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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.

Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.

I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you checkout the Github, one of the first lines on the README is:

Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.

So I doubt the app experience is going to improve much anytime soon unless other people decide they want to take up the mantle (or create alternative apps entirely).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yea, that's why I said it needs developers to contribute to it badly. I understand that the developer has basically abandoned it.

There was an update yesterday. Some people are contributing to it, which is good. Hopefully more come, and the app really gets an overhaul before July 1st. I think having a decent app is key to keeping people here, especially if people are migrating because of apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jerboa also doesn't do push notifications like the desktop does. So for moderation or messaging it's not super useful since I don't know if I have new applications or messages I should respond to.

That might be a limitation of Lemmy or the app (I'm not sure if it supports push notifications at all)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed on these points. The app doesn't work but the site is good