Yeah I'm much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I'm actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.
And I feel like there’s a lot less algorithm generated aggression. It’s nice, reminds me of reddit back in the earlier days.
Your voice DOES matter. Heck if you have an idea for an improvement or a change or anything open and issue on the GitHub. It may not get added immediately, but if it's a good idea it'll eventually get added.
As a developer, I had never coded in TypeScript before, but I was able to figure it out enough to add a minor change to the upcoming lemmy version
I actually fixed a minor build error on windows by telling git to change all the line endings to lf lol
Agreed, big time. I have a few gripes with this platform, but it's just starting, just had a huge amount of users come so it's manageable. I kind of don't want the massive reddit user base.
I'm struggling to figure out where to find all the posts. I'm subscribing to communities and stuff but the same old posts keep appearing on the feed for 24hrs+. I'm flicking around with filters and manually exploring a lot and find things. It feels like I'm doing something wrong. Like there's two new posts an hour in total.
I'm probably doing it all wrong. I don't even really know what the point of subscribing is since I need to go into communities to see things, otherwise nothing shows up on the feed.
I'm bouncing between 4 apps, though, so kind of hamstring myself with familiarity.
I like to sort by All/hot and All/new.
I find sorting ‘All’ by new has been helpful. I’m new here too.
Using the active filter seems to be the worst for that. I find hot gets me the best stuff and then new if you're desperate. Top for the day is always good too.
Also change what setting the instance is on all is like old reddit all shows everything from every instance that is federated. Local is everything from the home instance like a watered down all and subscribed shows you only stuff from communities you add. These options have been available on all of the instances I've used so far.
Two buttons and the one is just like reddit but active is trash.
If you subscribe to some communities, you WILL have an option to see posts only from those communities, you shouldn't have to go into a community unless you only want to see posts from that particular one. Also, I'm new but the default sort is usually "active", which I assume means posts which have a lot of activity, such as comments. Try setting it to hot or something else to check whether you get a better variety of posts.
Be sure to set your filter to “subscribed” or “all” instead of “local”, and give it a few seconds to load content from other instances.
+1 It's their thriving early day with new concept of social network. It need sometime to adjust, mending, improving and whatnot. But I'm pretty sure it will be better than ye' old TW/RD day.
Yep, we get to watch it grow and I can be patient for that: I'm along for the ride. It's kind of like the people who have been playing a video game since alpha get to appreciate all the features that were introduced along the way that the rest of us take for granted. I'm predicting a flood of apps for the Fediverse since it's the most obvious next step for the third party app developers that have no Reddit to design for anymore.
Agree. This is just the early stages, and it will improve as time goes on. Just the fact that there are so many different apps for both Android and iOS means that Lemmy’s communities will grow, and I’m excited for the future.
I'm happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it'll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we'll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.
The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the "Reddit moderator" stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?
also helps putting things into perspective when you remember that Reddit has these issues at least once every week
When I started on Reddit 14 years ago these issues would be daily or more. It was pretty unstable under load.
i feel so dirty going on reddit. it's like going to mcdonalds
To me it feels like texting an ex after a breakup. I know I shouldn't but...
So dirty… 🙃 Oh wait nevermind all the NSFW are gone in the API
My oldest reddit account was 13 or 14 years old. I remember when reddit would go down several times a week. Growing pains are just part of the deal!
The comments timed out twice for me before it would load on Jerboa. That’s just perfect. 👌
Try wefwef, it's hands down more polished than the Lemmy web UI and Jerboa.
Even better, because Patrick's rock wins in the end!
SPOILER ALERT NEXT TIME PLEASE
Absolutely. I will tolerate hours of downtime and indefinite periods of fuckiness, because at least it’s not Reddit. I know I’m valued here. We all are.
I extend the same consideration to the Lemmy apps as well. They're all in various stages of development, but as buggy as they can be, they run better than the official Reddit app even now.
The meme sub is spearheading the migration!
Meme it and they will come
Definitely getting a feel for it. It's ALMOST the same but not quite
A very interesting and reassuring mix of novelty and familiarity. Welcome to the other side 😃
Source: Jumped ship right after the initial strikes.
Used Apollo before. Now I’m on wefwef and it literally feels like nothing changed lmao.
It also HIGHLY depends where you sign up. Over at feddit I couldn’t login to browser on PC anymore, couldn’t change my password, which in turn fucked up my login process overall (aka being stuck with Safari and the App I already was logged in), updates aren’t made and a lot of shit is blocked or defederated because of reasons (some even make a lot of sense, so no hard feelings here).
To be fair, it seems like some users on Lemmy.world had the same problems with logins last week. We are still in the try things out until something sticks phase.
