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So far it is mostly fine, but confusing at times. Especially navigating and finding things. But so was reddit in the begining.
Besides this, there are a lot of communities missing. I hope there is a way to extract post-histories from subreddit so we don't loose the accumulated knowledge. Especially for troubleshooting and programming, reddit it a valuable source. I hope we will keep those and transition to lemmy (or another alternative) smoothly
I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.
I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.
There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.
On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.
2 )There's a featured/pinned post that appears to me on my account home on lemmy.one, but I just can't see on this account. I went to the community, I searched It top-down and nope, it just doesn't exist for this account, I don't know why
The link also can't be shared, as if I copy its permalink, I got to the lemmy.one instance.
This is one of the biggest improvements it should see, but I don't know if it's possible at all.
I love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.
I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)
It's been okay, the main instance has been somewhat slow and some posts take time to show up in the feeds.
However, once I started using my self-hosted instance, it's been great! Snappy, content shows up pretty fast and federation has worked well for the time being.
I wish Jerboa was a little more polished for when I'm on my cellphone, but otherwise, the app is pretty good
I'm still hoping some of the subs I frequent will migrate here. That's my only concern, tbh. If even 90% of the subs I'm following on reddit move here, I can quit reddit altogether. I'm also concerned about nsfw content (not just porn), but reddit is killing that too.
Can't start my own subs because, 1) I have no time, experience, nor patience to mod, and 2) idk of many of the people from those subs are already here.
Overall, though, lemmy/fediverse has been nice to me.
theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)
I believe here its simply called "communities".
I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.
I'm still getting used to the whole "instance" thing but I think that a FOSS, decentralized thing has a better chance to stick around a while.
I jumped straight into building an instance before even having an account somewhere else. It was a two or three day process for me, an hour or two each day, to get everything running properly. The main issue there was the docker instructions left a bit to be desired and there were no instructions for an existing apache reverse proxy at the time, but the people in the Matrix room were an amazing help.
It then took a couple of days to get used to it. I had the same questions I think a lot of people will have with their first instance- how do I get content on my instance from other federated instances? How do I get my instance searchable from other instances, and listed on browse.feddit.de? The solutions were very simple at the end of the day and everything now works great. There's just that initial learning curve.
Now I'm loving it and already see a lot of activity, hoping we'll have even more over the next month!
It's been amazing. It feels like the reddit of old and gives me early internet vibes. I'm way more involved with the community here than I was ever on reddit. I love it and I'm staying :)
A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.
This doesn't particularly matter, but in the interest of answering your question, the equivalent word to "subreddits" here is "communities". Thus the /c/ instead of /r/.
I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.
It's a little confusing so far but I haven't spent a ton of time with it yet so I put that on me. Do instances coordinate what communities they start? Let's say I'm looking for a "home assistant" community, will there only be one across all of Lemmy or will I find several?
So if I create the community "beerpong" on my instance feddit.de you can subscribe to it, it will go in to your feed like it was on yours. You can interact with it just as if it was on yours.
But you or someone else could also create the community "beerpong" on your instance lemmy.one. If you view communities on other instances than your own there name will show up differently. Since I'm on feddit.de the community shows up as "asklemmy@lemmy.ml" on my screen to indicate which community exactly it is.
So if you will there could be "duplicate" communities. But imo that's not really an issue. On Reddit you essentially also have duplicate communities. They have slightly different names. There is r/publicfreakout and then there is r/actualpublicfreakout. You might think that two communities could have the same name on lemmy but they actually can't if you understand that the full name of a community is the combination of the community name and the instance it's running on.
So this is NOT asklemmy. It's asklemmy@lemmy.ml
I get that there are similar subreddits but not a ton of overlap. Subs will merge or redirect to the one with more traction. Hearing there's possibly a asklemmy on each instance, makes it feel like a bunch of factions instead of a community. When I was adding communities to follow, one instance seemed to focus on entertainment (books, movies, music, etc) and that made sense. I initially thought that each instance had a "theme" and people would be directed to follow the community on that instance.
Some instances might just focus on a topic. And I agree that makes sense.
On Reddit all the subs are community run too. So if two subs merge or redirect or something that is just because the mods of that one sub decided to do so. It's not like reddit is forcing anyone or making those decision. Nothing stops you from creating r/askreddit2 and decide to not merge it with the "main" askreddit.
The same thing is possible here. And give it some time. At some point I hope that certain communities for a topic will establish themselves with good rules and good moderation over others and then there will a natural flow towards those well established communities and there will be less overlap. It really is exactly the same situation here as it is on reddit.
UI issues/wants aside, loving the experience. I do miss some specific subs from Reddit - specifically r/videos. I haven't seem to have found a good alternative.
Crazy. Been lurking around discovered mastodon and pixelfed too. Fediverse stuff is gnarly
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It's been good! I have to say my favorite element has been figuring out different ways that I can blend my Lemmy interactions with my Mastodon use.