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It's looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!

Also written in Rust, btw :)

How do you know something is developed with Rust?

Don't worry, the devs will tell you.

Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)

I've also found this to be true with Julia devs

Source: am Julia dev

Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)

PHP!? They're writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?

Exactly right?

To the average Redditor I guess its fine, but to me its unacceptable haha.

Repo link: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

Welp, I guess I chose right after all.

There is:

The right choice
The other choice (PHP)
The wrong choice (PHP)

What makes rust so special?

God damn! Okay now I'm fully behind it

Fast because it's pointer-based like C, but better because it's memory safe, which means it won't crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it's own data constantly.

I'd say that it's fast because it's compiled to machine code and doesn't use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with "pointer-based".

Is there anything with no garbage collection that doesn't work with pointers? If the compiler is handling all the memory allocation for you it might as well just collect garbage, so I figured they were kind of synonymous.

Since we're now going into details, Rust is neat because they figured out a way to keep track of the memory safety of pointers at compile time. That's hard to do, which is why it's a new language and not the old standard.

I would argue that on the one hand you could say that the references to objects in garbage collected languages are also pointers.

On the other hand, you could argue that such references are not pointers, but then you might as well argue that references in rust are not pointers.

I just feel like "a language with pointers" is a weird way to describe a language and it isn't really something that causes the language to become fast. Pointers are low level constructs that are used all the time, and whether or not they are abstracted away in the high level language doesn't automatically make it slow or fast.

Hmm. Alright, what word would you use to differentiate C or Rust from, say, Python? I haven't actually made anything with Rust, but it sounds like you can store a reference in another structure like you can in C, but you can't AFAIK in Python.

You can store references in another structure, but you probably don't want to do this most of the time, since it's a major headache to get ownership and lifetimes right. You shouldn't think of references as pointers, but you should think of them as "borrows": you are temporarily borrowing something from the owner, but you can only do so if the owner exists. So you need to statically guarantee that for as long as you borrow it, the owner must be alive, which gets tricky when you store that borrow somewhere in some data structure. In practice, references or borrows will be short-lived, and most operations on data will be done by the owner of that data.

Underneath, references are represented by pointers, but you shouldn't think of them as pointers, but rather as something you have borrowed, so in that sense it's different from C.

Also, Python does use references everywhere, it's just implicit, and depends on the type. Try storing a list in a class: you've just stored a reference to another structure. Most things (e.g. lists, objects) are passed and stored by reference, some types like integers are copied. In Rust, you can choose whether you want to pass by reference, copy or move ownership. At this point we're still at a high level of abstraction, we don't think so much about whether this will be pointers at the low level.

But my main point is that whether you use pointers, references, or whether it's implicit or explicit doesn't make a language slow or fast, it just defines how programs are written. Rust is very fast because it's compiled to machine code and doesn't do garbage collection or have any other overhead from a "runtime". Python is relatively slow because it's interpreted. You could argue that more manual control over references/pointers can make a language faster, but it's not the main contributing factor.

I guess I could just say "Rust isn't garbage collected" but I feel like that would be meaningless to someone who doesn't think about compilation. I gravitated to manual pointer/reference control because that's the part you can actually see in the code, and it's pretty closely connected to the lack of garbage collection.

While I have your ear, "who" exactly are the owners in Rust? So far I've come to understand it from the aliasing XOR mutability perspective, so I don't really understand the more common terminology.

When you create an instance of a struct and assign it to a variable or field of another struct, that variable becomes the owner of that value. When you assign it to some other variable or pass it to a function that takes ownership, ownership will move. Otherwise, you will borrow. But there will always only be one owner for each value. That way you know exactly when to free up memory: whenever the owner is dropped.

So then when you say "most operations on data will be done by the owner of that data", do you mean ownership-taking functions? In my head a variable is like a bin, so it's odd to think of it doing any "operations" other than holding.

No, I phrased that poorly. What I meant is that if you have a struct that has some field (it owns that data), your operations on that data will be methods of that struct, and not some other struct that happens to have a reference to that struct. The latter is something people tend to do in OO languages like Java. In Rust, if a function accesses data, you usually "freshly" borrow from the owner of that data and pass it as argument to that function instead of relying on some "hidden" references somewhere in hidden in an object. Borrows will almost always be short-lived.

I don't know if any of this makes sense, I'm sorry for the bad explanation. It might make more sense if you play with Rust yourself.

While I lean more towards Go, I have found that any Rust project that actually reaches maturity tends to be amazingly well built.

It might be a side-effect of Rustaceans on average being good programmers, or maybe the language itself just lends itself to robust, high performance software. Who knows.

Rust is a very good language but is relatively new on the scene so it has to compete against other languages that fit the same niche(primarily C++) that have been around a lot longer.

Rust has been very popular for hobby projects for a while but it's still pretty rare to see it for larger projects, and you still almost never see it for enterprise projects. So it's cool seeing an app that uses it blow up.

It should be noted that while Rust is rarely used, some very big players are pushing it. E.g. last year Microsoft Azure's CEO tweeted that "it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required", Windows contains some Rust code now and the Linux kernel also supports Rust in addition to C since December.

There's a bit of a groundswell, where I've seen young devs try to push an organisation that they're working in towards Rust. This is usually a terrible mistake because it means you'll be forcing all the other devs to maintain your Rust code.

I've written a bit less than half a million lines of Rust now and worked mainly with it in the last three companies in the past seven years. It works really well for large projects with many contributors.

I haven't been here much longer. It's been really cool seeing all of the communities pop up as users flood in.

A year ago, I viewed the Fediverse as an unnecessary, complicated framework created by a handful of well-intentioned individuals as a solution to a problem that wasn't really there.

Today, I view it as a necessity.

This past year has been a hard lesson for me to stop placing trust in massive, centralized web services like Twitter and Reddit and to start federating more of my online activity. There's going to be growing pains, but Lemmy has been pretty good so far and it's definitely going to be worth it in the end.

The apps need some work, but overall it's "okay." The rest of my gripes lie entirely around the lack of content, which can't be helped

Just remember: Only You can prevent dead communities!

it can be helped!

I am on it for AI and GPT things, bringing over our content and will be posting more, going to setup bots to keep it flowing too!

For wide spread adoption there are a lot of issues with the fediverse. The main one is the home pages of fediverse instances or join-X.org sites immediately turn people away with their language, jargon and content. Nobody cares about the open source licence, or how it's "federated" or what the developers can do, or that you can run your own server or what languages and frameworks it's built on etc. These all will turn people away. Literally the first sentence on join-lemmy is "Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform". Nobody wants to self host anything (well I do, but near to 100% of people don't). Then there are screen shots of code diff's and actual code, then a list of programming languages, then some Latin with hard to see 'mod tools', and then at the end back to self hosting "With Lemmy, you can easily host your own server, and all these servers are federated". None of this is enticing people in. It's turning people away.

These entrances to the fediverse should be about community, discussions, engagement etc. That's what people want to sign up for and start participating. Just get them signed up. Once they're in they can learn about the other benefits and that they can move the profile to different servers, or whathaveyou. Keep all the other bumf hidden away behind a "benefits" link.

Someone needs to come up with better terminology to fediverse and federated to avoid having to explain it all the time. It's federated... You know... Like email. Well I've used email a long time and nobody has ever called it federated or used that term before when talking about any aspect of email - and I run my own email server.

Tl:dr: just cut the crap and make on-boarding easier. Dont let developers dictate the content of the homepage.

I love the concept of decentralization. Feels more like the internet of old.

The idea is outstanding. The parts of the UI that work are great. There's much work to be done, especially with regard to subscription and discovery. The whole "copy/paste this into your server's search bar" thing is.... not great.

I signed up for Mastodon awhile back but never really got into it since I don't really do Twitter much either. I have been reading about lemmy but didn't sign up until today.

It was a little confusing trying to sign up, the first instance I tried to sign up with had a waiting period for account approvals but I finally found one I could sign up with instantly and then I started poking around. I think I am getting the hang of it!

I have also downloaded Mlem to test on my iphone. It's easy and simple to use, not a lot of features yet but it seems promising.

So far outside of a bit of focus time to figure out how to actually get signed up and find communities to subscribe to I'm cautiously optimistic. This seems more like how the older days of the internet were, before the enshittification of social media. Let's see if this trend continues!

Yes - same for me, I love the reddit format compared to twitter, but also I just had bad luck with mastodon being really slow for me, but if all the things are self hosted - it'll be inconsistent depending on the instance and load ~

Which Mastodon server are you on?

@pushka

I was never much of Twitter user, but I like mastodon due to the community. It’s such a wholesome place. Lemmy seems to be going that way as well.

The UX is kinda rough around the edges, but it's filling my scroll addiction while reddit takes a steaming dump on everyone.

I hate when threads and comments automatically update, scrolling content down my browser.

I hate that when I hit back on my web browser, it doesn't bring me back to where I was previously on the page. I have to scroll down all over again.

Lack of content or small communities don't bother me. It just means more people need to contribute, myself included.

In general, it works pretty nice, but there are some limitations.

The biggest one for me is discoverability. The federation means that there is more fragmentation and it's harder to find the right community for something.

For example, there are country/city communities for my country/city on multiple instances. And since it's hard to find the "correct" one, it fragments out much harder than Reddit did. Combine that with generally lower attendance numbers and you get really tiny communities.

This is not aided by Jerboa, which doesn't open internal links internally. So if someone posts a link to a community and I press it, it instead tries to open it with my email app.

