Asklemmy

Agreed. Its all a bit too confusing. I'm sort of understanding it all now after a few hours. I think great apps for android and iOS will definitely help a lot, but also I just really miss apollo :(

I'm confused to be honest, but I admit I just started. But like, where do I look at pictures of houseplants and post mine? Do I find a server devoted to houseplants? Or maybe I should just finally figure out Instagram for that.

Something that improved my experience was changing the sorting from most active to hot. I see much more variety now.

I have a similar experience, but its like a user base of 200k vs idk how many million on reddit. There wont be an infinite amount of posts until lemmy grows more.

I think only 1 percent of all users on lemmy and reddit post. So its 2k active posters vs 60k active reddit posters (assuming reddit has 6m).

The sorting has been bad i also see dead posts but overall im enjoying lemmy more than i had reddit in the later years (joined 2010).

I’m on an iPad and using the web experience and am really liking it. I was able to find enough similar communities that I’m getting a similar feed to Reddit and it’s growing like crazy. I’m not seeing posts and content pop in very fast. On the home page I sort by new and subscribed

I just sort by hot, check twice a day, make a thread if I want an inbox and it's fine

Other people have said the important parts. I'm not sure if you were on reddit for long. But if you think back to the early days of reddit it was not stable as you might think now. The site was constantly down and there were many bugs. The user interface was still in development. Lemmy could be a diamond in the rough. Give it some sharpening and it will be a good place. I guess it's up to the users.

my biggest adjustment outside of the very sus censoring on some subs, is that my front page on lemmy is almost entirely about reddit :/

I know it will eventually die down but rn its kinda like ... why bother browsing

I mean the user base is less than 1% of reddits. So of course you're going to have less posts. You're relying on people for browsing, you either can chose to be content with how much people are posting, or get to posting yourself.

I used web version of lemmy.world on desktop (1080p monitor) yesterday, coming from old.reddit + RES, I really hate:

1. The web trend to leave white space on both side of websites, it's space inefficient and causes thread with longer title to take two lines to display.

2. Everything has a thumbnail slot even if it's just text thread, makes each thread took more height to display, also space inefficient.

3. You need to be authorized to even subscribe/join to a community (that is not on lemmy.world).

4. Image expand button is hard to spot for me, and I am pretty sure some threads with image didn't have expand button.

Fediverse is kinda just a fragmented mess. Communities of all sides, some moderated strictly, some not. Content not being properly labeled (looking at you NSFW communities), shitposts leaking into everything.

Then it's just a duality, communities are either open to everyone, and therefore spam, or they're super closed down, create an echo chamber and shut everyone off.

This whole situation isn't enjoyable and I'm not really sure for the future of it.

I agree, I think it has a lot of potential, but the difficulty in discovering other communities is a barrier that most won't want to cross. Having to manually search a specific string in order to subscribe is just too cumbersome. I hope that improves. I think if discoverability was better, everyone would be here and interacting. But it's too different that I could see most giving it a quick try and then giving up. Im an addict though so I'm muddling through it. I think people here don't really realize what the average user is like, and how most don't even know that third party apps exist.

I feel the exact same tbh, and on the middle of my vacation :')

Lemmy is still very early in it's development and there's only two full time working on it afaik.

Be the change you want to see. Start posting in the communities you enjoy for others to check out. If you're here just to scroll and not contribute, Lemmy won't improve quickly. If you wait until it gets to be another Reddit, you're not helping out the community.

Fedi wise: it takes a bit to adapt but you end up understanding it more esp with the graphics I'll list I see it as a social media community, built and made by the community, its what social media should be, whenever big corps behind social media fail, everyone is guided and flocks to fedi Graphics https://fedi.omada.cafe/files/f62eb02f-e9ac-4c64-8bc8-1c5d54079dbd https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_view_into_the_Fediverse.png (same as above) Another one below by @[email protected] https://fedi.omada.cafe/files/c1203ad1-7010-4030-aeaf-4dcd37cc546a https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_branches_1.2.png

(Fedi.omada.cafe is my calckey/misskey instance, had to self promo 🙃)

One complaint I have is that I can't post a comment without having to click "Post". In many applications, Reddit being one of them, you are able to use the hot key Ctrl+Enter and it will post/send whatever you wrote.

I definitely am having a tough time making the transition. It still feels a bit chaotic to me.

I like it. So far my only issue is the convoluted manual search for communities, but that'll be a non issue as we spread out and get everything linked up. The other stuff is just bugs, like phone pics getting turned sideways when posting.

Overall I like it. I prefer a more intimate community and quality discussion as opposed to one line reactions comments and petty confrontation.

By the way, check your language settings in the profile. I had some issues with the posts that I could not get, because “English” option was somehow unchecked in the languages list…

I've been happy overall with it. I was lost at first but I set my feed to All severs and New posts. I have found some cool communities this way. I plan to stick around and I hope others do as well!

it's not as big right now, but if you're using Active sorting that could make it even worse, try using Hot, New, Top Day, or my personal favorite, New Comments, which is similar to new but anything that still has an active discussion will come up again

Agreed. I like the progress they’ve made so far, but it’s clear in alpha stage. And I find the mobile website to be pretty good for what it is. A few minor updates will make a big difference.

Have you tried Mlem? I’m using it on iOS and it’s been pretty stable and close to what I was used to using Apollo prior to this whole fiasco!