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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm amazed it runs so well. It's incredibly speedy for a wss implementation.

I had a bit of trouble signing up, but was approved super quickly and could log in.
(I might bother support later about it, when things settle down)
Even federated topics are blazing fast. Now I am thinking of setting up my own server on my Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

Markdown works just like old.reddit. But it feels like it already has RES and ton's of plugins preinstalled. I am really quite happy.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Markdown works better than old.reddit in one way: fenced code blocks are supported! You can, for example, write:

```rust
fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}
```

And it will come out as:

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}

Old.reddit would have mangled that code.

Lemmy also understands the language name and wraps the output HTML in <code language=rust>, but it doesn't seem to actually perform syntax highlighting. Maybe that's planned for the future.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Neat.
I always found new and mobile reddit to produce the worst markdown (like escaping an underscore in a URL, who does that?).
But I could never use it for more than 2 minutes before going back to old.reddit or using i.redd.it (oh shit they killed that, and they killed old.reddit.com/.compact).
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdeicso/

Bastards.