Asklemmy

It was a bit confusing, I'm still a little confused on why I would choose one instance over another (I kinda just picked one?) And then there's the communities within the instances, I see some that are duplicates between instances and I'm not sure if I should just subscribe to the one on my instance or can I subscribe to the others? Are the vibes different? I'm sure I'll get used to it, I just haven't had to be an internet pioneer in many years.

I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.

Honestly, mobile needs a breakthrough app for iOS. It is not nearly as new user friendly as Reddit was when I started there. The whole instances/federation stuff is new to me so there is that additional layer to learn/understand. Here to give it a try though and I am hopeful for a new and different route for sharing and communication.

It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.

A few things I would change on the web interface:

1. Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
2. Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
3. Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.

I think it's great so far. I'm a reddit refugee who decided to leave that place when I couldn't use my third-party client (Sync). It feels all new in here and I really like it.

It's a little confusing, the whole fediverse concept takes some time to learn and understand, but I think I'm getting it. I tried Mastodon before and couldn't get used to/understand it, but lemmy feels more my thing. Given some time, with more people joining and more communities forming, this could be great!

Overall it's going well, and experience from both browser and Jerboa is great, especially considering the lack of maturity and large influx. It's been amazing to see how quickly communities have shown up. A couple of weeks ago when I first heard about Lemmy and plans for Reddit subs going dark, I looked at Lemmy and walked away with a meh because of lack of content, and what was here was not my thing. However, throughout the day today I watched the number of communities grow like crazy, with new topical communities popping up every time I checked.

I do think lack of a centralized /c/ namespace makes things confusing for a lot of people, and will result in a lot of topical duplication between servers - even with federated access and searching. I get why lack of a centralized namespace is also a design feature, but it comes at a price, in my opinion, and it'll be interesting to see how it works itself out over time. Just an observation/opinion on my part.

Still a bit early to call it, but it's looking good!

Excited to be here. Waiting to see how this week things pan out with the subreddits I follow and hope they will move here eventually, so I can get cozy. Also Long Live Jerboa , I reckon my experience wouldn't be the same without it. See you around Lemmy, peps.

It's OK, just wish the app was better. In android 11 and older you can force jeroba to open all lemmy-like links with jeroba but if you're on android 12, the only way to get somewhere other than lemmy.ml is if you're already subscribed to a place on another server. There is no way to browse sublemmys on other instances which really sucks.

I don't understand how federation works and the different instances and how communities with in that regard. But otherwise I'm happy to leave Reddit and still have similar communities talking to my interest.

Using lemmy zoomed it in my phone is a nice experience. I see everything. Looks good on my desktop also. Still trying to get a feel for this place

It has a ton of potential. I really hope it takes off because even if it doesn't replace Reddit immediately it's good to have another place to communicate with others. I have a tech background so it was fairly easy to figure out. I think once folks get used to it that it will be no more difficult than other social media sites. Mobile users will probably have the hardest time adapting but who knows.

Fine.

To be fair, I used Mastodon long before Elon acquired twitter, so I'm pretty comfortable with federated social media. The fragmentation inherent to federation might make small communities difficult to form, but it also protects against the eternal specter of power-tripping mods, so I can't complain.

I just hope it doesn't have the same memory utilization as the Mastodon web client. Seriously. I flat-out can't leave a single Mastodon tab open in the background, because it'll eat all my RAM. No other social media I've used does this.

It doesn't feel ready for mass adoption.

The difficulty of finding ~~subreddits~~communities is a problem. And, when you do find one, nine times out of ten the link you click takes you to a different Lemmy server, from which you cannot join the community.

And then there's the problem of fragmentation and duplication, which has been explained better by other users on this thread.

There are lots of little problems here and there, like the language defaulting to "Undetermined" which hides your post from everyone who just naively selected English.

Fortunately, I'm (reasonably) technically-competent so I can make it work for me, and I recognise that even getting this far with development is a massive achievement. But I'm pretty sure the average internet user isn't going to stick around until the project's a bit more polished and mature.

Comment syncing to my instance is a problem. I get posts but comments, not so much.

I'm having a great time. Lemmy is a little bit harder than Reddit but I have been on Mastodon for some time now so I know how federation works. The only thing about Lemmy I don't like is that it feels kinda buggy and unpolished as it is very early stage and the same posts often reappear. But I like the community and it actually seems to be working so that's pretty cool!

not great. reaching my feed or finding communities requires multiple clicks, like why is the local community selection the default in the community tab, it's just stupid. collapsing comments requires more mouse movement and clicking in a different location every comment because of name length, very dumb. communities are too small and not reliable news aggregators yet, not sure why we couldnt just have subreddits move their culture over and agree of a server, or at least set up bots with RSS feeds from news sites or popular stuff in the mean time. lacks customizability for visuals and usage in general. i'd like to have it autocollapse or autohide posts i've already seen, but now i just see the same threads from 2 days ago. user and community pictures in every post on my frontpage are visually noisy. and more and more issues. the devs definitely need help with creating a reasonable browing experience.