I'm really not happy with Lemmy so far. Its a great community and a cool concept, but the amount of bugs I am experiencing is really starting to put me off.
The site constantly updates / glitches, when I try click on something it moves just before I click so I end up clicking on something else. If I open a post, as soon as I go back the entire home feed is different and my sorting preferences have been reset.
As someone coming from the refinement from Apollo this really is offputting and makes me want to use Lemmy even less.
The people here are great, the federation is cool and I like how decentralized it is, but I think I'm going to log off now and I don't expect to be back anytime soon.
Ps. A functioning app I can download directly from the app store would be great. I'm not interested in progressive web apps or testflight betas, I want something that just works and is well refined.
Edit: I understand its early days, I'm not faulting devs for not being able to keep up, all I am doing here is expressing my opinion. I'm also sad about losing Apollo so that definitely adds to my disappointment quite a bit if I'm being honest.
My big issue is that I haven't found a good setting for my home feed that consistently updates. I've had the same posts at the top of hot/all and active/all since I started, it's difficult to find posts that have any activity that aren't multiple days old because of this
I sort all/new or subscribed/new and just scroll. I'm subbing to a vast array of communities I wouldn't have otherwise and I've found a number of really good reads and discussions. If there was a way to hide already viewed threads it would make the experience much better, but I can live with it for now.
This is also how I do it. My homepage is set to subscribed/hot(bc my local is Polish lol), but for more content I'll go all/new or subscribed/new.
They're changing how it sorts in v0.18
I believe the current setting was configured with the old less active community in mind.
Now with more users and posts things will have to change.
It's a known bug that the next version will address. I have been using "top of the day" and "new." New has been a great way for me to find new communities.
Yeah the hot/active algorithm just doesnt work anymore. It worked fine the first week i was here but ever since lemmy blew up its shown the same threads at the top which kinda sucks
Browse through the communities here, subscribe to a decent amount of them, and then set your home page to subscriptions and sort by new.