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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a bug that wasnt an issue when the community was smaller. Last I heard they will replace it with a refresh icon that pops up at the top when new posts are available.

[–] Quartz 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh thank God is a bug, I really thought it was a feature of the site.

[–] instamat 19 points 2 years ago

Thank jeebus. I was getting all fussy thinking it was a me/my phone/my browser problem.

[–] b34k 10 points 2 years ago

It’s amazing what kinda bugs can be exposed in your system when your user base expands by orders of magnitude overnight

[–] mxh 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you remember where you heard it? I have been looking around for info about this feature

[–] slapmefive 6 points 2 years ago

Here’s the comment (and link to) where I learned about the GitHub issue

https://lemmy.world/comment/134724

[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 2 points 2 years ago

I heard it from someone who said they looked at the GitHub page. They mentioneded that they were switching from websocket to html or something and the change would prevent the auto updating. I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area, but that was the gist of the conversation.