Does anyone else feel like Lemmy is getting SO MUCH better?!!

At least in a short time frame (2w? 1m?) I don't think that Lemmy got meaningfully better or worse. However from APIcalypse times to now it got way better.

Yes, it's gotten stable and there's good content. Still a lot of 0-comment threads, but the comment threads I am involved in are much better overall. It's not teen-mob-mentality over here and I've been surprised many times over my 4 months. Thanks to all of you guys and gals that make it happen.

For me, it’s not great. The web interface and apps I’ve used are kind of bad, there isn’t a lot of content in the topics I’m interested in. I’m mainly here because I refuse to go back to Reddit.

One thing that I’ve noticed as someone trying to wean myself off of Reddit: Lemmy just feels more chill. Like no I don’t have to open it every few minutes and doomscroll, it’s going to be a lot slower coming than the firehouse that is Reddit.

Tbf I don’t think that’s a design as much as it is just smaller, but it still feels nice.

seems good. It's having way more posts than I thought it would have by this point. Big kudos to the developers.

Not really.

The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that's coming from somebody who uses Linux.

Behind that, there's very little in the way of niche communities/interests. But I suppose that's just because the total number of users isn't high enough for people with specific interests to reach some critical mass .

So for me, Lemmy hasn't been anything more than a news aggregator interspersed with the occasional funny meme.

Imho the big challenge is just lack of throughput. I follow many communities, and it's still not at the point where my front-page is consistently new content every day.

Feed the beast. Until then, quit whining about how repetitive the content is - there just isn't enough of it yet.

Found Lemmy’s mom!

Just wait until v0.19.0, gonna be such a good update

Apparently it just needed to get poked with a good stick

It's been pretty stable and usable.

But has there been an increase in hiveminded threads and trolling?

At first it felt like dissenting opinions would lead to an informative discussion, but more and more having an unpopular opinion - or just stepping into the wrong thread - means someone resorting to insulting your mom. Ok, thanks Xbox live gamer.

The only problem this site has is lack of content. And the only thing that would fix it is more people.

Using Avelon with a bit of constant filtering effort, my Home feed is quite enjoyable.

I personally enjoy it but I’ve been seeing a lot of posts / comments about people giving up due to lack of niche/interesting communities*. While I understand that I appreciate Lemmy for what it is. I get a lot more interaction here than Reddit.

Its definitely improved a lot since I joined ~6 months ago, though I've also started to see more of the bullshit that makes all the other social medias icky. But, so far its been easy to ignore/block and its cool to run into familiar users across different communities that comes with smaller platforms.

I don't think so. The amount of doom on lemmy is insane, this isn't a very fun place. Comments using ableist slurs are upvoted. The meme communities are just a facade for more dooming. I swear this site is full of people that get off knowing they're making someone else feel bad.

As good as I feel Lemmy is, I find a lot of the meme & humor communities alarmingly depressing.

I'm not looking for 24/7 wholesome! But, man.. I just want to see funny memes.

I was saying the other day there's been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it's encouraging nevertheless.

No idea, I don't use it.

I'm trying to do my part by posting more content.

It's decent after blocking all the fluff/low-quality communities. But it needs a way to follow threads & highlight new comments.

Slowly and steadily, yes.

Yes, it is so much better, sometimes I forget Sync for Lemmy ain't Sync for Reddit.

i find it's mostly content my older colleges in tech would find funny

Mastodon too. Like a month ago it was full of neoliberal nazis but they seem to have cleaned house once the dust settled on Israel's genocide.

Honestly, kind of but maybe not really. I mean, yes there are improvements of course, but a bunch of them aren't very visible, and of course I understand that. It just feels very stable.

It kind of just works, for the most part, which is a good thing - minus this bug which has been fixed over a month ago but I guess is not live yet on every instance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1968 because I still run into this bug, and it's still annoying unfortunately.

Outside of that, there's not really too much going wrong for me to notice any huge improvements.

edit: Oh, it's because 0.19.0 UI has not had a stable release yet (nor has 0.19.0 server), once that releases as long as there aren't many regressions I won't really have any more complaints about Lemmy (other than maybe the non-SEO-friendly URLs).

Meh idk. I only go here for memes and news.