in one app. I know its quite a bit far fetched, but its a hassle and a half to keep up with all these accounts. I want either:
- One fediverse app to rule them all (join everything fedi related, comment on everything fedi related)
OR - A way to login to most fedi services I use and use the UI that service has with my login creds.
Its all very far fetched, but it still kinda sucks I have to manage something like 6 different accounts across different software stacks.
Yeah… I tend to keep my accounts here as a “Do I really need/want the UI, or can I just do it on my main account?” and judge from there. Like. It’s fair to me that Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and the *keys share a protocol. They’re all doing the same fundamental thing in a slightly different way: Blogging/microblogging. What the fediverse was built on, largely.
It is weird to me that Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Funkwhale, and to a lesser extent PeerTube are all on that same network. A community-based content aggregator, book reviewer, music hoster, and video hoster on that same network feels weird, and as a result I do have a Lemmy, and a Friendica account. I don’t care to have a Mastodon/GTS/*key account on top of it because they function near identically, but these are all fundamentally different pieces of software. You subscribe to one Lemmy community, and that’s your entire feed now. Bookwyrm functionally can’t use Mastodon posts, and you’re not going to Mastodon for that flavor of book review, etc.
- One fediverse app to rule them all (join everything fedi related, comment on everything fedi related)
About 3 years in, and same as it has been: Discovery’s kinda ass if you’re not on the big servers. This is both a positive and a negative. In most cases it leads to a lack of content directly, and for services like Lemmy, it leads to communities being more dispersed.
I think giving servers the option to run on a whitelist basis instead of a blacklist for other servers would be good. Federation is cool for a lot of reasons, but if your goal is to be a dick you can do that on a $5/mo server with a few cheap domains. Plus I’ve wanted to self-host some things that I don’t necessarily want federated, like Bookwyrm. I was looking at setting one up as a fanfic sharing thing, and a lot of fanfic authors don’t want their stuff on platforms like Goodreads for valid reasons, and I personally feel like having it federated would kinda defeat the purpose there. While I was typing this out I just had an idea that might have fixed that problem, actually, I’ll test that later
In the same vain, allowing servers to share their blocklists with other servers would help a lot as well. Yes you can see the block list publicly (though some servers do disable it), but manually copying it is a massive chore, and keeping it updated is even worse.
Thats a heck of a domain lol.
It’s been a great experience for me since first joining. The spark is still there and it gets better ever day.
how has your experience been?
Posts and comments cannot be easily deleted, for one.
Otherwise, the general experience is like being at an anarchists’ beer hall.
Lemmy really needs to get its shit together in the UI/UX dept for the default look of an instance. Mastodon does this much better.
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
Lemmy’s UI options are fine for me but I do principally use Voyager.
That said were you a Reddit user before Lemmy? Did you use old Reddit or one of the other options?
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
Yeah, I use eternity and I’m grateful for the theme settings.
Also for godsake why isn’t swipe left for the next post a standard thing on these applications.
I tried all of the apps on the google playstore before reaching the last in the list, eternity which had a setting for swiping left for the next post.
That said the lack of advertisements is refreshing as is the horrifically bad “AI” moderating system that is so prevalent on reddit.
