Asklemmy

It's really interesting and I think has a huge potential to work out really well.

All these little instances being able to interact with each other seamlessly is really cool. It's seeming quite easy to curate communities I'm interested in and I think once it's a little more fleshed out, there'll be go-to communities for certain things which everyone from all instances uses. It's really cool.

Personally I found it pretty simple, but I'm aware I'm a little bit more tech literate than the population in general. Not as many communities on here yet for me but it's early days. I guess "be the change you want to see" applies so really I should put some effort into setting that up.

So far, I am enjoying the experience. Full disclosure - I had an account on lemmy.ml a year or two ago that I deleted because I was not using the platform. I'm more engaged this time around. The only technical issues that I've noticed seem to be tied to the rapid growth in the user base and the administrators seem to be making adjustments as growth continues.

I haven't had any difficulty subscribing to communities that interest me and there seems to be enough content being generated to keep me interested and engaged. Generating content has been easy so far and I am enjoying myself.

The instance system seems nice - I like my instance and there are some good local communities. Some of them seem to replicate communities on other instances, but I don't mind having more than one community to check when I want to distract myself with a specific topic.

Concerned regarding the state of apps in iOS, probably will have to mourn the loss of Apollo (which was absolutely amazing). I had an amazing iPhone and iPad app I could run on Mac as well.

I don't hate it. It's going to take some time to adjust to but overall, it's easy to use. Main complaint is that I can't use it at work.

There's not a single middle eastern sub, and I doubt there ever will be😞

I'm a reddit user hoping to transition to Lemmy. I couldn't sign up on lemmy.ml, so I signed up on SDF.

There was a tiny bit of learning to do with figuring out this whole communities and servers thing, but its nice here. Not sure if there already is something but a UI similar to old Reddit would be nice. Still this is for sure a good Reddit alternative.

I personally still don't understand the point behind instances. It seems to just introduce confusion about the sign-up process, and also makes usage unrealiable. I don't understand why it can't just be one large decentralized instance, in a similar (though obviously not exact) way as blockchains were distributed account systems.

All these introduced technical details are deterrance for non-technical users. I would consider myself a very tech savvy user and still have been offput by both Mastodon and Lemmy, but have still pushed myself to both due to their recent corporate counterparts going to shit.

So far I like it. It was a little odd signing up because I would find an instance to sign up on and kept scrolling until I found a join button which looped me back to the list of instances. Or I would click on the "you must log in or sign up to comment " message on a thread hoping I could sign up that way and getting sent to the instance lists. I didn't understand to join the instance I needed to hit join from a drop down menu at the top of the page, until I tried looking there since the other options didn't work.

I was doing that through the website on mobile browser. Now that I have an account I am running it through Jerboa. It works well so far, I'm just learning how to find communities to subscribe to, and I'm not sure if when I search from the search options in Jerboa if I'm getting all possible results or just certain ones my instance is somehow connected to? From other comments it sounds like it's the latter and I'm not sure how to get around that.

Other than the learning curve I like it so far. I'm trying to migrate here from Reddit and someone there recommended I try this.

the android app is useless

edit: it is now useful