I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be

I'm quite lost, and don't think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I'm even using those words properly).

I'll do it like Reddit 10 years ago... wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.

Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

I also don't like the fact that the search function doesn't let me select communities until I've already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to "All".

I feel like this can be a really great replacement, but people will need to stick with it and watch it grow. Right now there is not enough content to keep people engaged. It's mainly just questions confusion. I am really digging the format simplicity of things!

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.

At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing and hopefully we will also get some awesome mobile apps. Overall it's very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

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.

I'm a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.

That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.

Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.

Guys, it's wild. Let's go.

It seems comfy. I'm skeptical of the UI and UX for the website and the app (even jeroba) but I came from reddit boost which is absolutely a phenomenal experience. I hope this evolves and improves in these ways

Community feels more welcoming. I hope it continues to grow exponentially, because it'll need it to work!

I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.

It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.

Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.

The more I use it, the happier I am. I'm an old geezer who was tinkering with computers way back when 8K was an outrageous amount of RAM. This reminds me of why I became a geek to begin with.

I'm liking it, and anticipating its growth -- with both trepidation and excitement. It's unpolished but I don't mind that all too much. Trying to engage as much as I can.

Hello world.

As an Internet Old Head I'm just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.

to quote Oprah's first tweet, "FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY"

I see the potential but Lemmy in its current state is very buggy. There needs to be a huge uptick in dev activity to iron out all the bugs and usability issues before June 30th hits. Otherwise, I see little hope of adoption.

The performance issues also need to fixed ASAP. Sure, you could just "use a different instance" but you can't even federate with overloaded instances!

EDIT: Looks like there are a lot of fixes coming in this PR: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1081

I've honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.

Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we've been used to over on Reddit, but they're also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.

That said, there's still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn't to knock on the devs - I'm thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.

Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D

I like how it works! I don't like the default web UI. For a ton of reasons. I'd love to see someone make a more old reddit-like one.

It's really cool so far. I am enjoying it.

Fuck Spez

It works, at least. The only issue I'm seeing is that if I try to follow 'sublemmies' (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in 'subscribe pending'. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They're not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they're smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it's definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don't have to worry about that happening again!

I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.

I'm really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There's a few smaller communities missing but I'm sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don't know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it's great!

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

It's a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.

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

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

I'm still getting used to this and there's not much activity yet, but I'll stick with it. Reddit isn't worth it, so I'm happy there's a chance for an alternative.

I really like the new style of interactions, even though I do currently miss the hundreds of thousands of funny/dumb comments some posts had (hoping that will happen eventually though)

I've subbed to the /r equivalents I could find but honestly I'm having a blast just browsing random communities I'd never have looked at before. Did you know there's a community for people who collect Uranium Glass?? Wild stuff. Today is a good day.

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.

I like that I am not being advertised to. I just hope critical mass of commenters and content makes it to fediverse systems.

We need a critical mass on a few subs and somehow help out with the servers so they don’t blow up. If we get those two sorted, we should be okay.

I'm liking it a lot. I think it will get even better once more people show up. It's kind of cool to be part of pioneering this experience, though. I do feel like this is going to grow into something substantial.

I want to be able to hide things I've read. If anyone knows how to do this, I'll give you all my LemmyBucks

The more I understand it, the more I love the concept of it. What really illuminated the concept of the fediverse for me was an illustrated diagram I saw on Lemmy earlier, which made the analogy of being able to email a gmail address even if you have hotmail.

The layout isn't great, and everytime I load the page it'll load a few random brand new posts at the top after a second and that's annoying.

Concept is great, but there's a big usability issue (BE: 0.17.4) that quickly needs fixing. When you browse the main index, new posts just pop up and it messes up whatever you were reading and also closes images.

I like it, I like how it works. I think it could replace Reddit just fine. However I'm not really getting my "fix". On Reddit, I always had fresh content, which I'm not really seeing here. Plus, I was subscribed to a bunch of niche communities that don't exist here.

