Asklemmy

Good, I'm using Jerboa and it took me 3 days to find how to collapse comments, but except this, communities are great

This feels a lot like Reddit did 15 years ago, when they first introduced subreddits-- like I'm seeing something brand new for the first time, but it's somehow comfortable and innocent.

As good as one could hope for a new place with not many users. The framework is there but the crowd is what's needed.

I love that I'm actually using essentially a protocol, instead of a corporate service. The discussion here is good, there is a lot of interest in the "old web" which I'm fascinated in, and the place has just enough users to feel comfy and not absolutely chaotic. It's awesome.

I've been running an instance for around 6 months now, so I kinda like it. Enjoying the increased activity in the #threadiverse in general though

I'd say it's been a bit mixed. The software is at times a bit wonky and unpredictable. Some features are surprisingly missing (like, as an admin, just listing out users on the instance). I've had a few bugs from the client and I'm not always able to pull in content.

Having said that, I see a lot of promising stuff going on. My friends and I set up an instance and while it's tiny, we're sharing links we like and commenting on them, just like the old days of the internet. We'll be around, I think.

It's going well! One thing I've really liked so far is the "tight-knit group" sort of feeling. Not really sure the best way to explain it, but it's like the difference between working at a place where there are only 9 other employees, versus working at a corporation. It feels like you truly have the chance to be a part of something awesome, rather than just being a drop in the bucket.

It's taking me a bit to grasp the practical use of the "federated" thing.

It seems like there aren't a lot of tutorial-type instructions on the web of how to use it. Like a YouTube video.

I would be nice if a good number of redditors would join for activity to flourish.

I joined a year ago, and it seems that activity and users are growing everyday. I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I'm in lurking mode most of the time.

I like it, but it needs UI work for mass appeal. All federated services do really. It’s such a strong concept but it’s only in its (relative) infancy just as all of these events are happening to direct traffic toward the Fediverse.

It's been pretty decent so far but the fact that I can't easily browse all available communities across all servers really limits the amount of discovery I can do.

I was on Hexbear and I forgot how much I missed having a mixed crowd, as it was. Conversations are so much more fun that way!

It's generally ok. Though its tougher to use than reddit. To be honest I really wish that it did a better job of merging similar communities or something like that?

Like almost like a multi-reddit of cats to include all cats communities with dedups.. similar idea for other categories.

its been great, i been posting in the Hexbear instance for like 2 years, i decided to make an account here while i wait for HB to federate with the rest of lemmy

So far it is mostly fine, but confusing at times. Especially navigating and finding things. But so was reddit in the begining.

Besides this, there are a lot of communities missing. I hope there is a way to extract post-histories from subreddit so we don't loose the accumulated knowledge. Especially for troubleshooting and programming, reddit it a valuable source. I hope we will keep those and transition to lemmy (or another alternative) smoothly

Needs more discoverability

It's been great. I'm allergic to social media, yet Lemmy does not feel like social media (to me at least). I hope that the Reddit horde won't turn it into a toxic cesspool.

this app I'm using is pretty bad (no offense to the dev) but once there's better ones on the market I'm sure the experience will be more enjoyable

I'm not a fan of the whole wordnews ppl banning anti-CCP/anti-russian content tho

Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.

Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.

Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.

I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.

I only ever lurked Reddit and am yet to change that here, but I am finding it nice to use. Once more communities, particularly niche interests, get a good amount of frequent users I think it will be an absolute joy to participate in.

I'm enjoying it! Smaller community feels cozy, I even started commenting (was a lurker on Reddit). Although there's always a room for improvement. I occasionally lose comments because of some bugs or server issues, sometimes opening things just leads to refreshing of the main page and you lose the post and so on

I just want Apollo to switch to Lemmy now like Ivory did. A good mobile client is what’s missing.

So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.

Joining communities is very counter-intuitive. They are spread around and I ended up joining lemmy.ml communities exclusively, from another instance.

We could use much more space for the text, so far the text is way too concentrated in the middle of the screen in a narrow column.

Now on the content I'm rather satisfied. It's still a bit low in volume and if you compare to reddit it's really small, but we will catch up soon. We should lower our expectations and start building anew.