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Unhappy with Lemmy (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by darkstar to c/main

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Running any kind of social network / website (or whatever you call it) is messy.

Content, traffic, servers and users - everyone knows the best.

So I respect anyone who runs any instance and I don't mind bugs etc. Twitter, FB, reddit they were also buggy and full of backend mess.

So just don't be upset because of bugs. Take it like a price for freedom for tech corp(s).

OT: I'm paying for own email, vpn and others stuff every month so big techs have minimum info about me ... I also have 6 browser and every single of them is for something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just try kbin.social instead. I much prefer it currently vs lemmy's frontend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m confused; isn’t this kbin.social?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The url from kbin is https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/37881/Unhappy-with-Lemmy

So it's federated, you just have to check the url. It's already confused me once - something kbin could improve on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're reading this on kbin.social but if you look at your address bar it'll say m/[email protected] which means its an sh.itjust.works instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You are probably viewing a post from itjustworks on kbin.

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

The #federated posts show up in your feed like they're supposed to. Hover over the post's author @darkstar and you will see where he posted from.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was also really unhappy with it. Then I tried kbin.social. It's not a lemmy instance, but also uses the fediverse so you can still see and interact with posts from other lemmy instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fediverse thing makes me feel like I'm in the dust. I thought Kbin was its own federated thing, separate from Lemmy. Like there are decentralized federated Kbin nodes as its own thing, and decentralized Lemmy nodes as its own thing. But Lemmy and Kbin intermingle?

I feel like I need something like that old UK/GreatBritain/British Isles infographic, but for Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and whatever else springs up.

[–] panopticchaos 1 points 1 year ago

It's less of a "UK/GreatBritain/British Isles" thing and more of a "You can have gmail/hotmail/outlook/etc and all have 'email'" kind of thing.

All of them are speaking the same language/protocol so they all talk to each other even if they do things differently

Mastodon is probably the most different since it's trying to be Twitter which is a very different "thing" than Reddit.

[–] SuperV1 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From appolo to jarboa, idk if it's a fair comparison. Even the browser has its perks compared to jarboa but I still use it, i will do the same thing I did with the Reddit app all those years ago, give it a chance, use it, report buggs, give feedback, enjoy the updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been three days since I've been unable to log in to a Lemmy.world account I also opened along with this Kbin one. I get the prompt, fill the username / password, click the button... and it spins and spins and keeps on spinning, nothing happens.
Did I get banned? Is it a bug? Some snafu on my end?

Kbin has been much more stable and usable so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having the same issue. :/

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

Out of curiosity:

What did you use to create an account?
What did you use to try and log in?

In both cases with me, it's Brave browser on iPad.

EDIT: Just noticed I can log in to Lemmy.world with the Mlem app, so it's not a ban, it's definitely a glitch.

[–] Zlatzman 1 points 1 year ago

I've had issues with logging into both sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world using Firefox Mobile. Chrome mobile seems to work.

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