Asklemmy

I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.

theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)

I believe here its simply called "communities".

I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.

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.

I'm having fun exploring the fediverse and learning how this all works. There is a decent amount of chatter on lemmy already which adds to the joy of scrolling.

I have found myself getting into an unfortunate loop where if I'm on my lemmy I accidentally end up on another instance and then get all lost at how to follow a community on another instance. Lemmy also seems to load really slowly for me, but that's not the end of the world.

Kbin solves a lot of these issues even if it's generally rougher around the edges. Having a clearer "front page" without getting lost in instances and communities helps a lot. Everything loads faster and I don't end up unable to interact after clicking a link.

That's my pretty initial reactions. I'll go play with it all some more and probably have a better feel later!

I like it so far but my issue is that since Reddit had SUCH a huge community. Even niche subreddits were semi active. Here I think it'll take a while before we hit similar levels (or never at all)

A bit rough initially as you might expect with a new platform but I've now got an account on a (geographically) local instance and subscribed to some communities in general interest areas on other instances. Looks promising. Now I just gotta find some niche communities.

1. Searching communities is still hard.

2 )There's a featured/pinned post that appears to me on my account home on lemmy.one, but I just can't see on this account. I went to the community, I searched It top-down and nope, it just doesn't exist for this account, I don't know why

The link also can't be shared, as if I copy its permalink, I got to the lemmy.one instance.

This is one of the biggest improvements it should see, but I don't know if it's possible at all.

3. Also, the Jerboa app is not very good, but it works(Lemmur doesn't even work). But it is secondary to me, as I think if Lemmy grows, we'll see improvements gradually in this regard.

It's been okay, the main instance has been somewhat slow and some posts take time to show up in the feeds.

However, once I started using my self-hosted instance, it's been great! Snappy, content shows up pretty fast and federation has worked well for the time being.

I wish Jerboa was a little more polished for when I'm on my cellphone, but otherwise, the app is pretty good

I'm still hoping some of the subs I frequent will migrate here. That's my only concern, tbh. If even 90% of the subs I'm following on reddit move here, I can quit reddit altogether. I'm also concerned about nsfw content (not just porn), but reddit is killing that too.

Can't start my own subs because, 1) I have no time, experience, nor patience to mod, and 2) idk of many of the people from those subs are already here.

Overall, though, lemmy/fediverse has been nice to me.

I love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.

I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)

It's been amazing. It feels like the reddit of old and gives me early internet vibes. I'm way more involved with the community here than I was ever on reddit. I love it and I'm staying :)

I jumped straight into building an instance before even having an account somewhere else. It was a two or three day process for me, an hour or two each day, to get everything running properly. The main issue there was the docker instructions left a bit to be desired and there were no instructions for an existing apache reverse proxy at the time, but the people in the Matrix room were an amazing help.

It then took a couple of days to get used to it. I had the same questions I think a lot of people will have with their first instance- how do I get content on my instance from other federated instances? How do I get my instance searchable from other instances, and listed on browse.feddit.de? The solutions were very simple at the end of the day and everything now works great. There's just that initial learning curve.

Now I'm loving it and already see a lot of activity, hoping we'll have even more over the next month!

so far it’s pretty ok and i’m quite hopeful for its future. the layout reminds me of reddit so it’s not particularly confusing to use… like someone else said, i hope the customisation improves (especially profile customisation, i can’t seem to upload an avatar). i’m a bit confused about the different servers though (what’s the difference between beehaw/lemmy/shitjustworks/etc? will i be able to access all of them if i signed up at beehaw?…) i’m not very tech savvy so perhaps somebody could eli5. i’m hopeful though!

This doesn't particularly matter, but in the interest of answering your question, the equivalent word to "subreddits" here is "communities". Thus the /c/ instead of /r/.

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It's been good! I have to say my favorite element has been figuring out different ways that I can blend my Lemmy interactions with my Mastodon use.

I appreciate the fact there is no infinite scroll on the front page.

I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.

There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.

On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.

A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.

I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.

It's a little confusing so far but I haven't spent a ton of time with it yet so I put that on me. Do instances coordinate what communities they start? Let's say I'm looking for a "home assistant" community, will there only be one across all of Lemmy or will I find several?

Crazy. Been lurking around discovered mastodon and pixelfed too. Fediverse stuff is gnarly

It reminds me of old reddit, so I'm pretty happy with it. I hope we aren't going to completely ruin whatever the Lemmy old guard had going on, though.

UI issues/wants aside, loving the experience. I do miss some specific subs from Reddit - specifically r/videos. I haven't seem to have found a good alternative.