How has ur lemmy experience been so far?

Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

Corndog,

I’m pretty inpressed with how much everything is improving in such a short time frame. Feeling optimistic.

solrize,

People and posts here are better. Tech experience is worse. The web interface is worse (too much broken JS and websocket crap), I can't login from a mobile browser, the federation scheme is confusing, the Android app story is not there yet, Jerboa doesn't support older phones that still work perfectly well with RedReader, yada yada. I have somewhat more retro tastes than probably most of the younguns here, so my thoughts are heading towards writing my own desktop front end. But I don't feel like I want to attempt mobile development.

DeltaTangoLima, (edited )
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Quite enjoyable and, since seeing the sub.rehab site someone else posted, even better. I've found quite a few subs that have made their way over to Lemmy.

My only gripe is that quite a few have made their way to lemmy.world, and it's buckling under pressure. I can't sign up on that instance, nor can I remotely sub to communities from my own instance. Once that's resolved, I think I'll definitely be happy to call Lemmy my new home.

Can't go back anyway - deleted my Reddit account.

KiofKi,

Yes, sub.rehab really helped. And the lemmy link extension for chrome.

mattclassic,

I am so happy this exists. I wish it continued growth and success. It feels like the good old early internet and that’s a very good thing.

L0Wigh,

My biggest issue for now is that it feels kinda empty for now. I hope it will pop just a bit more so that we have good content regularly

nicerdicer,

Today is my 5th day in the fediverse and I like it! In the beginning there were some troubles regarding the registration, but it all worked out (I was not able to create an account with Firefox. After I switched to Opera, it worked). Also there are some issues with the auto-update of the feed. It suddenly starts scrolling and doesn't stop until I hit the refresh button in the browser. As far as I understand, this bug will be fixed soon.

While being here for the last couple of days, I realised, how cluttered Reddit has become. Take r/askreddit for instance: There are so many very similar-to-another questions over there, I now wonder, if they have been created by bots. This applies to other subreddits as well.

Browsing here and interacting with other users feels refreshing! It is like the early Reddit, when it was more community-focused instead of what it has become now, riddled with ads, bots and NFTs. I also like that there is no such thing as karma here.

I certainly will visit reddit in the future, but I'm going stay with the fediverse. There is so much to discover!

Fylkir,

My biggest complaints are all UI based. I wish the UI felt a bit less crowded, and there was a setting that would instead load up pages that don't auto-update.

loug,

I haven't found a simple way to explore and join new communities yet. I'm doing my best not to lurk which is definitely different for me.

Briskfall,
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Unfortunately, I've been getting some 404 not found of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I'm using, e.g. I'm using kbin.social at the current posting account, but let's say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction there's no issues whatsoever (since it's the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.

Poiar, (edited )

If kbin is like lemmy, then to add new communities, you have to do the following:

Go to your instance in the browser. I.e., do not use apps like Jerboa.

Go to your communities tab (magazines?) and set it to "all"

Search for !skincareaddiction from your kbin instance. It will not return any results, but it will do the trick.

Now the 404 will have disappeared for you and all other people in your instance.

Instead of typing the url, search for only skincareaddiction without "!" and "@sh.itjust.works" and it should be there.

pixxel,

So far it is okay, the thing I'm most annoyed by is that is very hard to just casually browse all posts. It works okay, but after a while there seem to be a sync event or something happening bringing a ton of posts from a server and they are always added to the top of all, no matter what i sort by. If i sort by all - hot for example. A bunch of 1 vote posts suddenly are added to the top making me have to chase the list of the post i previously viewed. Does anyone know of a way to stop this sync from automatically happening?

Saturdaycat,
Saturdaycat avatar

I'm enjoying my time on the fediverse, still getting used to it all

Chaney08,

Seems interesting, UX could be a lot better (Logging in via jerboa app is hidden behind 2 seperate menus for example).

