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
I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be
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.
Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!
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”.
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’ve read that’s actually a known bug that is being actively worked on. It sounds like this should be fixed fairly quickly, with any luck.
Hopefully. I get the feeling that Lemmy is much less mature as a piece of software at the moment than Mastodon was when the Twitter exodus happened.
Yup, definitely seems some polishing is needed. I know the devs are hard at work, and with the huge influx of users more OS devs are likely to jump on board to help out. I suspect the biggest complaints will get ironed out fairly quickly. At least I hope so!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Try Jerboa. Using it now and for being in alpha pretty solid.
I’ve been getting a feel for Jerboa today. It’s nice.
One thing I’m having trouble with: When a reply to a comment shows up in my inbox, I don’t see a simple way to respond. I’ve been going into the thread and finding it manually.
Do you, or does anyone else, know if there’s an easier way to respond from the inbox?
I might be overlooking something very obvious…
Yeah. That’s my one complaint too. Otherwise it’s pretty great 😃
It’s… OK. I’ve actually been thinking about doing a native app myself because losing some of the quality of life features from the reddit apps I love are the reason I’m pissed off with reddit in the first place. Luckily the lemmy api is easy to work with and if needed you can always host your own lemmy instance.
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.
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Guys, it’s wild. Let’s go.
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.
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.
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.
