How has ur lemmy experience been so far?
How has ur lemmy experience been so far?
Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I'm old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.
So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.
Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I've subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.
great, i've really liked lemmy so far. its really the first alt big tech platform like this that i've gotten into, was never big on mastodon or any of the others out there.
lemmy is honestly a breath of fresh air. really great platform so far, i think it has very strong potential.
i still use reddit for some things, but overall i'm starting to use lemmy a lot more. great work from the devs, can't wait to see the future!
It really feels like how Reddit started, before all the rage-bait and eye-catching bullshit. I miss the floofs, the memes, the fun reasons I joined. Now 90% is politics that keep popping up even though I don't subscribe to any political subs and keep blocking
Seriously, I'm not from the USA and I'm not supposed to know the names of American senators, MP's, governors or lawyers, or of who shot who, or who had a panic attack in an airplane, or why people are shouting at each others at a mcdonalds drive-in. Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?
The news cycle proposed by reddit is filled with american politics ad nauseam and by ragebait. The european subs of reddit are filled with russian shills. When you add up all of this there is no point into opening reddit for the news.
this 100%. its just really refreshing rn and great to see.
Mastodon is so much like a Twitter/Facebook replacement that I'm not even interested in it. Reddit/Lemmy's focus is not on broadcasting yourself but rather link aggregating and conversations about those links in the comments. It's always been so much better of a forum type of experience than Twitter/Mastodon/Facebook.
I heard someone else put the issue with mastadon/twitter into words in a way that explained why I never jived with it. With mastadon/twitter you follow people and personalities while reddit and message boards were more about following a subject or interest. The twitter algorithm and sharing I guess spreads a lot of stuff around and it's cool that twitter has so many famous and inside industry people running stuff, but that community based on specific personalities makes it harder to follow.
At least on my instance everything is running fast, snappy. I like the clean interface. Haven't encountered any major bugs yet.
The only downside for me so far is that there is not a lot to see yet. The only active posts and communities are about lemmy itself. Which is understandable of course but I can't wait to actually get to the phase where I actually get to experience real content lmao
I'm excited for the possibilities, but daunted by the realities.
It's going to be tough to get enough foot traffic to start populating smaller subs. It seems like the Reddit API drama is the big break needed to hit a critical mass of users, but how many will take the time to figure out something like Lemmy? And are the Lemmy instances ready? It's strange to root for Reddit to go through with the API changes after using Reddit for so long. But if there was ever a time to pay a bit extra for additional hosting resources, June 11th (or now!) should be it. If a large influx of new users crash Lemmy instances, and no one can sign up, a golden opportunity will be lost.
Signing up was not a flawless process. You are asked to make a choice about servers with little guidance on what it all means.
Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it's not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else. Users can choose to get as complex as they want, but simplicity should also be an option. If people later grow to value their Lemmy accounts, they can secure them at a later time. But extremely easy sign up should be the default for now.
Asking people to write an extensive answer as to "why you want to join this particular server" should also be suspended temporarily. Again, it's about ease of signing up. We should try to get as many signups in as quickly as possible, and weed out the problem people later. After the possible Reddit migration boom ends, you can go back to application essays as a requirement for entry.
The web interface is buggy. The site will often "reset" as you are reading a thread, and the whole thread will act if "refreshed". If this causes users to lose a long post they are typing, they might quit Lemmy then and there.
The community structure needs to be more unified across instances. It's confusing that there are local groups as well as "multiverse" groups across federations, often with the exact same name. It's a bummer that the communities can be splintered, and will have people not realize what's really available.
I think we're might see some weaknesses of a distributed system like Lemmy in the next few weeks. It's hard to organize and get everyone rowing in the same direction with no "CEO" or clear leader. It does feel like little fiefdoms doing their own things, and that makes it even harder to hit critical mass.
In terms of content and userbase, so far so good. It obviously leans heavily towards the technically competent. Lemmy sort of screens for the technology inclined since it's only well known to those who are up to date with the latest in tech. So of course it's easy to feel like everyone is like minded and cool for now. But we need to attract casuals if we want vibrant, non-tech groups to exist and flourish too.
I've only been exploring for 2 days though, so I can be very wrong.
Oh man it has been unironically great! First day I joined there was basically nothing but a meme sublemmy and a couple of tech subs too, but nowadays there are communities popping up left right and center, and I'm seeing so many familiar subs recreated on here, too
Overall my past week of using Lemmy have been phenomenal, and I'm happy to say that Lemmy has become my mindless scrolling app of choice now
Edit: correct number of weeks
While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too
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LMAOOOO
Much nicer than StackExchange too:
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lol, first time I've been rickrolled in a long time.
dude helll yes i also just remembered theres that stupid barried of entry on many subs which ask u to meet really weird requirements to participate.. the other day i prompted gpt to say smt funny and wholesome (it was praise towards the aur(arch user repository)) and tried to post it on some linux/arch sub but the first 3 that came to mind wouldnt allow it, one didnt accept memes, the other had a bot which took it down automatically and the third asked me to comment and participate in the sub before posting.. like come on man.
The barrier for entry for some subreddits is too high but to be fair, ChatGPT "funny responses" are low-quality content and should be removed.
Well, I'm here !
I have removed my Reddit account after 10yrs + 100k + karma and more hours invested than I would like to admit.
This time, I'm legit done with the place. I don't like where they are headed and decided to give Lemmy a go.
So far, so good :)
I got my account approved and I'm good to go. This is my first comment of many, many more to come.
Good to be here folks...
I really like it. The platform itself is great. The main thing that needs improvement is the onboarding experience. It seems really confusing at first, but I think that's mainly because it's not explained well.
For example, the first step of the onboarding process is choosing which server to join, which I think is kind of a misleading decision. It seems like you're choosing what community you're going to interact with, but that's not really the case. You're mainly just choosing who's going to foot the bill for your network traffic. The decision seems important but it's really not IMO, at least not for someone who's just trying to jump in and see what Lemmy is all about.
Also, community discoverability is a problem, but I think that could easily be solved with better UX on the community page. (For example I think there should be a message that says "Looking for more communities? Try doing {insert instructions here} to find them."
I'm starting to understand how all of the individual Lemmy servers are connected and it's awesome. Understanding how Lemmy is fundamentally different than something like Reddit makes me very appreciative. I think something like Lemmy is the natural future as corporations continue to try to milk the wallets of the average person.
So, first day of Lemmy and so far I’m enjoying it. I’m looking through communities and seeing what I’d like to follow or not.
