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 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?
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.
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".
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 think the f1 communities here are fine, they post all the big news and every comment thread doesn't devolve into childish fanboyism!