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)

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,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

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 )
@mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works avatar

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,
@watson387@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

PurpleErestor,

First day of browsing Lemmy. So far so good. It took me a while to grasp the concept of an instance, but it seems to make sense to me now. I'm just hoping more communities start filling up and that the iOS app can get more development. Mlem is functional but veeery barebones right now. The browser works fine though!

decadentrebel,
@decadentrebel@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry if this is a stupid question (and it does sound like something that was answered already), but is there an app for Android that works for Lemmy.world?

The ones I've seen (Jerboa, Lemmur) seem to only work for Lemmy.ml and a few others.

emerty,

I'm using Jerboa on slrpnk.net

You just have to type in the server name

decadentrebel,
@decadentrebel@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks! I'm getting an incorrect login, though.

Doggylife,

I'm using Jebora with Lemmy.world. I just typed in the server name with the login details and it seemed to work!

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Likewise I'm on Lemmy.world, and using Jerboa, no problem.

geon,

so far it’s pretty ok and i’m quite hopeful for its future. the layout reminds me of reddit so it’s not particularly confusing to use… like someone else said, i hope the customisation improves (especially profile customisation, i can’t seem to upload an avatar). i’m a bit confused about the different servers though (what’s the difference between beehaw/lemmy/shitjustworks/etc? will i be able to access all of them if i signed up at beehaw?…) i’m not very tech savvy so perhaps somebody could eli5. i’m hopeful though!

CMDR_Horn,
@CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes, you'll be able to communicate with almost all of the servers, a very select few are blocked for reasons that pre-date me. When you look at a username, you'll see an extra @ after their name indicating where they're posting from. The Communities (subreddits) that you subscribe to can be more or less anywhere.

bocchi_but_male,

As a fellow noob, take what I'll say with a grain of salt, but my understanding of the servers is that think of them like this:

  • Servers (i.e., Beehaw, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world etc) are "continents"
  • Communities (i.e., AskLemmy) are "countries"

Every "country" is located in a "continent". So AskLemmy "country" is located on the lemmy.ml "continent". Users also have a home "continent", that is where you sign up. So for example, you signed up for Beehaw, therefore you "live" in the Beehaw "continent". I signed up here in lemmy.ml, so I live in the lemmy.ml "continent".

Now if you sign up at Beehaw or in any other server, you can "travel" to the other "continents" (servers) and visit the "countries" (communities) that have their home base there and participate there too. So you, for example, can participate here in AskLemmy, which is located on the lemmy.ml "continent". Sometimes your home "continent" issues a "travel ban" on particular "continents", therefore you cannot visit that "continent" or the "countries" in them.

**Now what the hell is kbin?**Think of Kbin as another "planet". They are fundamentally different from our "planet" (which is Lemmy), but residents from that "planet" can visit our planet and participate as well via a spaceship infrastructure known as ActivityPub.

Sorry if I used geography terms to illustrate my point. There's a lot of nuance removed, but I think I got it nailed down based on my understanding. Take it with a grain of salt though.

geon,

thank you, i appreciate the geography analogies. i understand it more now!

bocchi_but_male,

Glad I could help!

Senseibull,

Well your horribly wrote ‘ur’ has lowered my experience somewhat

emerty,

Wrote scrote

bocchi_but_male,

I'd like an optimization for Jerboa as well as more customization for our accounts. Jerboa is fine as it is functional, but sometimes text boxes just extend all the way to the edge of the screen and makes it not visually appealing. I'm still learning though as I'm currently figuring out how to visit the communities in the other servers.

As for communities, I just hope that a mass migration of even 10% of Reddit's disappointed users would help boost the growth of Lemmy communities and help make niche communities thrive. I personally am a subscriber to the writing and anime subreddits, so I hope there'll be similar communities here.

StringTheory,

There is a writing community here on Beehaw. Someone posted a link to a list of Fediverse communities and I saw a couple more listed. They exist, and I’m sure there’ll be more soon!

Scheissberg,

My biggest gripe is that there isn't a working Lemmy iOS app in my region, yet.

I have spotty metered mobile internet connection, and while the web app is lightweight enough, it requires the downloading of page structures each time and it adds up after a while.

I do hope we'll eventually get high-quality apps to interface with the fediverse, much like Apollo with Reddit.

the_boxhead,
@the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works avatar

Mlem, on iOS, is on testflight, can you use that? https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

thisispaddy, (edited )

I mostly lurk on communities. But that's another matter entirely.

Anyway, enjoying being away from the depressing mess that reddit has become. Verrrry slowly getting the hang of things. Signed up in beehaw.org and Lemmy.ml mainly because I didn't know what the hell I was doing!

Main confusion for me is communities. Searched and found a few that are mostly on Lemmy.ml. But I can subscribe to and see from beehaw.org. But some just do not show up until I log into Lemmy.ml

I use jerboa which is a little clunky but I kinda like that. It's a learning curve I guess. How the internet used to be in a way. I'm 53 so remember the day of 33.3 modems and tweaking windows configs (get off my lawn)

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/402e8d9c-c4d4-4115-8c28-6fa5784bcc79.png

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/82f417dd-008d-4cec-8a2d-4051f15c01a2.png

harbo,

I really don’t like the cringe tankie culture here, hope that gets diluted as more people come in

jarrod,

Now I've got my head around how the instances work and how everything is connected but not connected at the same time I'm growing to like it. Once more communities pop up I think it's going to be good

coffeeisnotlatte,

I like it a lot too, the fact that I can roam around servers from my home server is really cool

super_user_do,
@super_user_do@feddit.it avatar

Fairly good actually. Im using the italian instance Feddit and its quick and easy to use. The actual issue is the lack of good clients

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