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!
There’s a learning curve with “how do I know which instance to join?” and then “how do I find communities from other instances?” But I’m getting the hang of it.
What it needs most is a UI overhaul. If Apollo came to the fediverse it would be a game changer.
How do I choose an instance? I’ve made accounts of same name on Lemmy.ml, beehaw, and here. Which one I use, and what do I with the others?
I think you can just use whichever one you find most convenient, I would wager lemmy.ml would be your best bet as it’s the most active instance. The other accounts I think you could just keep as a backup in case the main lemmy.ml instance goes down.
Is there any point to having more than 1? As long as the instance isn’t shut down it shouldn’t really matter which one is “Home” right?
Right, as long as your instance’s server is up, you should be able to interact with any content using ActivityPub.
Lemmy.ml is a bit overcrowded at the moment as well apparently
Mlem is an Apollo inspired iOS app for Lemmy. Very barebones at the moment and in beta but inproving
I hadn’t thought about Apollo adapting to work with Lemmy. That would be a great pivot for Christian.
I put https://lemmyverse.net together to try and help out with this, maybe it can be slightly easier to find new communities.
Just loads a blank page for me (iOS, Chrome)
Interesting. I’ve only tested it on my Android and on Chrome/Firefox on PC. Only put it together over the weekend so I’ll have to do some more mobile testing 😁