Criticism (hopefully constructive) that I do have:
- I miss the random niche subreddit side of things, but I’m not sure if that’s as a result of lack people on the platform, or the UI not promoting that style of thing much.
- I am missing a good iPadOS client. I’m currently using the Web UI, which works well enough, but it’d be great to have a more native app.
- It seems strange that I can’t have a One True Fediverse Identity where my mastodon identity is the same as my lemmy identity and vice versa. I note that Takahē has started refocusing into more of an identity broker for ActivityPub and less of an online experience, so maybe it will be the one true unifying identity.
On the plus side:
- There are a lot of fun general communities on here.
- People are really nice, in general, and this doesn’t seem to be changing, compared to the histories I’ve been browsing
- I really like markdown as a way to post, and it seems to work ok from my iPad
All in all, it’s been a positive 24hrs, I might give an update after a week or two.
Just signed up a few minutes ago. I honestly really like it so far. I was never into Twitter but I did try out mastodon and just couldn't get used to the look of everything. It was also confusing to sign up. So far Lemmy has been great. I am surprised how many active users there are. I was worried it would be super dead.
edit: spelling
I like it ~ I joined mastodon but I think it was way too slow to load images - probably joined some dodgy overloaded server (though I like the Reddit format and community better rather than Twitter)
It's giving me Reddit 15 years ago vibes - smaller tech-savvy and agile community - my Reddit use was on and off through the years; but I like the idea that each community in the Extended Lemmiverse can all have their own vibes and cultures and implementations of the platform and we can all chat and follow topics together 🕊️
I've only been here a short while; but maybe one thing I'd love is not to see reposts in the /all section ; I know the communities are small and growing and can cross post for more stuff , but I'm sure there could be a way for the system to know that the title and url are the same - so only show one , or auto-merge the comments and prioritise posting your comment to your local community instance's post Edit - I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function ~
yea i think one huge advantage is that theres no specific tos for lemmy as a whole and each instance can just do whatever they want which helps loads when it comes to censorship and moderation, and theres no 1 entity that can just skeet yo off the entire platform if u break some rule (great example is how reddit seems to be silencing ppl promoting lemmy and discussions ab it)
I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function
Awesome! I'm trying to get my feet wet with contributing as well. I don't know Rust or Psql very well (although I am an experienced MySQL/MariaDB admin) so it's gonna take a while for me to catch up enough to be useful. I'm trying though :P
The hardest part is learning /something / and then it's just transferring over right ?
Heheheh - I dunno how crazy it'll be , but no harm in dabbling ~ also it's cool to have a closed community page just for testing , also wanna test maybe only allowing one lemmy domain to post but allow others to comment , etc
Regarding your last paragraph, I agree. I'm subscribed to gaming in lemmy.ml and beehaw so see the same content twice regularly. Duplicate communities raise other concerns for me though:
Which one is the defacto community to join? Using the Gaming community as an example, maybe one leans more to images and the other has more meaty discussion threads just by way of who has joined those communities - nothing to do with the rules. But if you subscribe to both, the majority of the content may be duplicate posts instead? It's not clear from the community title alone.
Is the potential squandered as communities are potentially splintered? Maybe people just stick to one community without joining the other. It'll take time for a certain community to establish itself as the main community with the highest quality posts, but due to the volume of users on the main instances maybe there won't be a main community? Or maybe people won't even be aware of multiple communities for the same topic as the names are different, e.g. football Vs soccer.
So far I am really enjoying it, mostly because whenever you post something you don't get 130493025084385 people telling you that your are a horrible person and completely wrong and offering you unsolicited advice and ignoring your question in the first place.
It is NICE here. For now at least.
I'm enjoying figuring out how the place works. For example, when I first signed up, I couldn't work out how Beehaw.org was part of Lemmy was part of the Fediverse, but I'm now subbed to almost as many communities on other servers as I am on Beehaw.
The learning curve has perhaps been more steep than on Reddit, but no more so than Twitter > Mastodon.
I'm honestly really lost and just stumbling around in the dark. It's been really confusing to learn about federation and what ever makes lemmy so unique.
But I'm really happy to see an open source alternative to reddit which is cool.
I'm rapidly coming to appreciate it.
Maybe it's the demographic of users (young vs old, tech savvy vs casual, w/e) but threads here have far more activity in ratio to the number of subscribers and members.
Reddit just feels like a popularity context. Tell your 'I also choose this guy's dead wife' joke, get your karma, and for god's sake DON'T USE EMOJIS! Subs rapidly became echo chambers, or lose identity as they get larger.
Lemmy however... while not all threads have activity (it's small after all), the activity is legitimately interactive. People actually discussing ideas. We're talking like thinking adults, and I'm enjoying it.
I really don’t like the cringe tankie culture here, hope that gets diluted as more people come in
It's fine, but it's a pain having to create multiple accounts when some instances aren't linked to the one you picked to create an username. For the rest I think the other comments have already pointed out what would need to improve in the future if we expect to leave Reddit; curiously, most of the problems we have here are the same or similar to the ones while trying to use Mastodon.
I had a bit of a rocky start, but I picked up the concepts fairly quickly.
The Good:
- The discussion threads here remind me of what Reddit's discussions were like about five years ago.
- Comments feel more meaningful and thought-provoking as opposed to a race to "craft the wittiest meme."
- The community here seems to be relatively friendly and welcoming.
The Less Good:
- I find the mobile experience quite clunky at the moment. For the site, there seem to be some random overflow issues, and the interface and UI elements feel a bit too small for a mobile experience. The lack of polished, dedicated apps is somewhat of a bummer, but I'm hopeful the community will fill these gaps over time with dedicated applications.
- The onboarding process is somewhat lackluster. It seems more geared towards an audience that is already familiar with federated services. I feel most new users will default to lemmy.ml out of an unwarranted sense of FOMO for not being a direct member of the largest instance, simply due to a lack of understanding of how federated apps work.
- Redundant communities across multiple instances could become problematic over time. Personally, I would like to see something like user (or even mod) specified mono-communities, grouping multiple communities across multiple instances into a single thread. For example, if a user went to
m/movies, whoever runs that mono could add movie-specific feeds from places like lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. - We need to have a serious discussion about generating funds for instances. Dedicated servers with high traffic can get incredibly expensive. I fear that many smaller instances will eventually go dark due to escalating operational costs. Ko-Fi donations will only go so far. We, as a community, need to start thinking of more sustainable alternatives that align with the community's core values.
- The documentation for the JS SDK could use some TLC. Thankfully, it's fully typed with Typescript ❤️, so it's not too cumbersome to work out what everything does, but more code examples and descriptions for all the various methods would be a welcome change.
