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!
I love it here and I’ll express myself and show love to all with manatees
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!
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)
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 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.
It’s pretty cool so far. Takes some getting used to, little buggy here and there, but nothing intolerable. People are more respectful on here. On reddit and most all other platforms, I just lurked for the most part to avoid getting “aKsHuAlLy’D” by some angry poster. It’s chill here and it’s got potential -
This. It’s so annoying posting my own opinion or some comment that isn’t annoying or karma farming at all, and seeing it get downvoted.
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!
Good choice picking a different instance than the devs! Federation is the future 👍
I tried a few and I none worked and then I found the one with the most apt name ever.
Would you mind linking those posts? Im having a bit of trouble adjusting but there seems to be huge potential here.
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!
Pretty much the same thing for me. I’m finding it very annoying to be taken to the instance, there must be an easier way.
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.
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.
if you’re on Android there is an app for Lemmy called Jerboa which is working well for me (and also just released a new update with a ton of additions/fixes!). You can use the app to connect to any lemmy instance.
Not only is it a good app, its the native one! I use it from lemmy.world right now!
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.
You can like the UI while also agreeing it is unpolished. It needs a lot of when before it’s ready for prime time
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I love how it feels like a smaller but friendlier reddit. I hope more people can join
This! I don’t feel like people here (so far) are inherently geared toward being as toxic as rules allow.
It’s just something to get the hang of. Currently somewhat confusing, but not insurmountable. It does feel a lot like Reddit did some thirteen years ago. This is a nice blend of modern and easy to use, and has a whiff of my early days on the internet (bb’s, forums, etc) without measuring internet speeds in kbps, which is nice.
I wish threaded comments would nest more even though that only plays well with desktop usage. It was the nicest feature of reddit to follow threaded conversations with ease.
I think the biggest issue is going to be discoverability of the largest community for a specific interest. For example, if people are interested in Diablo IV they are going to want to swarm to the instance with the largest community. Making that easy to find will grow communities very quickly.
Sorry if this has been asked before. But my front page seems to dynamically add new posts as I’m scrolling. It makes me lose my place during the scroll. How can I have it just load once at start, and then allow me to scroll through?
I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:
- The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I’m aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that’s less than ideal)
- The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I’m aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it’s vital to the success of Lemmy.
Have you seen the search option, in the top right corner? Is that not enough to you? It works ok for me.
You can’t discover every community throughout the lemmy’s fediverse that way though. Only the communities that other users previously subscribed/searched for. https://browse.feddit.de/ is the thing to use if you’d like to see everything
The first point is CRUCIAL for setting up your own “scrolling page/account” for, since the instances are only very vague directions, at least while the site is still growing. And in a similiar vein, the second point with B) would be better than manually blocking communities I genuinely have no interest whatsoever in, like fountain pens (unless I don’t know how to operate this site yet).
In fact, C) feels unnecessary because of that right now, since I already see many new communities just in my instance alone. Though it WOULD add things to browse since there isn’t as much happening here, yet…
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. :)
It’s gone quite smoothly so far - found an instance local to me and joined, subscribed to a bunch of communities, installed Jerboa and set it up - didn’t hit any roadblocks.
The cross-server subscription thing is a bit counter-intuitive, but this seems to be an issue that people are already aware of. The Fediverse lengthy signup ritual of choosing an instance is there, but that’s just a feature of how the medium works and I’m already familiar with the issues from Mastodon, so it didn’t bother me.
