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

submitted 1 year 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] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/

Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don't worry it's (mostly) mobile friendly) and type [email protected] (don't forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.

[–] dj3hac 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you.

New thing I don't like: I could not reply to you from my inbox. I had to go back to this thread, start from the top, find my own comment again, and then respond to you. The button in my inbox that looked like a reply button just marked the message as read instead.

Also I just found the search, the icon looks nothing like a search icon.

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

Yes, I think it is meant to symbolise a list of instances or topics. I agree that a standard search icon would fit better, though. Took me a while to work that out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look 2 buttons to the right of the impostor button, the box with dots in it.

[–] dj3hac 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I see it now. My brain must have seen the one chat bubble and ignored all others. Surely that would make more sense to be a bell icon or something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Or an eye or something, yeah. I had the same problem until I got used to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There needs to be a place that brings all of these features together in one place. Otherwise the people who are used to being spoonfed functionality (which now makes up the majority of reddit users) will not switch over; or they’ll switch and bounce off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Jerboa devs are working on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This needs simplifying, but am glad to hear that. Actually excited to hear. Feels like experiencing the pioneer days of a new social media network. 🙂