I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
I love it here and I’ll express myself and show love to all with manatees
Much like when I went from Twitter to Mastodon, finding “my people” is a lot more work. It’s unpleasantly easy for links to a community to take me directly to that instance instead of leaving my on my instance where I’d be able to subscribe and interact. But also like Mastodon, the experience is much nicer once things start getting set up. Really nice not getting pestered to use the app constantly!
I want to second that it’s very frustrating how links tend to go to the parent instance rather than my instance, as it seems like that’s seldom what a user would want.
Pretty much the same thing for me. I’m finding it very annoying to be taken to the instance, there must be an easier way.
Yeah there needs to be a little more user intent “modelling” (probably no more than just a quick sense check really) on some of the design decisions.
I was thinking about suggesting a “watched instance” status that would contribute to a feed that sits between “all” and “subscribed”, so if I find an instance say mytown.org, then I can get a Watched feed like All but just every community for my town. This would differ from All which would allow federated communities such as arguments@farawaytown.net to appear in the feed.
Sorry if this has been asked before. But my front page seems to dynamically add new posts as I’m scrolling. It makes me lose my place during the scroll. How can I have it just load once at start, and then allow me to scroll through?
It’s pretty cool so far. Takes some getting used to, little buggy here and there, but nothing intolerable. People are more respectful on here. On reddit and most all other platforms, I just lurked for the most part to avoid getting “aKsHuAlLy’D” by some angry poster. It’s chill here and it’s got potential -
This. It’s so annoying posting my own opinion or some comment that isn’t annoying or karma farming at all, and seeing it get downvoted.
The one thing I’m struggling with is how do I find a subreddit equivalent? For example r/formula1 or r/UKpolitics on Reddit might be… What?
Also is it possible to find these communities using Jerboa or so I need to login on my desktop?
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Many specific subreddits don’t have equivalents yet; check Communities (top bar on website)/All. On Jerboa the Communities button is the three dots on the bottom bar: https://reddthat.com/post/8623
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cool that it’s written in Rust also decentralization (not the blockchain kind) is the future, but…
lemmy ui feels kinda unpolished, and sometimes community join requests just hang forever.Yeah, the odd hangs are a little iffy (subscribing and upvoting). Though I actually like the UI so far since it’s very clean. If I care enough I could always implement my own custom CSS using the “Stylus” extension in chrome/edge.
I only disagreed regarding the UI. I like it.
Although there is always room for improvement.
You can like the UI while also agreeing it is unpolished. It needs a lot of when before it’s ready for prime time
The interface is nice and friendly, but the way the fediverse and the different instances works is kind of confusing. Still not sure what that’s all about
If you think about it like Email, it’s exactly the same. Why we have multiple instances? Well why does the United States has multiple states with different laws and governments? That’s what federation is about.
Doctor StrangeNutomic broke the barriers of themultiversefediverse and now everyone from eachuniverseinstance can visit the other. A lot of stuff is the same like they all havespoodermanc/memes but all of them are also kinda different in their own way.And
DCother instances are in themultiversefediverse too but aren’t allowed in theMarvel universeparticular instances forlegal reasonspersonal reasons so you might sometimes have to go to aDC moviedifferent instance in disguise with afake mustachealt account.This is my understanding of it
Thank you it all makes sense now
It’s just something to get the hang of. Currently somewhat confusing, but not insurmountable. It does feel a lot like Reddit did some thirteen years ago. This is a nice blend of modern and easy to use, and has a whiff of my early days on the internet (bb’s, forums, etc) without measuring internet speeds in kbps, which is nice.
I wish threaded comments would nest more even though that only plays well with desktop usage. It was the nicest feature of reddit to follow threaded conversations with ease.
I think the biggest issue is going to be discoverability of the largest community for a specific interest. For example, if people are interested in Diablo IV they are going to want to swarm to the instance with the largest community. Making that easy to find will grow communities very quickly.
I’m really enjoying Lemmy so far, it’s a lot different from Reddit but at the same time feels familiar. I understand and like the concept of a bunch of small hosted servers federated together. I feel like if user logins were also federated that would solve a ton of the onboarding issues for new people. I really miss default subreddits too.
+1 to default subs, it would help new users get going at least.
It’s gone quite smoothly so far - found an instance local to me and joined, subscribed to a bunch of communities, installed Jerboa and set it up - didn’t hit any roadblocks.
The cross-server subscription thing is a bit counter-intuitive, but this seems to be an issue that people are already aware of. The Fediverse lengthy signup ritual of choosing an instance is there, but that’s just a feature of how the medium works and I’m already familiar with the issues from Mastodon, so it didn’t bother me.
I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:
- The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I’m aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that’s less than ideal)
- The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I’m aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it’s vital to the success of Lemmy.
The first point is CRUCIAL for setting up your own “scrolling page/account” for, since the instances are only very vague directions, at least while the site is still growing. And in a similiar vein, the second point with B) would be better than manually blocking communities I genuinely have no interest whatsoever in, like fountain pens (unless I don’t know how to operate this site yet).
In fact, C) feels unnecessary because of that right now, since I already see many new communities just in my instance alone. Though it WOULD add things to browse since there isn’t as much happening here, yet…
Have you seen the search option, in the top right corner? Is that not enough to you? It works ok for me.
You can’t discover every community throughout the lemmy’s fediverse that way though. Only the communities that other users previously subscribed/searched for. https://browse.feddit.de/ is the thing to use if you’d like to see everything
I was new to Reddit (3 weeks of activity), and switching to Lemmy is a bit confusing. But one evening is enough to learn the basics, I hope. Let’s keep it rolling. :)
I find it easier than using mastodon for the first time tbh
Agreed. I’m finding a lot more stuff to do here.
One thing I do miss a bit from the Spezhole is the ability to just mindlessly scroll through all the links from all the communities I’m subscribed to. If that is here already, I haven’t found it yet. But I am enjoying the vibe quite a bit more.
I’ve been trying to do that here as well. I looked through my subscriptions on reddit and used browse.feddit.de to find equivalent communities. My feed is okay now, there’s still a lot of meta content about lemmy, which I find a bit boring. It alls takes a bit getting the hang of subscribing to a new community through the interface
I think Lemmy seems like a good idea and generally like it so far, but i do think that users that aren’t that tech savvy may have issues. It’s also nice that the servers are customizable in a way, but at the same time if you pick certain servers you can’t see down votes, or creating communities might be disabled which will seem inconsistent to newcomers that think of Lemmy as a more traditional platform like Reddit that only has one instance. The community search is also pretty clunky, a lot of users will probably have trouble understanding why they can’t just find all available communities instead of writing an obscure email-like string that still says “no results”, but then magically after searching again it will be there. I would say some areas are unpolished and even a bit buggy at times too. I figured these things out pretty fast, but being a software dev myself, i know that an end-user may struggle a lot more with these things, to the point where they may just abandon the platform out of frustration. I hope some of the rough edges can be smoothed out because the idea of this platform is definitely interesting, but if average people can’t use it it’s less likely to really succeed. I must admit that even i am a bit skeptical, and i may have to return to Reddit if not enough users/content migrate to this platform, even though i don’t really like many of the decisions Reddit make. I’m giving it a fair shot though and i definitely like it so far.
