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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!

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[–] thefingolfin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I'm really hoping for a slick app or community improvements to Jerboa. It's okay, just not as nice as I'm used to.

I'd really like an integrated option in android to "share to Jerboa" (or other Lemmy app) which would make link sharing easier

[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Concerned regarding the state of apps in iOS, probably will have to mourn the loss of Apollo (which was absolutely amazing)

[–] Richard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It’s promising, but I miss having Apollo (or similar) as my interface for the service. I very rarely used Reddit via a browser so not having that robust app is a loss. We’ll see if any of the app developers that have been impacted by Reddits API changes look to support the platform.

Started using Mastodon this year and it was conveniently at the time Ivory, Ice Cubes and Mona were all in the process of shipping beta or final releases. It made the whole experience much more seamless. Mastodon benefited from 6 months of prior unrest in the Twitter community and Devs were already transitioning when Twitter pulled the rug out under them. I think Lemmy will be a harder transition in that respect.

Keen to see how it develops but.

Edit: also interested to see how the decentralised nature of it all plays out for this sort of service which focuses on communities. For Mastodon it seems fine to follow people on other services where it’s still a 1:1 interaction (I with one account follow someone with presumably one account). I’m sort of curious to see how things will scale and play out when you have a dozen different Lemmy services all with their own β€œApple”, β€œmusic”, β€œtech” communities and if that dilutes the conversation or allows it to be broader. Bit concerned things may get spread a bit thin at the conversation level, even accounting for the fact accounts can cross post.

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[–] chalkman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I like it so far, it has a low key relaxed energy. I mostly used reddit for the smaller communities so this kinda works for me.

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[–] Azabs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Great, it's very similar to old reddit. It only needs a little more content.

[–] octet33@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Fine.

To be fair, I used Mastodon long before Elon acquired twitter, so I'm pretty comfortable with federated social media. The fragmentation inherent to federation might make small communities difficult to form, but it also protects against the eternal specter of power-tripping mods, so I can't complain.

I just hope it doesn't have the same memory utilization as the Mastodon web client. Seriously. I flat-out can't leave a single Mastodon tab open in the background, because it'll eat all my RAM. No other social media I've used does this.

[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm really enjoying it and no regrets on making the switch.

Initially took a few moments for the penny to drop with the regards to the different instances etc. But using the Jerboa app is not a million miles away from the app I used to use for Reddit (Boost).

Just incredibly glad to have an alternative.

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[–] gumi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I think it's a lot more confusing.

[–] Mjb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml performance is... slow due to overloading, and other lemmy servers sign-ins are busted - endless loading circles, endless createPostLike console log spam.

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[–] scifu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Great so far. I am on .word shit just works and kbin. Trying to decide which one I like more and as a fail safe during downtime of one instance. But getting a hang of lemmy (and kbin) I like it so far after 7 years of daily Reddit.

[–] Optiprism@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Out of all the fediverse things, subreddits translate most well to instances, so it's less confusing than say mastadon, I'd say.

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[–] rlaimondas@venera.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Devilized@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm interested to see what this turns into. As a Reddit refugee, I'm trying to figure out if I want to jump right into here or take some time away from social media and wait to see what bubbles to the top.

[–] hllywluis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And definitely taking a mental health break from social media is totally ok! I actually had to do a paper on the mental effects of social media in university so I totally understand where you're coming from.

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[–] Continuous@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was a bit confusing, I'm still a little confused on why I would choose one instance over another (I kinda just picked one?) And then there's the communities within the instances, I see some that are duplicates between instances and I'm not sure if I should just subscribe to the one on my instance or can I subscribe to the others? Are the vibes different? I'm sure I'll get used to it, I just haven't had to be an internet pioneer in many years.

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[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 3 points 2 years ago

I'm not new since I was always aware of Lemmy but only seriously considering it right now due to the whole Reddit fiasco. I just hope that after the drama and migration dies down, people here stay friendly like how it is right now. Also, I hope the mass migration can start to attract mobile devs to contribute or fork existing projects like Jerboa or even come up with alternatives. I'm optimistic.

[–] defaultcube@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I like it a lot so far! Most of the time it's pretty much indistinguishable from how Reddit used to be, with the only annoyance being that any interaction with an instance other than the one your account is on has a very noticeable lag, but I guess that can't really be helped.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Personally I found it pretty simple, but I'm aware I'm a little bit more tech literate than the population in general. Not as many communities on here yet for me but it's early days. I guess "be the change you want to see" applies so really I should put some effort into setting that up.

So, honestly, the only thing that concerns me is duplication of various "subreddits", for a lack of better term.

I searched for Technology, and I found two different ones. I know that's how the Fediverse works, but it may cause confusion and drive down user engagement

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