I'll admit I'm moving from reddit and don't yet understand what lemmy and the fediverse are all about. I'm currently using the Connect for Lemmy app. So far it feels like there's a lot less content here, or I have no idea how to find the popular instances/communities. Another small gripe I have is when I search for a community (eg. gamedev) there's multiple that seem to be about the same thing. I've subscribed to them all and I guess that's just the nature of decentralized communities but it certainly makes the user experience a bit less seamless.

Does anyone have tips on how to best utilize Lemmy?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly mind-blowing the way it has come alive in the last few weeks.

[–] Zirconium@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was there any content/activity before then?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, but not as much. And many of the communities that have popped up since, would probably not have had enough activity to be worth starting before now.

[–] RedditRefuge@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Brand new here, seems a little clunky but I’ll get used to it.

[–] Midnight_Ice@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does take a bit of poking around to learn, but once you get the hang of it things are pretty good. I'm excited for Sync for Lemmy so I have a more familiar app to use.

[–] pasdesushi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I currently trying https://wefwef.app/ interface, and it’s really clean (copy of Apollo ui)

[–] TheKraKEN@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Been using Wefwef the last couple days and it's great.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 2 years ago

I think we've been long overdue to replace essential social functions - like discussion forums - with community-run free software. I'll put up with a lot of clunky for that payoff: people being able to discuss a topic without corporations getting between them.