All in all, I'm happy with my decision to check this place out and am hopeful more people will come aboard in time. It's already become a part of my daily routine.
About the costs - someone else said this is a feature, not a bug. :)
The idea is that the costs will keep most instances small, which is great. We dont want big instances. Thats the point of being distributed. Its just a mindset that people need to learn. Pick smaller instances you trust for better performance. You can still subscribe to anything you want from other instances.
I'm kind of confused by this, to be honest, because wouldn't there being a cost of entry specifically limit the amount of people who are able to create an instance, combined with the fact that the small few who can run an instance, and see it grow, would then decrease more and more over time?
Then wouldn't people find the main instances with the largest numbers and, with smaller communities unable to afford the minimal traffic, see the instances start to combine into the larger community where it'd be mutually affordable?
I mean, early on you might get people wanting to make an instance and learning they can't commit to it any longer and breaking apart, but I'd imagine any barrier that doesn't have to do with a barrier for discovery/reducing the barrier for cross-navigation (e.g. fediverse) would eventually lead to filtering a select few. I'm not 100% or anything, but ya know, seems like it'd go that way.
I think this idea is great but the discovery of instances for a new user is "what is the Lemmy site showing me" which is almost all larger instances.
How much does it cost to run large instances? Do you have an estimate of how much it costs to run lemmy.ml?
Currently its running on a vps with 8 vcpu for 30 euros per month.
Really good, there's so much positive energy and people asking all kinds of questions without being called names, it's very enjoyable overall.
Only been 2 days. I'm feeling things out. Happy I found an Android app to use.
Already posted a cat photo. Not sure if it is correctly viewable.
Tell us the link to the cat photo post please
It's been a little tough? Trying to join communities hosted on other instances than the one I've joined is a little cumbersome so been having some trouble with that It almost encourages people to join the large instances for the sake of that convenience, undermining (to a certain degree) the whole point of this being federated
So much this. Still haven't been able to join a community I'm very interested in, just because it's hosted on another instance. From my instance it's not visible, if I just paste the name after my instances base url it doesn't find it, and of course I can't sub from the instance hosting it because, well, that's lemmy.ml and I'm feddit.it.
So yeah, that's a bit annoying/confusing.
I think it’s awesome. It’s the first time in a whole I’ve been on “new” social media and it’s bringing back a lot of feelings I thought were dead since the internet became so centralized
I have just joined for the same reason and I'm (positively) surprised how familiar it feels to reddit.
Something that bugs me on the desktop... When I'm scrolling down a long post like this, if someone puts up a new top-level reply the page jumps back to the top to show that reply and I lose where I was reading at. I could turn off page notifications, but then I won't get the live feeds on the front page.
Yeah this one is infuriating, hopefully gets fixed soon
Almost certain this has already been mentioned, but subscribing to other communities outside of your instance is kinda clunky. Having to go to another site to browse their communities and plug whatever relevant community's link into your own instance's search?
Surely there has to be a better way to find other communities that doesn't involve having to go to another instance's website.
My account is 5 days old. I find subscribing to other communities pretty simple? On the website, I click on "Communitys" and open the list of available communities. Just click on the subscribe button and you're done.
This feels a lot like Reddit did 15 years ago, when they first introduced subreddits-- like I'm seeing something brand new for the first time, but it's somehow comfortable and innocent.
As good as one could hope for a new place with not many users. The framework is there but the crowd is what's needed.
I'd say it's been a bit mixed. The software is at times a bit wonky and unpredictable. Some features are surprisingly missing (like, as an admin, just listing out users on the instance). I've had a few bugs from the client and I'm not always able to pull in content.
Having said that, I see a lot of promising stuff going on. My friends and I set up an instance and while it's tiny, we're sharing links we like and commenting on them, just like the old days of the internet. We'll be around, I think.
I love that I'm actually using essentially a protocol, instead of a corporate service. The discussion here is good, there is a lot of interest in the "old web" which I'm fascinated in, and the place has just enough users to feel comfy and not absolutely chaotic. It's awesome.
Reddit really started as a "Oh cool, just a couple dudes running this, not like a big corporation" and proved that even then eventually it'll all end up the same way. Here we are now, on a new platform that literally can't switch to that direction. I'm loving it
I joined a year ago, and it seems that activity and users are growing everyday. I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I'm in lurking mode most of the time.
I kinda feel the same. On reddit I find myself deleting the comments before Id make them most of the time. Most people seem fine here, and I feel a lot more comfortable.
I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I'm in lurking mode most of the time.
That's my favorite part. It feels like there's more interaction with people here.
It's going well! One thing I've really liked so far is the "tight-knit group" sort of feeling. Not really sure the best way to explain it, but it's like the difference between working at a place where there are only 9 other employees, versus working at a corporation. It feels like you truly have the chance to be a part of something awesome, rather than just being a drop in the bucket.
oh for sure, especially in like the way smaller instances in fediverse projects, theres instances of akkoma where it doesnt feel like a social media site (which an instances is technically is) but more like a groupchat/blog thing (in the style of internet way back in the day) where getting familiar with the others is easy as hell and almost natural, wholesome 101
I think most people that have joined up on Lemmy are sort of like minded anyway, so that probably helps with the feeling of community
I like it, but it needs UI work for mass appeal. All federated services do really. It’s such a strong concept but it’s only in its (relative) infancy just as all of these events are happening to direct traffic toward the Fediverse.
It's been pretty decent so far but the fact that I can't easily browse all available communities across all servers really limits the amount of discovery I can do.
Have you tried the community browser yet?
This was really useful for me to find new communities but trying to subscribe to them via the server I joined was a bit awkward. They needed to be in a "[email protected]" format to search and subscribe to them but the browser only gives you the link in https:// format. Not a big deal but probably not something a less tech savvy person could figure out easily.
Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.
While I'm subbed to a few lemmy.ml communities I didn't wanna make an account over there for the same reasons. The general inclination is a bit out of my sphere.
I think it was on the basis of you being personally insulting to the users. The modlog is pretty usable, so you can check why they were deleted
There aren't really as many leftist posts on lemmy.ml from what I can see, but it's federated with lemmygrad.ml, so if your account is on lemmy.ml you see all the posts from there as well. And because they're federated, lemmygrad users can comment on anything on lemmy.ml, so that's where you will see viewpoints come in that you may not agree with in news/politics/economics related threads. I don't know if kbin.social has its instances whitelist & blacklist published anywhere, but there's a pretty good chance you'd know by now if it federated with lemmygrad. You're likely still browsing posts and comment threads on lemmy.ml but aren't seeing comments from the lemmygrad users in those threads.
