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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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)

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[–] zakiuem@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Still great as expected. Reddit screwing any mentions of migration or Lemmy will not last long as the EU might impose sanctions against the Snoosite

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[–] ancedactyl@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.

[–] NeonSnake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nikmis@lemmy.click 5 points 2 years ago

So far I don't quite understand how everything works. I am confident I will figure it out though

[–] internet_user@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Pretty great honestly. I've found almost all the "subs" I'm interested in, and the community has been very nice. There's a few small things I'd like to see (UI improvements, 2FA (coming next patch), etc), but those will come in time :)

[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

So far so good! I think I'm on the early upswing part of the learning curve. I was just allowed into the instance I wanted to be a part of, and I'm hoping to carve some fuck around time out of work over the next couple of days to figure the bits out that feel somewhat awkward to me still.

[–] Puls3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I was in so many niche places that I think it'll be hard to really find somewhere to connect with.

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I am trying to interact with posts on beehaw.org on lemmy.ml, but to no avail. Does anyone know how to communicate inscance agnostic?

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[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

My self-hosted instance seems to be working well, but I can't figure out how to federate with other platforms such as mastodon.

I guess we'll figure it out at some point.

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[–] Showervagina@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:

Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don't need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.
It's confusing how communities on other servers aren't automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.
If you add an external community and are confused as to why it's missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it's fine, it's just syncing.

[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

undefined> Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don’t need to be approved?

That probably won't happen - any old timers here correct me if any of the following is incorrect, I hope im not being confidently incorrect. The amount of resources that the server needs, and the amount of mods it would take for that, would be quite a bit. Think of it this way - its not like lemmy.ml is meant to be reddit as a whole. Its mean to be one singular small-ish instance of something similar, of which the server is ran on some private place by people largely doing it out of the goodness of their own heart. If one instance gets too big, that requires a lot of resources, and could likely kill the instance. Not only that, but open registration just screams bot abuse

Its better to have things more decentralized, and have people go to new instances so that theres not a huge influx that burns moderators and resources out. Im personally hoping that more instances pop up for more niche things - ie, a server for sports, or for pc building etc

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[–] codepengu1n@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago

There's definitely a learning curve. How steep, I have not determined yet.

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