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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A thought came to my mind when reading your comment.

Instead of finding a new home, let's make lemmy our new home. Let's try to populate lemmy more, get its activity up, and post more than we would've on reddit (since we have less users, we would need more posts per user), so it can stand a chance at being a reddit competitor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I agree and am working on it in terms of engagement. Usability is going to be key for whichever platform eventually takes over. It could absolutely be Lemmy, but I'm watching for other possibilities as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Agree! with that also the smaller communities may help forever lurkers (like me) post as here it feels like comments will be seen unlike reddit where there is so much noise.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, make homes! we need so much more hardware, while personal instances may not be a good idea, we are so short on compute that if you are inclined run your own instance, bring your friends!

The experience on smaller faster instances is already comparable, the content flow, really not bad either though it takes about an hour of finding and subbing to the communities you want and a day for your instance to really start grabbing the content for you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you point out an explanation for how this works? Like, if I run my own "instance" of Lemmy in a Docker container, what all is it doing if I and a few friends subscribe to communities on other instances (eg BeeHaw, lemmy.ml, etc). Is my little instance mirroring all of that data constantly? Just when one of us requests it? I need to know what I'm getting myself into basically.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think you might find that answer through lemmy's github and using their guides which I'll send it here in case anyone else is interested.

Lemmy's github

Lemmy's docs

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is the sentiment I've been rolling with. I normally don't post often, but since the move I've created an instance and posted more than ever.

We have to make what we want. once we have enough content for people to be interested, the users and community will come.