As far as I understood, those were people who had accounts on lemmy.ml, not lemmygrad.ml
Oh, and even if they're annoying, I understand how federation works and that users from lemmygrad could comment there etc. and I can handle the shills, what I was surprised about were the mods on lemmy.ml which started deleting my comments. Doing this, they make it impossible for me to even try to engage in a discussion and show a different point of view to the tankies.
And because they’re federated, lemmygrad users can comment on anything on lemmy.ml, so that’s where you will see viewpoints come in that you may not agree with in news/politics/economics related threads.
Oh boy, I didn't think about that. I never thought that lemmy.ml would federate with a cesspool like grad. So yeah, this explains that. That's why I'm seeing so many shills.
We have enough numbers to build a "de facto" second main instance which would be completely split from grad, should we focus on one instance? What if we tried to start an instance from scratch?
Yeah, lemmy part of fediverse is full of tankies. There is even a pretty active tankie instance over lemmygrad.ml.
Yikes. Are there people like that in lemmy.ml? Ill need to keep an eye out then. Still not completely found my footing in all this yet. Might watch a video or read something to better understand all this soon.
The history is that Lemmy was originally created as an independent forum for communists. Later, the devs experimented with ActivityPub federation and created the first federated Reddit alternative. The software itself is neutral and can be used by anyone, but the original communist users of Lemmy before federation was implemented are still around. The politics of Lemmy's original community scared off a lot of potential users from exploring federated Reddit, but bringing more users and awareness to Lemmy will also attract politically neutral developers who can maintain a good alternative.
An alternative is not even necessary if the devs are able to leave their ideologies out of the software's design, which I believe they are doing well.
its been great, i been posting in the Hexbear instance for like 2 years, i decided to make an account here while i wait for HB to federate with the rest of lemmy
So far it is mostly fine, but confusing at times. Especially navigating and finding things. But so was reddit in the begining.
Besides this, there are a lot of communities missing. I hope there is a way to extract post-histories from subreddit so we don't loose the accumulated knowledge. Especially for troubleshooting and programming, reddit it a valuable source. I hope we will keep those and transition to lemmy (or another alternative) smoothly
I was on Hexbear and I forgot how much I missed having a mixed crowd, as it was. Conversations are so much more fun that way!
Needs more discoverability
I'm enjoying it! Smaller community feels cozy, I even started commenting (was a lurker on Reddit). Although there's always a room for improvement. I occasionally lose comments because of some bugs or server issues, sometimes opening things just leads to refreshing of the main page and you lose the post and so on
theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)
I believe here its simply called "communities".
I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.
shoutout lemmy all my homies love the fediverse
I only ever lurked Reddit and am yet to change that here, but I am finding it nice to use. Once more communities, particularly niche interests, get a good amount of frequent users I think it will be an absolute joy to participate in.
Very buggy, but overall a lot more user-friendly than I expected. The fediverse was a bit difficult to grasp as a concept (especially since all the explanations love to say that it's like email, which it's not, and then refuse to clarify further), but I think I got it now. Overall I can see myself moving entirely to lemmy.
I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.
the first step or two are the hardest cus its so different from traditional social media, i made the mistake of making like 10+ mastodon accs on diff instances cus i didnt know how (or even if i could) follow/subscribe to other instances and have them in my feed xD
I'm having fun exploring the fediverse and learning how this all works. There is a decent amount of chatter on lemmy already which adds to the joy of scrolling.
I have found myself getting into an unfortunate loop where if I'm on my lemmy I accidentally end up on another instance and then get all lost at how to follow a community on another instance. Lemmy also seems to load really slowly for me, but that's not the end of the world.
Kbin solves a lot of these issues even if it's generally rougher around the edges. Having a clearer "front page" without getting lost in instances and communities helps a lot. Everything loads faster and I don't end up unable to interact after clicking a link.
That's my pretty initial reactions. I'll go play with it all some more and probably have a better feel later!
Ending up in another instances community then not being able to easily check out that instances other communities has been problematic for me as well - especially on the Jerboa app on Android. Definitely on my wish list for future adjustments and additions.
Also totally with you on the front page issues. Would love to see a way to group subbed communities.
So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.
Joining communities is very counter-intuitive. They are spread around and I ended up joining lemmy.ml communities exclusively, from another instance.
We could use much more space for the text, so far the text is way too concentrated in the middle of the screen in a narrow column.
Now on the content I'm rather satisfied. It's still a bit low in volume and if you compare to reddit it's really small, but we will catch up soon. We should lower our expectations and start building anew.
Hey it's good to hear constructive feedback. Perhaps you would like to check out some communities on beehaw.org? They certainly fit my vibe but could be yours too. The important rule on there is to be nice to others in your interactions.
So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.
Ah, the good ole everybody challenging the western propaganda narrative against Russia is a secret Putin shill. I can see Reddit is leaking, already.
Tretiak World [email protected] China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong
Oh, look, you have an opinion about tiananmen, what a surprise!
Can confirm. I am sitting on so many rubles right now it's crazy. You are definitely not the victim of a thought terminating brainworm.
Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.
Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.
I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.
Yeah, if you checkout the Github, one of the first lines on the README is:
Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.
So I doubt the app experience is going to improve much anytime soon unless other people decide they want to take up the mantle (or create alternative apps entirely).
Yea, that's why I said it needs developers to contribute to it badly. I understand that the developer has basically abandoned it.
There was an update yesterday. Some people are contributing to it, which is good. Hopefully more come, and the app really gets an overhaul before July 1st. I think having a decent app is key to keeping people here, especially if people are migrating because of apps.
Jerboa also doesn't do push notifications like the desktop does. So for moderation or messaging it's not super useful since I don't know if I have new applications or messages I should respond to.
That might be a limitation of Lemmy or the app (I'm not sure if it supports push notifications at all)
Agreed on these points. The app doesn't work but the site is good
I love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.
I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)
I'm still hoping some of the subs I frequent will migrate here. That's my only concern, tbh. If even 90% of the subs I'm following on reddit move here, I can quit reddit altogether. I'm also concerned about nsfw content (not just porn), but reddit is killing that too.
Can't start my own subs because, 1) I have no time, experience, nor patience to mod, and 2) idk of many of the people from those subs are already here.
Overall, though, lemmy/fediverse has been nice to me.
It's been okay, the main instance has been somewhat slow and some posts take time to show up in the feeds.
