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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Lemmy is great and i love it but… I feel like to few people are using it. Because most of comunities i follow are dead, noone has posted anything in monts, and when i ask something noone is answering even when i have couple of upwotes… In other cases i get answer and its great but i would love to see more people using it and to have more live comunities.
And also many topics that i have searched for doesnt exist at all. So thats why i get feeling that not enough people are on lemmy.
cool that it’s written in Rust also decentralization (not the blockchain kind) is the future, but…
lemmy ui feels kinda unpolished, and sometimes community join requests just hang forever.Yeah, the odd hangs are a little iffy (subscribing and upvoting). Though I actually like the UI so far since it’s very clean. If I care enough I could always implement my own custom CSS using the “Stylus” extension in chrome/edge.
I only disagreed regarding the UI. I like it.
Although there is always room for improvement.
I’m kinda hoping someone will point out this feature already exists, but I wish there was a way to subscribe to a topic. Right now it feels like multiple instances are forming their own, say, gaming community, and it feels like this is splintering the community rather than growing it?
Other than that, I actually really like the decentralised nature – and, while this is likely due to the very early nature of things, man is it nicer here. Weirdly feels like early Slashdot days…
I think this is my only real issue. It would be amazing to have an app that would allow you to create a gaming “folder” of sorts that you could drop all the gaming communities into under one heading.
Since you can already post to different instances, having a way to better organize them would solve for the fragmentation pretty well. Then even with multiple gaming communities, they all still show as #Gaming or whatever on the user end.
I cant seem to find it, but I believe I saw someone mention this feature is being worked on and is on their github.
That would be incredible and help to ease the somewhat jarring user experience for people new to federated platforms.
New user and reddit refugee here! The instance system isn’t as straightforward as something like reddit where all of the content exists in the same place, but once I understood how the system works (via the first few posts I saw after opening the Jerboa mobile app for the first time) I got signed up on an instance that ISN’T lemmy.ml and I’ve just began surfing in earnest! Thanks to the community that’s made this possible!
Would you mind linking those posts? Im having a bit of trouble adjusting but there seems to be huge potential here.
I have a terrible experience on mobile. I’m literally only on desktop because I was ready to delete my account. It’s extremely unintuitive, Lemur doesn’t work for lemmy.world and the other app is confusing to use. :/
True, mobile experience is truly terrible and must be prioritized imo
I bet there are some app developers out there that could repurpose their newly unusable apps. LIF can be better then RIF was.
Search is brutal. I dont want to open a new link, i just want to type what im searching for and then search for it.
So… Just like Reddit then 😁
lol ya, but also just like facebook, google, github, etc. Nothing wrong with getting what you want, faster!
Much like when I went from Twitter to Mastodon, finding “my people” is a lot more work. It’s unpleasantly easy for links to a community to take me directly to that instance instead of leaving my on my instance where I’d be able to subscribe and interact. But also like Mastodon, the experience is much nicer once things start getting set up. Really nice not getting pestered to use the app constantly!
I want to second that it’s very frustrating how links tend to go to the parent instance rather than my instance, as it seems like that’s seldom what a user would want.
Yeah there needs to be a little more user intent “modelling” (probably no more than just a quick sense check really) on some of the design decisions.
I was thinking about suggesting a “watched instance” status that would contribute to a feed that sits between “all” and “subscribed”, so if I find an instance say mytown.org, then I can get a Watched feed like All but just every community for my town. This would differ from All which would allow federated communities such as [email protected] to appear in the feed.
I love it here and I’ll express myself and show love to all with manatees
I love how it feels like a smaller but friendlier reddit. I hope more people can join
Communities are surprisingly alive, I’m impressed.
I’m also worried the server I chose could randomly close and I’d lose my account, even though the communities from other servers would remain. It would be good to have shared accounts across backup servers, or servers that agreed to mirror each other’s accounts somehow.
So far, I find it’s pretty good. I couldn’t find a client for Emacs so I may create one.
I like it here a lot more than Mastodon and its so much easier to go and subscribe to other communities at other nodes/servers also to engage in other servers as well. Mastodon was a little more complicated, you do that but it was a little fincky IMO and of course I love Lemmy more than Reddit and I hope it blows up also stays that way too lol (RIP all the servers)
same, i like mastodon but i definitely like lemmy a lot more
I tend to agree. Just not sure comparing Lemmy to Mastodon is fair, since they seems like different platforms (eg. Reddit vs. Twitter).
I could see why you’d say that. The comparison I was trying to make was more so towards how easy it is to take advantage of the Fediverse in Lemmy than in Mastodon. At Mastodon, I wanted to interact with other servers and their timelines, it seemed to me it was a convoluted mess rather than seeing what I want to see.
I’m really glad that browse.feddit.de exists because it’s near impossible to find instances otherwise. However, I wish the “copy” button on the search results copied !communityName@instanceName rather than a simple URL to make it easier to sub to that community from any instance.
This is good feedback!
I was new to Reddit (3 weeks of activity), and switching to Lemmy is a bit confusing. But one evening is enough to learn the basics, I hope. Let’s keep it rolling. :)
The one thing I’m struggling with is how do I find a subreddit equivalent? For example r/formula1 or r/UKpolitics on Reddit might be… What?
Also is it possible to find these communities using Jerboa or so I need to login on my desktop?
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Many specific subreddits don’t have equivalents yet; check Communities (top bar on website)/All. On Jerboa the Communities button is the three dots on the bottom bar: https://reddthat.com/post/8623