It feels like the start of something new, you know? Sort of exciting because coming from Reddit to Lemmy feels like taking a leap of faith as we are looking for this place to replace what we have lost. At the end of the day, communities are what make or break a platform and we have that going.

In terms of the platform itself, I am still trying to figure my way around here but the UI/UX feels easy to interact with. I guess I would love to have a mobile app for iOS down the line to replace my addiction to Apollo!

For me, 10/10 just as good. It only needs more content.

I think it's important to make sure your instance is federated with all the other big ones, though, since adding a new one is not user-friendly.

I was one of the original refugees from digg.com. This feels like R*ddit of old - simple layout, techie userbase, friendly community. Feels like home.

I'm confused, but I've got the spirit. Reddit was confusing at first too, given I joined before it was mainstream popular. I figured it out, I'll figure this out too. Looking forward to a restart and seeing this grow.

All in all, pretty good. Wish finding and subscribing to communities was easier tho. That’s probably my biggest gripe. I click some URL to join a new community, and it bitches to me that I’m not logged in because it’s an embedded safari page (on Mlem). Really wish it was simpler.

I tried the fediverse with Mastodon to replace Twitter, but it didn't work out. On Twitter, I was exclusively following accounts of personalities/organizations. As these accounts did not make the switch from Twitter to Mastodon, there was little use.

I feel like the fediverse works way better with content aggregation. I don't really care who specifically is on Lemmy, as long as there is content and discussion. So far it's been really nice.

It reminds me of when I first got into Linux. It's different and has bit of a learning curve, but it is always what makes it exciting and fun to start using.

I love it so much that I started contributing to the project on GitHub

I like it. I can see myself being a long-term user here, in fact I plan to be. However, I'm experiencing a lot of timeouts and lag, I know it's not on my end. I'm not techie enough to know the reason this happens, but Im pretty sure that it won't adopt mainstream users until it runs smoother.

I'm quietly hopeful that more and more people migrate over to lemmy, if it wasn't for all this api nonsense I'd have never heard of the fediverse. I don't know how it passed me by but I'm glad to be here now.

I hope the #RedditMigration sours adoption

I think you meant spurs lol

Anyway yeah I'm liking Lemmy and the fediverse so far. I actually prefer the UI/UX of https://kbin.socialmore for desktop, but Jerboa is great for mobile. If they stay actively in development it's going to be hard to beat IMO

I've followed from Fark to StumbleUpon to Digg to Reddit, and now many years later, to Lemmy. I think the communities being spread across instances is extremely powerful for overall global community resiliency (if the separation is respected and we don't end up with a bunch of duplicated "subs" everywhere).

I'm sure you've heard plenty of people say this today, but the one thing I feel the most is excitement. The chaos reminds me of the early-ish days (~1996?) of the web when everything was discoverable and not already aggregated to be served up to you inbetween advertisements.

It's good, but it really needs combining of same name communities across the fediverse to prevent fragmentation.

I want to see all the technology instances if I go to /c/technology on whichever instance I"m on. It's hard enough remembering all the other fediverse names and which instances they have.

I mean, it's kinda already doing that on the front page, i.e. grabbing all the other fediverse posts.

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.

honestly I hope it stays this active. fediverse feels more at home to someone whos been on the internet since before it was so centralised, something like this feels like a good mix. lots of different decentralized sites able to communicate with eachother, rather than just one site holding everyone hostage. mastodon never really took off too big but I hope lemmy can make it happen.

The community, particularly Beehaw, is fantastic! I love it.

Lemmy itself needs a lot of work. It's incredibly far behind, but my expectations are staying measured and I'm excited to see how it develops. Right now it's not a case of me enjoying the platform itself, but more so 'putting up' with the limitations of the platform to access the nice community.

Jerboa is the mobile client I'm using currently, and it's off to a good start but needs a lot of fixes to be fully usable. Such as sorting comments and searching, the ability to easily click a button to jump to the next comment is my most missed feature as well from clients such as Boost for Reddit.

Additionally, I still have issues signing into the mobile website. I can sign in through Jerboa or the Beehaw website on desktop, but not on mobile (or at least not always). So I'm often navigating content on the mobile website, then using Jerboa to comment on it. Most won't deal with these issues, but I'm still holding out to see what comes from it all.

A couple of last side notes, it's really annoying to need to click on the title, and not being able to click on the text of a post to navigate (mobile site) - and visually it needs some improvements to draw more people in. That last part seems minor, and for a large part of the existing community, myself included, it truly minor - but for widespread adoption it needs a big revamp.

it is really annoying to subscribe to communities on federated servers -- there should be a link that will redirect you to your home server. As of now I seem to have to copy and paste the community address into the URL because the feddit.de community search doesn't seem to be working for me

I'm enjoying it so far. I like that it's not a direct one-for-one clone of reddit (not that it was intended to be). It feels like a combination of older reddit (> 10 years ago, when it wasn't as active) and old school forums (like how older posts will bump if there's activity). It makes me want to be more active vs being a lurker.

I have no intention of going back to reddit. I've already deleted RIF from my phone. The 3PA thing was the last straw for me, but I felt like reddit had been going downhill for a while and I think I had been looking for an excuse to fuck off but couldn't quit cold turkey. Whatever good intentions that company might've started with, they're just a greedy corporation now. They haven't cared about their users for a while (which is interesting because their users are what create their content. Reddit itself doesn't create anything).

Finally taking this as a reason to learn and understand ActivityPub and the Fediverse more. And other than it's discoverability issues, been a blast. Glad to have finally been thrown out the door by Reddit and forced to move into the new wave of the federated FOSS web.

Its pretty much the same as old reddit, so it is fine. I am sure that there will be addons and stuff to bring back any functionality that is missing.

In terms of the community, it is hard to say - the same subs that I spent so much time and enjoyed so much are either not here or nowhere near as big and developed. I used to spend a lot of time on Formula1, Battlebots, but my account was nearly 12 years old and I had many that I used to visit from time to time for fun. Many of those are just not there in any meaningful way.

It is just going to take time to rebuild, I think.

I dig it so far. The vibes are good and the people are cool. My one question, though, is how active things are once people here lose interest in talking about Reddit.

New platforms are always at their hottest when people are talking about what they've left or what the new platform could be. Will be interesting to see how Lemmy is once that dies down a bit.

I'm very impressed. It just needs more 3rd party apps!

I am enjoying actual discussions and not just hot takes or rants. I don't care if the platform is "perfect". It's good enough for me. The admins aren't some corporation just looking for pavlovian click labor ('likes' and upvotes) to power their algorithm run ad fest.

Not a huge fan of the UI (so much wasted space!) but it works for now. I'm subscribed to a few communities but the content is pretty stale. I've seen the same posts at the top for a few days now. The "Active" selection keeps the same things over. I tried a few of the other selections (Hot, Top Day, etc) but there is this weird thing where it randomly refreshes the feed and adds one or two new posts at the top and then pushes everything down. Again, UI/UX issues.

It desperately needs a compact, efficient UI similar to old.reddit's design philosophy. Otherwise its not bad. The auto-refreshing front page is very frustrating to use. I want to click on an article, and between when I move the cursor and click, new articles have refreshed and the link I clicked was the wrong one

It's certainly fantastic and unprecedented, that different user bases, from very different types of platforms are able to come together and interact from their platforms of choice.

We may be witnessing a disruption right now. I do see more benefits than drawbacks with federated content, but that could just be my very biased point of view.

I like it and was able to adapt easily, but some of the UI is terrible (and I mean this in a constructive way), specifically:

Page weight is too high, when I use back/forward or switch tabs on mobile my browser has to do a full refresh. Tildes and kbin are very lightweight by comparison, not sure what the JS code of Lemmy/Beehaw are doing to cause this issue.
Adding new subs is confusing, but mostly because the “Subscribe” button is hidden by default when you visit a community on another instance.
The process of subscribing is convoluted You 1. visit an instance, 2. find a community, 3. copy the url,4. go back to your community, 5. past it, 6. open the search link in your instance, then 7. click subscribe and wait a little. It feels like that can be streamlined or something.
Loading “All” is slow, I understand why, but the UI should do something to explain it to me instead of popping in posts.

But, the discussion seems good, the actual UI is reminiscent of old reddit so I’m happy, and I’m surprised how easy it is to discuss things across instances.

Okay, I've found a really annoying problem with Lemmy. I'd heard it mentioned before, but now I understand why it's so bad.

I click on "show context" to a reply that someone made to a post of mine. I didn't realize it, but I was instantly in a different instance and logged out of my account. So I couldn't respond. Clicking "back" didn't return me to my instance or log me back in. I had to re-enter my instance all over again.

That's HUGE. I'm sure it would drive away 4 out of 5 users. Please, someone, tell me it's being addressed!

Still very new here and most problem I have in filtering my main page. If you subscribed to a bunch of feeds it gets quickly very confusing to find things. You can choose top day, which is to long, but not e. G. Active / top last 4h ;(

It's hardly been 24 hours, but this is the most engaged I've felt in an online space in years. I've gone on a k.bin/Lemmy/Mastodon tear over the past day, exploring instances and looking for the one that I vibe with the most. So far I've been very happy with Beehaw as my home base, and love that I still have access to the communities on the other instances as well. It takes a slight bit of effort to find communities and make sure that I'm subscribed to them on this account, but I've actually found some satisfaction in the process.

Sure, there's a low volume of content compared to the old place, but if I wanted a constant barrage of content I could just go back to RSS readers and have my fill. It's the discussion and sense of connection that has made it worth investing my time here.

