I mean having 1 less thing to doomscroll on is good innit
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Newbie question, can we just use the standard Mastodon application for IOS?
Nah - each service (Mastodon/ Pixelfed/ Kbin) requires its own app.
You can sign up to Mastodon, then follow the rest from there, but the experience won't be complete (no downvotes, for example).
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Its hard for readers early on. You need lots of people to fill the feed. Get busy or wait for people to get things addressed and pipelines running.
Its mainly UX, it will come in time.
important to note, none of this made itself (even reddit); it took people using and contributing.
Yes, you' re right, I've been a Redditor for more than 16 years and have seen many subreddits come and go. Even today, there are subreddits like Android that only get 200 or 300 upvotes on a good day.
+1, as many have said, participation is key. Make communities, posts, and comments.
I'm still feeling my way around and have subbed to a community or two here and there, but (using Jerboa on Android) so far it's actually not that different from using rif (for me, anyway.)
The only real issue that I've encountered so far is I kept getting timeout errors whenever I tried to comment (though the comments seem to have posted anyway) or when I clicked into a comment thread, but those seem to have subsided for the most part...
It's given me an obscure error and timeout when hitting the post button while commenting once and it was a detailed comment that took a while to type. It did not post. That was a bummer
If it's any consolation, it appears I may've spoken too soon about the timeouts having gone away... They're sporadic as hell
The timeouts are because of the huge influx in users. The way Lemmy currently connects to the server is horribly inefficient and the new 0.18 release should fix a lot of the issues we're seeing now. I think they said it would release soon, so hopefully we can hold out until then.
Mastodon had a similar story earlier this year when the Twitter Migration happened.
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My biggest issue is that it's so difficult to see content from other instances. I understand it isn't feasible for every instance to index everything that's out there, but I definitely think we need a much better solution. I'm good with this stuff and it's a pain in the ass for me, your typical social media user will not jump through these hoops.
My experience with Lemmy as been fairly positive so far, but unfortunately it still has some critical points. For example, sometimes (and on some specific instances) if you comment a post you're going to find your comment under another post, or sometimes the upvotes counter needs to be refreshed every once in a while (especially after creating a new post).
The whole social network lacks of an high quality client (while Mastodon actually has extremely valid clients, unbloated and even graphically appealing instaed)
I had trouble with Mastodon, primarily because I had a very curated list of people I followed and most of them didn't move to Mastodon. Those that did are clearly using some type of program to just copy posts over from other platforms.
But for Lemmy, it feels different. I've been able to find most of the same communities I was a part of over there. The fact that they are smaller and less busy means I can spend less time scrolling, but still feel like I got my "fix" in for the day.
Iโm experiencing the same, but I see it only as growing pains of a community that is still tiny. If corporate social media continues like it does (downhill), I expect all that to improve.