The only issue that I have is with the hot and active sorting types -- hot gives me a lot of posts that pretty new and active gives me posts that are a day or two old. I wish there was a sort like the hot sort on reddit that shows posts that are ~4-8 hours old

we need RES and a decent iOS app..

Bit of a learning curve, but it's fun! Feels like the early Internet!

So far Lemmy is snappier than Reddit is in it's current state which is hilarious. There's some QOL stuff we'll need like a proper mobile app (Mlem is making serious progress) but even on iPhone adding the page as a Home Screen shortcut works really well -it even hides the navigation bar and feels like an app. (How come other sites aren't like this?? Is it built to be a web app?)

The communities are gaining traction. I started star_wars and hopefully that can be a friendly place for nerd stuff.

When it comes to growth there are major pros and cons. Right now Reddit's biggest attraction to me is finding historical posts for very specific information. I think we all add Reddit to the end of our google searches for various reasons, not using that feature is a major loss and there's no way to make up for that without years/decades of engagement. However the small community feel is really nice, feels like moving from a big city to a growing small down in the burbs. That's part of the reason I like federated instances because Lemmy can be as big or small as you'd like. The more popular it gets however, the more it attracts low grade content and influencers which is a big turn off for me. Right now is a precious time so don't take it for granted :)

I exclusively used old-Reddit, and I'm not in love with the new interface yet, but it's not bad.

I’m finding the experience on mobile (via the browser) to be pretty usable too.

I'm enjoying, not sure if my comments are being submitted yet though..

I still find it a bit confusing to navigate, mostly with finding new communities. I do miss the front page with r/all of Reddit but I hope that will eventually evolve/adapt into something workable. I do wish there was a solid app to use as I do most of my redditing (I suppose I need a new verb) via my phone and mlem is a good start although it crashes constantly for me but I am fully confident that we will see a lot of improvements over the next few weeks.

I do hope that people stay off Reddit and give the fediverse a chance but I am worried that when the blackout is over people will slowly make their way back to Reddit. The fact that u/spez gives no shits about this blackout helps show what a small and petty man he is.

For me it's just an adjustment. Hopefully this platform will be as popular as Reddit.

I signed up yesterday. It is close enough to something like old.reddit where I feel comfortable navigating around. I dont know how else to describe it, but it really feels like the site is populated by people creating content organically, and not just a bunch of bots or marketing accounts instigating engagement. Its refreshing that way

It's pretty interesting so far! I'm coming from Reddit Sync and now using Jerboa so it's quite similar but also a lot of things aren't where I expect them 😆

I do web dev and UX so definitely agree with the onboarding process being a little clunky for users.

I had no idea what the fediverse was until Lemmy so getting your head around it can be a bit much at the start. I was lucky to find a local server (instance? Not sure on terminology) so no delay issues.

And for any newbies this link is very helpful: https://browse.feddit.de.

I do miss the size of Reddit at times, but that's likely to drop now anyway with all the buggering around they're doing.

I like it. But it will only feel like home when people are sharing all the ideas, advice, questions, news, and most importantly, shit-posting, that I previously got from reddit.

I'm starting to think the splintering caused by instances blocking each other is going to cause users to abandon Lemmy entirely. At the moment instances can suddenly decide to block other instances, and that is going to hurt both users on the instance that put a block into place, as well as users on the blocked instance.

The blocking is awful for an average Lemmy user, because you can get cut off from communities you already subscribed to, without any notification! So you might post and comment without realizing that your content is not getting published, even though you and your local instance still see it.

The user experience would be improved by getting a warning if you try to contribute to a community in this case. And also your subscriptions should show warnings about not working anymore, and those should come up as notifications on the account.

It's been...

For me there is too much whitespace. I want a compact view. It's mostly about text anyway. Buttons could be more prominent.

But in general it's awesome. Finally dipping toes into the fediverse!