As with other things in the fediverse, discoverability is pretty ass. It's a bit easier on Lemmy to find something you're looking for than it is, say, to find interesting people to follow on mastodon, but it's still not great. And often, you'll find multiple communities on the same topic and you have to try to figure out which one looks like it will be better down the road (communities are still pretty dead and empty, so you can't tell now which might be better). In addition to that, the interfaces for interacting with Lemmy are pretty rough at the moment, though that's not surprising.

So do I like it? Enh… I'd say it's a 4/10 right now with promise of getting better. Will it? Who knows?

As sad as I am by how Reddit turned out, this was the kick I needed to start truly indulging in the fediverse! Everybody's been nice so far, and I hope that it continues to be that way

I personally think that this framework is better than what reddit currently has.

For example, a single instance dedicated to programming with its own various communities within it is a lot easier to manage and moderate than having all those communities (akak, subreddits) on the main reddit page itself. The fact that all these individual instances can interact with other instances (or not, if desired) makes this more robust. For example, the fear a lot of people have right now with reddit is that the reddit staff will just kick out all the mods of the popular subreddits, instill mods that will obey them, and essentially perform a corporate overtake of all those individual communities. That doesn't seem like it would be a problem with lemmy.

I am excited to see how this all plays out long term.

What I'm really impressed by is being able to follow Lemmy communities from within Mastodon... e.g. by searching technology@beehaw.org I can see threads and posts without leaving my Mastodon app of choice (Tusky). It's amazing how it just works.

I think its a little rough around the edges, but thats to be expected given that its less than a year old. The big hit for me is the mobile app which just isn’t that good. This will come with time. I’d rather have an half-baked implementation thats showing promise over what Reddit is doing. I like decentralized social media because you can pick and choose what communities you interact with. If lemmy.world decides to go full enshitification (although I can’t figure out how they would monetize), you can just pack up and going to another community.

This honestly reminds me of when I was growing up in the early 00s, I was part of several different community forums that I loved dearly. There were other groups I looked into, but some were just toxic and unappealing, so I left after a while. I feel like Lemmy gives us the same freedom. I really hope to meet some awesome people here. Right now it’s just big enough to still allow meaningful dialogue and create cool relations. I felt like Reddit was too big for its own good even with niche subreddits; it didn’t feel like posting was worth it as it would get buried or just get a low effort response.

I have been trying to learn the way to do things, as well as getting around the problems.

My first view into the federated world was Mastodon, but I didn't use it much. Recently, I tried looking at lemmy/kbin content in Mastodon, but I find the way it presents it just seemed wrong and unwieldy. (maybe I am just doing it wrong)

I signed up a few days ago to kbin.social, but have been finding that it is just 'broken' with the content from other servers (like beehaw) being out of date - the cloudflare protection due to the growth seemingly to blame. I have now signed up to an area-focused server and have had problems with even finding this community. But now I have come back to it, it seems to be decently up to date and it may be to the small number of users on this server - so I am the first one to subscribe or even search for this.

I find myself finding content on one server but then wanting to interact with it, and there doesn't seem to be a "Take me to this post/comment on my server" button. So to make this post I searched again for the community then had to find this post on there.

Aside from the problems, I miss lists. In reddit I have lists of subreddits. So many subreddits I read I would not subscribe to, but instead add them to a list and so get posts with a certain theme based on what list I was looking at.

First impression is very good. But many instances do not allow the creation of new communities. Which brings me to all the little specialized subreddits that I used daily on Reddit are not on Lemmy. :-( Yeah general ones like Movies is there but I need my fix for r/Dune! :D

Enjoying it, but wondering if I'm missing a way to work backwards to find communities.

I'll give an example - Sleep Token, a band I like, released an album not too long ago. If I Google "reddit sleep token", I can see a few communities like /r/metalcore and /r/progmetal discussing them, so I can guess I might want to join those communities.

If I Google for "lemmy sleep token", I get a bunch of random websites with articles about sleep token with links and quotes about motorhead.

Whats the strategy for working backwards like that on Lemmy? Is there one?

It's shaping up to be a very cool platform and I hope with time it gets bigger than Reddit. I find the UX to be a bit clunky and not visually appealing at the moment and also the way communities work are a little confusing. Because of federation, you can have duplicate community groups and that can make content a bit segregated.

Still getting the hang of things. There's definitely a learning curve compared to reddit. Been using reddit for 10+ years and there has been a noticeable decline in the last few years. Things are quite fragmented at the moment and unfortunately the majority of my communities are still only active on reddit.

I've moved from Twitter to Mastodon and Reddit to Lemmy and am so far loving both. Even though they're taking a bit to get used to they're mostly pretty straight forward and familiar feeling in how they work. I will definitely miss certain subreddits but many of them are already here in some form or in the process of moving over. I really love the distributed model that is not at the behest of a single corporate entity or billionaire.

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.

I'm still confused by the instance decentralized structure. And my feed seems chaotic. But so far I'm liking it !

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.

Anything that takes social media out of the power of greedy corporations is an A+ in my book.

I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.

How do we handle "dupe" communities?
What's the best way to find new communities?
How are cross-posts handled across servers?

I'd like to see more color settings. The default colors do not have enough contrast and are hart to read in some cases like the blue on gray.

Have been using a Firefox extension called Stylebot to modify how my browser displays Lemmy's CSS elements to me. Bit fiddly and clumsy, but working well enough, and the first few changes were a major improvement.

Seem to recall spending as long if not longer tweaking with the appearance of old.reddit.com via RES to get it to my liking.

Hmm I will consider it. I tried some user styles I found but didn't like them as they were hastily thrown together. I have messed with CSS before.

The main thing I miss is being able to have things disappear from my front page after I press like or dislike on them.

It'll take a miracle for Lemmy to get anywhere near Reddit's active user count. Convincing users to migrate to a new platform is one thing, but getting them used to the concept of federation is the tricky part. I remember when I first signed up for Matrix, and being confused when picking the domain, authentication rules, etc. for the first time.

I was using Boost for Reddit but with it's eminent death I came to Jeroba for Lemmy. Pretty close to my boost experience! very easy to adapt and made the whole "servers" thing that I didn't really like a lot easier. Now I'm following a lot of comunities in different servers and can see them all. Perfection

I'm really liking it! Federation is cool and everyone is so chilled. Not missing the cesspool of Reddit infighting

I'm easing into it. With more usage, more content, more users, and more updates, it'll be like I never knew Reddit. Growing pains, whatever you want to call it, just makes me happy to be part of a new adventure for sharing and consuming content.

I'm no UX/UI expert, but I hope Lemmy makes it easier to filter content on the main page, collapse comments, and find specific subcommunities and users.

I like pretty well. I've been on reddit for over a decade now, and the UI on Lemmy is kinda like a combination of the good parts of old and new reddit to me.

People here are nice (maybe that's because my home instance is Beehaw...); and I like the small community.

I'm loving it. It's like the good old days of smaller forums, except they all link together to become a reddit-like conglomerate, best of both worlds.

I do miss having a high-quality iOS app most, but mlem is certainly off to a good start.

It's interesting but I still think the federated universe still has too many quirks to be understandable by most people. To be honest, I haven't bothered documenting myself so I might say stupid things but I can't understand why identity is tied to a server, it seems like a terrible design mistake when it's obviously the first thing i'd want to decentralise. In short, I'm me, it shouldn't matter that I'm on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server. Huge mistake imho.

Then the content obviously needs a lot more contributors but many of the good reddit contributors where also mostly tech illiterate and I'm still worried that the high complexity to enter the fediverse will put off many people and keep it a fun, but somewhat boring, little niche.

Testing a lemmy instance to see how it might work for the r/blind community. There will be a bunch of accessibility issues fixed in the next release it looks like, so it's a bit early to judge. Also, it's pulled me, personally, into the world of being a sysadmin for other people. Now I get to figure out why email doesn't work and why when you search for a community you need to press search nine times before anything shows and all kinds of other niggles like that before I feel ready to open an instance to the general masses.

Tbh I have no idea what’s going on.

So far so good. This is actually my first comment.

I had a hard time wrapping my head around how the federation worked. But figured out I just search here in communities only with my keywords. If I don't get a result here and https://browse.feddit.dethen it means no community has yet been created anywhere.

I decided to make Beehaw my 'home' server after discovering it actually had an 'interview' that I jived with and a moderated/structured set of communities. As my first deeper 'test' of lemmy I have created my first community at lemmy.world since it seemed like the place for my random community about a grocery store chain: traderjoes@lemmy.world

If I was making a specific tech/software related community I likely would have chosen lemmy.ml as that's where many other tech/software related projects have landed so far. But lemmy.world seemed the better choice for random.

Does this seem relatively close to be how I should handle things in the lemmyverse?

Edit: It would be nice if there was a user setting to open external links in new tabs.

So far I have no problems with 99% of what everyone else seems to have. It's not super intuitive to sign up and figure out all the instances/sites, but it wasn't THAT hard and I'm not planning on signing up too often. Finding new subreddits (for lack of the terminology knowledge) really needs to be improved - it took me well over a day to figure it out (but admittedly I was only using jerboa).

The only things that bug me are some missing quality of life features my 3P Reddit app had, like automatically making as read when scrolling past and being able to quickly hide/dismiss seen content. I'm not used to seeing the same articles over and over. Also, and it's pretty dumb, but being able to double tap for up vote and triple tap for down vote. Don't need it, just drive myself crazy since it's so ingrained.