However, once I started using my self-hosted instance, it's been great! Snappy, content shows up pretty fast and federation has worked well for the time being.
I wish Jerboa was a little more polished for when I'm on my cellphone, but otherwise, the app is pretty good
I jumped straight into building an instance before even having an account somewhere else. It was a two or three day process for me, an hour or two each day, to get everything running properly. The main issue there was the docker instructions left a bit to be desired and there were no instructions for an existing apache reverse proxy at the time, but the people in the Matrix room were an amazing help.
It then took a couple of days to get used to it. I had the same questions I think a lot of people will have with their first instance- how do I get content on my instance from other federated instances? How do I get my instance searchable from other instances, and listed on browse.feddit.de? The solutions were very simple at the end of the day and everything now works great. There's just that initial learning curve.
Now I'm loving it and already see a lot of activity, hoping we'll have even more over the next month!
- Searching communities is still hard.
2 )There's a featured/pinned post that appears to me on my account home on lemmy.one, but I just can't see on this account. I went to the community, I searched It top-down and nope, it just doesn't exist for this account, I don't know why
The link also can't be shared, as if I copy its permalink, I got to the lemmy.one instance.
This is one of the biggest improvements it should see, but I don't know if it's possible at all.
- Also, the Jerboa app is not very good, but it works(Lemmur doesn't even work). But it is secondary to me, as I think if Lemmy grows, we'll see improvements gradually in this regard.
A bit rough initially as you might expect with a new platform but I've now got an account on a (geographically) local instance and subscribed to some communities in general interest areas on other instances. Looks promising. Now I just gotta find some niche communities.
Crazy. Been lurking around discovered mastodon and pixelfed too. Fediverse stuff is gnarly
I've just been lurking so far, but that's been good. Mastodon is great so I'm sure Lemmy will grow out of its initial pains.
This doesn't particularly matter, but in the interest of answering your question, the equivalent word to "subreddits" here is "communities". Thus the /c/ instead of /r/.
A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.
UI issues/wants aside, loving the experience. I do miss some specific subs from Reddit - specifically r/videos. I haven't seem to have found a good alternative.
Theres a new instance dedicated to videos
I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.
There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.
On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.
@bruhsoulz
It's been good! I have to say my favorite element has been figuring out different ways that I can blend my Lemmy interactions with my Mastodon use.I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.
so far it’s pretty ok and i’m quite hopeful for its future. the layout reminds me of reddit so it’s not particularly confusing to use… like someone else said, i hope the customisation improves (especially profile customisation, i can’t seem to upload an avatar). i’m a bit confused about the different servers though (what’s the difference between beehaw/lemmy/shitjustworks/etc? will i be able to access all of them if i signed up at beehaw?…) i’m not very tech savvy so perhaps somebody could eli5. i’m hopeful though!
Longtime Rif user posting from Jerboa. Seems pretty cool so far. The issue I've seen is some upvotes and comments not showing when viewed from a different instance.
hey, also using Jerboa from f-droid, as well as web. It seems a decent client
Same here, I'm glad Jerboa exists. Otherwise I wouldn't even know if my account is active yet since I'm currently unable to log in on the desktop version of the instance I've chosen. Besides that and figuring everything out I enjoy it here so far.
Edit: Seems that a blank space after my username was the problem. Now everything works just fine.
The thing that's confusing me most is links, whether to communities or individual posts.
I see links in a format like this:
Sometimes the exclamation mark is part of the link and it works, and sometimes it's there but not part of the link, and my phone thinks the rest is an email address.
Is there a guide anywhere to how to do links properly? TIA.
EDIT - yeah, so in my example above, the exclamation mark is not being treated as part of the link for some reason?
I'm trying to be more active on lemmy than on reddit where I just lurked like you, so that's been a change. But I'm having a great time! Also, spinning up an instance took some trial and error but it was a lot of fun :)
Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good
So far it is okay, the thing I'm most annoyed by is that is very hard to just casually browse all posts. It works okay, but after a while there seem to be a sync event or something happening bringing a ton of posts from a server and they are always added to the top of all, no matter what i sort by. If i sort by all - hot for example. A bunch of 1 vote posts suddenly are added to the top making me have to chase the list of the post i previously viewed. Does anyone know of a way to stop this sync from automatically happening?
My instance gets an occasional hiccup but usually reloading the page gets me through. Even if Lemmy doesn't end up with a Reddit-sized userbase I'm excited to see what it becomes. All-in-all feeling pretty positive about it.
I am trying it out just to understand it's nuances. I think the concept is solid, but I feel like the federated part could use a little more work so it's more possible to use whatever lemmy instance you prefer. Signing up on any particular instance is fine (Though I wish it had more options), but if I cannot get onto an instance that I prefer, it's tricky to curate my experience.
That being said, I think it is a fixable problem, and I have ideas to fix that based upon other websites I've used, but I have no idea where to submit them.
I'm loving it!
As an aside, I know a lot of people are using Jerboa for their mobile browsing app of choice, but I've discovered that you can just use the Lemmy progressive web app (PWA) instead and get the same experience as desktop. In Chrome, login to whatever Lemmy instance you're registered with, click the triple dot menu, and click "install app". You'll get a "Lemmy" app downloaded and added to your homescreen that looks and functions just like the website.
On iPhone you can do similar with Safari. "Add to Home Screen" on the share menu.
There's also the native app, Mlem. But it's really still in an alpha stage. The website is much more usable right now.
I’ve been using Mlem and am enjoying it, and the dev is fairly responsive and updates frequently. I hope to see it grow and improve. The Lemmy PWA on both my phone and on windows doesn’t have any navigation so I couldn’t figure out how to go back once I opened a thread. Unless I am missing something!
Awesome tip! Just tried to install with Firefox on mobile and it works too.
personally i dont like apps especially on mobile as ive had negative experiences with them (my wifi is shit) but thats cool to know (yo i just noticed i said apps instead of web apps xD)
What's the benefit over visiting the website, is it just less steps to open?
Update: I just like having the app sitting in my homescreen
I'd like an optimization for Jerboa as well as more customization for our accounts. Jerboa is fine as it is functional, but sometimes text boxes just extend all the way to the edge of the screen and makes it not visually appealing. I'm still learning though as I'm currently figuring out how to visit the communities in the other servers.
As for communities, I just hope that a mass migration of even 10% of Reddit's disappointed users would help boost the growth of Lemmy communities and help make niche communities thrive. I personally am a subscriber to the writing and anime subreddits, so I hope there'll be similar communities here.