Loving it. Yes, it's a little minimal, and there is some jank, but it reminds this old guy of an earlier online experience that you just don't see much of anymore.

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion, but could the users wanting a 1 for 1 Reddit clone just.....go support one of the 1 for 1 Reddit clones? I'm getting really tired already of everybody signing up for a decentralized system that advertises it's lack of a central authority to escape the site due to the actions of it's central authority then immediately complaining there is no central authority.

I understand the culture shock and have been trying to do my part in explaining that Lemmy and Reddit are not the same system, but I'm already seeing a sense of hostility towards the devs along the lines of "Oh it's not like Reddit fuck that well I guess we'll see if the devs bother listening to ThIeR uSeRs and make it Reddit!" and those people can go fuck themselves.

I do miss being able to refresh the front page and almost always having new content, but it's caused me to make more of an effort engaging. I hope that people give this platform a chance and that things don't die off.

I have to be honest, this was a bit of a painful (but hopefully fruitful) experience. I had to learn about the Fediverse, figure out which ones to join, decided on Kbin but had to abandon ship as it was too slow as an PWA, ended up in Mastodon but for some reason I could not access other instances, got over here but still had to troubleshoot (and still figuring out) how to join communities. But fuck that - I'm just happy to make my first comment!

I've been on Reddit for 8 years (mostly as a lurker) and am quite saddened with its current state. I hope I get to find my safe space here.

Overall, I'm liking it, but I have some critiques:

1. The apps won't follow hyperlinks to third-party servers. This is not Lemmy's fault; the Universal Links feature of Apple OSes and App Links feature of Android were not made with federation in mind. This will be a tricky problem for them to solve without getting seriously technical.
2. I don't like how external links don't open in new windows/tabs by default, and there appears to be no preference to fix this.
3. There appears to be some bugginess with the web interface and voting where, if I upvote something, the upvote may disappear a second or two later. But if I refresh and re-read the comment, my original upvote stuck.
4. There needs to be more centralization of subs; as of now, there is so much duplication that it's worse than Reddit. Reddit has some forked subs, mainly on ideological grounds or because of mergers, but it's got nothing on Lemmy so far.
5. When reading on the web, my view jumps around a lot. I'm guessing it's loading in new comments as they come in on the server. That's fine, but the abruptness of the whole thing causes me to sometimes lose my place. If it's going to continuously load new comments, I would prefer that they be animated, so at least I can observe the change in motion.
6. While I was typing this, I noticed that the page top reloaded with a different topic. I'm guessing that's a bug.
7. It's good to have rules to prevent conversations from descending into chaos. I just hope that the rules are not interpreted too broadly.

I mostly like it, until the front page spazzes out (I think it's randomly starting to update, or something?). Then it becomes totally unusable. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that that should even be physically possible, and is really starting to annoy me.

Just 1 day in and not missing Reddit. I do expect finding the kind of communities I used to visit, but those will come.

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

The interface on jerboa is good. Basically legally distinct reddit. The thing is miss most is the content. None of the subs I like are here unfortunately.

It took sometime getting used to, but I am really enjoying this and just waiting to see how many people will stay here.

The app I'm using is pretty nice and reminds me of Relay.

But it's clear that most people will not be able to adapt to this without an actual sort of marketing push or hype around it, and with a vast dumbing down of the UX. Right now, explaining any of this to a regular person is going to make them think of crypto or something. That's a negative.

Just migrated my account here. Honestly it's getting a lot bigger here than what I've expected. Always lurked around Reddit, but I wouldn't mind changing my route over here. I'm just happy that everyone gets to experience a free and open source alternative :)

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Seems solid, I was really excited for Mastodon and loved the idea but.......I didn't really use Twitter much so I didn't have a need for it still.

Reddit has always been my go to social media so I'm glad a fedi version of it exists with lemmy!

I haven't been here for too long, but it's not bad. I actually like that the community is not too big. It feels satisfying to actually be able to get to the end of the comments. Still learning the ropes, though.