The only other "complaint" I have is simply the amount of content. I was subscribed to quite a few niche subreddits that fit my interests/humor well, and those obviously haven't migrated over. The YEARS of help in computer subreddits or whatever isn't here. There's no crazy specific subreddit to discover with tons of content.

With all of that being said, I currently have zero plans or desire to go back to Reddit, and it really hasn't been all that hard so far. I swapped out my homescreen shortcut on my phone and I've been enjoying my time so far. I'm desperately hoping that this doesn't die out in a couple days/weeks/months because it's good to have competition, Reddit is effectively dead to what I need it to be, and I have zero desire to give Reddit any money after their views on us came out (to name a few reasons of many).

I also hope the toxicity stays away, but I'm not that naive. And I'm REALLY hoping that people with more time than I have bring over their comments/posts so I can search for them here. Reddit was one of the last places I knew that wasn't stuffed full of ads and bot-generated, search-optimized posts that made little sense and didn't help at all.

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.

This is my first post, so hello everyone! I do like a fresh start every now and again but it's a shame it's happened in these circumstances. As for lemmy, I'm enjoying it so far. I'm just learning about how it all hooks together. I really like the decentralised concept. In a way, Reddit doing what it's done may have been the catalyst to give this new framework what it needs to succeed. The UI is similar but feels cleaner than Reddit (which I found extremely sluggish). So far, so good!

I wish there was a way to collapse branches of nested comments.

I'm curious how well niche communities will work. It seems too niche here, like it's hard to find, hard to grow.

Like I do alternative keyboard layouts. If someone on Reddit wants to find it, it's rather easy and everyone in that community is there (there are dozens of us, dozens!). But on lemmy I think those dozens will be spread out more.

Overall it's pretty good! With more development on Jerboa and better backend performance and an influx of people, I think it'll be fantastic. I'm pretty pleased thus far!

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.

UX wise its okay, content wise, we are getting there. I am also happy its written in Rust, I am keen to contribute to the project in the future.

Enjoying it so far but there's a lot of posts about reddit and not much else for the time being.

so far it's really nice, it's what I liked in reddit and before that forums, without being what reddit became.

the fediverse is hard though, but it kinda makes sense. I'll see if I get more used to it

I feel like it's more of a community than Reddit. There is more collective spirit here right now.
I'm concerned about the tankie baggage.

Lemmy UI is very easy to use, and fast too. Also, I like the concept of federation (though I have no plan in hosting one) and the fact that the community has been very welcoming so far also help with me being able to enjoy browsing Lemmy.

Of course, there's the obvious problem of lack of content but if the subreddits that I usually lurked on have fully switched to Lemmy then I would have 0 issues with fully switching to Lemmy regardless of the lack of content.

So far pretty good. I like the idea of the fediverse, but I'm not sure if it will catch on.

Also, I hope some of the UI/UX stuff get ironed and are sharpened. I also miss old reddit.

But overall, it works and I am happy.

Little rough around the edges but I can definitely see its potential 👍🏼

Obviously not enohgh content or communities here, but the bones here seem good and that is what's important starting out.

i like the community but

this app needs a better ui...i know that comes secondary but it just seems to vague. whats with the weirdly small coloured thread indicators?
theres gotta be a better explanation of federation out there. there's gotta be. i didn't understand it for days because i couldnt find any decent sources on lemmy

It's great to see decentralization in action to foster a thriving community, not just to make/gamble money.

It feels so freaking empty, maybe it's my lemmy client but I can't see any post older than two days

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.

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.

Edit: After a few hours of using I have a second complaint, searching/sub discovery is a little undercooked feeling. It's a bit sticky to figure out what communities exist, what they exist under and how to navigate around to them. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually but it currently doesn't feel great.

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.

My only issue so far is that it can be difficult to find a particular post if you don't remember which community and instance it was on, afaik there's no search across all posts in all instantiations.

It's cool, but the community needs to grow.

He was the best frontman motörhead ever had

I’m loving it.

I was wondering about situations where there are multiple communities about the topic on multiple instances… is it possible to subscribe to all of them easily or maybe have a way that the communities can “share” posts? Like sister communities or something?

Example, I post to dogsinbikinis@whatever.com, users of dogsinbikinis@whateverelse.com would automatically be able to see and comment on it.

Jerboa is what I'm using, has a very old school android feel to it or Windows Phone

I think having already used Mastodon, albeit mostly as a lurker, helped, but I didn't find it difficult at all to get up and running on Lemmy and subscribe to a bunch of communities.

On the desktop version, thanks to not having loads of useless scripts, ads and other "stuff" on the page like Reddit does, Lemmy's interface loads quicker in my browser than Reddit's and is more responsive. I have had a few hiccups with Jerboa logging me out of my account and images appearing too small to view, but in general, it works well - fast, clean interface, no distractions.

The one downside really is that the content that was (is, but not accessible) on Reddit is not here yet, but that will change with time. Still, the atmosphere is much better, and I feel much more inclined to post here as there aren't the hordes of people waiting to tear someone down who has a different opinion (cough, Reddit...) So overall, pretty good and glad I finally stumbled upon Lemmy.

I’m happy to be a part of growing this community. I like that no one is trying to make money from my engagement.

It's very interesting and I remember wishing for a long time that "two-server" protocols like email would start being made again. I already switched from Twitter to Mastodon last fall and don't regret that in the slightest. The community here seems nice so far, and the UI is simple and clean.

I've encountered some glitches like the live-update feature seemingly changing what post I'm viewing and mixing comments from the two posts. The instance I picked has had some performance issues and has gone down a couple times, but I'm chalking that up to a mass influx of users and activity (of which I'm very much a part).

I could use a browser extension that just adds an "open this post/community/user in my home instance" button when I'm browsing another instance so I can interact. Also some ability to put a link to e.g. a community in your post text that automatically sends you to that community via the instance you are viewing the post in.

I dislike the idea of multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances. Sure, you can subscribe to multiple communities, but that's just extra overhead. I'm hopeful reddit backs down after the protest (as unlikely as it may be), but either way I will probably go back to using it regardless. Social media is about content, and unless there is a dramatic shift away from reddit being the content hub that it currently is, nothing else will be as useful.

It's different, but getting the hang of it, also using the jerboa app currently which isn't bad for such a new app. Considering developing my own app for Android but might end up in the unfinished projects list.

Community discovery is lacking IMO at the moment, even using browse.feddit I'm found communities that aren't on there, through the app so not the easiest to use currently.

Loving it so far. Once you get used to how you connect to other instances it's a breeze.

Like you said Jerboa, is really coming along nicely and is easy to use.

Can't reysee myself using Reddit much any more tbh

To be completely honest I don't like it. It could be the app I'm using (Jerboa) but it's just missing so many features. For example, comments are shown in seemingly random order with no way to sort

Lemmy's UI on desktop is... dogshit and really needs some love. Some web designer could volunteer for a better desktop theme? But thanks to the Jerboa app it looks amazing on Android!

Only issue right now with Jerboa is that it allows very long images to occupy a large space on your frontpage, I think it should show them as thumbnails instead.

I didn't until I found Beehaw. I'm enjoying it now.

I wish you could block servers personally, though. Like some of the stuff that's blocked here makes this place a lot better to be around. There's less hate and reactionary fear mongering. Everything is more chill.

The Software lemmy+jerboa does the job. It's basic and misses a lot of features that one would ideally want, but it's good enough.

I'm enjoying the back-to-the-roots vibe of early reddit or early internet that comes with lemmy.

Now, it's ask about content and how the communities will form in the ecosystem. Federation is nice, but wilm people actually find the communities relevant to them.

I think its really cool! I will definitely stay here.

In spite of the technical issues and mild learning curve, I am really enjoying Lemmy more and more as I continue using it.

I like it a lot. Left Reddit on Sunday, tried Tildes, then found Lemmy and have been here since.

Also using Jerboa. I like it well enough. It feels a bit like Reddit but also reminds me of being on the Internet back in the late 90s - not sure why it gives me that feeling though. Maybe because it's new to me and not the most streamlined, and it's still growing.

Anyway it's great here! Enjoying interacting and watching things grow.

it needs time and more users, but I think it's alright so far.

I had looked into a couple other decentralized or federated services in the past and they seemed like kind of a pain or they were poorly explained. until now, all of it also seemed too obscure to have any kind of notable traffic. if this isn't temporary and the reddit api controversy actually did something meaningful, then I look forward to seeing how the federated service ecosystem grows and changes.

reddit's dethroning was a long time coming in my eyes. it's just not going to be as smooth as the digg -> reddit pipeline years ago.

I think there may be room for another couple million users spread across a ton of communities. wishful thinking, but maybe that would keeps thing toned down with the bots and other shady shit.

lots of polish and QoL needed both on the main site(s) and the mobile offerings out so far. all in all, pretty good start.

I actually like it a lot. I think I can stick with it. I hope that this is the moment when the fediverse and the decentralized social networks will have the chance to become mainstream.

I think it will take time to smooth few rough edges but already now it's usable.

However I have big concerns on how this structure can scale, it already suffers with few thousands users. Plus security, privacy and sustainability of the fediverse is still a big question mark to me.

But it's exciting and I hope it will be the future of socials.

I like it so far. It is pretty convoluted how you subscribe to communities across instances. I figured it out eventually, but I am seeing the question pop up all over the place across lemmy.

People say using the Android app makes that easier, but it needs to be solved in the webapp first and foremost.

