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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There are many instances ("servers") of the service running, and each one can have its own, local equivalent of a subreddit. We can see and interact with all of them. I just went through 15 pages of "magazines" and subscribed to communities with the same name on 2+ instances at least a dozen times.

Suppose I am interested in photography, so I subscribe to the photography community on instance "foo." Another user has the same interest, but they find the community on instance "bar" and subscribe to that. If I post on photography@foo, they won't see it. The community is effectively split — often into more than two parts.

This makes it really difficult to build an engaging community at a scale similar to Reddit's. Ideally, users will eventually congregate around just a few, but this is going to make early growth quite painful. And it isn't intuitive to newcomers.