I am trying to adjust to this format. I am used to old.reddit and RES. But, I'm going to give it a go. I imagine once I get a few sub... sublemmies? going It will start to smooth out for me.

And hey, good luck to everyone on the adjustment period.

I like the simple, 'clean' looking format. I wouldn't say no to a dark mode option but otherwise I think it's ideal. It's restful because it's not too visually busy.

Edit: Found the dark mode option, yay!

It's fucking lit in here. Also fuck Spez.

It is really great. Once the servers stabilize this is going to be so much better than Reddit.

It's still very new but I think it's a great framework to build on. I do worry about fragmentation (each instance having its own gaming community for example). And the smaller niche subreddits I followed will be hard to replace / replicate here.

I am amazed how fast this platform has grown in a few days. Quite exciting!

I'm mostly ok, the only annoying thing is that I like to chose "all instances" especially to discover interesting things, but there's a lot of instances says in Deutsch, Italian, Polish, or whatever, and we cannot block whole instances, only communities, so if there is dozens of communities on an instance, you have to block them one by one

I am finding it to be very clunky.

Think I'm still trying to get my head around it all, such as trying to join new communities. Trying to take my time to read through guides and such, but so far it's been good!

I like it! I'm on Jerboa and it's no different from what I'm used to using Boost, although I do hope it continues to add customization and sorting comments by new wouldn't hurt (unless if I somehow miss the setting in each post)

Your username is perfect.

It is like wild west here and I like it!

Hello. I moved to Reddit with the Digg Exodus, and now I'm here. History does repeat itself.

other than the growing pains of today, it seems good to me so far. Very much like Reddit from back in the day. Really like that the control is out of the hands of a corporation, I'm tired of changing site (Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > etc

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 time👍😀 Early days at the mo since the Reddit collapse but as more users join I'm expecting the variety of content to pick up.

I love it! I love the energy of everyone trying to figure out what the future will be. And it feels good to be out of this corporate dystopia that reddit has become.

I'm getting comfy. It feels right to be away from Reddit.

I was talking with my friend about this last night and his biggest gripe was that he didn’t know which communities to join. IE there are communities of similar names and intents on different servers, and that choice was annoying. I’m guessing that as the fediverse expands this will be less of an issue, thoughts?

I'm liking lemmy on Android with Jerboa, no major issues.

Moreover, I have been able to subscribe to several communities on different instances.

It is taking shape as we use and improve it.

Once you get a hang of how the fediverse works in general, it's pretty good so far. Using mostly mobile atm, nice and clean, functional pretty similar experience to reddit. Aside from a few features missing like search, I'd imagine there is plenty of room for moderator tools too, and the occasional error codes, I'm loving it so far. No ads, just content, and while it's not the firehose that reddit is/was, if this keeps getting popular, I could forsee just as many communities popping up across instances as there are subreddits.

I'm sure with the influx of users from reddit, especially the more technically savvy mods we're going to see a lot of good tools made for the app and with it being open source, I imagine the devtimes are going to be even quicker than dealing with an ok API.

Quite like it. Jerboa is usable despite its early development state.

I miss and probably will continue to miss some of the smaller niche communities, which are really only viable on huge servers/networks. Notably /flying and /NetBSD. There probably aren't enough active users to create thriving communities on both reddit and lemmy. Although /r/flying participates in the blackout, I expect most redditors there will stay. I used the site on desktop most of the time, too, and I don't see myself cutting all ties, either.

So, ambivalent, I'd say. I'll see what the mobile app situation will be in a few weeks; Infinity has worked well for me.

I'm liking it so far, I've been trying to explore other instances other than lemmy.one but, the login always turns into an infinite loading screen.

Im liking it. I'm pretty techy, so I got the gist of the whole "distributed" thing real quick. Honestly, it's also nice that it's still a smaller community. Feels like the old days of the internet, where you could actually interact with people

Still definitely needs some polish on the UI / UX front, as well as a more seamless experience for new users. But overall I can definitely see the potential!

