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)

wounn,

First comment :) Researching about self-hosting a personal instance now...

coffeeisnotlatte,

You're not the first, you just don't get the full list of comments until you subscribe from your home instance... and I'm unsure if you get earlier comments than when you did that. It's a bit of a pain point

You don't need to just search, you need to have at least one member subscribed

lemuria,

just got my signup approved, the ui is awesome and the dark mode this place has won't destroy my eyes during night shift. it's a bit slower than reddit but that's fine

TheCookieButter,

Maybe I just haven't come across it yet, but I'd like to make threads left-aligned and everything smaller (text, thumbnails etc.)

rusty_spoon,

It's a bit clunkier than Reddit, and obviously a smaller userbase. I'm sure the experience will get better with time. The real key to success will be getting more users to create content

spicydogleg,

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    coffeeisnotlatte,

    Was it lemmy.org.uk? Not sure what happened to that one, I was there too... spun my own up in the end

    sunaurus,

    You're welcome at lemm.ee if you'd like!

    spicydogleg,

    @sunaurus Thank you! I will take a look shortly you don't plan on shutting down in the next 24hr are you /jk

    sunaurus,

    Definitely not. This instance will be sticking around 😃

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    I'm rapidly coming to appreciate it.

    Maybe it's the demographic of users (young vs old, tech savvy vs casual, w/e) but threads here have far more activity in ratio to the number of subscribers and members.

    Reddit just feels like a popularity context. Tell your 'I also choose this guy's dead wife' joke, get your karma, and for god's sake DON'T USE EMOJIS! Subs rapidly became echo chambers, or lose identity as they get larger.

    Lemmy however... while not all threads have activity (it's small after all), the activity is legitimately interactive. People actually discussing ideas. We're talking like thinking adults, and I'm enjoying it.

    darius,

    We should implement the no emoji rule here though...

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    😎🤏 🤨🕶🤏

    No, thanks. Emojis can still communicate in ways pure text doesn't, or provide humour, or imply tone on text that is otherwise ambiguous. That last point in particular would probably defuse a lot of misunderstandings.

    Reddit's obsession with emoji being universally bad feels like a kneejerk reaction to me: they associate excessive emoji with young people, tiktok, or insta; and therefore emojis are bad because being associated with young/tiktok/insta people makes them feel yucky.

    But then Reddit does things like 👉😎👉 ZOOP and now its acceptable because that's a Reddit thing so we can make an exception. The emojis themselves aren't the issue, the other online cultures Reddit is trying to segregate itself from are.

    Banning entire dialects of online communication out of a superiority complex - no, not here on Lemmy thank you. There's no reason we can't use both together, so long as your intent is communicated who cares if you put emojis in it. 👍

    sanguinepar,
    @sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

    I think that's inevitable of all such social media type sites eventually though - as they grow, the 'popularity contest' feel grows with them, initially as a way to be heard in the every-growing crowd, and later as an end in itself.

    It'll probably happen to Lemmy too at some point - but if it does at least it will mean that Lemmy has managed to survive and grow. And people here in the early days will have the pleasure of being able to say "Lemmy wasn't like this at the start, I'm leaving for Flangscrawchler" (or whatever)

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    Bonus for Lemmy being federated, though - if lemmy.world or lemmy.ml no longer gives users want they're looking for, you can start your own flangscrawchl.er and choose whether or not you want to federate with them.

    Corporations will have their own draw; shittification is a thing they do after they have majority market share and their users are entrenched. A new social network service could rise (even one made by Google for Facebook) that is easy to use, has QoL features that network it with its corporate siblings, etc. It sees increased traffic, it gets big... then it shittifies again.

    As long as users are following corporate interests, this cycle continues. It's a slow-burn likeness of competing ISP sign-up contracts throwing in Xboxes. (Though I hear the US has service deserts, so that mightn't happen there.)

    Lemmy probably won't shittify to the same degree; while larger servers like Lemmy.ml can house a huge percentage of Lemmy users, it can't 'go rogue' in a way that means anything to Lemmy as a whole.

    It also can't offer the same QoL features a corporatized service can, because those can afford to operate at a loss while building market share. A subsidiary can be used as a 'loss leader', ie: it doesn't matter if it costs more to run than it earns directly, because it gets users into the door for things that do profit.

    What you describe can, and mostly likely will happen. But Lemmy's nature makes it more responsive to user interests.

    SuspiciousUser,

    I appreciate the fact there is no infinite scroll on the front page.

    sunaurus,

    Great point, lack of infinite scroll is one of the key reasons I always kept going back to old.reddit.com (other than the speed, of course)

    Azeon,

    I have infinite scroll on Old Reddit with RES. What makes not having infinite scroll such a great thing for you?

    sunaurus,

    For me personally, the quality of content drops off very quickly after page 1 (for example on my personal home feed), but with infinite scroll, I found myself very often just wading through the low quality stuff on autopilot without even realizing what I was doing. It's just a problem that I don't even have to think about when I don't have infinite scroll.