I had a feeling some of the larger instances would be feeling the heat. Tried to pick something a little less mainline.
Just using Connect For Lemmy until Boost has a release out. Been nice and stable so far :)
This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.
This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.
This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.
Anyone impatient with Lemmy bugs or downtime clearly wasn't around for Reddit's early days.
Scaling up social websites is never smooth. Expect bumps.
Lemmy has gone from having no viable apps a few weeks ago to having several under active development that are getting better every day. It’s actually impressive. I’ve spent so little time on Reddit today.
My only wish is that Apollo comes back as a Lemmy client in the near future.
Lemmy is fine but it keeps showing me the same exact post in the same order like it doesn't detect I've already seen a post and shows me it again when I restart the app.
It should be a bug, this post does not disappear from my feed.
Connect has an option to hide read posts, haven't checked it myself since I've been jumping between wefwef and connect.
There’s a setting for this, Show Read Posts. The manual doesn’t specify how lemmy discovers that you read a post. I read in a different comment that you have to interact with it (i.e., vote). I don’t know if that’s true.
To be fair, reddit’s first post always was the same for me, too.
Me on wefwef unable to see shit every morning. Its okay tho. It'll get there.
Using wefwef on iOS is making me feel like the migration didn’t even happen
... it's available on ios? i couldn't find it at the apple store.
There are still some early adopter pain points but goddamnit I love it here.
I'm so glad I found an app to use for lemmy. Definitely giving me my RIF fix. Liftoff app btw.
I too, came from RiF to Liftoff and I kind of dig the vibe of the app. I don't know of it's the default text size or the colors but it seems easier to read than reddit was on RiF.
Yeah I agree with you there.
I use Jerboa but I'm going to use Boost when that comes out for Lemmy
Liftoff is pretty nice, but try wefwef web app, it replaced all the other Android apps for me.
Yeah, I've tried about 5 apps and it's been the most reliable so far.
I'll check it out!
Can't wait for the 3rd party app makers to come with apps so everything will get better and better
boost for lemmy soon!!
I'm an extremely new user to Lemmy so I very well may be in the 'honey moon' phase but I freaking love it. Seriously reminds of how exciting it was when reddit first came around, quality over quantity imo.
This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.
I ain't even mad. You've got a good heart, soldier.
Reminds me of old school reddit x the excitrment of using IRC the first time. Hope the community keeps growing!
Lemmy is already so much better than Reddit other than the fact its just not as established. And the third party apps are developing so fast that it’s really enjoyable to use
Reddit is the best thing to ever happen to Lemmy. By making their product so terrible, it just keeps making Lemmy look more enjoyable because it's incendentally rather than actively trying to be terrible.
I love seeing this new style of social media grow. I'd love for a comment to actually post too
This is precisely my rationale. I’m patient. It may take months to adapt to the large ongoing influx and I’m fine with that. In the meantime, devs will keep rolling out Lemmy app updates, making quality of life incrementally better.
People definitely should pardon some bugs. What I consider a bigger problem is that I am not sure how many people will like the multiple instances.
Yeah. I'm subbed to three Formula 1 communities and would prefer just the one place to save seeing reposts, though I'm not sure which is the best at the moment.
I'm expecting instances become clearer as time goes on, like lemmy.world is general, but there may be a sport or motorsport instance that is like the place where it goes really heavy toward those topics. I may be completely misunderstanding the concept of instances, though.
Issue is that you will not convince people to subscribe to more lemmy instances.
I can tolerate it but it’s just far more convenient to subscribe to one Formula1 channel rather than 5 different.
Honestly I believe, there needs to be connection between those lemmy instances.
Even though the bugs are annoying now I think it is worth dealing with the inconvenience for now. Hopefully this website will get more updates soon and we'll see more people making accounts.
In my own experience, Jerboa is far faster than the official Reddit app for Android.
It feels like literally any third party app for Reddit AND Lemmy are far smoother than the official Reddit app. What makes it so damn stuttery?
If the news from Twitter these days is anything to go by, probably something really stupid.
And better
I'm continuously impressed by how well Lemmy is, and also the app I'm using for it
Took me 4 days to manage to make a profile, and here I am!
This sums up my experience with big instances rn.. lol...
When I use local & smaller instance, it is far faster..What bugs? I dont think I've actually run into any bugs?
Just moved here from reddit yesterday, and honestly I'm loving it! It feels like the wild west is some ways. So many communities to (re)discover, and participate in. This and the fediverse as a whole is definitely the future of social media.
Seriously now, it's because Lemmy.world is overloaded. Finding a smaller instance will be key to improving your experience. It's a feature, not a bug, to be able to move instances and not miss a post