Haven't used it much but something that I don't really like correct me if I'm wrong, but basically the site has multiple servers, and each server can have multiple subreddits right? What I don't like is that there isn't really a r/all combining all subreddits within all servers, it's just r/all within the server which I feel spreads the content too thin. Correct me if I'm wrong

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.

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

i like the minimal look as it mirrors my RES and old.r settings. I would like the ability to stretch the pages out to fill in the empty voids of my 1440 window though. At the moment it looks like Lemmy was built on a mobile portrait view only.

I dig it but I wish there was a more compact view option for the web version.

It is like wild west to me and I like it!!

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New to Lemmy like most on here rn. Can we get thumbnails for the posts and for links to open in new tabs?

Also, what is the delay on posting comments? Is that due to server usage or syncing to other instances?

Much appreciate the instance!

It's a breath of fresh air after using Reddit for so many years.

I'm liking it so far - bit of a learning curve but not too bad!

I do have a bone to pick with users - there are a lot of niche communities that have zero posts. If you start a community, try to add something to it! I'm not sure if people are trying to "claim" rights to as many communities as possible - i surely hope not - but if you're interested in a subject and want to start a community, surely you have something to say! It takes two hands to clap - if you don't start saying something, then whoever comes to your community is gonna move on.

Liking the clean interface reminiscent of old reddit

So far, so good. The official Android app needs work but the desktop site works well. Deleted Reddit and not looking back.

This is my first post here! I've subscribed to a bunch of communities I'm interested in, some of them that have come over from Reddit and some new ones. I'm already familiar with the concept of Federated communication apps through Matrix and Mastodon.

Let's make this community a great place to be, talk, share information, and enjoy the things we love.

I use only jerboa, like before I used only Infinity for reddit. I find lemmy very cool, when there was the twitter migration I tried for some weeks mastodon but was not my ambient. Lemmy, being like reddit is more my kind of site. I like that in Jerboa I have the tab for my subscription, the tab for my istance (the italian one in my case) and the all tab. I find it realy usefull. The only thing is that searching for sub or for some thing is not immediate as in reddit, but I think that with time we will get a more populate site.

It doesn't really feel much different to me than reddit, aside from being less active and having fewer communities. I'm enjoying the smaller feel of the communities here though. It can feel pretty futile to go into a reddit thread with 3k+ comments and try to say anything because youre bound to be buried. It feels like talking into a void. Here on Lemmy, I feel more like it's worth my time to contribute to the discussion and the community. I mean, it's not like attention is my motivation for posting. It just feels empty and pointless to contribute to a social space and get no kind of interaction - or worse, a toxic and negative interaction.

lemmy is open source though too! so if there’s a bug, someone in the community can help fix it. speaking of which, i had some ideas for the UI that i’d love to propose for lemmy, such as giving posts a slight background color to make them easier to read. kind of like old reddit.

is anyone free to create a PR for lemmy-ui? mostly wondering if there’s a group it needs to be proposed to or something.

It's nice, I just wish there was more activity. Hopefully it will grow overtime. My concern is the barrier of entry for new users. The whole "different instances" thing can be quite confusing.

I like the people and I trust I'm not stuck talking to some Marvel inc corporate intern tasked with promotion for the day on some sub reddit that's run by the company but made to look like a grassroots community

I like it alot. I used RIF and it's very similar, plus how I interacted with reddit is kinda how lemmy is set up anyway. Small community, simple mostly text based view, sort by new.

The only bothersome bugs I've come across so far are: upvoting/commenting within inbox should be accessible with out click and hold, and the upvote itself is very laggy in the inbox as well. And posting a picture taken with phone gets turned sideways for some reason. Some one smarter than me will figure it out I'm sure.