Unfortunately, I've been getting some
404 not foundof some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I'm using, e.g. I'm usingkbin.socialat the current posting account, but let's say that I tried to access something likehttps://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddictionthere's no issues whatsoever (since it's the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I triedhttps://kbin.social/m/[email protected]then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.It's a learning process. There is definetly a mild learning curve as to how things work here compared to traditional social media platforms. But maybe that's even a good thing as to pre-filter certain audiences.
So far the interaction possibilities seem very satisfying, community seems friendlier than current reddit (maybe that's just the size of the userbase) and there is already enough, I'd call it "base content" as to be a reasonable alternative to reddit. - Which is why I created an account here.
I especially like the threaded, color coded conversation view. Makes it really discernable who responded to whom. I also like the UI very much. Clear and easy to navigate. Only critique here: There is kind of a lot of wasted screenspace on both sides on a 4k resolution.
I think shortcuts for common mouseclicks and formatting like in RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) would go a long way here too.
Well thats my 2c.
It's good. Except for the confusion about linking to communities on different servers. That's a real show stopper, if you ask me. Which you did, technically.
Quite enjoyable and, since seeing the sub.rehab site someone else posted, even better. I've found quite a few subs that have made their way over to Lemmy.
My only gripe is that quite a few have made their way to lemmy.world, and it's buckling under pressure. I can't sign up on that instance, nor can I remotely sub to communities from my own instance. Once that's resolved, I think I'll definitely be happy to call Lemmy my new home.
Can't go back anyway - deleted my Reddit account.
It's my first full day on Lemmy and I'm liking it a lot so far. It's definitely smaller than reddit but it feels more personal this way. I'm sure that will change after the exodus that will be happening over there soon.
My main lemmy instance went down, and I had to go to three because so many people are creating accounts. So bad; but, for a good reason.
There's definitely a learning curve. How steep, I have not determined yet.
Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.
Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:
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Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don't need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.
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It's confusing how communities on other servers aren't automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.
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If you add an external community and are confused as to why it's missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it's fine, it's just syncing.
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So far I don't quite understand how everything works. I am confident I will figure it out though
My biggest gripe is that there isn't a working Lemmy iOS app in my region, yet.
I have spotty metered mobile internet connection, and while the web app is lightweight enough, it requires the downloading of page structures each time and it adds up after a while.
I do hope we'll eventually get high-quality apps to interface with the fediverse, much like Apollo with Reddit.
I like the desktop app, and the community - but the content is still a bit sparse. The nice thing about reddit was that you could find content for literally anything and every time you refreshed there'd be new content to view. It's obviously not nearly so busy here, but hopefully that will improve with time.
In the meantime I've been juggling this and Mastadon to get my fix lol
So far it's been good! Lemmy has made me hopeful for better social media. I'm not hugely into twitter-style social media so I was never really able to appreciate Mastadon.
I'm actually quite surprised with how much content is here already. There are regular posts and conversations, and a good mix of content. It's not at the level reddit is in terms of volume, but I don't feel starved or anything. I look forward to the future here!
I've enjoyed it so far! Still some communities I miss that were more active on Reddit but I'm sure as it grows that will change
I'm enjoying my time on the fediverse, still getting used to it all
So far so good! I think I'm on the early upswing part of the learning curve. I was just allowed into the instance I wanted to be a part of, and I'm hoping to carve some fuck around time out of work over the next couple of days to figure the bits out that feel somewhat awkward to me still.
I was in so many niche places that I think it'll be hard to really find somewhere to connect with.
It’s been good so far. I’ve just been lurking, looking at different communities. I’m a long time Reddit user and like others have said, I’m going to miss the really niche subreddits. Hopefully the platform keeps growing!
Pretty great honestly. I've found almost all the "subs" I'm interested in, and the community has been very nice. There's a few small things I'd like to see (UI improvements, 2FA (coming next patch), etc), but those will come in time :)
Maybe I just haven't come across it yet, but I'd like to make threads left-aligned and everything smaller (text, thumbnails etc.)
I mostly lurk on communities. But that's another matter entirely.
Anyway, enjoying being away from the depressing mess that reddit has become. Verrrry slowly getting the hang of things. Signed up in beehaw.org and Lemmy.ml mainly because I didn't know what the hell I was doing!
Main confusion for me is communities. Searched and found a few that are mostly on Lemmy.ml. But I can subscribe to and see from beehaw.org. But some just do not show up until I log into Lemmy.ml
I use jerboa which is a little clunky but I kinda like that. It's a learning curve I guess. How the internet used to be in a way. I'm 53 so remember the day of 33.3 modems and tweaking windows configs (get off my lawn)
Even though I select "All" as my default type, it doesn't seem to populate anything after the second page of results? But if I click on "all" manually, I get all the pages. Otherwise, I'm just discovering things still, and exploring - which is fun!
Also I've found that, when an "All", a bunch of posts will come flooding in several seconds after the rest of the page is loaded, and none of them will be sorted correctly.
I'm amazed it runs so well. It's incredibly speedy for a wss implementation.
I had a bit of trouble signing up, but was approved super quickly and could log in.
(I might bother support later about it, when things settle down)
Even federated topics are blazing fast. Now I am thinking of setting up my own server on my Oracle Cloud Free Tier.Markdown works just like old.reddit. But it feels like it already has RES and ton's of plugins preinstalled. I am really quite happy.
Seems interesting, UX could be a lot better (Logging in via jerboa app is hidden behind 2 seperate menus for example).
Main issue is lack of content so far but honestly that is probably just me learning how to use it and subscribe to what I want. 3 pages deep into "Hot" and about 2 of those pages consist of posts from one....instance? Sub Instance? whatever we call them :D
Also probably my own limitation for now, but the constant refreshing of pages is annoying, if I stop to read a post and go back, everything scrolls automatically, depending on time spent on post I could completely lose where I was.
Overall, I unfortunately think its not a threat to Reddit in its current state, it takes too much effort to understand what is going on for most people and even if the features I complained about above are avoidable it should not take effort or experience to figure out how, but I will stick around anyway, as it seems fun. I would think a lot of users will migrate back to Reddit after the blackout.
The logging in confused me too. When I'm accidentally not logged in things don't load very well either.
Reddit has such a huge community and so much existing content that it'll take a lot to be a threat to that aspect of it, but I don't think that should be (or needs to be) the goal, short or midterm anyway. It can fill a more niche market for now and grow from there.
