It is crazy to me how much the lemmy experience has improved since joining here from Reddit a few weeks ago.

Yes, very happy so far. I haven’t posted this much even on Reddit.

Yeah it's reaching critical mass I feel. So much more activity compared to a few weeks ago

What I really like is the fact that the comments are not just the same jokes or the stupid puns over and over again trying to harvest that sweet sweet karma.

It is refreshing to see comments that bring a different perspective or information to the subject.

The community feels way more welcoming and Lemmy and related apps are developing fast.

Let's hope it stays that way as the user base continues to grow 🤞

Yah, huge difference in just a couple weeks. I think it's hit the tipping point and we got here just as it happened.

We did it, Reddit.... wait

As soon as Boost is released, Lemmy will be even more active.

I'm LOVING it suddenly. A week ago it felt like not enough, today I'm saving more memes and commenting way more than I did on reddit.

I'm looking forward to more niche communities picking up on this speed, but the Frontpage is definitely scratching my quick burst attention span itch now. Tip: Sort by hot, top 6hrs, or new if you need the more rapid change of pace reddit had.

I was here early June when there was very little activity. I didn't really understand the fediverse, and how instances worked. I remember thinking "this has so much potential!" The average instance had about 4000 users. And now it's exploding. I know many people are going to continue to use Reddit, there's still more users on Reddit then there are on here, there probably always will.

I feel the users that end up on here are smart, informed, fed up, we see past the lies, we are mature and chill as fuck.

The fact Lemmy takes time to learn is a good thing.

Once the quality of the porn and the memes went up I knew I had found a replacement

heads up, someone even ported the old reddit interface to lemmy: https://mlmym.org

And the apps! So many aloha builds in active development rapidly became available.

I have been pleasantly surprised the last several days. I was a little disappointed with the content at first (though I did enjoy how it felt like the "old" internet), but now that the apps have rapidly improved (connect is great!), and I've started subscribing to some interesting communities I really love it. It's like a kinder gentler reddit.

Yeah this is wild ... every instance seems a lot smoother, and there is massivh more and better content. It's feeling awesome

The experience has gotten a lot smoother for sure! We are also getting better at using Lemmy to begin with.

I think this is because sudden growth and the apps improving day by day (or sometimes even in less amount of time).

I'm so happy with Lemmy as what it is right now, and the forecast looks even better.

Totally agree! The number of posts and comments have gone way up already. Now that the main Reddit migration has lessened, I hope word of mouth keeps it going.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerberg started a clone…both lol and terrifying.

After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, "Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets." Can't say that now, it's getting busy. There's more content than I can review in a day now, and that's just from the front page in Subscribed view.

At least Lemmy has gotten a lot more stable in the past few weeks too

Helping shape what this could become is what I’m excited about.

Yep. I'm a month in. I took a couple days break, and came back yesterday and it's moving along nicely. No drop in quality or anything, just more good content, and slightly faster paced discussion.

I agree that the proliferation of quality apps over the past few weeks on Android and GitHub has been pretty incredible considering the broad range of designs and features each one uniquely has

I think for me personally is that with Reddit I was scared to comment on posts because I felt like the Reddit hive mind would attack if I even slightly disagreed.

The second I visited lemmy it immediately felt like the reddit of old. Damn it feels good to be back to basics.

Yup. Much nicer. No sponsored posts and advertisements.

I just joined Lemmy yesterday morning so I don't have a huge frame of reference but I am enjoying it very much so far.

I honestly enjoy this app more than the basic reddit app except for the lack of people in my communities. it wasn't the best experience at first (late june), but now I really like it on here

I see post, I upvote. Am I doing it right?

Took me a little while to figure some things out, with which subjects were active, figuring out nsfw instances, then adjusting themes so it appealed to me more.

I'm really liking the way as I was figuring that out, there has been more user activity and posts.

I hope it continues, but regardless I'm here for the ride. Long live Lenny!! (And Lemmy)

Good for you guys. It's crazy to me how much the lemmy experience have declined since the reddit migration and I'm sad to see the lemmyverse becoming a bit more like reddit every day.

I've started looking for alternative places where I can discuss my hobbies, like marine archaeology, without the fear of being labeled as a nazi. It's absurd.