Asklemmy

There are definitely a few bugs or perhaps performance issues that are annoying, but the experience seems already 1000 times better than just 2 days ago. I have also checked on lemmy every few months for about 2 years now, it's day and night. It already feels kinda like 2012 reddit to me, and that's a good thing in my view.

I have a similar experience, but its like a user base of 200k vs idk how many million on reddit. There wont be an infinite amount of posts until lemmy grows more.

I think only 1 percent of all users on lemmy and reddit post. So its 2k active posters vs 60k active reddit posters (assuming reddit has 6m).

The sorting has been bad i also see dead posts but overall im enjoying lemmy more than i had reddit in the later years (joined 2010).

The community and the app is still relatively new. To be honest, I prefer smaller communities where I can leave for a few hours without half the posts sliding to page 5 and beyond. Instead of uncritically consuming digital content, try to contribute to smaller communities, post a couple of cool links, or even (Gasp! Horror!) do something else for a while.

I mean, you're being realistic, and nobody can fault you for that. The jank is going to be too much for some people, they'll come here maybe but won't stick around. Other people will come and think that the positive aspects are more important than the negative ones and they'll migrate.

I'm a FOSS nerd and advertising makes me physically sick, so I'm more than willing to put up with the frustrating things about Lemmy.

My one advice is, if you want to see more content then post it.

The problem with Fedi apps is that they're built as replacements or clones of other apps like Reddit (Lemmy), Instagram (Pixelfed) or Twitter (Mastodon).

People come to expect the same experience that they had there and they're disappointed by the small community and confused because it's built on a fundamentally different philosophy and concept.

And of coruse, bugs are to be expected. It's not a multi million dollars company that's building these apps but a community of volunteers.

@jaykay I'd actually like to see bots rip top posts from reddit to post to Lemmy, and the subreddits who would like to I would love to see them create their sister Lemmy instances and create an auto crosspost process. This way, they are keeping their subscribers happy and can make the transition whenever they feel like it if it really comes time to completely abandon ship... Which for me it is time!

I just sort by hot, check twice a day, make a thread if I want an inbox and it's fine

Be the change you want to see. Start posting in the communities you enjoy for others to check out. If you're here just to scroll and not contribute, Lemmy won't improve quickly. If you wait until it gets to be another Reddit, you're not helping out the community.

Lemmy is still very early in it's development and there's only two full time working on it afaik.

I mean the user base is less than 1% of reddits. So of course you're going to have less posts. You're relying on people for browsing, you either can chose to be content with how much people are posting, or get to posting yourself.

One complaint I have is that I can't post a comment without having to click "Post". In many applications, Reddit being one of them, you are able to use the hot key Ctrl+Enter and it will post/send whatever you wrote.

people need to remember that apps like apollo were around for years. iterating and improving to produce an incredible product.

it wasn’t always like that. you’re at the cutting edge. like reddit was 10 years ago.

This stuff takes time

Have you tried Mlem? I’m using it on iOS and it’s been pretty stable and close to what I was used to using Apollo prior to this whole fiasco!

I like it. So far my only issue is the convoluted manual search for communities, but that'll be a non issue as we spread out and get everything linked up. The other stuff is just bugs, like phone pics getting turned sideways when posting.

Overall I like it. I prefer a more intimate community and quality discussion as opposed to one line reactions comments and petty confrontation.

What is your experience with lemmy?

Personally I am glad that decentralization is slowly picking up again with things like Lemmy and Mastodon. To me using it does not feel all that different from Reddit actually (UI-wise).

I grew up in the days of the old internet where newgroups and mailing lists were the way to interact with other "netizens" (a term I have not heard being used in years btw). Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it. Lemmy has that advantage too currently of smaller, ideologically-inclined, and willing-to-jump-a-few-hoops people.

TL;DR: I've no issues with using Lemmy and I like it so far, including smaller size of the community.

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...

I am also new here and I am a long time lurker, 2008, from the place that shall not be named.

My initial feel is that Lemmy is very much like pre Digg days and a kin to the traditional style forum boards where discussions aren't old news when the post is only 12 hrs old.

This is a breath of fresh air even with the growing pains I expect may come with the sudden influx of refugees.

My biggest issue is that it's so difficult to see content from other instances. I understand it isn't feasible for every instance to index everything that's out there, but I definitely think we need a much better solution. I'm good with this stuff and it's a pain in the ass for me, your typical social media user will not jump through these hoops.

Newbie question, can we just use the standard Mastodon application for IOS?

+1, as many have said, participation is key. Make communities, posts, and comments.

To really freshen up your feed, sort by "new"

And yeah, there aren't a zillion posts or comments.

To me it's better, because you can really put your care into what is here.

By the way, check your language settings in the profile. I had some issues with the posts that I could not get, because “English” option was somehow unchecked in the languages list…

On Reddit I sometimes see the same posts for days. In that respect I don't think there's anything different. It's about how you sort / filter and how much content is posted.