It definitely needs the rough edges smoothed out if we want to see wider adoption.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I'm a reddit user hoping to transition to Lemmy. I couldn't sign up on lemmy.ml, so I signed up on SDF.
Still a little confused about how instances work and subscribing. But other than that I like it, not toxic like reddit. Feel like I just need to familiarize myself more
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It's been very nice both on mobile (Jerboa) & on PC. One thing that has been bothering me as a person that cares about my privacy is what some people are saying on the privacy subreddit on reddit about lemmy.
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Iβve enjoyed it a lot. There are some stuff that could fit better on screen, like when you look at the communities youβre subscribed to. Also, it would be nice to show your subscribed communities in alphabetical order.
Otherwise, I really enjoy the layout. Itβs so simple
So far, I am enjoying the experience. Full disclosure - I had an account on lemmy.ml a year or two ago that I deleted because I was not using the platform. I'm more engaged this time around. The only technical issues that I've noticed seem to be tied to the rapid growth in the user base and the administrators seem to be making adjustments as growth continues.
I haven't had any difficulty subscribing to communities that interest me and there seems to be enough content being generated to keep me interested and engaged. Generating content has been easy so far and I am enjoying myself.
The instance system seems nice - I like my instance and there are some good local communities. Some of them seem to replicate communities on other instances, but I don't mind having more than one community to check when I want to distract myself with a specific topic.
I don't hate it. It's going to take some time to adjust to but overall, it's easy to use. Main complaint is that I can't use it at work.
It's really interesting and I think has a huge potential to work out really well.
All these little instances being able to interact with each other seamlessly is really cool. It's seeming quite easy to curate communities I'm interested in and I think once it's a little more fleshed out, there'll be go-to communities for certain things which everyone from all instances uses. It's really cool.
Times out quite a lot.
That probably also depends on what instance your own, I am guessing. A lot of them are experiencing such a large and unprecedented influx of new users, it's often hard for them to cope with the existing hardware they're running on.
Enjoyable so far. Feel a bit mystified, but it always takes me ages to figure out how to use new things.
Currently messing around with a browser extension to change the appearance and layout, as I had been finding that a bit of a hurdle.
It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.
A few things I would change on the web interface:
- Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
- Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
- Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.
Very good so far. I understand that server owners are needing to make changes to optimize for a large number of users migrating, so any slowdowns or service issues are completely understandable.
I really like the idea of a federated "reddit style" forum. Gives power back to the users.
There was a tiny bit of learning to do with figuring out this whole communities and servers thing, but its nice here. Not sure if there already is something but a UI similar to old Reddit would be nice. Still this is for sure a good Reddit alternative.