I also have major concerns about scalability. Folks are calling out for the community to grow, but the servers are already struggling. Lemmy is built ontop of Rust which is an incredibly performant language. Lemmy.world also just migrated to a new, more beefy server. Why are there still scaling issues? I’m naive to the inner-workings of Lemmy, and I’m not saying this in a negative way, I just don’t know enough about the architecture. I am a software engineer though and know a lot of infrastructure and scaling, so these are the types of questions that pop into my head when I see my posts hanging infinitely (but are there on refresh.) Am curious to also know what the long-term storage requirements are for a Lemmy instance. If I were to self-host my own instance for example, what do I expect to need at the 1 month mark? 6 month mark? In terms of storage requirements. How big does the postgres db get?

Overall I am liking the new system and am bullish on Lemmy’s future. As with any sort of hyper growth, there are pains and I’m sure it’ll all get sorted with time. Nothing like a good forcing function such as a reddit exodus to show a light on any weak spots :)

Compared to old.reddit + RES there's still some space for improvement in terms of UX for lemmy but overall, not too bad :P

Good enough, lots of things to improve but it's usable, I can see communities migrating from reddit.

I'm using Jerboa right now, i didn't like the web version, too much wasted space.

It's ok so far. It's a lot more fragmented than reddit, which is a good thing in the long term even though it's annoying now.

I'd also like there to be an easier way for me to filter topics I don't want to see, like communities for languages I don't speak or furry porn.

I would love to see a way to block communities from my feed directly from my feed. As it stands, it appears that I have to go to the main community page to do so.

I'm enjoying the process of figuring it out. I think I have a basic understanding, but I'm still having a bit of difficulty finding slightly more niche things I'm interested in. I have no regrets deleting my Reddit account, but I will miss certain subreddits.

Right now it's feeling pretty darn small. Once it hits a million users, it'll feel fine.

The learning curve is steep but I'm feeling very optimistic and excited to be a part of a new community. Reddit had been going downhill for years ( I joined in 2010).

I plan to stay no matter what reddit does next.

Google Power Delete Suite. Don't leave your content there for them to use.

My guess is that redditers will want lemmy to be just like....reddit, but without the public-corp nonsense and with UI that is at minimum on-par with 3rd party apps people gravitate toward on reddit.

I'm totally new to this so I'm also figuring out my way around. The federated organization is confusing for sure, but not so much that people can't get it.

Some work could be done from a user focus... Simplify(including caring for duplicated hosts and communities), educate on lemmy's benefits, make searching for new communities seamless and less of a quest.

Hey Chris. Seeing more and more people from my Mastodon feed here :)

I'm very impressed by Lemmy. Some of the communities like Beehaw have been excellent, even before the recent Reddit API-apocalypse. Self-hosting has been a bit challenging compared to the more mature (I guess) Mastodon but I hope to get it sorted out soon.

After a few days messing around with it and trying to get it to work in the ways that I want it to, I'm starting to think it feels like an upgrade. There are some serious barriers to entry that make it tough if you don't know what you're doing, but with Lemmy, my online experience is almost exactly the same as before, just without having a dedicated make-things-worse guy stinking the place up.

Having to make a new account because I wanted to see NSFW on another instance was kind of a mood killer. Not sure how that could be done better but I really don't want to be making other accounts.

Jerboa made a huge progress in a short time with the wave of attention Lemmy is getting. I'm liking Lemmy a lot more than rexxit.

Hope most moderators stay there and we get fresh moderation here. (Not sure how were you as moderator, but I had lots of bad experiences)

Luckily some communities I enjoyed there are already here, like Foss, android, linux, open source, Nintendo.

Would love to see many of my subreddits here. (Maybe maybe maybe, specialized tools, unexpected, unixporn, kdeporn, to name a few)

I'm liking it. Seems chill. Some growing pains and there's not quite as much here as I was following on the other site, but, maybe that's a good thing and humans aren't actually meant to have a constant information firehose?

I have been enjoying it so far, the software feels quite similar to old reddit in many ways but the community so far is a bit less toxic. If anyone is wishing to use it on iPad I recommend going to your instance and in the share menu adding it to the home page as there isn't yet a good option for iPad.

I am also looking forward to the addition of 2fa in the next update

Now that I'm getting the hang of things I'm really liking Lemmy. This while thing is a positive because it's opened up a whole new world of alternatives to Reddit. I'm interested to watch how things progress over time. Reddit has become an unenjoyable experience in comparison to Lemmy.

What perhaps will be the final nail in the coffin for Reddit is working here perfectly! Mobile apps! Jerboa is perhaps lacking some features, but works like a charm.

I've found https://browse.feddit.deto be super helpful in finding communities to join, even cross server, which is cool.

I'm really happy with Lemmy so far.

I'm not going back to Reddit. My preferred app, RiF, is on the chopping block, and I really, really don't like spez's behavior.

There are a couple communities I've subscribed to that get me what I want to see. Some things are a little light now for someone used to Reddit, but I can scroll all day without reaching "the end". What more can I ask for?

I can tolerate the occasional glitch from an essentially brand new application, particularly one developed and maintained by volunteers.

I didn't find it all that confusing or difficult to find and join an instance, and I don't mind that the bar for entry is slightly higher than for Reddit. There are some things that need to be fixed, but it looks very hopeful to me.

I like the concept, and overall experience. On a more technical side getting my own private lemmy instance up and running (I wanted to retain full control of my account) was not easy due to somewhat lacking documentation on the process. Had to dig through posts from other people having similar issues, and do a bit of troubleshooting to fill in the gaps.

Now that I have it working will see if I can find the time to do a writeup on the process if others are looking to do the same.

I'm getting used to the slight UI differences but it has a similar vibe. The biggest difference to me is the server/global federated dynamic. I like that it's owned by individuals running communities rather than a megacorp mining data and engagement for profit. I'm also on mastodon, but I never used twitter so I feel like there's fewer expectations to unlearn.

I like it free and independent c:

I like the being here. A bit part of it is my desire to host my own stuff. I've never been much of a contributor on Reddit, but now that my instance is reporting to have some actual users it just feels so rewarding! Love the sense of the earlier decentralized internet.

I'm leaving behind reddit after 10 years of on and off use, in the last 5 years almost constant use. I'm happy because I feel rhus platform seems really great , I really like the layout and stye of it all. I hope to understand it better going forward

It's certainly less user friendly than Reddit, particularly with respect to how communities are organized. The more I browse, the more I'm understanding how things are structured, but I don't know that I'll ever prefer it.

The biggest obstacle that I can see is, with the way that communities are spread between servers, there is no one definitive version of anything at this point. Which "memes" community is the memes community? Maybe it's preferable that there isn't one, but it will dampen growth for many people.

The relative difficulty to sign up will be a deterrent to most people. Every other social network has you up in seconds. This needs to be streamlined.

I'm missing some o the features, hoping they will come in time.

It seems fine. Basically like reddit before it got all corprate

I'm trying to like it, but it's hard. It doesn't quite scratch the doom scrolling itch like Reddit did. I'm using Jerboa and it's missing a lot of features that I relied heavily on with Relay. Ultimately I'm just going to have to adapt though because it looks like Reddit isn't backing down and I'm not going to use the official app.

In good news, I always hated my Reddit username so it's nice to finally get to change it lol.

Havn't tried Lemmy yet... does my comment show up alright coming from fedia.io? The fediverse is neat.

Not a fan of the UI, but I love the community here! It's the best parts of Reddit combined with the best parts of Fedi.

Honestly it hurts my eyes. I hope someone comes up with a few more themes or CSS-appliable styles for it.

It's a bit rough around the edges,but it does the job and so far I haven't missed reddit at all.

I'm still really struggling with how much screen real estate it wastes. Honestly that's a hard thing for me to get past.

I love it! I'm looking around the fediverse and the options are impressive.

So far it's not too bad. I'm still not sure I really understand the whole fediverse thing, but it'll make sense with a bit more usage I'm sure.

I very much like the oldschool feel, and the fact that we have more control over our communities without having some admins with ultimate power.

i like it and can totally abandon reddit for it assuming people continue to show up and like all my tiny little niche communities pop up. I do feel like it's a bit confusing at first as far as finding communities and connecting to them all so some work there would probably go a long way.

basically when there is a community for stock tank pools specifically and has 2,000 subscribers we're in the money lol

Feels like home, it's been easy to use, albeit with some hiccups in terms of searching and subscribing to communities on different servers.

I know it's in its infancy but the great thing about Reddit was I could search any niche topic and guarantee there was a subreddit setup for it.

Obviously this is solved by more and more people using Lemmy but I personally can't see Lemmy appealing to the the masses. Depending how active the communities become I can see me using Lemmy going forward but I don't think it will be the "One site for everything" that Reddit has become but rather 1 of many sites I check going forward instead

I'm starting to learn how it works and it's been a fun adventure so far! I really dig the community feeling. Everyone seems so chill and supportive, it's exactly what I was looking for. I can't wait for kbin to be fully federated. I'm really happy here

I appreciate the clean interface and the relatively chill vibe. Regardless of what happens with reddit I think I'll be hanging out and enjoying the communities.

I like it so far. The web interface is pretty solid and Jerboa is serviceable, though missing some features that I would call crucial to the experience. I can't fault the developers at all though, as it's like two dude to my knowledge. The reddit API thing convinced me to run my own instance for friends.

I'm hopeful lemmy takes off and sees a larger adoption as well, I think that putting the internet back in the hands of individuals is super important as there has been way too much aggregation of services for like the past decade IMO.

