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It's buggy, but I'm managing. Weird things like having to press the "Subscribe" button twice. I'm assuming most will be solved when traffic stabilizes.
The federation is.. strange. Confusing when I click a link to another instance when trying to subscribe to a community, but also kinda cool how it works. I'm not sure federation should really be a concern for users, but time will tell. I'm sure it will only improve.
I still don't quite understand how it works, instances and all that.. but I'll figure it out, and I'm here for the cause.
Lemmy UI is very easy to use, and fast too. Also, I like the concept of federation (though I have no plan in hosting one) and the fact that the community has been very welcoming so far also help with me being able to enjoy browsing Lemmy.
Of course, there's the obvious problem of lack of content but if the subreddits that I usually lurked on have fully switched to Lemmy then I would have 0 issues with fully switching to Lemmy regardless of the lack of content.
As with other things in the fediverse, discoverability is pretty ass. It's a bit easier on Lemmy to find something you're looking for than it is, say, to find interesting people to follow on mastodon, but it's still not great. And often, you'll find multiple communities on the same topic and you have to try to figure out which one looks like it will be better down the road (communities are still pretty dead and empty, so you can't tell now which might be better). In addition to that, the interfaces for interacting with Lemmy are pretty rough at the moment, though that's not surprising.
So do I like it? Enh… I'd say it's a 4/10 right now with promise of getting better. Will it? Who knows?
So far pretty good. I like the idea of the fediverse, but I'm not sure if it will catch on.
Also, I hope some of the UI/UX stuff get ironed and are sharpened. I also miss old reddit.
But overall, it works and I am happy.
I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.
Havn't tried Lemmy yet... does my comment show up alright coming from fedia.io? The fediverse is neat.
I’m loving it.
I was wondering about situations where there are multiple communities about the topic on multiple instances… is it possible to subscribe to all of them easily or maybe have a way that the communities can “share” posts? Like sister communities or something?
Example, I post to dogsinbikinis@whatever.com, users of dogsinbikinis@whateverelse.com would automatically be able to see and comment on it.
I actually like it a lot. I think I can stick with it. I hope that this is the moment when the fediverse and the decentralized social networks will have the chance to become mainstream.
I'm trying to like it, but it's hard. It doesn't quite scratch the doom scrolling itch like Reddit did. I'm using Jerboa and it's missing a lot of features that I relied heavily on with Relay. Ultimately I'm just going to have to adapt though because it looks like Reddit isn't backing down and I'm not going to use the official app.
In good news, I always hated my Reddit username so it's nice to finally get to change it lol.
It's different, but getting the hang of it, also using the jerboa app currently which isn't bad for such a new app. Considering developing my own app for Android but might end up in the unfinished projects list.
Community discovery is lacking IMO at the moment, even using browse.feddit I'm found communities that aren't on there, through the app so not the easiest to use currently.
I think it will take time to smooth few rough edges but already now it's usable.
However I have big concerns on how this structure can scale, it already suffers with few thousands users. Plus security, privacy and sustainability of the fediverse is still a big question mark to me.
But it's exciting and I hope it will be the future of socials.
The Software lemmy+jerboa does the job. It's basic and misses a lot of features that one would ideally want, but it's good enough.
I'm enjoying the back-to-the-roots vibe of early reddit or early internet that comes with lemmy.
Now, it's ask about content and how the communities will form in the ecosystem. Federation is nice, but wilm people actually find the communities relevant to them.
I’m happy to be a part of growing this community. I like that no one is trying to make money from my engagement.
Hey Chris. Seeing more and more people from my Mastodon feed here :)
I'm very impressed by Lemmy. Some of the communities like Beehaw have been excellent, even before the recent Reddit API-apocalypse. Self-hosting has been a bit challenging compared to the more mature (I guess) Mastodon but I hope to get it sorted out soon.
I'm curious how well niche communities will work. It seems too niche here, like it's hard to find, hard to grow.
Like I do alternative keyboard layouts. If someone on Reddit wants to find it, it's rather easy and everyone in that community is there (there are dozens of us, dozens!). But on lemmy I think those dozens will be spread out more.
Overall it's pretty good! With more development on Jerboa and better backend performance and an influx of people, I think it'll be fantastic. I'm pretty pleased thus far!
Obviously not enohgh content or communities here, but the bones here seem good and that is what's important starting out.
Compared to old.reddit + RES there's still some space for improvement in terms of UX for lemmy but overall, not too bad :P
It’s been great so far. I’ve mostly been using Mlem on IOS. Still early in development but it gets better everyday. Even though I was on Reddit for 8+ years I have no intentions on going back to it. There is great potential here and I hope we can tap in to it.
i like the community but
It feels so freaking empty, maybe it's my lemmy client but I can't see any post older than two days
I like the concept, and overall experience. On a more technical side getting my own private lemmy instance up and running (I wanted to retain full control of my account) was not easy due to somewhat lacking documentation on the process. Had to dig through posts from other people having similar issues, and do a bit of troubleshooting to fill in the gaps.
Now that I have it working will see if I can find the time to do a writeup on the process if others are looking to do the same.
I quite like it so far, though the users of the communities I've been moderating are not necessarily the most tech savvy and may not find their way here, despite instructions and plenty of prior announcements.
So ultimately I feel like throwing 1.5M people to the wolves (though some other mods might stick around, who knows).
On the other hand, I might also have outgrown some of my communities, and just stuck around due to the familiarity. Joined reddit in my mid 20s, now I'm pushing 40.
Liking it so far. I love that I can spin up my own instance. Only thing I'm missing is a multi-reddit type feature to combine communuties from multiple instances into one feed.
The fediverse? Meh. Beehaw? Loving it