I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of
Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!
Is this the part where we seize the means of production and eat the rich? Because I’m here for it.
Nah, we’re just seizing a little corner where the bosses mostly leave us alone.
Okay but if we eat the rich, I’m here for it
Just so we’re clear, we’re definitely eating the rich, right? Don’t just tell me we have the rich at home.
In case anyone was wondering, I’m pro eating the rich btw.
I think having friction to use it can end up as a good thing. Works as a good first filter for bad/low effort users.
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.
@WallCactus @SpezCanLigmaBalls Give it a good Day. Follow good communities stay on and you will get the hang of it. Just like when you first started using Reddit
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.
Liking the clean interface reminiscent of old reddit
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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.
As a fellow web dev/UX person, I agree completely. It would be neat if there was a FOSS project to create a Lemmy app with all the features that are missing from Jerboa
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.
Signed up today, liking it a lot. Looking forward to learning more about it, seems like a viable reddit alternative.
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.
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 really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be
Yes! It sorta reminds me of the early days of Reddit ironically. It has a nostalgic charm to it.
I’ve been on Reddit for 17 years. Definitely reminds me of when it was a much smaller community.
Was just saying this to my friend. Big difference is it is auto darkmode and not white like reddit was.
Default dark mode is the sign of a good platform.
i like that it [at least in the foreseeable future] won’t debut some vomit-ass new design whose only purpose is to make number go up
Yes a similar thing happened on voat, but voat died and it wasn’t just because of the trolls. It was because the only people who commented commented about reddit, it was basically a reddit based forum, and when people got tired of complaining about reddit they just left. Make sure to use this community as much as possible to grow it and keep it this way. Make it a habit to login daily and replace bad habits with this new habit. And 9/10 your favorite community won’t exist here, and I highly encourage you to build it if it doesn’t and then promote it. I am doing that for /c/frugal: https://lemmy.world/c/frugal
I think instead of solely talking about Reddit, people are creating communities based off reddit communities like c/tifu or c/mildlyinfuriating and carrying on as usual so I’m hopeful that the same thing won’t happen to lemmy!
And the reddit blackout is forcing people into the habit of using lemmy. Ideally that habit replaces the old one.
It feels very raw and less curated which I like. It feels more like I’m interacting with people and less like I’m interacting with an algorithm
Or what some mod thinks you should and should not be seeing.
All I’m missing right now is sorting (comments at least) by new, top or best etc
That feature exists, unless you’re posting from mastodon or some other platform?
It doesn’t appear to exist in Jerboa, the Android client
I don’t know about 3rd-party tools, but the default web client has it: Hot/Top/New/Old
Did you find it? It’s in the upper right hand corner. Not sure if it’s a new addition since you posted this.
Still not there
How to open options
Options
That sorts posts, not comments, which is what the previous commenter was asking about.
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.
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.
I am very excited to see what kinds of moderator tools pop up, for sure. I love this a bit more than I thought I would even though yes, getting started does feel pretty wobbly. lol
Using Mastodon for years now, I’m familiar with the structure and liking it. But I’m afraid most of the smaller subreddits that I followed won’t migrate here.
Can you name a few? Are they really that niche?
Many of the subs are going dark, so I can’t view everything. Here are some under 10k: r/Balconygardening r/filen_io r/MagicaVoxel r/saneprepping r/shotcut r/HistoricalFencing r/SimpleMobileTools r/volunteerplants
Under 50k: r/archeologyworld r/containergardening r/wma r/fonts r/Inkscape r/JewelsofRussia r/Mastodon r/Medievalart r/neverwinternights r/Banished r/EnaiRim r/opsec r/StainedGlass r/VOXEL r/vtmb r/WhiteWolfRPG
These are some of them that’s still open to public view.
I’d imagine r/Mastodon would quickly find a replacement
Is historical Fencing about sword sports or garden walls?
It’s about using swords.
