Asklemmy

its been great, i been posting in the Hexbear instance for like 2 years, i decided to make an account here while i wait for HB to federate with the rest of lemmy

It's been great. I'm allergic to social media, yet Lemmy does not feel like social media (to me at least). I hope that the Reddit horde won't turn it into a toxic cesspool.

I joined a year ago, and it seems that activity and users are growing everyday. I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I'm in lurking mode most of the time.

Needs more discoverability

Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.

Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.

Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.

I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.

Poor. I can't find the communities I miss from Reddit.

• PC Gaming
• 3d printing
• Washington dc (not enough users to be regional yet)
• Progressive news and thinking

Help?

We need better discoverability.

I'm having fun exploring the fediverse and learning how this all works. There is a decent amount of chatter on lemmy already which adds to the joy of scrolling.

I have found myself getting into an unfortunate loop where if I'm on my lemmy I accidentally end up on another instance and then get all lost at how to follow a community on another instance. Lemmy also seems to load really slowly for me, but that's not the end of the world.

Kbin solves a lot of these issues even if it's generally rougher around the edges. Having a clearer "front page" without getting lost in instances and communities helps a lot. Everything loads faster and I don't end up unable to interact after clicking a link.

That's my pretty initial reactions. I'll go play with it all some more and probably have a better feel later!

I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.

I just want Apollo to switch to Lemmy now like Ivory did. A good mobile client is what’s missing.

I'm enjoying it! Smaller community feels cozy, I even started commenting (was a lurker on Reddit). Although there's always a room for improvement. I occasionally lose comments because of some bugs or server issues, sometimes opening things just leads to refreshing of the main page and you lose the post and so on

theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)

I believe here its simply called "communities".

I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.

I love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.

I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)

I only ever lurked Reddit and am yet to change that here, but I am finding it nice to use. Once more communities, particularly niche interests, get a good amount of frequent users I think it will be an absolute joy to participate in.

So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.

Joining communities is very counter-intuitive. They are spread around and I ended up joining lemmy.ml communities exclusively, from another instance.

We could use much more space for the text, so far the text is way too concentrated in the middle of the screen in a narrow column.

Now on the content I'm rather satisfied. It's still a bit low in volume and if you compare to reddit it's really small, but we will catch up soon. We should lower our expectations and start building anew.

@bruhsoulz
It's been good! I have to say my favorite element has been figuring out different ways that I can blend my Lemmy interactions with my Mastodon use.

I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.

There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.

On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.

UI issues/wants aside, loving the experience. I do miss some specific subs from Reddit - specifically r/videos. I haven't seem to have found a good alternative.

It's been amazing. It feels like the reddit of old and gives me early internet vibes. I'm way more involved with the community here than I was ever on reddit. I love it and I'm staying :)

I'm loving it!

As an aside, I know a lot of people are using Jerboa for their mobile browsing app of choice, but I've discovered that you can just use the Lemmy progressive web app (PWA) instead and get the same experience as desktop. In Chrome, login to whatever Lemmy instance you're registered with, click the triple dot menu, and click "install app". You'll get a "Lemmy" app downloaded and added to your homescreen that looks and functions just like the website.