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Seems crazy to me that Linux people feel like Lemmy isn't ready? Lemmy is what you make is just like Linux is, at least to me.
I agree. Also, I don’t see where lemmy is not „ready“. Imo, lemmy is doing the „reddit“ just as reddit does but without the fancy shmancy (although I find memmy (for example) looks a lot better than old reddit)
2 months ago, I would have agreed with them, but with liftoff and other apps, plus the old.lemmy themes, the only thing it now lacks is stability on some of the hosts. It's already a perfect replacement for reddit
I wasn’t here 2 months ago. What changed dramatically? Also, I think people talking down on lemmy while being on reddit are justifying staying on the titanic because the lifeboats are bot what they paid for.
Sorting by hot was broken, gave me 2 year old posts. It's been fixed in one way, now it's halfway decent but still has a ways to go.
I think it works pretty well. I had some issues, asked around, got sorted. Can’t complain at all.
Upvoted for possibly unintentional hilarious typo.
I really hate that particular typo. But yes, it is hilarious.
Edit: today is not my day it seems. Typos everywhere.
When I first jumped over here, there was just the native app and it was trash, they also had only one layout really and it wasn't great either. Now there are tons of desktop themes and layouts and tons of apps. It's really changing for the better
While I sympathize with the issues you are mentioning, they are localized issues. I‘m on !discuss.tchncs.de (I hope I spelled it right). I‘m somewhat of an addict and have 3-4 hrs a day on lemmy (before it was reddit) and I mod communities on both.
Tchncs has not once been down since I joined a month ago. I too cant comment on certain posts but that is a memmy issue, not a lemmy issue (I commented on this and opened a github issue to which I got the reply that the devs are looking into it and might have a fix that should be pushed in the next release or so).
If you‘re seeing tons of nsfw posts I would suggest two things: either change instance since yours seems to be down all the time as well. Second, you might want to change your feed to subscribed once you curated it and only occasionally look into new.
Summary (opinion): Lemmy is not a for profit project and therefore not prioritize maximum polish. Those who code will understand how to make it better (request features and report issues). Those who are not as tech savvy will run into occasional issues which are mostly based on the instance or the client, which is not lemmy.
TL;DR: Lemmy is awesome, most problems are either instance based or client based. Don’t ask for „for-profit-polish“ or you might get it one day. Instead help by coding, hosting, moderating, posting or donating.
Have a good one.
The uptime issues you are seeing is mostly due to the fact that you are on lemmy.world, which is now by far the largest lemmy instance in terms of userbase. That means it experiences heavy loads which can cause interruptions plus it's been the target of DDoS attacks for like the past month or so. If you switched to a different instance you wouldn't see nearly as much of those issues.
Maybe you're the one that's not ready for Lemmy. But we certainly are.
Where did I gatekeep? I meant if you do not enjoy your experience here then maybe go somewhere else? because personally, I do enjoy my experience here and have not encountered these things that you are saying.
BTW there's a NSFW toggle on the settings and also before you registered, the very first checkmark asks you if you want to see NSFW. so your comments about porn is literally your own doing by not reading the things you are ticking in your browser.
Have fun on Reddit!
Ok.
It isn't buggy, it's overloaded and under attack. You missed my point.
Agree to disagree then I guess. Lemmy.world being the instance with the most users doesn't mean that's where new people will look to sign up. In fact, if you go to join-lemmy.org it isn't even listed in the recommended instances. You seem to kind of misunderstand the point of the fediverse; it isn't to have everyone congregate under one server but instead spread users and content across many instances so that if one does have some downtime, you'll barely notice.
In fact, I think that the most popular instance having a lot of downtime recently is actually a very good thing, because it means people will create and use different instances than lemmy.world, naturally leading to more decentralization (the whole point of the fediverse).
Let me reframe for a sec. Back when Digg imploded itself in 2010, basically all of their users migrated to reddit. With the influx of new users, reddit was constantly overloaded, there were frequent outages, and other problems that eventually lead to memes about reddit's unreliability and eventually the introduction of reddit gold. Gold was introduced literally because users of reddit liked the platform and wanted to help contribute to it being better able to handle more traffic. But from the Digg migration to the current period of high uptime took literal years. Does that mean reddit "wasn't ready to be migrated to"? It sounds like you would say yes, because to you "ready" just means "can handle the traffic". Whereas to me and other people at the time it meant the feature set, content, communities etc all came together to keep people on reddit despite the downtime. The same is now true for Lemmy for many of us.
This is why I said it feels like you're not understanding the fediverse. An instance being popular doesn't make it better than other instances. You'll get the same content from being on any number of other less popular instances. That's the whole point of federation. So yes, it is, in fact, your fault for using the popular instance. In the time it took to reply to me one time you could have made accounts in 3 other instances and solved the problem you keep complaining about.
If you preferred old.reddit, there's mlmym.org (which you can also self host if you prefer) and it replicates old.reddit's interface almost exactly.
Thats insane. Thanks for mentioning it. I suppose I‘m not the focus customer because I don’t really like old reddit. I was referring to many users I talked to who were unhappy with the polished look of reddit (and the thousands of small changes that made life stupidly hard).
Well, not to “gatekeep” but they sound like they are probably more Reddit people than they are Linux people.
Yeah I'm wondering what exactly they meant. Maybe they were referring to the mobile applications?
I could see them having issues with the smaller user base or how a federated platform works with things like finding communities outside of your instance but those aren't bugs.
Possibly they meant there aren't enough people here yet/not enough engagement yet. That's the only thing I miss really, sometimes Lemmy/Kbin still feel a little deserted (although that is changing slowly)
It's weird how it seems to go through waves. Sometimes there's a good bit (though not as much as I might like) and sometimes there 0 comments for a while when sorting hot.
Granted I did block some of the more popular mags/communities but only because they were completely drowning everything else out (some of the meme communities, and all the German ones.
The grassroots internet is a thing of the past. Linux is not spared from this. People expect to open an app that's full of content for them to infinitely scroll.