I'm really liking it so far. The UI feels really clean.

I'm loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I've noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take 'photography' when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there's one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.

Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.

Question: is the "lag" from hitting the post button to seeing the post intentional or is that just a sign of stressed servers?

This place feels like it could be a good alternative. Once I learn more about how to use it. Looking forward to a new start!

A bit uncomfortable with the UI and stuff, as I am an old.reddit user, I like to consume content in my comfortable way. I normally do not tend to have issues with UI changes, but reddit was extremely comfortable in that mode. I will however try my best to get used to this, as I'd do anything to avoid Reddit from now on.

i'm just excited that i was able to make an account... lemmy.ml didn't want me. anyway, i'm just here to browse and see what i find.

Is there an easier way to find communities on other instances? I wish I could browse another instance as if it were "local" to organically find more communities.

Really happy to be here - would love it if this place worked out. What's the best way to ensure that we get folks moving over?

So far, so good. Jerboa does it for me on my phone. I hope sole of the reddit third parties(looking at you infinity) will cross the gap to Lemmy.

Happy to be here :)

Digging it so far. Some technical issues but I think they may just be due to the mobile app I am using (sometimes when I open a post, the comments displayed are the ones from the last post I looked at). But it feels much more.. Democratic? Than reddit did.

Finding my feet, but it all seems pretty straightforward. It will be good to see how these communities develop and mature...

It's good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.

The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it's not clear how that's going to shake out in the long run. I'm not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I'm willing to give it a go.

I'm a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I'm out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

Honestly struggling a bit. Finding the communities for my interests was very easy on Reddit, kinda having a hard time here.

I find this website extremely confusing. A beginners guide would be good.

I'm a big fan of it. The website is great and I'm thankful that I can interact with posts and comments on other servers. I think for most people's adoption the picking of a server to join is intimidating because there are so many options.

To draw more users it needs to be made abundantly clear that you can interact across servers.

I have finally managed to create an account, so do we have CSS like original reddit? Other then that lemmy seems pretty cool

It feels quite right. We need to set up lots of niche communities, but what I miss the most is the user base. It was diverse, and lemmy is known to have an specific user profile. Would be nice to reach out, wear a former redditors badge, and wear it with pride!

I'm confused yet intrigued

It'll take some time to get used to this and learn how to properly use this, but I'm happy to have this community. :)

Excited to see how this pans out! Really enjoying it so far.

Just found out about this site and happy to be here. Time to delete reddit off my phone!

Initially I was pretty confused as to how Lemmy worked but if you take like 5-10 minutes to just look around it all kinda just clicks. Looking forward to something new here.

I'm still tapping the spot where RIF used to be, going to take some time to move on.

/u/spez is awful. (First post on Lemmy on any instance!) Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow!

A bit confusing, but I'm really excited about this. I hope the 'choose server' part when you sign up gets streamlined a bit. It's very confusing for new people. My first post on Lemmy by the way!

Hello! Looks nice, I realize it will probably take some time to get used to, but I hope the community will grow. I mod a sub on Reddit and we are thinking about a blackout in protest, in any case it would be cool to set up shop here in the fediverse :)

The Jerboa app though could use with some improvements to navigate the different communities.

New here and ready 🫡

I have already made the transition to mastodon and now lemmy. I am loving the change and the freedom we are all gaining.