I think it's kindof hard to find topics, because even if you set a filter the auto refresh ignores the filter. Still waiting for communities to pop up that match tastes.

I like it and there's probably about as much traffic here was there was on reddit when I was started using it in the early 2010s. The design is nice and I like the federated concept although it is going to be a learning curve for some users. My particular home server is slow and down sometimes but in a way I feel its necessary to take some ownership and contribute to server improvements as we get more users if we want to sustain this.

I’m enjoying it thus far. I wasn’t a serious Reddit user when it first launched but became more frequent about 6 years after it launched. Lemmy still feels more like what Reddit did even in 2011.

I hate using apps, so I use the browser on mobile. From that perspective, Lemmy seems snappier. I don't know if it actually is or just the perception from a cleaner interface, and not getting bugged about the app.

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TBD, the organization seems more chaotic and seems like alot of duplication of communities of the same topic

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.

It's a nice fresh start. Been lurking for 7 years and plan to comment more on Lemmy.

I'm very confused, I was in the Sweden community and someone linked to ANOTHER Sweden community on a different server with different posts. So, where should I be to see all the things?

I haven't found my groove yet. There were a lot of niche communities on Reddit that I was part of (lurked). Have to rebuild that over here.

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.

I was barely active on reddit, and very new to kbin/lemmy and I like the until now. I am pretty active on mastodon, I can see the added value.

I like it. I prefer the UI plus it's really refreshing to browse some similar communities i also browse on reddit and not seeing that many memes.

The interface is simple and reminds me of old Reddit, which I like. There are some bugs, but that's normal. It's important for people who create communities to actually participate in them. On the mobile version, I wish there was more random stuff in my feed to find new communities easily.

I like the UI, only thing I've noticed is that comments and upvotes can take quite some time to show up

As an iOS user on safari, where is the damn “back” 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?

Don't miss reddit one bit, this is great! Feels fresh. I like the user interface of Jerboa, slim and not much clutter. Once in a while I get an error, but going back and forth fixes it.

Honestly a great transition. Now I'm looking to replace all sm with fediverse alternatives

I'm strongly, strongly tempted to go on an angry rant about the unusability of the front page jumping around constantly. I'm thinking of donating in order to help out, because I love the idea of a federated forum/news aggregator. Is this a new bug, or something?

I dislike how in the app there's no functional inline image/video viewer, at least on my end (unsure if it's not working on my end or its just something everyone lives with).

Signed up today, liking it a lot. Looking forward to learning more about it, seems like a viable reddit alternative.

Love it as much as I love your username

Other than the random communist extremists, I like it, but I hope this place doesnt turn into the next Voat as I have a strong feeling it will.

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.

I like it, but there are issues like timeouts when I try to sub/comment on some posts, but I'll take it if it means being free of corporate control

It's quiet in here, I know this will take time.

Is there an app I can use in my phone? I am using mastodon at time, but it's harder for discovery purposes.

So far good. Great that it has mobile app on google play already. It just needs little bit more activity to get more users here.

I'm a fan of it so far. It's slower paced at the moment and I feel like I can keep up with a smaller number of communities.

Using mlem... just kinda feels like Reddit thru a third party app I guess. Honestly impressed. Didn't have super high expectations but so far they've been blown out of the water.

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?)

I've moved here cause of the current Reddit drama, and I gotta say, this is a lot nicer than reddit currently is

It's very interesting so far, and the idea of being able to access this via Mastodon is really cool to me

I've gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I'm loving this so far, there'll be things I'll miss of course.

frontend is bootstrap as fuck lol, but it does the job

It's early stages but the conversations here feel more "high effort". I think it might also be because of signup approvals which weeds out bots/low effort posters. I do feel the growth pains with the timeouts happening more often but overall content-wise it is quite nice.

A bit rough on the edges and scarce in content but I'm hopeful it will improve with time.

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.

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.

I like it too.

But the app really needs some improvement (I know it's still in alpha, but the typing glitches make it really annoying to type)

But so far it's been good and I see good potential in it.

