A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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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.
I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.
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 had some problems subscribing to non-local communities - especially the search never worked, didn't matter if I paste in the URL or the !community@server notation. still I somehow managed to join most of them, but only after trying and playing around for some time.
this part definitely needs some work, but the concept is well with it imho - and as currently new contributors start to join, this could grow quite nicely.
I still don't really know, if every instance needs to mirror the posts/comments of other instances, when I'm subscribed to their community, or only the data gets forwarded - or directly linked?
so I'm not sure what the costs of running a small instance would be, if my users would subscribe to larger communities on other instances - that would be hard to finance for instances with small user bases
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.
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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.
It reminds me of old reddit, so I'm pretty happy with it. I hope we aren't going to completely ruin whatever the Lemmy old guard had going on, though.
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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.
Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good
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 :)
Any1 know how to search a group for specific posts like reddit? On jerboa for android. Tx
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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 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!
So far so good! Is there any mobile apps available though? That is 90% of my reddit browsing.
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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
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
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.