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Apollo user here, can confirm: I really love its interface. Wiped the Reddit account nevertheless.

Pao.

It might have something to do with the federated nature of Lemmy. Users from other instances can also upvote, even if they’re not registered on the post’s given instance. This may mean that vote tallying follows a different kind of algorithm than what we may be accustomed to elsewhere.

I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure I’ve found it.

I sub to them all, and then order the communities to fight each other. The last community standing is the winner. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened yet.

topics naturally.

Give it time, eventually most new users that plan to stay will move off to other

I’ve created accounts on Mastodon, kbin, Lemmy and tildes, all within the past two days or so, and so far Lemmy’s my jimjam, with kbin a very close second.

I’ve noticed it.

I’m seriously considering partitioning the old MacBook and dual-booting into a new distro, but I’ll need to look up the process again, and it’s been quite a while. That is part of the fun, though…

One thing that will likely be a huge dealbreaker is the spam-stopping wait period that many instances are using, but this could be getting used to drive new users to low-sub instances. While the tactic is understandable, many will likely be turned off by it.

Personally, I think the learning curve is part of wanting to use Lemmy, and even Linux has been abstracted enough that it can be used by just about anyone now.