I found it boring and mostly dead. Most links had a dozen comments at most, almost all of them very short and very few of them thoughtful at all.
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Hiro8811@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ah man, I applies for the beta months ago but never gotten a response. For those who manages to enter how was it? Was it a Lemmy/reddiy style or more like Instagram/Facebook.
daychilde@lemmy.world 6 days ago
dil@piefed.zip 6 days ago
It was okay during closed beta, more dead than here, but similar.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It was basically exactly Reddit but with two noticeable AI features that were easy to ignore:
I found the second one slightly handy, though, because when I was on Reddit I fell into the bad habit of posting after just reading headlines. With the AI summaries I could get more context and it often lead me to opening more articles than I would have without it.