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.
I feel like we could all benefit heavily from a sticky post with some basic info for people coming here. Link to this post for good clients, link to obosob's post on why we're on Lemmy now, any other helpful stuff for Lemmy newbs like me. u/obosob what do you think?