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It's buggy, but I'm managing. Weird things like having to press the "Subscribe" button twice. I'm assuming most will be solved when traffic stabilizes.
The federation is.. strange. Confusing when I click a link to another instance when trying to subscribe to a community, but also kinda cool how it works. I'm not sure federation should really be a concern for users, but time will tell. I'm sure it will only improve.
I'm also testing out jerboa atm. And it's a bit rough around the edges, but gets the job done well enough. Still haven't explored too much of the Lemmyverse, but looking forward to digging in a bit deeper.
coming along well, will take a while for users to spread out and not just mass on one large server, we need to spread out to keep this working and viable for the future.
To do that however, we need better ways to find communities on other instances, and more easily link to them with links that work on each users instance URLs. at the moment if I do !technology@beehaw.org or !technology@lemmy.ml those will take you off your current instance unless you are already on it, losing your login. The average user wont expect that and might not even notice they are on a totally different website and wonder why their logins don't work.
Apparently all of this as well as aggregated topic subscriptions (so you don't need to find and subscribe to 10 different communities for one topic) are being worked on, that will be very cool.
I love it. It feels like a more niche community (that's a plus). There's a strong sense of community here. I also like the UI (except for kbin--which I know isn't Lemmy--I can't seem to collapse comments there). Is it a little janky? Yes--and I'd argue that's part of the charm, sometimes.
I'm really liking it! Federation is cool and everyone is so chilled. Not missing the cesspool of Reddit infighting
i like the community but
The main thing I miss is being able to have things disappear from my front page after I press like or dislike on them.
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Enjoying it so far but there's a lot of posts about reddit and not much else for the time being.
Anything that takes social media out of the power of greedy corporations is an A+ in my book.
I like it - I just want a few Reddit-ish features:
I still don't quite understand how it works, instances and all that.. but I'll figure it out, and I'm here for the cause.
Ok so far. Only complaint is posts moving when new posts get added while I'm in the middle of scrolling. It's a little clunky.
It’s been great so far. I’ve mostly been using Mlem on IOS. Still early in development but it gets better everyday. Even though I was on Reddit for 8+ years I have no intentions on going back to it. There is potential here and I hope we can tap in to it.
Obviously not enohgh content or communities here, but the bones here seem good and that is what's important starting out.
The platform is fine and being able to subscribe across Lemmy instances is nice (i.e. I'm not even on Beehaw but here I am anyway) - it just needs more users and content.
The main issue is going to be getting that critical mass of users, especially on a platform that isn't quite as straightforward as a centralized one. Trying to explain how Lemmy works to my wife just left her confused and wondering what the point was. Getting people like her to make the jump to a federated platform is going to take time, effort, and - most importantly - content.