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Just joined today, and definitely first experience. So far, it SEEMS pretty straightforward. Kinda waiting for the gotcha that trips me up.
No it's as easy as it seems, I swear all the posts on Reddit about how confusing it is feels like a disinformation campaign as I am just using lemmy the exact way as I did reddit lmao
Finding communities is more confusing, and knowing the difference at a glance between instances is not clear. Now you need to know if the instance and the community are what you are looking for. You also could end up on an instance that blocks other instances or communities, so those could be hidden from you.
Most of that is growing pains I think. People will eventually settle into communities that fit their interests. My biggest concern is with scale and whether or not these federated servers can handle tens of millions of visitors. I don't fully understand the underlying tech, but it seems like the servers are already struggling across the board.
Are you on the website or Jerboa? I think most of the complaints people are having are with Jerboa and not Lemmy itself, as finding communities is just as easy as on reddit for me on the website.
I'm on the website. Trying out desktop and mobile site, and both are a bit difficult to search on. But part of that is the bit of jank that I'm experiencing, where new posts load and make the page jump around.
yeah I have the same issue with the new posts but what is hard about finding communities? I just click the communities tab and search for the topic I want under All and then others I find on the front page under all. It's the same way I did with reddit, that's why im confused with people saying this.
Yeah. The only real downside to switching is all of the subreddits I'd found over the years, and having to do that discovery all over again. But, I'm just watching the all subscription for anything interesting, and so far, I've found some good ones.
Right. I'm lazy af and I just decided I'd learn more about lemmy and it's pretty simple. It's an interesting concept that I think people should try to understand and understand why it works the way it does and why that's great. I'm not the one to explain it though.