I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of
Yeah, I’m enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They’re not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they’re smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it’s definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.
But with the decentralized nature of it, we don’t have to worry about that happening again!
I really like the new style of interactions, even though I do currently miss the hundreds of thousands of funny/dumb comments some posts had (hoping that will happen eventually though)
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.
If on android, there’s Jerboa for an app. Kbin is working on an app iirc. It’s all open source too, so if it really picks up there will probably be a few others that pop up eventually.
KBin is also a PWA so pretty “app-like” already.
I can’t get kbin to “install” on my phone as a pwa. When I click “add to home screen” I just get a blurry icon and the navbar at the top of the page is still there. Am I missing something? Lemmys app and higher user count is what got me to settle on it instead of kbin but if I could get the pwa working I might give kbin a fairer shot.
That’s really odd! It sounds like you’re doing things right. You might try another browser? PWAs live in the mobile browser so sometimes that can help.
I appreciate the suggestion, but I thought the same thing and tried switching from Firefox to Chrome and got the same problem. Even updated both browsers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is Jerboa for Lemmy if you want to use an app.
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It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.
Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.
I like Lemmy a lot! I’m gonna stick around :)
I quite like the super-minimal interface design of fedia.io. I’m excited to see where this all goes.
I’m already worried about defederations happening and mods of federations getting too big headed on blocking communities.
I like it and there’s probably about as much traffic here was there was on reddit when I was started using it in the early 2010s. The design is nice and I like the federated concept although it is going to be a learning curve for some users. My particular home server is slow and down sometimes but in a way I feel its necessary to take some ownership and contribute to server improvements as we get more users if we want to sustain this.
Its a better experience than reddit so far, the communities are small, most people are respectful and its not just the same shit in recycling.
Exactly. Everyone on here has been awesome without any backhanded comments
I like it. But it will only feel like home when people are sharing all the ideas, advice, questions, news, and most importantly, shit-posting, that I previously got from reddit.
Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.
Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don’t like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn’t clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins
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.
I wish the layout was more responsive. When I look at it on desktop it still looks formatted for a phone.
It’s been taking like 20-30 seconds to submit a comment or post.
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.
Try Jerboa. Using it now and for being in alpha pretty solid.
It’s… OK. I’ve actually been thinking about doing a native app myself because losing some of the quality of life features from the reddit apps I love are the reason I’m pissed off with reddit in the first place. Luckily the lemmy api is easy to work with and if needed you can always host your own lemmy instance.
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.
