Asklemmy

It's a bit clunkier than Reddit, and obviously a smaller userbase. I'm sure the experience will get better with time. The real key to success will be getting more users to create content

My self-hosted instance seems to be working well, but I can't figure out how to federate with other platforms such as mastodon.

I guess we'll figure it out at some point.

I downloaded the app mlem and logged into this account, then I opened a link to a thing/group called "technology" or something close to that.

The top post was the was the first time in over 20 years of going online that I saw illegal images. No way to report it, no way to do anything but delete the app. Now I use the browser only. But other than that, kind of ok with a lot walls of text about social media ethics.

Edit: I found the post in the browser and reported it. It was in https://beehaw.org/c/technology

I miss the reddit way to only scroll on the main page to see content, but I know that this is not liked by most users, some prefers the old.reddit.com way

I don't really understand it yet, I'm trying to find a boardgame community, but haven't had any luck.

so far so go. i'm an old fart so familiarisation takes longer, and is easily forgotten ! 15 years on reddit before getting a permaban for saying "go outside fatso". Not my proudest moment, but there you go.

reddits downfall is multifaceted, but its certainly not helped by career Mods, who mod 20,30,50 different subs and network extensively.

Fantastic! Best software ever!

Was also a reddit lurker before joining lemmy. It’s been pretty good so far! The only issue I had was that my first password was too long but it still let me make the account, so I couldn’t log in until I reset it to a shorter one. Other than that no issues other than thing occasionally taking a while to load. Loving the friendly community!