Yeah I’m much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I’m actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.
And I feel like there’s a lot less algorithm generated aggression. It’s nice, reminds me of reddit back in the earlier days.
You also don’t have a 50% chance the comment you’re replying to is from a bot and copy and pasted either from that post, another random post, or even the original post that a repost bot stole posted snd you are now commenting on. Reddit is a bot riddled mess.
It’s nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don’t see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that’s alright because it’s just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
…yet
I always wondered how reddit would solve it’s not problem, I never knew it would be by driving all the real people to other platforms
Your voice DOES matter. Heck if you have an idea for an improvement or a change or anything open and issue on the GitHub. It may not get added immediately, but if it’s a good idea it’ll eventually get added
I actually fixed a minor build error on windows by telling git to change all the line endings to lf lol
Agreed, big time. I have a few gripes with this platform, but it’s just starting, just had a huge amount of users come so it’s manageable. I kind of don’t want the massive reddit user base.
I’m struggling to figure out where to find all the posts. I’m subscribing to communities and stuff but the same old posts keep appearing on the feed for 24hrs+. I’m flicking around with filters and manually exploring a lot and find things. It feels like I’m doing something wrong. Like there’s two new posts an hour in total.
I’m probably doing it all wrong. I don’t even really know what the point of subscribing is since I need to go into communities to see things, otherwise nothing shows up on the feed.
I’m bouncing between 4 apps, though, so kind of hamstring myself with familiarity.
Using the active filter seems to be the worst for that. I find hot gets me the best stuff and then new if you’re desperate. Top for the day is always good too.
Also change what setting the instance is on all is like old reddit all shows everything from every instance that is federated. Local is everything from the home instance like a watered down all and subscribed shows you only stuff from communities you add. These options have been available on all of the instances I’ve used so far.
Two buttons and the one is just like reddit but active is trash.
“Active” sorts by which post got commented on most recently, like what you’d find on a forum. Popular posts tend to get commented more, so they stick to the top.
I find sorting ‘All’ by new has been helpful. I’m new here too.
I like to sort by All/hot and All/new.
If you subscribe to some communities, you WILL have an option to see posts only from those communities, you shouldn’t have to go into a community unless you only want to see posts from that particular one. Also, I’m new but the default sort is usually “active”, which I assume means posts which have a lot of activity, such as comments. Try setting it to hot or something else to check whether you get a better variety of posts.
Be sure to set your filter to “subscribed” or “all” instead of “local”, and give it a few seconds to load content from other instances.
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Yep, we get to watch it grow and I can be patient for that: I’m along for the ride. It’s kind of like the people who have been playing a video game since alpha get to appreciate all the features that were introduced along the way that the rest of us take for granted. I’m predicting a flood of apps for the Fediverse since it’s the most obvious next step for the third party app developers that have no Reddit to design for anymore.
Agree. This is just the early stages, and it will improve as time goes on. Just the fact that there are so many different apps for both Android and iOS means that Lemmy’s communities will grow, and I’m excited for the future.
+1 It’s their thriving early day with new concept of social network. It need sometime to adjust, mending, improving and whatnot. But I’m pretty sure it will be better than ye’ old TW/RD day.
I’m happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it’ll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we’ll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.
The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the “Reddit moderator” stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?
also helps putting things into perspective when you remember that Reddit has these issues at least once every week
When I started on Reddit 14 years ago these issues would be daily or more. It was pretty unstable under load.
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Lol I came here to same thing. Reddit went down quite frequently too.
i feel so dirty going on reddit. it’s like going to mcdonalds
To me it feels like texting an ex after a breakup. I know I shouldn’t but…
So dirty… 🙃 Oh wait nevermind all the NSFW are gone in the API
My oldest reddit account was 13 or 14 years old. I remember when reddit would go down several times a week. Growing pains are just part of the deal!