Greatly improved after I found out about https://mlmym.org/ (old Reddit UI for Lemmy)
Liking it so far. Found some great communities and have enjoyed it. :)
I am trying to interact with posts on beehaw.org on lemmy.ml, but to no avail. Does anyone know how to communicate inscance agnostic?
So far, my experience has been pretty painless. Took about a day to really get used to. Its not nearly as big as Reddit, but I kind of like that.
Good so far. The one and only Android app available for it is serviceable, though not without issues. Other than that, if usage picks up I can see myself spending more time here.
My biggest issue for now is that it feels kinda empty for now. I hope it will pop just a bit more so that we have good content regularly
I downloaded the app mlem and logged into this account, then I opened a link to a thing/group called "technology" or something close to that.
The top post was the was the first time in over 20 years of going online that I saw illegal images. No way to report it, no way to do anything but delete the app. Now I use the browser only. But other than that, kind of ok with a lot walls of text about social media ethics.
Edit: I found the post in the browser and reported it. It was in https://beehaw.org/c/technology
Was also a reddit lurker before joining lemmy. It’s been pretty good so far! The only issue I had was that my first password was too long but it still let me make the account, so I couldn’t log in until I reset it to a shorter one. Other than that no issues other than thing occasionally taking a while to load. Loving the friendly community!
Good I'm not crazy! I used a 64 character one and just could not log in. Switched it down to 16 and works fine
My biggest complaints are all UI based. I wish the UI felt a bit less crowded, and there was a setting that would instead load up pages that don't auto-update.
so far so go. i'm an old fart so familiarisation takes longer, and is easily forgotten ! 15 years on reddit before getting a permaban for saying "go outside fatso". Not my proudest moment, but there you go.
reddits downfall is multifaceted, but its certainly not helped by career Mods, who mod 20,30,50 different subs and network extensively.
My experience has been great! I’m trying to open up and contribute more to help this place grow. I made accounts on lemmy.ml and mastodon.social. While initially it was hard trying to find people and communities to follow, I think I’ve got the hang of it and am finding new content every day! There were some good posts on Reddit that helped me find lists of Mastodon users and Lemmy communities. By the end of the month I’ll be telling all my friends to hop on and helping them with the migration.
I miss the reddit way to only scroll on the main page to see content, but I know that this is not liked by most users, some prefers the old.reddit.com way
Infinite scrolling is implemented in jerboa, it could definitely be brought to the web client.
My concern is not only infinite scrolling, but also a part of the content of the post, and not only the thumb and the title
I still use reddit (for now) but I'm very much enjoying the smaller community feel on beehaw, while being able to join in on conversations in other instances whenever I feel like it.
There have been some stability issues on most of the more popular instances because of the sudden influx, but of course that's to be expected and I just take it as a hint to get off the internet for a while, lol
Until old.reddit dies, I'll still use it since the small communities don't have an equivalent here yet
I am wondering how to see if there's any interest in the more niche communities to stand up any on lemmy without basically spamming the communities. So I just kind of wait for others to broach the subject so far.
I am so happy this exists. I wish it continued growth and success. It feels like the good old early internet and that’s a very good thing.
It's a bit clunkier than Reddit, and obviously a smaller userbase. I'm sure the experience will get better with time. The real key to success will be getting more users to create content
First day of browsing Lemmy. So far so good. It took me a while to grasp the concept of an instance, but it seems to make sense to me now. I'm just hoping more communities start filling up and that the iOS app can get more development. Mlem is functional but veeery barebones right now. The browser works fine though!
Lots of tankies and no porn
Sounds like a win-win to me. You can get your porn and your neoliberal ideology from nearly every inch of the internet, so why not have a space that leans otherwise?
There's A LOT less spam posts and reused joke comments.
Like a breath of fresh air. People are just talking now instead of regurgitating the same old tired tropes for maximum upvote points.
A lot of dipping my toes into the water atm. mostly all over the place.
@bruhsoulz
If you want an example of what happens when two servers block one another.calckey.social and lemmy.one can talk to each other. So my post is visible here: https://lemmy.one/comment/33034
calckey.social can’t talk with lemmy.ml so the post isn’t on lemmy.ml
Since lemmy.ml is the home server of "asklemmy", it can’t be forwarded to other servers so no one can see it except lemmy.one and calckey.socialBeing honest: confusing. I can’t really decide if I like it or not right now.
It’s quite different from Reddit as in: you only see what you’re interested in (unless you’re in a big instance like lemmy.ml), but you have to look for it. Don’t get me wrong, this can be great! But there were situations where I accidentally found a niche subreddit that really matched stuff that I liked. I see that as more difficult here, but I might be wrong! Only time will tell
I'm using kbin and I'm enjoying what I'm seeing so far. I think my biggest hurdle (coming from Sync on Reddit) will be getting used to a new UI, and not having the amount of customisation that I'm used to. I'm looking forward to the mobile app that's hopefully coming soon, and while it's certainly a different experience on a smaller scale, I'd like to see more people, posts and comments.
I found it easy to join a server, subscribe to communities and post. I've also created a community that I'm passionate about and I'm trying to grow it.
I tried creating a server but failed big time, I'm a novice at that kind of stuff and didn't have the experience to know what I was doing wrong.
Sorry if this is a stupid question (and it does sound like something that was answered already), but is there an app for Android that works for Lemmy.world?
The ones I've seen (Jerboa, Lemmur) seem to only work for Lemmy.ml and a few others.
There are some things i recognize like news and such. Reddit was so ubiquitous that if i had a problem with just about any game i could find a subreddit. Here i am not at all sure how making federations or threads work. And things are still a little sparse. I am connected to beehaw. If i connect to another group will i see completely new communities or recreations of the standard ones?
Go to the communities page on here and it will bring up a list of communities. Select the 'all' tab and it will bring up all the communities hosted on here and on other instances that are linked with beehaw. So you may see a 'Technology' community and a '[email protected]' community. The first one is the technology community hosted here on beehaw, and the second one is the technology community hosted on lemmy.ml.
Now beehaw users can't make instances (as decided by the beehaw admins), but there are instances you can create your own communities. So you will definitely run across some more niche ones from those external instances in that communities page that you can access and subscribe/post to
You can go to https://browse.feddit.de to search for communities, and then paste the link into the search. If it hasn't been connected to your server yet you'll have to search it a second time for it to show up.
It's been nice, no complains but I'm just starting :)
Takes some getting used to. But I love how the communities don't feel like an echo chamber.
Fantastic! Best software ever!
Feddit browse should have an option to be a sortable list.
