I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.
I had screenshots and a long post, and fuck if I didn’t hit the stupid next button under my comment out of habit and fucked it all up because the reply button was hidden. That can’t get fixed soon enough for my liking.
HFY came up straight away after I searched twice, but aviation was a different beast. I searched twice, then waited. And waited, and waited. Went and looked at something else, came back and searched once more and it was there. I don’t know if the federation was slow, the download of the community, or what it was but it did eventually work. If I have some time tonight I’m going to take a look at what’s happening on the wire between my instance and lemmyfly.org. It might help, it might not.
I think we’re just going to hit some growing pains while things are getting started. I installed my instance so I could learn more and try to tie myself into the fediverse, I really like the concept a lot and want to see it flourish.