I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be

I’m quite lost, and don’t think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I’m even using those words properly).

I’ll do it like Reddit 10 years ago… wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.

Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

I also don’t like the fact that the search function doesn’t let me select communities until I’ve already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to “All”.

I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.

I’m a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.

That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.

Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.

Guys, it’s wild. Let’s go.

At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing and hopefully we will also get some awesome mobile apps. Overall it’s very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

It works, at least. The only issue I’m seeing is that if I try to follow ‘sublemmies’ (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in ‘subscribe pending’. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.

Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D

I like how it works! I don’t like the default web UI. For a ton of reasons. I’d love to see someone make a more old reddit-like one.

I’ve honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.

Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we’ve been used to over on Reddit, but they’re also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.

That said, there’s still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn’t to knock on the devs - I’m thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.

It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.

It’s really cool so far. I am enjoying it.

Fuck Spez