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I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

All I'm missing right now is sorting (comments at least) by new, top or best etc

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a little buggy here and there and needs some UI improvement, but once I finish setting up my account and subscribe to communities it's quite good. Being able to search and subscribe to communities from both Local Server and All Servers within Lemmy should be made more clear for new users, as they normally use search bar to search for eveything.

I initially try to access Lemmy and comment posts from my Mastodon account. I can paste Lemmy post url to search bar in Mastodon, hit enter and the post will appear. But it's like parsing a Reddit post and its comment to a Twitter one, it's not the same experience, so I have to create a Lemmy account. I guess it is great if you want to promote something within Fediverse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So far I'm enjoying the mobile interface on the website more than using jerboa. It'd be nice to get more random stuff on my feed while in ALL view, but I'm not sure if it's because of the instance I'm on or just that there's not much activity. It just makes it harder to find new communities if I've got to go hunting for them. Sometimes I like to see things I hadn't previously thought about, it's more fun to get the random stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It feels like I'm dreaming about using a weird version of reddit that isn't quite right. But I just keep browsing with the intent of getting used to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's some massive UI onboarding issues, but the community here is wayyyy better than reddit imo. Without a framework of understanding, it's hard to figure out what server to join, how subscriptions work across instances, etc. My current understanding is if I like lemmy.world the most, I am just going to search communities from other instances I like and subscribe to it on my profile here. At least, that's what I've been doing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As an iOS user on safari, where is the damn β€œback” button!? I end up reading then having to return to the main menu and re-scroll down. Is this a lacking feature or am I just an idiot?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's gonna take time. And the web UI needs WORK.

But I'm gonna stick around and give it a chance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I understand how federation works, and Lemmy's UI seems more or less fine, but I guess I'm still not quite sold on federation in this style being the answer for Reddit-like functionality. It's a bit awkward, and unlike how Twitter's functionality is quite easily mimicked by Mastodon, I'm still kind of skeptical that following subreddit equivalents in that fashion maps quite as cleanly.

I'm not sure how I would do it differently, but I get the sense that there is a better way to have a decentralized Reddit-like experience, and probably one that avoids the risks of the current method (downtime, discoverability, scaling costs for the largest instances, etc).

I'll stick around the fediverse for now, but I really get the sense that it was built for a Twitter or maybe Tumblr like experience, and the Reddit-like experience will always feel a bit short of ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.

Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don't like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn't clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There's a lot to learn. Luckily I have lots of time. So far I dig it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Quite frankly I'm not on the same boat as most people. Don't get me wrong, I prefer having an alternative that can at the very least push Reddit to act with more regard for its user base. At most, it can prove to be a viable alternative to Reddit.

However, again and again I see Reddit alternatives come and go and repeat the same old formula of providing just a Reddit clone with little changes to the user journey. You still have the same old structure of communities where you post content, people commenting, and curation being determined by an upvote and downvote system.

I do realize that some level of familiarity needs to be preserved for people to be jumping from Reddit to an alternative. But when a platform is so similar (in regards to UX), I see this not only as a huge missed opportunity, but also as a sentence – a lot of Reddit’s problems stem from how the site is organized, and the fact it has devolved into a bunch of politically extreme echo chambers where dissenting opinions are distolerated and everything is a race to the bottom. An upvotes/downvotes system is a surefire way to silence moderate and reasonable voices.

On top of everything, I'm not sure I'm fully buying the fediverse model, and I'm not sure Lemmy in particular has long-term viability. What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance. Add to that the uncertainty of any given instance's life expectancy, and I can definitely see why the majority of people would be hesitant to give Lemmy a try. Nevertheless, it seems the Fediverse is still in its period of early adoption, and thus I don't expect it to be popular with the average Joe. It's still not September 1993.

That said, I am giving Lemmy its fair chance. Ironically, this is my first comment on here, but I definitely don't intend it to be my last. I even created an ADHD community here for serious ADHD discussions at Lemmy.world which I plan on promoting, especially since I've never been a fan of how partisan and immature r/ADHD has been (no real antagonization, just not my place). So I am also looking at Lemmy and Lemmy.world in particular as a new opportunity.

And even if it doesn't pan out, I definitely plan on spending much less time on Reddit. I already spent a lot of time these past few days unsubscribing from communities that didn't go dark not out of spite, but because I realized many of them added little value to my life and just provided an endless stream of useless or irrelevant β€œcontent”.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I tried to reply to another thread but for some reason it never showed. So trying on this thread to see if I can actually post something at all. Ok that worked this timeπŸ‘πŸ˜€ Early days at the mo since the Reddit collapse but as more users join I'm expecting the variety of content to pick up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm enjoying it more than reddit for the time being for the same reason I enjoyed reddit before it was commercialized. The slight technical barrier to entry is keeping the braindead out for now.

Kind of a catch 22 though, because you need to have some of the idiots to flesh out the population. Time will tell.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like Lemmy a lot! I'm gonna stick around :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's confusing and change frightens me. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been going back and forth between Lemmy and kBin (?). Can't decide which I prefer at this point. I like that kbin has 'tags' when I post a link. (I post a lot of links in my mod role over on reddit.)

I did most of my fediverse learning curve late last year during the twitter migration, so this was no sweat for me.

So far I miss being able to see a graphic associated with links I post--but maybe that feature will arrive one day... I'm prepared to have plenty of patience and look forward to watching how things improve.

It will be interesting to see if this migration matches the twitter adoption curve: lot's of initial excitement, then a big dropping off of participation (which may be a typical pattern of any online adoption?)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wish the layout was more responsive. When I look at it on desktop it still looks formatted for a phone.

It's been taking like 20-30 seconds to submit a comment or post.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The UI is just a bit janky and buggy on mobile. The amount up votes is constantly changing as I type this comment. I also think I might of reported this post twice just while trying to scroll.

I do like the size of the communities through.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hope there is some way to implement something like streamable/imgur/redgifs on lemmy. I don't mind if it's these services if fediverse alternatives aren't there yet.

They form the backbone of content creation, from Porn to highlight clips of sports subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Really fragmented, but really good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's more clunky but not unbearably so. Once Jerboa gets more features it'll be a lot better. I miss swiping back, having to use the back button sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can we disable the auto "refreshing" that add new post when we scrolling the home screen?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I also just joined but i am a bit tech savy so i wanted my own instance. So it is decent just some trouble loading comment. In general I really like it.

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