Asklemmy

Reminds me a bit of how the internet felt when I was growing up. More like a bunch of forums that are easy enough to move between. Just lacking users and discussion on niche topics right now

Couple of nit-picky things that I'd love to see changed.

This comment box. There's nothing to visually divide it from the original post. I got it figured out, but my brain is still resisting it as bad UX.

On the home feed, the group an article comes from is tiny and not obvious. My eye is constantly jumping back and forth from subject to group, group to subject, and it's fatiguing. The subject is only half of what describes the post: what group that subject belongs to is the other.

On the home feed, I have to click Subscribed for my feed. Setting and getting a cookie is at most two lines of code each in vanilla javascript, seems to me that'd be an easy choice to remember.

I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.

So far, so good.

I am taking to it a bit quicker than Mastodon since I used Reddit more than Twitter.

Once I added a few different instances it became much better! Content will come. But the best users from Reddit will migrate along with us!

Its somewhat confusing, but I guess thats to be expected on a new site.

I’ve been bouncing between Lemmy and Tildes to see which I prefer. I am having a hard time with deciding. I vastly prefer how Lemmy has the reply to a post box right underneath the body of the post, whereas Tildes requires you to scroll to the bottom of ALL comments to make your own reply.

I like that Lemmy has the ability to create a ton of different communities and sub-communities. Tildes has like ~music, but nothing below that (like ~metal or ~indie). So Lemmy seems to have more of a curated community feel.

I think I like the UI of Tildes more, as of now, but Mlem is a promising app (I just wish there were notifications for comments to my posts/replies on the app. Maybe someday!)

I think it does federation better than Mastodon. I think confusion comes from the way ActivityPub decides to do things

For me I'm just worries that it wouldn't reach the critical mass to generate enough content to keep people around 🥲

Really good! there is some work (or learning) to be done on making links work more painlessly, but on the whole, I really hope this takes off!

Just did it.

I'm confused but have been figuring things out.

Mostly it seems that many of my Reddit subs are reconvening on different Lemmy servers (.ml, .world, .can) and I can't yet figure out how to combine them or view them under one account?

I'll keep trying.

Former Reddit user here. It's a bit confusing but I'm holding up. I'm glad I found Kbin as it seems pretty user friendly compared to the various Lemmy instances. I'm excited for the future of both networks, and look forward to getting my head around it all a little better.