I quite like it so far, though the users of the communities I've been moderating are not necessarily the most tech savvy and may not find their way here. So ultimately I feel like throwing 1.5M people to the wolves (though some other mods might stick around, who knows).

On the other hand, I might also have outgrown some of my communities, and just stuck around due to the familiarity. Joined reddit in my mid 20s, now I'm pushing 40.

I actually just joined today and this is my second ever comment. It wasn't too hard to get setup, given I hadn't been on any fediverse until now. I have to say I like how well the instances link together too, at least from what I have seen so far.

I am using Jerboa at the moment and while it is kind of basic it seems faster compared to Reddit Sync or the official reddit app. This is a very good sign as I have had issues with both offical reddit and sync in the past including a fair amount of crashes. I might have to look for a desktop app soon and at some other fediverse types (don't know the terminology), I know there is one for videos for instance.

I am kind of interested to see an instance like this. I am a member of r/Autism_Pride and some similar subreddits so this seems like somewhere I could spend some time.

p.s. Is there any drug or harm reduction communities I should now about? How about fountain pens or baking bread? Random I know but thought it was worth an ask.

Any decent (or established I guess ) iOS mobile clients? I’m messing with mlem but it seems pretty basic and is still using TestFlight. It’s usable but a more full featured client might be nice

I got Jerboa right where RIF used to be on my home screen, it's almost like nothing changed.

Currently using Jerboa. Unsure if I like it, because currently there's no inline video player and no creepypasta communities to sub to.

I feel the generation gap for the first time when I see people complaining about the difficulty of selecting a server to sign up and connect to!

Other than that, it does bring a lot of the atmosphere of the wild west times of the web, in a good way. I'm liking it!

Hopefully we retain a healthy amount of users after this wave passes and everyone is back at reddit. :)

The only complaint I've had so far is the difficulty of spinning up your own instance. There isn't any up to date documentation for the process as the official documentation seems to be outdated unfortunately. Ansible doesn't seem to work as it give an error. Docker works mostly bit will not federate with other instances.

I am a bit thrown by the threading. It isn't easy to read or follow who is responding to what, at least for me.

ex Redditor, sort of stopped using the site years ago anyways, but I've been following the reddit api stuff because I was a big fan of Apollo when I was a more active user and that's how I ended up finding Lemmy; I like it here so far, the few communities i've seen seem friendly and welcoming; and the content is interesting

I mostly like it, I think there are still a few things that are rough around the edges and there have been some scaling issues with the massive influx of new people (I think mostly to be expected, we'll see how things are going forward)

I think the biggest question is will more people move over? Reddit was what it was because of the people there, not because of the software. If we can develop a similar community here, I see no reason to go back to reddit.

Difficult.

I just found a post - which I wanted to add a comment to - but I'm now logged in with Lemmy.world - so when I opened that comment (link) in a new tab, I'm told that I can either log in, or subscribe here (copy/search technology@beehaw.org) which now shows 'Subscribe Pending'.

So basically, communication isn't being facilitated in this instance - this is a huge barrier. If a connection, or subscription is required to reply, then this needs to be automatic.

Love the idea of smaller "indie" social media communities without any profit incentive, just purely spaces to socialize and hang out. Also appreciate that there's solid moderation against hate speech etc. Otherwise it's still clear that it's a new and growing thing and perhaps there's some uncertainty about what the day-to-day realities of it will look like, but it's interesting to be exploring it at such an early time.

So far really good! It has some quirks, and there are some bugs and some teething issue with the large influx of people (specifically on lemmy.ml)

It is a mind-set change working with a different system and the whole instance idea is still very new for me

As an Australia, it was very quiet last night (10ish hours ago), but that will improve as more people join

Really liking it so far. I joined Mastodon a couple of months back and like it there too. It's a shame because I spent most of my social media time scrolling Reddit, but I'm sure the Fediverse is going to get there.

It's okay so far. I'm still getting used to the UI.

The folks over at r/RedditAlternatives don't seem to be liking the idea of the Fediverse (Lemmy, Kbin, etc) all that much. At the end of the day, perhaps seeing the Fediverse as an alternative to Reddit is not the right mindset, because while the Fediverse sounds pretty good in theory, it still has some flaws that need to be ironed out.

But I think it's also fine that the Fediverse isn't for everyone. As long as we can keep a healthy community here, with nice content and discussions, we don't need to be a "replacement". I'm personally enjoying this so far, and Im eager to see how this will evolve!

I really like it. It lacks the endless content that reddit has but that gives me and everyone else the incentive to start making post which is something I never did on reddit.

I'm also a recent transplant. I too find the (current) lack of activity in certain niche areas disappointing, but I'm hoping that's temporary. I hope discussions of some of those topics can survive the inevitable fragmentation among instances.

On the other hand, I've installed Jerboa on my phone, and it's working very well. Now I've just got to get busy participating in those niche communities--could be tricky, 'coz the ones I often liked best were the ones I knew the least about. I enjoyed learning from people who already knew the ropes.

Moved from Twitter to Mastodon in November. I spend less time on Mastodon than I did on Twitter but I feel much less anxious afterwards.

Lemmy has lots of potential and I'm excited for it. Even started a community for my city (Oakland).

The UI is certainly attractive on Jerboa, and I imagine will improve with time. I'm using mainly on an android phone. I second another comment on enjoying the "real conversations" bit, as this feels much more human, and not a platform abused by bots, marketing, and astroturfing (and also greedy, grifting CEOs). I do have an issue with Jerboa not maintaining my sign in status every time, and the feed not loading every time I open the app, but it's small potatoes. I'm looking forward to the evolution of Lemmy!

The fact that it will use activity pub is rather interesting to me, but I don’t have faith in that lasting long term. Eventually they’d defederate I feel or purposefully have features that only work on the Meta client making it worse for everyone else to interact with.

My overall journey was the GameFAQS message boards -> Digg -> Reddit (via RIF) -> Lemmy

Lemmy has filled my content aggregation desires while boycotting Reddit. Overall, I could see being here to stay

I'm still having minor issues, but they aren't deal breakers. Like, I've had issues with my up votes not saving (press it, turns blue, wait a second, then it changes back), so I need to press it multiple times before it saves. On the whole, these errors will be resolved with time, so it doesn't bother me much

Main issue I'm trying to figure out now is: how to use federated users for other Lemmy instances. If I'm using the website for beehaw, then go to another instance, it appears I need to sign in, but I can't see how to use my beehaw account. I started using Jerboa and it seems to handle it, but the comments I'm making don't show up (when I checked in a browser), so it might be in the UI only, or I'm missing something

One thing that I'm looking for is to see where (if?) the moderation teams and content providers of existing subreddits migrate over to Lemmy/Kbin and if the Reddit userbase migrate as well and become the de-facto communities on subjects.

I guess that's part of the community aspect that Reddit harboured with the moderators - that they infer and define the culture and dynamics of their particular subreddit - and if I have the choice of three or four fediverse communities on the same topic, I can maintain some continuity by joining the one maintained by the ex-Reddit mods.

It's like leaving infant school and going to high school - amongst the hundreds of strangers, it'd be good to see a few familiar faces.

Even though it was twitter that spurred me joining the fediverse nearly a year ago, I was more of a reddit user than I ever was a twitter user, which is why it was one of the first things I came looking for when I joined the fediverse.

We spun up lemmy.blahaj.zone around 6 months ago so that I could scratch that itch, but it always lacked enough traffic to really do the job.

However now? The amazing growth and huge burst of activity? It's honestly shifted my perspective on what the future of the fediverse might be. I find myself really active on lemmy (and kbin before they had to go behind the Cloudflare CDN), even moreso than I was on the microblogging fediverse, because of its topic centric view.

I think the future of the fediverse might be one in which microblogging is "a" fediverse feature instead of the spotlight feature.

The fediverse? Meh. Beehaw? Loving it

I love it. I love how I don't usually have to deal with "right-wing" extremists. They're usually contained to lemmy.grab, but I suppose one or two might break containment every now and then.

Still, a hell of lot better then seeing their bullshit as the first comment on a new post. :|

I like it. It's not perfect though. The community signup thing is confusing and stressful because you dont and cant know the core values of the owner of the instance you sign up for. So you could get comfortable in a community and then find that the community is not a good fit and have to abandon it. For some people, who have a ton of alts on reddit, that might not be an issue but I find it stressful when I was trying to sign up for lemmy.ml and then find out their stance on a few political issues that drastically clash with mine.

I also dont like how the moderation passes community to community. I kind of like the idea of a black list but when you have communities with vastly different views resulting in people getting banned from one community for things that wouldnt get them banned from other communities you have a recipe for disaster. Right now, even with increased usage, the amount of moderation required should be low but if/when this blows up there is no way you will be able to sort/sift through the shared moderation logs for every community just to make sure people are not being unfairly banned from your community. That would be like a small sub on reddit banning people from r/pics because they didnt agree with the poster's politics.

I just dont like that. It's far from perfect and I dont have any solutions and it's also possible I completely misunderstand the issues involved... But from what I read... I just dont like that.

Functionality, everything works and I like how it looks. It has a mobile app that works. There is a lot of new content. It seems like it has a shot at being a replacement for reddit.

Reference: https://lemmy.ca/post/591991https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199 https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781

Touch and feel is comfortable (if I can remember to middle-click links so I don't keep closing Lemmy tab), communities are growing, framework looks robust. My only concern is that if I ever move from one server to another (if I decide to self-host), it appears I'll need to manually rebuild all of my subscriptions which sounds painful.

