The decision was made to blow up the Reddit community and come here, so we have to make this work. But I'm already seeing a bunch of issues with Lemmy. Posting this so hopefully we can find solutions. Issues:
- Search-ability: I can't find people. When I search for users it simply doesn't work. Edit: Also apparently a client thing. Sucks though that if you choose the wrong client whole features just aren't supported.
- Messages: Pretty bare bones interface. I guess it's good enough to send you discord so you can have a conversation there.
- Replies: Looks like you can only reply to posts and not other replies 🤦♂️...so much for tractable conversations. This is my single biggest complaint about Mastodon - it's almost impossible to follow a single conversation. Really hope this will be addressed. Edit: looks like this was a client thing. Phew!
- Updates: I just tried to login on a different client but couldn't because the instance I'm on isn't up to date enough with the minimum support version.
- Clients: I've tried Thunder and attempting Jerboa (can't yet for the above reason), any other better ones?
I hope these are all fixable. The replies thing is pretty terrible.
Just so this isn't an entirely downer post, here's what I'm liking about Lemmy:
- Ad free: 🎉 Love love love this.
- Open source: Look, open source projects can be a little janky. But open source feels like a part of the DNA of this community, so I'm always happy to see everyone using FOSS.
- Community support: No matter what the interface, the people make the community, and it's been pretty cool to see everyone just keep posting and carrying on over here. Like, it's been a pretty smooth transition so far.
My biggest issue with Lemmy is I don't think it's on search engines?
I don't get anything from google searching about keyboards and lemmy.
That's really a major problem for me. One of the huge benefits of reddit was I could find so many helpful things for my hobbies just via Google etc
This is a pretty significant long term issue. Overall search-ability is just an issue with federated content.
On the plus side it looks like I can reply to comments after all. It just won't let me know Thunder (definitely not using that client now)