I dont really like UI, its one of the things that will make me go back to Reddit

Not speaking of app features, only thing missing are people... Which is a problem that will fix itself as time goes on and more people migrate to Lemmy.

I quite like the super-minimal interface design of fedia.io. I'm excited to see where this all goes.

It's interesting.

I'm not sure on the interface, though I'm sure I'll get used to it. 😅

The registration process for an account is annoying: Having to look into email and having to explain how you are not a bot ... I guess? Also I can not imagine this scale well, if every registration request is checked by a human. Is there no better solution?

Really fragmented, but really good.

I'm currently using the web mobile version, and tbh it is already way better than Reddit version lol.

I joined Reddit seventeen years ago because of Aaron Swartz’s involvement. Lemmy feels more like someplace Swartz would have liked than Reddit ever did.

It's been pretty fun! I'm looking forward to what's to come!

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

Loving it. It’s clunky, sure, but honestly, it’s fine given how much work it takes to get something like this to work well at scale. Things will evolve and I’m sure instancing, finding communities, mobile app etc etc, will all get figured out. Once there’s enough momentum in usage, that’ll naturally become the driving force behind a lot of the work that needs to happen.

I’m just glad that we already have the user base and passion behind an alternative. I’m more than happy with not having the volume, but having the quality of what contributed to reddit, i.e. the people. In the meantime, please be sure to donate folks.

Also trying tildes, but lemmy seems more like what I'm looking for. Like the ui!

I like the design. Not so much a fan of the lag, but I'm hoping that improves.

I'd really prefer to have the option to make it look/feel like old.reddit. The biggest reason I'm off reddit right now is because I'm concerned the third-party appsassination is going to make them think they can kill off old.reddit, too. Coming over here where it's just aping new.reddit kinda defeats the purpose.

I like the community. I'm hoping that Lemmy doesn't turn into the cesspool that parts of Reddit became. I do have to refresh the page to see my posts and comments, but I imagine that there are some functional difficulties with scaling the platform to accommodate all of the people coming from Reddit.

As someone who always felt very overshadowed on Reddit, I'm looking forward to contributing more here.

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

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

The page is jumping around some on Safari for iPad, but I'm sticking with it for now.

My first hour here...gonna take a little getting used to but I like it so far. Much as I was addicted to reddit, a change is probably a good thing. I'm gonna really miss my saved posts once I delete them though

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.

I'm not used to the light mode, haha. I hope there's a dark version soon. But overall, it seems like a nice site so far. Edit: Found it, lol. So now it's easier on the eyes!

Getting a bit more used to it after some hours of use. Using the site is mostly self-explanatory, especially if you're used to Reddit, Discord and Mastodon. Looks promising.

Slow at times but it's improving little by little with more contributors and development.

I love it, but I do wish you could stretch the layout to the full width of your monitor.

Also, og:images doesn't show up when you're posting links.

It's taken a little getting used to, but it isn't too difficult to learn. Agree with loving the simplicity; just wondering if there's a way for us to customize the styling/colors? Also for some reason the votes on posts keep cycling through random numbers, lol

Really can't complain though since it takes a lot of money and time to build stuff like this.

I do see a lot of potential but there are some issues I'm facing. For some reason, I'm unable to login to lemmy.world from my phone. There's not a whole lot of content but I'm expecting that to change. It's very nice here, overall.

It's been taking a bit of tweaking since I decided to host my own instance, but when it works it's fantastic. Feels like the social media of 10 years ago.

I think there's a lot of room for enhancing the user experience, but it's definitely not bad. This will come in time.

I feel like the content and discussion is a bit more mature than reddit. This is the main reason I will stay here.

i'm loving it! it scratches the itch without the reddit ick 🤣

Its pretty decent, pleasantly surprised. I needed to get over the fediverse jargon after that smooth sailin'. Feels goood

I love lemmy, way more than Reddit. I was already excited about the fediverse with mastodon and I absolutely love seeing another use case for it.

