I've subbed to the /r equivalents I could find but honestly I'm having a blast just browsing random communities I'd never have looked at before. Did you know there's a community for people who collect Uranium Glass?? Wild stuff. Today is a good day.

It feels like I'm dreaming about using a weird version of reddit that isn't quite right. But I just keep browsing with the intent of getting used to it.

The more I use it, the happier I am. I'm an old geezer who was tinkering with computers way back when 8K was an outrageous amount of RAM. This reminds me of why I became a geek to begin with.

Concept is great, but there's a big usability issue (BE: 0.17.4) that quickly needs fixing. When you browse the main index, new posts just pop up and it messes up whatever you were reading and also closes images.

I’m finding the experience on mobile (via the browser) to be pretty usable too.

I exclusively used old-Reddit, and I'm not in love with the new interface yet, but it's not bad.

I'm liking it a lot. I think it will get even better once more people show up. It's kind of cool to be part of pioneering this experience, though. I do feel like this is going to grow into something substantial.

We need a critical mass on a few subs and somehow help out with the servers so they don’t blow up. If we get those two sorted, we should be okay.

I still find it a bit confusing to navigate, mostly with finding new communities. I do miss the front page with r/all of Reddit but I hope that will eventually evolve/adapt into something workable. I do wish there was a solid app to use as I do most of my redditing (I suppose I need a new verb) via my phone and mlem is a good start although it crashes constantly for me but I am fully confident that we will see a lot of improvements over the next few weeks.

I do hope that people stay off Reddit and give the fediverse a chance but I am worried that when the blackout is over people will slowly make their way back to Reddit. The fact that u/spez gives no shits about this blackout helps show what a small and petty man he is.

The only issue that I have is with the hot and active sorting types -- hot gives me a lot of posts that pretty new and active gives me posts that are a day or two old. I wish there was a sort like the hot sort on reddit that shows posts that are ~4-8 hours old

I'm enjoying, not sure if my comments are being submitted yet though..

The layout isn't great, and everytime I load the page it'll load a few random brand new posts at the top after a second and that's annoying.

The interface on jerboa is good. Basically legally distinct reddit. The thing is miss most is the content. None of the subs I like are here unfortunately.

So far Lemmy is snappier than Reddit is in it's current state which is hilarious. There's some QOL stuff we'll need like a proper mobile app (Mlem is making serious progress) but even on iPhone adding the page as a Home Screen shortcut works really well -it even hides the navigation bar and feels like an app. (How come other sites aren't like this?? Is it built to be a web app?)

The communities are gaining traction. I started star_wars and hopefully that can be a friendly place for nerd stuff.

When it comes to growth there are major pros and cons. Right now Reddit's biggest attraction to me is finding historical posts for very specific information. I think we all add Reddit to the end of our google searches for various reasons, not using that feature is a major loss and there's no way to make up for that without years/decades of engagement. However the small community feel is really nice, feels like moving from a big city to a growing small down in the burbs. That's part of the reason I like federated instances because Lemmy can be as big or small as you'd like. The more popular it gets however, the more it attracts low grade content and influencers which is a big turn off for me. Right now is a precious time so don't take it for granted :)

I like it, I like how it works. I think it could replace Reddit just fine. However I'm not really getting my "fix". On Reddit, I always had fresh content, which I'm not really seeing here. Plus, I was subscribed to a bunch of niche communities that don't exist here.

I really like the new style of interactions, even though I do currently miss the hundreds of thousands of funny/dumb comments some posts had (hoping that will happen eventually though)

I do miss being able to refresh the front page and almost always having new content, but it's caused me to make more of an effort engaging. I hope that people give this platform a chance and that things don't die off.

Just 1 day in and not missing Reddit. I do expect finding the kind of communities I used to visit, but those will come.

It's pretty interesting so far! I'm coming from Reddit Sync and now using Jerboa so it's quite similar but also a lot of things aren't where I expect them 😆

I do web dev and UX so definitely agree with the onboarding process being a little clunky for users.

I had no idea what the fediverse was until Lemmy so getting your head around it can be a bit much at the start. I was lucky to find a local server (instance? Not sure on terminology) so no delay issues.

And for any newbies this link is very helpful: https://browse.feddit.de.

I do miss the size of Reddit at times, but that's likely to drop now anyway with all the buggering around they're doing.

It took sometime getting used to, but I am really enjoying this and just waiting to see how many people will stay here.

The app I'm using is pretty nice and reminds me of Relay.

But it's clear that most people will not be able to adapt to this without an actual sort of marketing push or hype around it, and with a vast dumbing down of the UX. Right now, explaining any of this to a regular person is going to make them think of crypto or something. That's a negative.

For me there is too much whitespace. I want a compact view. It's mostly about text anyway. Buttons could be more prominent.

But in general it's awesome. Finally dipping toes into the fediverse!

I mostly like it, until the front page spazzes out (I think it's randomly starting to update, or something?). Then it becomes totally unusable. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that that should even be physically possible, and is really starting to annoy me.

Using Mastodon for years now, I'm familiar with the structure and liking it. But I'm afraid most of the smaller subreddits that I followed won't migrate here.

For me it's just an adjustment. Hopefully this platform will be as popular as Reddit.

It's still very new but I think it's a great framework to build on. I do worry about fragmentation (each instance having its own gaming community for example). And the smaller niche subreddits I followed will be hard to replace / replicate here.

I am amazed how fast this platform has grown in a few days. Quite exciting!

Can we disable the auto "refreshing" that add new post when we scrolling the home screen?

Just migrated my account here. Honestly it's getting a lot bigger here than what I've expected. Always lurked around Reddit, but I wouldn't mind changing my route over here. I'm just happy that everyone gets to experience a free and open source alternative :)

It is like wild west to me and I like it!!

I like it. But it will only feel like home when people are sharing all the ideas, advice, questions, news, and most importantly, shit-posting, that I previously got from reddit.

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion, but could the users wanting a 1 for 1 Reddit clone just.....go support one of the 1 for 1 Reddit clones? I'm getting really tired already of everybody signing up for a decentralized system that advertises it's lack of a central authority to escape the site due to the actions of it's central authority then immediately complaining there is no central authority.

I understand the culture shock and have been trying to do my part in explaining that Lemmy and Reddit are not the same system, but I'm already seeing a sense of hostility towards the devs along the lines of "Oh it's not like Reddit fuck that well I guess we'll see if the devs bother listening to ThIeR uSeRs and make it Reddit!" and those people can go fuck themselves.

I haven't been here for too long, but it's not bad. I actually like that the community is not too big. It feels satisfying to actually be able to get to the end of the comments. Still learning the ropes, though.

we need RES and a decent iOS app..