Lacks UI functions, but its good so far.

So far there has been a bit of a learning curve. Still trying to learn how to find communities and navigate everything. Hopefully the more people that join the greater the content that will be available.

As for the experience, I wish there were more options for customizing the look apart from dark/light. Options like font size, etc.

I don't really understand what's going on yet.

It's ok, just needs more users and content.

I like that it's more similar to old.reddit.com. Already use mastodon, so federation is not a new concept for me (I'm sure a lot of people are still getting their heads around that).

The community is much smaller, but that's to be expected (and maybe a good thing). I miss the feeling of find super-niche hobby subreddits. But I guess those will come to Lemmy if/when the userbase grows.

PS: also, had no idea what sizz was. Looks cool. Is there a new home for it here?

Technically, things need a bit of polish. In particular, I’m talking about the website being unavailable, and today I experienced the joys of the page reloading as I was typing a comment. Fun!

Still, those problems are dwarfed by the quality of the community and the conversations that are had. I’d much rather put up with a few glitches than go back to the idiocy I’d gotten used to. Lemmy all the way!

Communities will grow and shape with time, but the only thing I'm really missing is some of the RES features: j and k keyboard navigation, click-and-drag expando resize.

Liking it so far. I love that I can spin up my own instance. Only thing I'm missing is a multi-reddit type feature to combine communuties from multiple instances into one feed.

I like it so far. It has some familiar features, but there are some learning curves to it.

Is there a way to set so posts I've voted up or down aren't shown to me on my feed again?

I think it's nice so far, though I haven't used it much. There are some communities on Reddit that I miss on Beehaw. I also check Raddle (not fediverse) for trans memes since r/traa users have moved there. ~Cherri

I only prefer Beehaw. I look into the popular lemmy.ml but the categories were all over the place.

It's been fun playing on lemmy and interacting with everyone so far. I just started up my own instance so I can leverage this fediverse thing and decentralize. Honestly having a blast with it all. The downfall of Reddit seems beneficial to all of us : )

I like it - I just want a few Reddit-ish features:

Hiding reply chains for scrolling cleanliness in comments of a post
Hiding posts on the main page should be easy to do (buttons unclear)
Dedicated copy link button - so it's clear I'm copying the link to the page that is being spoken about in a post, rather than a link to the comments of the post itself.

It's fine. The content is slightly more sparse but that's unavoidable given current population levels. The basics are there in terms of content though. There are some rough edges with regard to stability and particularly mobile app quality -- especially as someone more used to one of the more polished third party Reddit apps. But it's already improved drastically since last week, and given time I'm sure it'll only improve even more.

This is my first Lemmy comment ever. Let's see if it fails to post...

I think it's really great, but I'm a programmer and more interested in the technical side. I had no idea this existed. I'm also pretty picky about UI and it's decent, definitely not terrible. Some components of the UI are not obvious what they signify - I still have to think for a second to figure out if I'm looking at a community name, or is that a username? But eventually I figure it out.

It would be really cool if different servers offered diverse set of UIs - I appreciate the compact/decluttered style of news.ycombinator.com, or just compact styles in general so I have to scroll less. For attracting Reddit users, it's great to imitate that familiar UI to reduce mental load on the new user.

I've seen a lot of people on podcasts speak EXTREMELY negatively about Mastodon because of the difficulty in "just seeing content without learning some new software." I think this is really important.

I think that some nodes that have a more intensive onboarding process, like beehaw, will cause people who don't understand Lemmy to see that friction and just close the window and dismiss Lemmy altogether. So I think it's important to offer instant value to users who aren't logged in. Many people don't have the energy at the end of their busy day to try to figure out yet another social media site.

Either way, I'm excited about this new-ish take on social media ... it feels "fresh" in a way, more like a realization of the idealistic "free" internet ideals of the past.

Web client on desktop/laptop experience : 2/10 Jerboa (alpha?) app on Android experience: 7/10 (optimistic)

Jerboa lags quite a lot when scrolling through

Seems cool. I like how I can access different instances that can have similar communities with different rules and whatnot. Feels like I'm in a William Gibson novel.

It took me a few days to adjust, but now I'm feeling pretty comfortable. I'm excited for what's to come as the communities grow.

First time using the fediverse and I don’t think it was hard at all.

To be honest I still can't decide to commit with Lemmy or Discord with appropriate servers.

Lemmy with its federation is great but it still lacks of a great app for iOS and specialised large communities. At least for now.

Discord on the other hand is more reactive, the conversation is here and now. It's a plus and a minus at the same time. Depend on the nature of question or the thing you want to share. They trying to have some sort of forum based channels.

Will see.

So far, I've been a Reddit user for like two to three years now, and a Lemmy user for like 3 days. It's definitely a transition, but so far, it seems to have potential. This instance's mod team is doing a good job, and the content is pretty good so far. I just need to let go of older social media habits, I guess lol.

Im liking Lemmy so far. It’s an adjustment and clearly the software is in its infancy, but it does not suck once one adjusts.

I hope in the near future some of the nuances will be more clearly explained to new users such as how to search for external communities.

I wish the UI was more dense like old.reddit.

these are minor complaints though and I know the contributors weren't building lemmy in anticipation of the API exodus.

Ok, so this is my first post. It seems to be going quite well so far. The communities seem to be upbeat and positive. The comments are mostly insightful and of good quality. Reddit does have the advantage of time and user base but I think Lemmy or Kbin can catch up quite well. I remember the early days of reddit and it was constantly offline due to the influx of users and there were many bugs. So I'm positive to the development of this place. Lets see where it goes!

I like it very much, the federation works better than I expected, the only thing I don't like is the UI. My main issue is this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/34#issuecomment-1595407433however the UI in general is very crude. There isn't much contrast between posts, sections and the fonts are harder to read than Reddit's. Great job anyways.

The official Android App (Jerboa) is nice but barely usable, at least it has a "big card" viewing mode that my instance browser view lacks (btw, is there some sort of desktop viewer (either Linux or browser based) that is better?).

The absence of working intra-instances is painful and one of the major downside of Lemmy.

Everything else is jolly good, and if more people would join it would be better since a lot of topics have barely no communities ones that exist are severely underpopulated.

Overall, Lemmy shows a lot of potential and I will try to use it but it isn't really ready for daily-driving yet.

I'd been on Reddit for a handful of years and became pretty dependent on the content people share there. While Lemmy seems structurally capable of meeting my needs, it's just a matter of content now. Much like any other social media platform - it takes people contributing on it.

I still have a rudimentary understanding of some of the Fediverse concepts, but if my understanding is correct, whichever Reddit clone platform I pick, be it Lemmy, kbin, beehaw, as long as they're federated, they can see communities and posts from each other. If this is the case, this does a good bit to assuage my fears of backing the wrong proverbial horse. As long as I can see posts from other communities, then I guess Lemmy are basically clients for browsing the fediverse reddit clones?

As for Lemmy specifically, I started with Kbin, but I like Lemmy's UI better. I couldn't find the option to collapse comment threads in kbin but I found that in Lemmy, as long as I have that and a decent UI I'm good.

Pretty impressed for the most part! A few tech hiccups (that feel like growing pains more than anything) and of course always looking for the amount of content I'm used to from Reddit, but I expect both those to change!

I love it. Lemmy seems to be a solid implementation so far, it was easy to set up and seems stable and efficient. More than that, I LOVE the distributed nature of everything. I believe that this federated protocol will be infinitely more resilient to the whims of individuals acting only in their own interests.

There are some desperately needed features to make the dream come true though. The ability to effortlessly migrate users, communities, and content between instances on the fediverse I think will be essential to securing the future of this platform. I hope someone is working on it and that a standard method is adopted by the large projects in the space.

There's also the challenge of discoverability, but that is also somewhat of the thrill to me. I remember when you had to work to find communities online and this very much brings back those memories. I get so excited when a user from a small, distant instance interacts with my own instance as I get another thread to follow into new and potentially awesome corners of the fediverse. I think as that particular nuance of this platform becomes better understood by users at large we will see all sorts of new interactions (both positive and negative I'm sure!).

I'm excited to be here for it.

not enough videos, too slow and jerboa is not top notch .

I haven't had the time to take the full dive yet - I joined this site and have been perusing here but haven't jumped around anywhere else. So far I love it. I told myself if I'm still using it when my check rolls in next Friday (god damn you biweekly pay!), I'll have to start contributing to the server.

Reddit refugee here. I like it so far! Really dig the federation between the instances.

I really like it, but I'm concerned for rough times ahead.

Running instances is hard, thankless but necessary work. A for-profit company like Reddit can afford to pay engineers to do it. A lot of open-source / free software things survive because people are generous and donate their time, creativity, expertise and often even money to keeping them running. But when it's a hobby not a job, it gets to a point where people often have to think of their own sanity and step away.

The fediverse design seems well suited to handle that without major disruption, but there will definitely be some disruption.

I'm also hoping that people are tolerant of design quirks. Design by committee is often seen as one of the worst ways to do things, and FOSS is nothing but committees. Reddit's design obviously influenced Lemmy (as Slashdot influenced Reddit, and so-on). But, while I wasn't a fan of the new Reddit design, at least it was a unified view. I'm incredibly impressed at how smooth Lemmy has been so far, but again, I expect it's just a matter of time before there are some controversial choices in what new features to add, how to expose them, what defaults to choose, and so on. I hope people are tolerant of the churn that that might cause.

