Asklemmy

Chiming in from kbin.social (isn't federation cool?)

I also tried Lemmy out, I found kbin's ui to a bit more to my liking but I plan on trying both for a bit

I think it's great so far. I'm a reddit refugee who decided to leave that place when I couldn't use my third-party client (Sync). It feels all new in here and I really like it.

I'm a bit confused. Like some of the top comments, I've run into problems with how links work when interacting with instances other than my home instance on Mastodon before, and while I haven't been on Lemmy very long, I've already come across that problem but worse. At least on Mastodon, I can just copy/paste the Toot URL into my instance's search box and it comes up. If I get a link to a post on Lemmy I have no idea how to interact with it from my instance.

Some other issues:

At least on my instance, URLs are extremely vague. Reddit makes it easy to glance at the URL to see which subreddit you're on. On Lemmy I would ideally want to be able to see both the home instance of the post and the community within that instance. Instead I get just a single unique ID.

The way that instances sort seems to be different? Or at least there's something going on with sorting that confuses me. When viewing this post on my home instance, the second top comment is by @eldrichhydralisk@lemmy.sdf.org, which is the comment I was referencing earlier. But when I click the little colourful connected graph to go to what I presume is the OP's home instance, that post is way down the list and the second top comment is from "Craving0496". Which is another confusing point. I've noticed both here in this thread, and on the main community of my home instance that I signed up to participate in, some users have an @ at the start of their name, and some don't. I don't know why.

Discoverability is definitely also a big issue for me. On Reddit I could just think of a topic I want to explore and go to old.reddit.com/r/. Or I can try variations of the name of that topic to find more options or if my first search doesn't work. Here I have to think which instance to try for that topic, and between the general-purpose instances and the specific ones, as well as the various different ways of phrasing the topic name, it's a huge space to explore. If I want stuff about programming, I might try /r/programming, /r/programmer, /r/programmers, /r/coding, /r/code, etc. on Reddit. On Lemmy I try all 5 of those community names, multiplied by the 10+ major instances, plus programming.dev and maybe other niche instances. If multiple of those are active, then when I'm searching for specific content, or wanting to start a discussion, I might have to do that multiple times across those communities in different instances.

I definitely want this to work. I love the idea of federated instances, and I want a place where I can go to be part of a great community without the bullshit Reddit is currently doing. And I'm going to give Lemmy a really good try. But if I had to guess, I'd say I'm not confident in its ability to provide that.

Concerned regarding the state of apps in iOS, probably will have to mourn the loss of Apollo (which was absolutely amazing)

I think it's a lot more confusing.

I'm interested to see what this turns into. As a Reddit refugee, I'm trying to figure out if I want to jump right into here or take some time away from social media and wait to see what bubbles to the top.

It's OK, just wish the app was better. In android 11 and older you can force jeroba to open all lemmy-like links with jeroba but if you're on android 12, the only way to get somewhere other than lemmy.ml is if you're already subscribed to a place on another server. There is no way to browse sublemmys on other instances which really sucks.

I like the idea and KBin's software looks really nice. My concern is that it just won't have the critical mass needed to get what I got out of Reddit: niche subs. On Reddit, every single game has its own individual sub and they're all active. That's not gonna work here.

I did set up !fgc@kbin.social and !splatoon@kbin.social, but I don't know if these will take off, and I'm not going to bother trying with individual fighting games or smaller indie titles.

Also, I'm intrigued that KBin is able to talk to Mastodon and Pleroma, but I can't seem to find myself. I search for @missingno but nothing shows up.

Honestly, I'm really enjoying it and no regrets on making the switch.

Initially took a few moments for the penny to drop with the regards to the different instances etc. But using the Jerboa app is not a million miles away from the app I used to use for Reddit (Boost).

Just incredibly glad to have an alternative.

Having trouble creating a community. Wanted to create a Rimworld and a Hunt showdown community but it's taking ages. Otherwise, great! I don't even miss Reddit.

Personally I found it pretty simple, but I'm aware I'm a little bit more tech literate than the population in general. Not as many communities on here yet for me but it's early days. I guess "be the change you want to see" applies so really I should put some effort into setting that up.

I'm not new since I was always aware of Lemmy but only seriously considering it right now due to the whole Reddit fiasco. I just hope that after the drama and migration dies down, people here stay friendly like how it is right now. Also, I hope the mass migration can start to attract mobile devs to contribute or fork existing projects like Jerboa or even come up with alternatives. I'm optimistic.

Lemmy.ml performance is... slow due to overloading, and other lemmy servers sign-ins are busted - endless loading circles, endless createPostLike console log spam.

I like it a lot so far! Most of the time it's pretty much indistinguishable from how Reddit used to be, with the only annoyance being that any interaction with an instance other than the one your account is on has a very noticeable lag, but I guess that can't really be helped.

So far, I find it's pretty good. I couldn't find a client for Emacs so I may create one.

There's not a single middle eastern sub, and I doubt there ever will be😞

Support for GIFs is a bit lacking but otherwise its going great :-)

I don't really know whats going on the whole instance thing confuses me. Whats it's pros? Why use it