The comments timed out twice for me before it would load on Jerboa. That’s just perfect. 👌
Try wefwef, it’s hands down more polished than the Lemmy web UI and Jerboa.
The meme sub is spearheading the migration!
Meme it and they will come
Even better, because Patrick’s rock wins in the end!
SPOILER ALERT NEXT TIME PLEASE
Absolutely. I will tolerate hours of downtime and indefinite periods of fuckiness, because at least it’s not Reddit. I know I’m valued here. We all are.
I extend the same consideration to the Lemmy apps as well. They’re all in various stages of development, but as buggy as they can be, they run better than the official Reddit app even now.
Definitely getting a feel for it. It’s ALMOST the same but not quite
A very interesting and reassuring mix of novelty and familiarity. Welcome to the other side 😃
Source: Jumped ship right after the initial strikes.
Used Apollo before. Now I’m on wefwef and it literally feels like nothing changed lmao.
Lemmy is fine but it keeps showing me the same exact post in the same order like it doesn’t detect I’ve already seen a post and shows me it again when I restart the app.
It should be a bug, this post does not disappear from my feed.
Helps if you sort by new. Something about “hot” seems a bit broken sometimes especially on the mobile app Jerboa where I was seeing weeks old stuff sorted by hot even though when I switched to new I could see plenty of new material with a lot of interaction and voting. I had to find alternatives apps in the end.
It also works better if you switch the feed to All or or Subscribed. Also a good idea to go hunting for a large number of communities on a number of instances to be subscribed to.
There’s a setting for this, Show Read Posts. The manual doesn’t specify how lemmy discovers that you read a post. I read in a different comment that you have to interact with it (i.e., vote). I don’t know if that’s true.
To be fair, reddit’s first post always was the same for me, too.
Using wefwef on iOS is making me feel like the migration didn’t even happen
… it’s available on ios? i couldn’t find it at the apple store.
wefwef is a PWA (Progressive Web App).
What this means is that you can “install” it by going to https://wefwef.app, tapping on Share and then tapping “Add to Home screen” on the share sheet.
It will open the “web page” in full screen mode and will look and function a LOT like Apollo used to.
Hope this helps!
Anyone impatient with Lemmy bugs or downtime clearly wasn’t around for Reddit’s early days.
Scaling up social websites is never smooth. Expect bumps.
Lemmy has gone from having no viable apps a few weeks ago to having several under active development that are getting better every day. It’s actually impressive. I’ve spent so little time on Reddit today.
My only wish is that Apollo comes back as a Lemmy client in the near future.
It also HIGHLY depends where you sign up. Over at feddit I couldn’t login to browser on PC anymore, couldn’t change my password, which in turn fucked up my login process overall (aka being stuck with Safari and the App I already was logged in), updates aren’t made and a lot of shit is blocked or defederated because of reasons (some even make a lot of sense, so no hard feelings here).
To be fair, it seems like some users on Lemmy.world had the same problems with logins last week. We are still in the try things out until something sticks phase.
I had a feeling some of the larger instances would be feeling the heat. Tried to pick something a little less mainline.
Just using Connect For Lemmy until Boost has a release out. Been nice and stable so far :)
This is why you shouldn’t serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it’s ok if it’s for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I’m not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server’s HDD.
This is why you shouldn’t serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it’s ok if it’s for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I’m not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server’s HDD.
This is why you shouldn’t serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it’s ok if it’s for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I’m not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server’s HDD.
Is there some sort of comment duping going on? This is the third time I’ve seen this sort of thing here on Lemmy.
Probably the same thing that happens with Reddit. A slow connection doesn’t get confirmation of posting as fast as it wants so it sends the post again.
When I use Jerboa or Connect, sometimes it’ll say my comment failed to post when it actually worked. I’ll then retry, which results in a double post.
ah the typical two generals problem
This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.
I ain’t even mad. You’ve got a good heart, soldier.
Me on wefwef unable to see shit every morning. Its okay tho. It’ll get there.