Main issue is lack of content so far but honestly that is probably just me learning how to use it and subscribe to what I want. 3 pages deep into "Hot" and about 2 of those pages consist of posts from one....instance? Sub Instance? whatever we call them :D

Also probably my own limitation for now, but the constant refreshing of pages is annoying, if I stop to read a post and go back, everything scrolls automatically, depending on time spent on post I could completely lose where I was.

Overall, I unfortunately think its not a threat to Reddit in its current state, it takes too much effort to understand what is going on for most people and even if the features I complained about above are avoidable it should not take effort or experience to figure out how, but I will stick around anyway, as it seems fun. I would think a lot of users will migrate back to Reddit after the blackout.

adriaan,

The logging in confused me too. When I'm accidentally not logged in things don't load very well either.

Reddit has such a huge community and so much existing content that it'll take a lot to be a threat to that aspect of it, but I don't think that should be (or needs to be) the goal, short or midterm anyway. It can fill a more niche market for now and grow from there.

Lifter,

I've tried to sign up/login to multiple instances and all of them have issues with logging in.

Chainweasel,

Yeah most of the instances got overloaded when the Exodus started, not even Reddit had to deal with that many new accounts being created at the same time. But it'll level out over time.

sanguinepar,
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The thing that's confusing me most is links, whether to communities or individual posts.

I see links in a format like this:

!communityname

Sometimes the exclamation mark is part of the link and it works, and sometimes it's there but not part of the link, and my phone thinks the rest is an email address.

Is there a guide anywhere to how to do links properly? TIA.

EDIT - yeah, so in my example above, the exclamation mark is not being treated as part of the link for some reason?

mobiuscoffee, (edited )
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I think it's a little confusing for everyone right now. I'll try to explain the easy bits at least.

You can do relative links for communities like this: text

But these will only work if your instance has already discovered the communities. I think that's where a lot of the confusion behind all of this first becomes an issue. Some links only work if your instance already "knows" it exists.

To get your or any instance to learn about a specific community, you first have to search for it. The most reliable way to do it is to just put the full url of the community into the search box.

And then wait. It sometimes takes a moment to actually find the community. Once it's found the rest should work.

For comments, posts, and threads it's different. Since those will have different unique identifiers on a per instance basis, my understanding is that it's much more complicated for relative links to work. I haven't seen a simple solution yet, unfortunately.

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks, this is really useful, and greatly appreciated.

Feels like if someone can come up with a working solution for all this it could really help tip the balance towards mass acceptance.

I know nothing about programming, and I do realise Lemmy is all about being federated, but it feels like it needs some central system - not for ownership or anything, but simply to do the job of linking instances more easily. Perhaps even multiple 'central' systems, all doing the same job as each other, all consistent with each other, but not controlled by any one group/person, so as to avoid disputes and the risk of any single actor dominating the whole.

I dunno, I'm just kind of spitballing here. It'll need someone smarter than me to untangle it!

lemann,

Somehow, it never came to mind to use relative links for communities...

A reasonable solution for those could be to auto-detect community links in their various forms (/c/community, !community, https://instance.example/c/community) and auto convert those into a local link for the user's current instance.

I'd contribute to the codebase if I had time, since community links has been the biggest issue for me so far, having to copy, paste, search etc. for each new community on other instances that I'm interested in, depending on how they've been shared

watson387,
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This is definitely the biggest barrier of entry. I love the idea, the execution not so much.

starrox,

It's a learning process. There is definetly a mild learning curve as to how things work here compared to traditional social media platforms. But maybe that's even a good thing as to pre-filter certain audiences.

So far the interaction possibilities seem very satisfying, community seems friendlier than current reddit (maybe that's just the size of the userbase) and there is already enough, I'd call it "base content" as to be a reasonable alternative to reddit. - Which is why I created an account here.

I especially like the threaded, color coded conversation view. Makes it really discernable who responded to whom. I also like the UI very much. Clear and easy to navigate. Only critique here: There is kind of a lot of wasted screenspace on both sides on a 4k resolution.

I think shortcuts for common mouseclicks and formatting like in RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) would go a long way here too.

Well thats my 2c.

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