Basically, I just really hope that whatever controversies and rough periods are ahead, that the communities I care about choose to weather the storm and stick around. If we can survive that, social media that isn't owned by any company, and that isn't part of the "surveillance capitalism" world is very promising.

Wish it was easier to subscribe to communities. For some reason It hangs when I try to. But its still ongoing development so I expect bugs. Hopefully it gets fleshed out soon.

So far I've mostly used jerboa. It's a usable app, and a good starting point. That said, from a UI/UX perspective, it does seem to be missing a lot of quality of life features that were in Reddit apps.

Overall Lemmy seems like a decent Reddit replacement and I'm sure it will only improve with time.

Enjoying it so far, thankfully I had already been using Mastodon for about 6 months so I've had time to get used to the quirks and discoverability issues that come with the Fediverse. I hope the learning curve doesn't turn off less tech savvy users.

I really like it thus far. The web app is slick with Safari on iPhone, but I’ve yet to try it on an iPad or PC. The community seems great. Definitely getting an old Reddit vibe. It’s good to be here!

Lemmy is pretty good. Reminds me of old reddit. It's a little confusing at first but easy enough to learn and find communities as you go. I really miss Sync for Reddit though.

I'm liking it so far, the communities I've federated with are mostly chill and quite a bit of fun. That being said, there's dark parts of the fediverse too. I plan on keeping my instance around for a while, but so far it's just me and a friend or two, but maybe that's a good thing?

Love it! Looking forward to the day where there’s larger communities and 3rd party apps, I’m normally a lurker and it’s hard when there’s so little content, it’ll come with time and I’m doing my part.

I think it has a lot of potential but I think we're still learning how it will shake out. I am optimistic that even if we don't reach any sort of critical mass soon, there's a lot of potential for future growth.

As of right now, I really like how Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse operates! Scrolling here seems to be much more lightweight on my low end computer than using Reddit.

I like it! Sure, some rough edges, and a bit of technical difficulties due to the influx of Reddit refugees like me, but this seems like a much friendlier, more real community.

Took about 30 seconds the load the comments on this post. It's not the most polished experienced, but I hope that changes. I have no expectations for Lemmy becoming popular, but I'll use it as long as the communities I like are active enough.

I joined a Lemmy instance first (infosec.pub) but joined fedia when I found out about it this morning. Overall, I'm finding kbin much more responsive, better UI, and easier to grasp concepts and searching is definitely easier.

I'm hoping some of the developers of the third party Reddit apps shift their apps to Lemmy/kbin.

I've tried https://lemmy.ml/c/mlemapp and it's definitely a good start, but a long way to polished. I'm excited to see it's growth and development.

@atomicpoet
I like it! I especially like that you don't even need to make a separate account to interact with the communities on there! (I'm literally commenting from a custom fork of glitch-soc right now) That alone makes Lemmy better than any normal Forum out there.

Edit: doesn't appear that Lemmy handles content warnings in replies :blobcatscared:

It's pretty cool, Rick.

I'm enjoying it. I hope that some of the communities get a little bigger, and that some more features are added to the mobile app, but I really like the vibe of this social media site

I like it in general and think it has a chance to stay, however I feel it needs a bunch more work than Mastodon, which works close to a full release, except the oddity the Elk Alpha client doesn't have a report button, but is better than the default.

The web version is fairly usable on Android IMO. I prefer web clients over apps so this is a plus for me. There are lots of bugs and the overall experience is pretty rough around the edges but I'm sure the experience will improve over time.

I don't really get it if I'm honest. But I'm happy to be here.

Beehaw has been wonderfully welcome, so thank you all for that. Between /kbin and Beehaw I honestly don't have any desire to go back. The community here is awesome and it's even more awesome that we aren't split up by app. I can switch between /kbin and Beehaw as I like, and even post from each onto the other. Blows my mind how well it works!

First post! I really like it, but the glitches and app issues due to the influx of traffic has made it a bit difficult to really experience and to consider as my new reddit. This is not an attack on Lemmy, but frustration with the current predicament. I'm excited to see what Lemmy can become.

Are there any alternatives to lemmy or an official app?

I honestly thought Jerboa was the official app.

THIS IS SO CONFUSING

I'm having trouble finding communities in lemmy.ml here (is one of the unblocked instances). I can find them from another lemmy instance, just not here. How often are the communities updated? I'm hoping to make beehaw my 'home' instance.

Hello, new to the platform. Im using Jerboa for lemmy and i must say its pretty nice here, but there's not much media that can be seen.

I have a lot of questions about the whole Fediverse concept but I love the general vibe of hopefulness that there is around here, it's crazy refreshing!

I'm also using Jerboa currently and I love it!

P.S. Don't forget to nuke your reddit accounts!

I didn't know what Lemmy was prior to the whole Reddit debacle. I honestly thought that it was structured more similarly to newsgroups that were all collectively shared, versus communities pegged to a local server that are joined on the backend through essentially passports.

Frankly, if the entire goal of the Fediverse is to be largely decentralized, I don't think this structure quite fits the bill. Its certainly more decentralized than Reddit from an ownership perspective but it doesn't seem to really address the other fundamental issue of management. I guess I need to read more on how things really work.

Yep, it's everything it sounds like Reddit wanted to be at the outset. I bet if Aaron Swartz would have lived to see the Fediverse he would have been leading the charge.

Hey, I've been on the internet for a very long time, 31 years and counting (as an adult - on BBSes before that). I used to mod some popular subs on reddit, then life got too busy to keep up, and a few years ago I went casual. I hadn't bothered with the fediverse until a brief look at Mastodon when it first released.

IMHO, the fediverse needs to make a bigger deal about its federated nature, to help people understand what this means to them, as users. Either it should work hard to have all content equal in all places, thus the choice of where you connect from is just convenience/aesthetics/UI, or it should lean in to having a different experience from one server to the next - and I don't mean just UI, I mean identity in terms of content, what is prioritised, what communities you will interact with.

I think it should move toward the latter. It would be great to have servers with communities that tend toward certain topics or behaviours - perhaps some longform and others short, some serious and others not, some tight communities and others shitposting, some focusing on some sets of topics and some on others. The federation can still pull in content from elsewhere, but the priority and identity would be primarily based on the instance and who else uses that one directly. I can even see communities vetting their members to make sure that they add to a particular experience.

At the moment, it's all a bit of a mess and indistinct. Most pre-existing users are focusing on technical differences of protocols and content dissemination. Which is fine - this is all new, and being built by that community. I see this as a really good opportunity to have a loosely-coupled collection of content, with priorities given to certain aspects of it based on the instance.

A better version of social media doesn't focus on protocol OR platforms, it focuses on enabling different types of communities to be what they want to be.

One problem is there is no dark mode button in user settings. I'm sure there is something you can download and apply or something, just would like a little slider in settings before I go snowblind.

So far it's not bad. I'm also using Jerboa and it's ok. There's a few features from RiF that i would really love to see in an app that aren't there yet,
-The ability to automatically collapse child comments so you only see top level until you expand the conversation
-The ability to change comment sorting.

-And although it doesn't relate to the app, I'm really hoping for a Lemmy Enhancement Suite extension in the future.
Overall it's not bad, It's a fairly young, community and those things will take some time to develop.

overall Lemmy is pretty good. Better than I expected tbh.

The communities are smaller, which feels more old-school, and it feels friendlier and more accepting. On reddit if you bought up nu-metal in the metal subreddit you'd be downvoted and harassed, here I saw someone bring up nu-metal in a metal community and people were super accepting of it. However, because of the smaller population, the more niche interests don't have a community, or if they do, there's basically no content.

The federation thing takes a second to 'get' and with it, comes problems of discoverability, but we have browse.feddit.de to help with that. The upside to the fediverse is the fact the users are in control of the platform instead of a for-profit organization make me very happy, I no longer scroll with shame, I scroll with pride.

There are pros and cons to Lemmy but the biggest cons are related to the relatively low number of users which will grow with time (I hope). Overall I'm enjoying it so far and I really hope more reddit communities make the switch

I like it so far. The tech seems good, it's not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.

I think an app like Reddit is Fun could adopt Lemmy and wouldn't have to change much. If they could keep it the same UI and functionality, but on Lemmy, then I think they'd have a winner.

I was a subscriber of r/Sizz, I hope a lot of niche communities like that will pop up on lemmy.

I’m still getting things setup but really enjoy it so far! Excited to see so many folks joining the fediverse and putting ActivityPub to work!!!

It's not very active. If it doesn't improve in 3 month I'll leave

Why dont you move all your content from r/Sizz to lemmy?

Lemmy has some rough edges that will put off many nontechnical users.

It's very nice! In general it's cleaner. Community so far is much friendlier. I like that there are fewer of us so far. It's more homely?

However, joining communities is still a bit rough and difficult and a bit unreliable for me at the moment.

Can't say I'm a fan. I don't have a problem with going against sterile web standards but this site looks ugly as sin, it looks like a website made in 2004-2010. It's also very glitchy and laggy. Still, I'll stick around to see if this takes off.

The tankie fucks suck, for sure.

I like the jerboa app on mobile but I dislike the desktop site layout. I've used Shine for Reddit for years for the grid layout. I'm hoping someone will eventually release custom layouts to make use of all the space on desktop. The content is about the same after subscribing to lots of communities.

Uncomfortable. There are two or three users in the instances, and all are silent. "Federalization" is dumb, for the chuckleheads of decentralization. The app and website are crude. Settings are not saved, blocked content hangs in the feed.

It's horrible and I will not be sticking around