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Fediverse is kinda just a fragmented mess. Communities of all sides, some moderated strictly, some not. Content not being properly labeled (looking at you NSFW communities), shitposts leaking into everything.
Then it's just a duality, communities are either open to everyone, and therefore spam, or they're super closed down, create an echo chamber and shut everyone off.
This whole situation isn't enjoyable and I'm not really sure for the future of it.
I'm still feeling my way around and have subbed to a community or two here and there, but (using Jerboa on Android) so far it's actually not that different from using rif (for me, anyway.)
The only real issue that I've encountered so far is I kept getting timeout errors whenever I tried to comment (though the comments seem to have posted anyway) or when I clicked into a comment thread, but those seem to have subsided for the most part...
It's given me an obscure error and timeout when hitting the post button while commenting once and it was a detailed comment that took a while to type. It did not post. That was a bummer
If it's any consolation, it appears I may've spoken too soon about the timeouts having gone away... They're sporadic as hell
I'm confused to be honest, but I admit I just started. But like, where do I look at pictures of houseplants and post mine? Do I find a server devoted to houseplants? Or maybe I should just finally figure out Instagram for that.
There's a houseplants sub on mander.xyz. I'll see if I can figure out how to link it...
[email protected] ... Nope...
https://mander.xyz/c/houseplants ... Jumps to the browser at least in Jerboa.
No idea if there is an equivalent of typing r/subreddit...
There's the Nature and Gardening community on Beehaw.org, you might want to check that out.
I find it exciting. Very reminiscent of the Digg exodus. Sure, it can be a little frustrating at times. But reddit was going downhill for me long before the API stupidity. Lemmy feels like returning home in a way.
my biggest adjustment outside of the very sus censoring on some subs, is that my front page on lemmy is almost entirely about reddit :/
I know it will eventually die down but rn its kinda like ... why bother browsing
The mobile browser version is pretty much unusable for me. I select view All, then organize by either Hot or Active, and what I get is an endless stream of posts, but newly made and from two years ago (so, neither Hot not Active). And the page becomes unresponsive because of the endless stream.
The app works better but kept timing out when trying to upvoted stuff. Just updated to see if that fixes it.
So far, I gotta say squabbles is working better for me as a reddit alternative.
I know what you mean. The biggest issue I'm having is finding and subscribing to communities that are not a part of the instance I joined with.
I kept seeing links that listed communities I was interested in subscribing to, but then it would ask me to log in, I'd put in my credentials, only for the log in to not work. I finally realized I had to make a new account with that instance, and then i could log in and join it. I don't want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to enjoy content, plus much if it is duplicated as some instance are linked, but others are not.
Also I use Jerboa to browse lemmy, don't have a PC, and would rather use an app than my web browser(Brave).
I'm on mobile, but when I search for communities, I go to "communities" in the dropdown menu, then make sure I'm in "All". That should show you communities outside of your own server.
It's tricky at times, but I'm really liking it after a few days. It's a bit chaotic but in a fun way I think.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out https://browse.feddit.de for a way to search for more communities
Hope you start to enjoy it more :-)
In my opinion, were in the 'keep swimming' fishing boat scene from Nemo.
Reddit wants to stay the 'homepage of the internet' but also force everyone to go through their tools for ad bucks.
If we succeed, we can bust our communities out of the centralized net and reform on the other side.
We fail by not working together here today in this moment, we have to use this event to convince the average person to switch now, we might not get another opportunity like this.
people need to remember that apps like apollo were around for years. iterating and improving to produce an incredible product.
it wasnβt always like that. youβre at the cutting edge. like reddit was 10 years ago.
This stuff takes time
I don't know if this answers your question about same posts, but here is info about the sorting algorithm:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
I also see same posts (I am looking at you two toilets in a bathroom) a lot but I think it is just lemmys way to show posts that ppl engage in and I guess two toilets in a bathroom is a very hot/trending topic right now because it doesn't seem to die down π
So I usually sort on all and new to find post that is lonely and maybe help them out a bit by commenting :D
I don't think this is a big different from reddit tho, on reddit do I see almost the same post all the time or even repost, here I just see the same post more π just go and look at r/steamdeck, same question over and over again, but I will read them all! haha
I don't know what kinds of subs you joined but big ones like meme is posting a lot. But I saw this on reddit too, even reddit thought my feed was a bit lacking so I had maybe 50% posts from subs I hadn't subscribed to, to scroll through π
But also remember we aren't as many here(yet). we just hit over 100k users yesterday.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
And I think it is good to have multiple sources of entertainment. Even tho it is nice to have everything at one place :D
Sorry if this sounds like preaching and that I wrote a book. But here you have it haha
Edit: fixed a few grammar mistakes (that I saw right away)
Iβm experiencing the same, but I see it only as growing pains of a community that is still tiny. If corporate social media continues like it does (downhill), I expect all that to improve.
If I'm spending less time staring at my phone and more time picking up a book or something, all the better for me. I've found myself engaging more and doomscrolling less though, so the time feels more well spent even though I'm spending less time then I would have on reddit.
This is my biggest motivation right now. Its been a blessing in disguise as I am concentrating more and less mindlessly browsing reddit, both at work and in personal life.
By the way, check your language settings in the profile. I had some issues with the posts that I could not get, because βEnglishβ option was somehow unchecked in the languages listβ¦
I'm warming up to it. Actually, I was never not warm to it, but the learning curve is real. I am on the website right now because the iOS app MLem, which is in beta, doesn't (as far as I can tell) have a way to search for other communities. But I want to shout that creator out, because I think it's difficult, thankless work, and I really appreciate their effort. The fact there is an app for iOS at all is a wonderful start. Who knows how solid it will be a year from now?