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    One of many examples of how profit-driven platforms care about engagement quantity over product quality. A lack of stopping points feeds FOMO and keeps people trapped longer, but I doubt many people actively enjoy it.

    I disable it on any platform that lets me - besides, pagination can be cached to return to later. Doomscrolling can be binged but not suspended.

    SuspiciousUser,

    Exactly so. I'm about a third way through Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. It had a section on infinite scrolling which made me realize it didn't have it. The book talks a lot about social media's grip on us.

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    Sounds like an interesting read; thanks for putting it on my radar.

    qwertzwerq,

    Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good

    gaytswiftfan,

    this app I'm using is pretty bad (no offense to the dev) but once there's better ones on the market I'm sure the experience will be more enjoyable

    I'm not a fan of the whole wordnews ppl banning anti-CCP/anti-russian content tho

    coffeeisnotlatte,

    /r/china is migrating over at least for a week, as long you're respectful anti-CCP is fine (same rules as the subreddit)

    /c/china on latte.isnot.coffee, we could do with some seeding before we close the sub on Reddit.

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    For those homed on other instances, search !china to view the c/ from your home portal.

    NeonSnake,

    My main lemmy instance went down, and I had to go to three because so many people are creating accounts. So bad; but, for a good reason.

    maniel,
    @maniel@lemmy.ml avatar

    it's nice, but we need more content and more 3rd party mobile apps, i mean Jerboa is nice, but many of us are used to their favorite reddit app

    Manticore,
    @Manticore@beehaw.org avatar

    I haven't tried it myself yet, but I would expect that a platform without an app to push will have a usable mobile-friendly site at least. (Most users are mobile, so it would be strange if they didn't.)

    LDRMS,

    Sadly, Apollo😢.

    stagen,
    @stagen@feddit.dk avatar

    I'm hoping Christian (the dev of Apollo) takes on making a Lemmy client. :D

    sanguinepar,
    @sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

    I was just thinking the same, except with Sync for Android, would love to see all that work kept alive as a Lemmy client now that Reddit has screwed everything up.

    KronosaurusRex,

    I would love if that happens but I don't think it could be worth it for him (appart from being a side project). And I bet that he is exhausted as hell after all the drama.

    stagen,
    @stagen@feddit.dk avatar

    Exhausted and probably devastated, yeah. Maybe if lemmy takes off in popularity. :) I'd love to support great devs like him.

    CMDR_Horn,
    @CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml avatar

    I used Slide, not Apollo, but the amount of reverence that app seems to get here makes me wonder if he did port it over how much that would expedite/improve migration from reddit. If I were in his position, I'd do it out of spite.

    Admetus,

    Indeed, he would be the poster child of Lemmy and thousands would follow!

    maniel,
    @maniel@lemmy.ml avatar

    for me it's Relay, sad days are coming

    bkkcitypokey,

    A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.

    wtvr,

    Hey I'm new here bc fuck spez. There's definitely potential here. Would like it to be easier to find communities (sublemmies?) And the app needs work but I'm ready to go all in. Did I mention fuck spez yet

    the_boxhead,
    @the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works avatar

    https://browse.feddit.de/ cam help to find communities

    RomanRoy,
    1. Searching communities is still hard.

    2 )There's a featured/pinned post that appears to me on my account home on lemmy.one, but I just can't see on this account. I went to the community, I searched It top-down and nope, it just doesn't exist for this account, I don't know why

    The link also can't be shared, as if I copy its permalink, I got to the lemmy.one instance.

    This is one of the biggest improvements it should see, but I don't know if it's possible at all.

    1. Also, the Jerboa app is not very good, but it works(Lemmur doesn't even work). But it is secondary to me, as I think if Lemmy grows, we'll see improvements gradually in this regard.
    itzpea,

    I don't really understand it yet, I'm trying to find a boardgame community, but haven't had any luck.

    RomanRoy,

    Does it exist? You know that for a fact? Are you in the desktop or the app?

    itzpea,

    I'm on the app on Android. I had searched and found one, but then created an account and can't find it again. That's the part that is confusing me.

    RomanRoy,

    I have had no luck on the app so far. The search is worse. But you can still use your browser on your phone, login to your instance and do what I'll tell you.

    Take a look at this:

    https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/1470

    and this:

    https://lemmy.one/post/1600

    Basically, you gotta search for your community in the format !community (for example, !football)

    Once you search it this way, erase the search and search again only for the name 'community'. It will come up. Maybe give it 10s between the first search and the second one.

    This happens because it needs to be indexed by the instance first. At least one person in a given instance must have at least searched for it already in order for it to come up. After that, everyone is able to simply search for 'community'.

    If you say that is hard and overcomplicates things, I'll agree with you. I think it could be better, but I don't know if it's possible.

    itzpea,

    Thank you, I was able to subscribe to !boardgames from feddit.de; however if I view it from my instance there are no comments on any of the posts. If I go through feddit.de there are comments on all of the posts. Am I not able to comment/discuss with people from other instances?

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