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)

sillypuddy,
@sillypuddy@mander.xyz avatar

I'm loving it!

As an aside, I know a lot of people are using Jerboa for their mobile browsing app of choice, but I've discovered that you can just use the Lemmy progressive web app (PWA) instead and get the same experience as desktop. In Chrome, login to whatever Lemmy instance you're registered with, click the triple dot menu, and click "install app". You'll get a "Lemmy" app downloaded and added to your homescreen that looks and functions just like the website.

bdonvr,

On iPhone you can do similar with Safari. "Add to Home Screen" on the share menu.

There's also the native app, Mlem. But it's really still in an alpha stage. The website is much more usable right now.

miz_nocturnal,

I’ve been using Mlem and am enjoying it, and the dev is fairly responsive and updates frequently. I hope to see it grow and improve. The Lemmy PWA on both my phone and on windows doesn’t have any navigation so I couldn’t figure out how to go back once I opened a thread. Unless I am missing something!

bdonvr,

Good to hear about the dev. I'm hopeful for the app don't get me wrong, it's just not finished yet.

For me just swiping from the left edge goes back.

miz_nocturnal,

Swiping lol I didn’t think to try that! Lol thank you!

bruhsoulz,

personally i dont like apps especially on mobile as ive had negative experiences with them (my wifi is shit) but thats cool to know (yo i just noticed i said apps instead of web apps xD)

MBM,

What's the benefit over visiting the website, is it just less steps to open?

sillypuddy,
@sillypuddy@mander.xyz avatar

Update: I just like having the app sitting in my homescreen

SuaveBet,

Awesome tip! Just tried to install with Firefox on mobile and it works too.

Akhuyan,
@Akhuyan@lemmy.world avatar

While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too

Rentlar,

Much nicer than StackExchange too:

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jmp242,

lol, first time I've been rickrolled in a long time.

bruhsoulz,

dude helll yes i also just remembered theres that stupid barried of entry on many subs which ask u to meet really weird requirements to participate.. the other day i prompted gpt to say smt funny and wholesome (it was praise towards the aur(arch user repository)) and tried to post it on some linux/arch sub but the first 3 that came to mind wouldnt allow it, one didnt accept memes, the other had a bot which took it down automatically and the third asked me to comment and participate in the sub before posting.. like come on man.

Andreas,
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The barrier for entry for some subreddits is too high but to be fair, ChatGPT "funny responses" are low-quality content and should be removed.

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bruhsoulz,

LMAOOOO

Rhabuko,

theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)

I believe here its simply called "communities".

I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.

bruhsoulz,

shoutout lemmy all my homies love the fediverse

pushka, (edited )
@pushka@beehaw.org avatar

I like it ~ I joined mastodon but I think it was way too slow to load images - probably joined some dodgy overloaded server (though I like the Reddit format and community better rather than Twitter)

It's giving me Reddit 15 years ago vibes - smaller tech-savvy and agile community - my Reddit use was on and off through the years; but I like the idea that each community in the Extended Lemmiverse can all have their own vibes and cultures and implementations of the platform and we can all chat and follow topics together 🕊️

I've only been here a short while; but maybe one thing I'd love is not to see reposts in the /all section ; I know the communities are small and growing and can cross post for more stuff , but I'm sure there could be a way for the system to know that the title and url are the same - so only show one , or auto-merge the comments and prioritise posting your comment to your local community instance's post Edit - I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function ~

NoTime,
@NoTime@lemmy.one avatar

Regarding your last paragraph, I agree. I'm subscribed to gaming in lemmy.ml and beehaw so see the same content twice regularly. Duplicate communities raise other concerns for me though:

Which one is the defacto community to join? Using the Gaming community as an example, maybe one leans more to images and the other has more meaty discussion threads just by way of who has joined those communities - nothing to do with the rules. But if you subscribe to both, the majority of the content may be duplicate posts instead? It's not clear from the community title alone.

Is the potential squandered as communities are potentially splintered? Maybe people just stick to one community without joining the other. It'll take time for a certain community to establish itself as the main community with the highest quality posts, but due to the volume of users on the main instances maybe there won't be a main community? Or maybe people won't even be aware of multiple communities for the same topic as the names are different, e.g. football Vs soccer.

FuzzyDunlop,

All this fragmentation will reduce the adoption for sure. No one wants to write to a sub filled with 5 people while another is filled with 5k people. We should adopt one new fresh instance and make it our main, and point people coming from reddit to this new instance.

can,

That would defeat the point of decentralization. Nothing is stopping you from going to lemmyverse.net searching for a community you want, and only subscribing to the biggest. In time the choice will be more obvious.

Barbarian,

I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function

Awesome! I'm trying to get my feet wet with contributing as well. I don't know Rust or Psql very well (although I am an experienced MySQL/MariaDB admin) so it's gonna take a while for me to catch up enough to be useful. I'm trying though :P

pushka,
@pushka@beehaw.org avatar

The hardest part is learning /something / and then it's just transferring over right ?

Heheheh - I dunno how crazy it'll be , but no harm in dabbling ~ also it's cool to have a closed community page just for testing , also wanna test maybe only allowing one lemmy domain to post but allow others to comment , etc

bruhsoulz,

yea i think one huge advantage is that theres no specific tos for lemmy as a whole and each instance can just do whatever they want which helps loads when it comes to censorship and moderation, and theres no 1 entity that can just skeet yo off the entire platform if u break some rule (great example is how reddit seems to be silencing ppl promoting lemmy and discussions ab it)

this,
@this@sh.itjust.works avatar

It was a bit rough getting an account I'm happy with set up, but beyond that I'm really enjoying the experience so far.

Kory,
@Kory@lemmy.ml avatar

But now you got the best possible name and instance :D

bruhsoulz,

yoo i just noticed it xD

this,
@this@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ikr? Imagine the shinannigans I can accomplish with it!

Kory,
@Kory@lemmy.ml avatar

I'll keep an eye out, haha.

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