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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by hllywluis to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As a user, figuring out communities and participating was pretty easy. There was only the briefest confusion about where to find the communities on my instance because they slowly populate over time.

What was aggravating was trying to set up the instance in the first place. All kinds of things didn't work from time to time, but I don't think I ever saw an error message or explanation, leaving me to guess what the hell was going on. New user creation never worked with email verification. I couldn't begin to guess how to fix it. But once we turned that off, we still had user creation fail. It took a little while to figure out that we were trying to create accounts that were already in the database (or already on another instance of Lemmy), so the process couldn't complete.

At this very moment I'm still trying to figure out why I can't appoint moderators to my own community. I'm also having to solve problems with hours of trial and error. I really hope this changes, because I actually like how Lemmy works.