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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] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd be interested in navigation shortcuts, similar to RES. J/K to move up and down, X to expand post content. Made it very easy to navigate Reddit. Not sure if that's a thing on Lemmy or not...

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

Once I added a few different instances it became much better! Content will come. But the best users from Reddit will migrate along with us!

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

Which instances did you add?

I’m finding the lack of comments to be the most jarring thing.

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

For me I'm just worries that it wouldn't reach the critical mass to generate enough content to keep people around 🥲

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

Decent experience, still new and getting used to it. Let's see how it goes! I wish for the best for lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I miss more intuitive comment collapsing, I used it a lot to skip conversations faster than scrolling through them.

The whole federation thing is not intuitive for new folks. Although watching the lemmy.ml bubble is pretty funny.

I'm interested in reading more about Lenny's privacy and internal workings, ~~but this information is pretty hard to find.~~

Docs for anyone interested

I'm concerned about a reliable deletion mechanism Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy

Reddit thread of the same story

I'm also concerned by some posts which I hope are not true:

Lemmy's creator banned from r/socialism for posting neo nazi literature

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Is there one overall community just mirrored across all instances? Or is the “Nintendo” on lemmy.ml different than the “Nintendo” on bee.haw or whatever? (Just an example - no idea if these communities exist)

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

Worried about the future of fediverse, all it takes is a few external bad apples and servers will start defederating. Also even less internal bad apples who decides to make specific desirable features proprietary with the goal to amass the majority to users. Both of these are bad for the fediverse.

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