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

I LOVE the interface here

It's a start. I have lots of issues, but I'm willing to let them go in the hope that it will work itself out in time.

I am loving this. I don't think I'll be using reddit as much as I did previously.

After all of 5 minutes, I'm undecided. It's not Reddit, which is probably a good thing at this point. I need to spend more time here...

Not bad, need to sub to more communities, I do wish the app would support collapsing comment threads so I can more easily move on to the next root comment.

It took me about 30 mins of getting used to the idiosyncrasies and the bugs (btw people most of the bugs are issues in github, go vote or comment!). Once I did I have been happy as a clam.

this is more fun than reddit has been in years!

The vibe is cool

I think it's fun and has tons of potential. I really enjoy learning new things though.

i'm loving it - even the rawness of it - eg kbin grinding at the moment - it feels like you're a part of the development. my only concern is what happens where there are multiple large communities/magazines/whatever.your.instance.calls.it. Say there's a !funny@lemmy and a !funny@kbin. would be great if these could be aggregated together some how. There could be a lot of duplication across communities. Or will one rise supreme and the others dwindle to nothingness? who knows.

I'm enjoying the kbin/lemmy quite a bit. People are nicer, and reminds me of the old internet a lot.

Quite nice.

The feature I want the most is for posts to auto-hide if I have upvoted/downvoted.

I tried using Jerboa, but there doesn't seem to be way to login, but everything insists that you login first. I guess I'll stick with it in Chrome until someone comes up with Lemmy Is Fun.

I just signed up after looking for alternatives and it looks clean (so far). NGL, i miss some of the communities that i frequent but if this is for the common good, I'll suck it up and trod forward.

Getting used to it, very promising. I need a better understanding of how the Fediverse aggregates. How do I see what's trending beyond just lemmy.world instance? How do I browse their channel lists from here?

I'm looking it, though I haven't found much good content yet. Gotta do a serious community search.

Sidenote: anyone know if I can replicate Reddit's "hide post after upvoting" behavior?

I like it very much, i miss some more options, but the first impression is damn good and i’m happy.

I feel like the algorithm is weighted too strongly towards upvoted posts. I know there are new ones out there, but I opened my app this morning to see everything is from 17 hours ago.

I'm loving it. However, I'm really frustrated at how many of the good instances have closed sign ups.

I love your username! And yeah, I like the direction of where Lemmy is going, especially with the number of users migrating. I used to hate how there were so many things going on in Reddit, however here it's a lot more minimalistic as it's still a very small community. Reminds me of simpler times back then.

I like that the interface is a bit different. Figuring lemmy out is distracting me from my pathetic Reddit withdrawals lol

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.

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 “content”.

Going by my gut feeling, it feels a lot like what other people say about Reddit in its early days (that i wasn't a part of)

The text box you get when creating a new post is ridiculously tiny

@SpezCanLigmaBalls I am getting used to it, but of course there’s still stuff to be addressed. PLEASE does anyone know how to block a specific NSFW community/user on Lemmy even though I have the “Adult Content” option set properly? Can’t seem to find info on this.

I'm already worried about defederations happening and mods of federations getting too big headed on blocking communities.

Seems promising. It’s weird that I can log in using safari but not brave

not enough videos .

So far I'm liking it. Now testing kbin and seems like there's some federating issues and search issues (might be one problem tho) but other than that This is very close what I want. Now we need all the subreddits and it's people to be active here so that it would work as alternative. I was not that active reddit user but there is so much useful materials that people have generated over the years that needs to be here as well.

Its ok so far after a day of messing around. lemmy.ca is VERY slow sometimes

Still figuring things out but liking lemmy thus far!

Its much harder as a lurker. I do actively contribute to a few communities on Reddit, but they're smaller ones that are unlikely to make the swap :\

It's okay. Most mods are pretty nasty tho