Pretty nice. I just wish more people were here. The occasional bug is fine it seems to be fixed quickly.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Not gonna lie it was really confusing to begin with, even with a guide. Partially because I dropped by kbin first.
Lemmy is really good. It's not perfect, but obviously has great potential.
My only issue has been telling other people (in real life) about it, or convincing anyone to try it. The whole concept of the fediverse and related platfoms is too technical for the commoner to understand why it's so important in the first place.
Meh it's missing a lot of QoL. It would have been nice if Lemmy had 'default subs' just as reddit did. Perhaps there are some Lemmy instances that do this?
I find it very hard to find subs to subscribe to (overview of existing subs is terrible), and the subs I did find are much less active than on reddit (even compared to smaller subreddits)
Plus the app I am using (wefwef) is clunky in its design; collapsing comments is clunky, downvoting is somehow ridiculously hard to figure out, and there is no consistant 'back' navigation item (switching between the android back-button in the bottom, and a cancel button at the top, without any consistency or logic)
Overall: if reddit would come back online tomorrow, I'd go back in a heartbeat. It's like the Lemmy developers are filled with IT people and lacking in psychologists, sociologists and UX experts.
Jerboa is a pretty good app for Android. Can't wait for sync for lemmmy to come out though.
It's surprisingly good. I thought it would be more dead, but it actually makes for quite a nice replacement with plenty of content.
It would be nice to have a place to discuss world events without trolls brigading every thread.
As a former reddit sync app user, finding "liftoff" helped make the transition a smoother experience. I've been enjoying hunting for new communities to join and watching them grow.
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I'm honest, I still don't get the universe concept. I am going on the site via feddit, which is the German version, I guess? If I want to see everything, I need to go to lemmy.world? If I get an app for it, what would it route me to?
It should be fine after a while if people stay here, but for now it's still in its infancy when it comes to user friendliness, I think.
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Quite well. It motivated me to build my own Lemmy client and it makes me enjoy Lemmy a lot more!
I'm interested in doing the same. Can you walk through what you did?
Im enjoying it so far, i think ive figured most of it out, got myself on a nice smaller local instance and everything is loading properly, and im consuming the information.
Enjoying it a lot. Set up my own instance to try out, and exploring a lot of others. I enjoy the community a ton!
High quality content makes my scrolling more enjoyable and less depressing.
BUT vastly smaller community means it's harder to get questions answered. Reddit was my goto for all kinds of things that I have now turned to ChatGPT for.