I'm quite lost, and don't think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I'm even using those words properly).

I'll do it like Reddit 10 years ago... wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.

Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

I also don't like the fact that the search function doesn't let me select communities until I've already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to "All".

I feel like this can be a really great replacement, but people will need to stick with it and watch it grow. Right now there is not enough content to keep people engaged. It's mainly just questions confusion. I am really digging the format simplicity of things!

It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.

It's more clunky but not unbearably so. Once Jerboa gets more features it'll be a lot better. I miss swiping back, having to use the back button sucks.

At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing. Hopefully we will also get some awesome third party mobile apps. Overall it's very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

Its a better experience than reddit so far, the communities are small, most people are respectful and its not just the same shit in recycling.

I'm a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.

That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.

Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.

Guys, it's wild. Let's go.

I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.

Hello world.

As an Internet Old Head I'm just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.

to quote Oprah's first tweet, "FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY"

I'm liking it, and anticipating its growth -- with both trepidation and excitement. It's unpolished but I don't mind that all too much. Trying to engage as much as I can.

It seems comfy. I'm skeptical of the UI and UX for the website and the app (even jeroba) but I came from reddit boost which is absolutely a phenomenal experience. I hope this evolves and improves in these ways

Community feels more welcoming. I hope it continues to grow exponentially, because it'll need it to work!

I like how it works! I don't like the default web UI. For a ton of reasons. I'd love to see someone make a more old reddit-like one.

I see the potential but Lemmy in its current state is very buggy. There needs to be a huge uptick in dev activity to iron out all the bugs and usability issues before June 30th hits. Otherwise, I see little hope of adoption.

The performance issues also need to fixed ASAP. Sure, you could just "use a different instance" but you can't even federate with overloaded instances!

EDIT: Looks like there are a lot of fixes coming in this PR: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1081

It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.

Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.

The more I use it, the happier I am. I'm an old geezer who was tinkering with computers way back when 8K was an outrageous amount of RAM. This reminds me of why I became a geek to begin with.

I've honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.

Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we've been used to over on Reddit, but they're also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.

That said, there's still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn't to knock on the devs - I'm thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.

Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D

It works, at least. The only issue I'm seeing is that if I try to follow 'sublemmies' (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in 'subscribe pending'. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.

It's really cool so far. I am enjoying it.

Fuck Spez

I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.

It's confusing and change frightens me. I love it.

It's gonna take time. And the web UI needs WORK.

But I'm gonna stick around and give it a chance.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They're not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they're smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it's definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don't have to worry about that happening again!

It's a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.

I'm really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There's a few smaller communities missing but I'm sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don't know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it's great!

I've subbed to the /r equivalents I could find but honestly I'm having a blast just browsing random communities I'd never have looked at before. Did you know there's a community for people who collect Uranium Glass?? Wild stuff. Today is a good day.

I like that I am not being advertised to. I just hope critical mass of commenters and content makes it to fediverse systems.