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I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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[–] disney@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be

[–] KillaBeez@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes! It sorta reminds me of the early days of Reddit ironically. It has a nostalgic charm to it.

[–] RichardPoggers@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Was just saying this to my friend. Big difference is it is auto darkmode and not white like reddit was.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

This is what got me into Mastodon. Federated socials feel like social media from 2010.

It's superb.

[–] TigerClawTV@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It feels very raw and less curated which I like. It feels more like I'm interacting with people and less like I'm interacting with an algorithm

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[–] taj@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yup. It's like web forums circa 98-02 give or take a year or three... It's very nostalgic 😘

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[–] Velvet@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm quite lost, and don't think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I'm even using those words properly).

I'll do it like Reddit 10 years ago... wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.

[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

I was a bit confused about the place at first too. Here's a comment I copy-pasted from a previous post of mine:


My friend gave me a great explanation:

  • Lemmy the platform is planet Earth

  • “Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth

  • When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country

  • If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community

  • When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from

  • Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately

  • c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml

  • Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.

Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit


Hope it helps even a little

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol .... same here, I feel like I went back to 2013 and I don't mind it one bit ..... it's how I got into Reddit ... I had no clue what to do or say and just started using it and making mistakes all the time .... I feel like a child just learning stuff all over again and I love it 😀

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[–] mbeezy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago
[–] sQuirrel21@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

[–] oh_so_hazey@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the part where we seize the means of production and eat the rich? Because I'm here for it.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, we're just seizing a little corner where the bosses mostly leave us alone.

[–] oh_so_hazey@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay but if we eat the rich, I'm here for it

Just so we're clear, we're definitely eating the rich, right? Don't just tell me we have the rich at home.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

I also don't like the fact that the search function doesn't let me select communities until I've already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to "All".

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[–] BOXWINEBILLY@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I feel like this can be a really great replacement, but people will need to stick with it and watch it grow. Right now there is not enough content to keep people engaged. It's mainly just questions confusion. I am really digging the format simplicity of things!

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[–] ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.

[–] Oneobi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty impressed and have adopted quickly. Anyone sitting on the fence needs to dive and pro actively comment.

It's not the time to lurk. The user base will grow when people fully engage.

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[–] Darkenmal@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more clunky but not unbearably so. Once Jerboa gets more features it'll be a lot better. I miss swiping back, having to use the back button sucks.

[–] metarmask@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wonder how difficult it would be to add Lemmy support to existing Reddit apps.

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[–] randomperson@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing. Hopefully we will also get some awesome third party mobile apps. Overall it's very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

[–] RichardPoggers@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Try Jerboa. Using it now and for being in alpha pretty solid.

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[–] conspa@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys, it's wild. Let's go.

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[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.

That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.

Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.

[–] Gompje@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.

[–] cygnus-velum@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.

Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.

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[–] Aldo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

I'm liking it, and anticipating its growth -- with both trepidation and excitement. It's unpolished but I don't mind that all too much. Trying to engage as much as I can.

[–] patachu@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hello world.

As an Internet Old Head I'm just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.

to quote Oprah's first tweet, "FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY"

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[–] Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

It seems comfy. I'm skeptical of the UI and UX for the website and the app (even jeroba) but I came from reddit boost which is absolutely a phenomenal experience. I hope this evolves and improves in these ways

Community feels more welcoming. I hope it continues to grow exponentially, because it'll need it to work!

[–] minimar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I like how it works! I don't like the default web UI. For a ton of reasons. I'd love to see someone make a more old reddit-like one.

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[–] flickertail@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.

Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we've been used to over on Reddit, but they're also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.

That said, there's still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn't to knock on the devs - I'm thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.

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[–] nulldev@lemmy.vepta.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see the potential but Lemmy in its current state is very buggy. There needs to be a huge uptick in dev activity to iron out all the bugs and usability issues before June 30th hits. Otherwise, I see little hope of adoption.

The performance issues also need to fixed ASAP. Sure, you could just "use a different instance" but you can't even federate with overloaded instances!

EDIT: Looks like there are a lot of fixes coming in this PR: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1081

[–] Damaniel@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It works, at least. The only issue I'm seeing is that if I try to follow 'sublemmies' (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in 'subscribe pending'. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.

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[–] eric3a@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more I use it, the happier I am. I'm an old geezer who was tinkering with computers way back when 8K was an outrageous amount of RAM. This reminds me of why I became a geek to begin with.

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[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D

[–] Mane25@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.

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[–] MrNorm@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There's a few smaller communities missing but I'm sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don't know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it's great!

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[–] TheRoxyWC2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.

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[–] astanix@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's confusing and change frightens me. I love it.

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They're not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they're smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it's definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don't have to worry about that happening again!

[–] legion@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's gonna take time. And the web UI needs WORK.

But I'm gonna stick around and give it a chance.

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[–] defaultnamespace@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've subbed to the /r equivalents I could find but honestly I'm having a blast just browsing random communities I'd never have looked at before. Did you know there's a community for people who collect Uranium Glass?? Wild stuff. Today is a good day.

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I like that I am not being advertised to. I just hope critical mass of commenters and content makes it to fediverse systems.

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