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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was meh the first ~week that I've mostly been using it anonymously via Jerboa. There just wasn't all that much stuff to read. But once I've spun up my own instance and federated with a few dozen communities - man, it's looking amazing! It's still so much better in a browser to manage everything, but simply lurking is now perfectly viable via the Android app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forgot to mention - it's open registration, so feel free to jump on it if you feel like skipping the self hosting part and want to avoid the big instances struggling with things at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how much disk space do you need for self-host?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to say - a fresh install of OS + lemmy had used up ~4.3G yesterday, today it's at ~5.4G. A lot of this growth is me adding a bunch of communities to federate with. I suspect most of it is some sort of cached flow of data that will get discarded over time and some other bit is just the database. Time will tell what usage it's going to settle on, but I expect it to be reasonable, unless people start uploading media onto my instance :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

understood, thank you!