Technology

I like it so far. The tech seems good, it's not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.

So far it's not bad. I'm also using Jerboa and it's ok. There's a few features from RiF that i would really love to see in an app that aren't there yet,
-The ability to automatically collapse child comments so you only see top level until you expand the conversation
-The ability to change comment sorting.

-And although it doesn't relate to the app, I'm really hoping for a Lemmy Enhancement Suite extension in the future.
Overall it's not bad, It's a fairly young, community and those things will take some time to develop.

Here from a kbin instance. I’d say I’m intrigued by the fediverse so far, don’t find it too onerous to use personally. Time will tell as to whether enough tech-savy Reddit users make the crossover to create the community experiences that would keep me active here.

The default lemmy UI is... not great
It reassembles the new reddit UI and that's not great. It has a lot of wasted whitespace on ultrawhide monitors.
Kbin's UI is a lot better and it reassembles the old reddit UI, in a modern way, I like that.

With that said, I'm a huge fan of federation, and want to support it, but I'm aware things aren't great right now
Discoverabily is not great, and I had trouble finding subs I care about... as a power user... imagine normal users doing that...

Just like with Mastodon, the main Lemmy website has a bunch of technical jargon that will scare any new user away immediately.

Beehaw has been wonderfully welcome, so thank you all for that. Between /kbin and Beehaw I honestly don't have any desire to go back. The community here is awesome and it's even more awesome that we aren't split up by app. I can switch between /kbin and Beehaw as I like, and even post from each onto the other. Blows my mind how well it works!

Pretty well, actually. There are some features that are definitely badly needed, and others which would be nice to have but aren't vital. Plus of course It would be nice to reach a larger userbase; there are some things you just can't do when there's only a small number of users.

But all things in good time!

It's very nice! In general it's cleaner. Community so far is much friendlier. I like that there are fewer of us so far. It's more homely?

However, joining communities is still a bit rough and difficult and a bit unreliable for me at the moment.

I like that it's more similar to old.reddit.com. Already use mastodon, so federation is not a new concept for me (I'm sure a lot of people are still getting their heads around that).

The community is much smaller, but that's to be expected (and maybe a good thing). I miss the feeling of find super-niche hobby subreddits. But I guess those will come to Lemmy if/when the userbase grows.

PS: also, had no idea what sizz was. Looks cool. Is there a new home for it here?

Feels like home, it's been easy to use, albeit with some hiccups in terms of searching and subscribing to communities on different servers.

Honestly I’m really liking it more than I thought I would. It will take a while for it to be as comfortable as Reddit was, especially as Mlem development matures, but I’m most likely here to stay once Apollo has officially bitten the dust

Uncomfortable. There are two or three users in the instances, and all are silent. "Federalization" is dumb, for the chuckleheads of decentralization. The app and website are crude. Settings are not saved, blocked content hangs in the feed.

Wish it was easier to subscribe to communities. For some reason It hangs when I try to. But its still ongoing development so I expect bugs. Hopefully it gets fleshed out soon.