It feels very exciting to be here! It's a lot more open and customizable than other social media. I really hope that this is a small glimpse of what the future of the internet could be.
I'll stay around and see how much it grows, still missing a bunch of communities that I like, but it seems to be getting busier every day.
Decidedly mixed. The Lemmy.ml instance in general seems over run or unwilling to deal with the obvious and embarrassing tankie infestation.
Today is my 5th day in the fediverse and I like it! In the beginning there were some troubles regarding the registration, but it all worked out (I was not able to create an account with Firefox. After I switched to Opera, it worked). Also there are some issues with the auto-update of the feed. It suddenly starts scrolling and doesn't stop until I hit the refresh button in the browser. As far as I understand, this bug will be fixed soon.
While being here for the last couple of days, I realised, how cluttered Reddit has become. Take r/askreddit for instance: There are so many very similar-to-another questions over there, I now wonder, if they have been created by bots. This applies to other subreddits as well.
Browsing here and interacting with other users feels refreshing! It is like the early Reddit, when it was more community-focused instead of what it has become now, riddled with ads, bots and NFTs. I also like that there is no such thing as karma here.
I certainly will visit reddit in the future, but I'm going stay with the fediverse. There is so much to discover!
I've just recently moved into the fediverse. It took a bit of time, but a lot of the features are the same. It honestly feels like the good ol'days of Reddit. There are only a "few" communities here atm, but i believe this will grow with the number of new people joining and subreddits that migrates over to lemmy. So i believe that the future is bright for lemmy and the fediverse itself.
the "subs" on reddit is called "communities" on lemmy
Can we say "comms" for short?
IDK
My only confusion or concern so far is duplicate communities amongst diff servers.
Overall it looks promising. Upgrading however from 0.17.y to 0.18.0 went unsuccessful for me. Ended up simply starting over from scratch. Thankfully the instance did not have any noticeable content anyways yet so the only thing lost were two days of headache. I am looking forward to get it more reliable since potential is certainly there.
Cheers
The apps are still young. Wefwef’s save button is broken sometimes. Mlem doesn’t have a search, but it does have a weird text box that does nothing. Links in both open a post in an embedded web browser that I’m not signed in in. That being said, it shows great promise and I’m excited to watch us grow.
I greatly dislike the UI. Makes for a bad UX.
Unfortunately, the UI source is not approachable to me (despite being very familiar with web tech). Theming documentation is not there yet either.
As far as content goes, it's still niche, so amount and usefulness varies a lot between communities and overall. But I've liked it in principle, posted comments, and found interesting links/infos.
I'm liking the platform, but it could use more niche subs. Doesn't matter what it is, I can always assume that there exists a subreddit for everything. I hope to see lemmy get there one day.
just got my signup approved, the ui is awesome and the dark mode this place has won't destroy my eyes during night shift. it's a bit slower than reddit but that's fine
Fairly good actually. Im using the italian instance Feddit and its quick and easy to use. The actual issue is the lack of good clients
Had some issues getting an account with loading going infinitely until approved, which is just confusing as a new user as there was no notification about it timing out, and almost led to some duplication by accident. But so far it has actually been pretty smooth other than that, I like the UI and the community focus a lot.
This part was super buggy for me too. Signed up, filled in form, click button... Nothing happens. Tried lots of times and no messages to user, nothing.
But it turns out my account had been created, there was just no info about it.
But these things will be ironed out. :)
A few instances have been having issues with their account activation emails not being delivered too, which isn't ideal, but luckily it's been caught and fixed on at least the big instances.
It doesn't match reddit yet but it's alright
I am so happy this exists. I wish it continued growth and success. It feels like the good old early internet and that’s a very good thing.
I'm pretty inpressed with how much everything is improving in such a short time frame. Feeling optimistic.
What lemmy instance should I use? I registered lemmy.ml but I heard it’s very political. Should I change?
I dont think its very political (whatever that means). The founders have political views that may not be so common in the west, but it doesnt mean anything for you personally. You can choose exactly what communities you want to follow and read about anyway. They are not forcing their beliefs on anyone.
This is why the choice of instance is mostly a matter of performance and trust that the admins behind it know what they are doing.
Lemmy.ml is the most popular instance and it will of course be bombarded with new users when they come, so its good to create accounts on a few other instances as well. This is the point of being distributed. Im reading and writing this from my own instance: https://lemmy.today. And I think thats just fantastic, that we can do that.
Take a look at https://join-lemmy.org/instances for the full list and brief descriptions. I've ended up making accounts on three different instances (also started out on lemmy.ml because that's what all the reddit posts were pointing at), but I think I'm going to like this one (mander.xyz) because it has a lot of science-related communities.
I’m on Beehaw and so far it’s been a pretty chill place. They encourage “Be nice” and “safe space” without coming across as in your face with any actual political ideology.
Your instance is really just a point of entry. In the end people will probably follow the communities which are the largest and in their language, regardless of the instances hosting it. And your instance is probably the one hosting the largest communities anyway.
edit: oops, my bad, lemmy.ml had federated with lemmygrad, which is filled with russian shills, so yeah, we have to think about it, and maybe pick a different instance or start a brand new one. I don't want to spend more time explaining why Ukraine doesn't belong to Russia. Let them lose the war and figure it out by themselves.
You should not focus too much on the political aspect. So far there are a lot of russians around, but we will outnumber them, so it's not a priority.Those Russians, they sure do seem to be everywhere! Tell me, even if there were a lot of Russians -- which I don't think is actually true -- what would your problem be with that?
If we take as an axiom, as many in the west regularly do, that the Russian government is fundamentally undemocratic and disconnected from the will of its people, then what worry should we have about Russians, who themselves thereby probably aren't interested in advancing the interests of their government? Or do you believe that the accounts you don't agree with are paid agents on this tiny website? That would be very unreasonable of me to assume as a belief you hold, but I am struggling to infer another one. Could you help me to understand?
People and posts here are better. Tech experience is worse. The web interface is worse (too much broken JS and websocket crap), I can't login from a mobile browser, the federation scheme is confusing, the Android app story is not there yet, Jerboa doesn't support older phones that still work perfectly well with RedReader, yada yada. I have somewhat more retro tastes than probably most of the younguns here, so my thoughts are heading towards writing my own desktop front end. But I don't feel like I want to attempt mobile development.
It keeps improving with every update of the Android clients!🔥
Really liking the simplicity and distributed nature of the platform. Woot!
It’s been pretty confusing for me. I’m going to stick to it but I’m not sure how to connect to other servers with the one account I have so they pop up in my feed. Time will tell but I like it so far!