So far, so good. The official Android app needs work but the desktop site works well. Deleted Reddit and not looking back.
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I think it's kindof hard to find topics, because even if you set a filter the auto refresh ignores the filter. Still waiting for communities to pop up that match tastes.
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.
I like it alot. I used RIF and it's very similar, plus how I interacted with reddit is kinda how lemmy is set up anyway. Small community, simple mostly text based view, sort by new.
The only bothersome bugs I've come across so far are: upvoting/commenting within inbox should be accessible with out click and hold, and the upvote itself is very laggy in the inbox as well. And posting a picture taken with phone gets turned sideways for some reason. Some one smarter than me will figure it out I'm sure.
Iβm enjoying it thus far. I wasnβt a serious Reddit user when it first launched but became more frequent about 6 years after it launched. Lemmy still feels more like what Reddit did even in 2011.
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.
I like it, but there are issues like timeouts when I try to sub/comment on some posts, but I'll take it if it means being free of corporate control
As an iOS user on safari, where is the damn βbackβ button!? I end up reading then having to return to the main menu and re-scroll down. Is this a lacking feature or am I just an idiot?
I'm strongly, strongly tempted to go on an angry rant about the unusability of the front page jumping around constantly. I'm thinking of donating in order to help out, because I love the idea of a federated forum/news aggregator. Is this a new bug, or something?
A bit rough on the edges and scarce in content but I'm hopeful it will improve with time.
I've gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I'm loving this so far, there'll be things I'll miss of course.
So far good. Great that it has mobile app on google play already. It just needs little bit more activity to get more users here.
I dislike how in the app there's no functional inline image/video viewer, at least on my end (unsure if it's not working on my end or its just something everyone lives with).
So far I'm enjoying the mobile interface on the website more than using jerboa. It'd be nice to get more random stuff on my feed while in ALL view, but I'm not sure if it's because of the instance I'm on or just that there's not much activity. It just makes it harder to find new communities if I've got to go hunting for them. Sometimes I like to see things I hadn't previously thought about, it's more fun to get the random stuff like that.
I'm a fan of it so far. It's slower paced at the moment and I feel like I can keep up with a smaller number of communities.
I've been going back and forth between Lemmy and kBin (?). Can't decide which I prefer at this point. I like that kbin has 'tags' when I post a link. (I post a lot of links in my mod role over on reddit.)
I did most of my fediverse learning curve late last year during the twitter migration, so this was no sweat for me.
So far I miss being able to see a graphic associated with links I post--but maybe that feature will arrive one day... I'm prepared to have plenty of patience and look forward to watching how things improve.
It will be interesting to see if this migration matches the twitter adoption curve: lot's of initial excitement, then a big dropping off of participation (which may be a typical pattern of any online adoption?)
I'm enjoying it more than reddit for the time being for the same reason I enjoyed reddit before it was commercialized. The slight technical barrier to entry is keeping the braindead out for now.
Kind of a catch 22 though, because you need to have some of the idiots to flesh out the population. Time will tell.
Don't miss reddit one bit, this is great! Feels fresh. I like the user interface of Jerboa, slim and not much clutter. Once in a while I get an error, but going back and forth fixes it.
Honestly a great transition. Now I'm looking to replace all sm with fediverse alternatives
I like the people and I trust I'm not stuck talking to some Marvel inc corporate intern tasked with promotion for the day on some sub reddit that's run by the company but made to look like a grassroots community
i like the minimal look as it mirrors my RES and old.r settings. I would like the ability to stretch the pages out to fill in the empty voids of my 1440 window though. At the moment it looks like Lemmy was built on a mobile portrait view only.
I like the UI, only thing I've noticed is that comments and upvotes can take quite some time to show up