So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.
I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.
The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.
So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.
I’m curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.
Up until just 2 days ago, searching Lemmy on the iOS App Store returned no results. Now there’s Memmy and more apps on the way. That will make a huge difference for casual users who hear about Lemmy but wouldn’t bother trying to figure it out before jumping in. I can’t predict what will cause more waves, but a steady stream of new users seems likely.
People have been really vocal about their desire to group communities. Whether that happens on the communities’ end or on the user’s end via apps (like Multi-Reddits), or both, I’m confident it’ll happen eventually. I feel like either of those are a better solution than encouraging communities to consolidate, personally. Embrace the beauty and quirks of decentralization.
It’s exciting to see all the growth and improvements happening so quickly. The sky’s the limit for Lemmy.
My goodness you are so right, upon seeing your comment, I checked and there it is. Installed it in an instant. Why wasn’t this announced is beyond me. But I’m glad there’s finally an app for iOS
I didn’t know too. Admittedly I didn’t go online much yesterday. What communities was it announced on? It had a traverse tab, too, which lists other lemmy instances. Ahh, I’m so hyped right now :)
Interesting indeed. I already saw some of this coming up over [email protected] which has been locked in order to send their userbase to another instance. So yeah, interesting indeed.
I think I have since found the way, at least on the lemmy.world website.
You need to type ‘!’, then it will prompt you with a nice search of all the communities on the Fediverse and when you choose it, it will automatically create a markdown link with the community.
I think you have to look at it from the point of view of people who are less technically skilled. The hurdle of Lemmy versus Reddit is greater anyway because the structure is more unfamiliar and complex.
And as a “new” platform you also have a chicken-and-egg situation that you have to overcome.
Imagine you don’t know Reddit and someone sends you a link to a subreddit for a topic that interests you.
You see many members and a lively exchange. This makes it interesting and you subscribe/follow it and in the best case participate.
Now imagine someone sends you a link to a Lemmy community for a topic that interests you.
Since the userbase is already much smaller, there will be much less going on there.
If you now also splitting things up, it will look even less alive than its really is.
And that makes it less attractive for most people and they leave.
If you had one big community instead of many smaller ones for a topic, the chance of faster growth would be higher.
As I said, always from the perspective of someone who is not clear about the concept and may not see that there is actually a much larger number of users for the topic.
I can understand why you like the concept, I’m not saying it’s bad in principle.
But in my option the most important thing for Lemmy is to quickly become attractive for a large number of people.
And since most users would rather join an already alive platform than build something from scratch, the last thing you want is to make things look smaller/less alive than they are.
I also miss the change to list all post under a community (e.g. “technology”) regardless of where it is. I have multiple accounts, which works as a safety insurance against slow severs. However, I find it a pain being unable to group similar communities under the same umbrella. Hope such functionality is implemented at some point.
So far I like it and therefore do not look around for alternatives.
I only hope that it will not remain with the first wave of Reddit migrants but will continue in the coming months and years. Currently, it is still very quiet for my taste, but this is also completely normal.
The only thing that worries me a little is the distribution of the communities.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have the same community (Like a Subreddit) on different servers. This provides for an unnecessary segmentation of the already not large userbase.
So instead of having one big community for a Topic we have many small ones. This is especially a problem at the beginning, when the userbase is still small.
I’m curious to see how this develops over time. Whether the popular communities will agree on one main instance, or whether apps will reduce the problem to the extent that communities with the same names are combined. It will be exciting to see in any case.
Up until just 2 days ago, searching Lemmy on the iOS App Store returned no results. Now there’s Memmy and more apps on the way. That will make a huge difference for casual users who hear about Lemmy but wouldn’t bother trying to figure it out before jumping in. I can’t predict what will cause more waves, but a steady stream of new users seems likely.
People have been really vocal about their desire to group communities. Whether that happens on the communities’ end or on the user’s end via apps (like Multi-Reddits), or both, I’m confident it’ll happen eventually. I feel like either of those are a better solution than encouraging communities to consolidate, personally. Embrace the beauty and quirks of decentralization.
It’s exciting to see all the growth and improvements happening so quickly. The sky’s the limit for Lemmy.
My goodness you are so right, upon seeing your comment, I checked and there it is. Installed it in an instant. Why wasn’t this announced is beyond me. But I’m glad there’s finally an app for iOS
It was announced on a number of spots. I’m surprised you didn’t see it! It’s a great app and works wonders. Feels like Apollo
I didn’t know too. Admittedly I didn’t go online much yesterday. What communities was it announced on? It had a traverse tab, too, which lists other lemmy instances. Ahh, I’m so hyped right now :)
Interesting indeed. I already saw some of this coming up over [email protected] which has been locked in order to send their userbase to another instance. So yeah, interesting indeed.
edit: grammar
That link also takes me to my phones email
Sorry, haven’t found an easy way of linking to communities like the old
r/reddit. I have fixed the link by linking it physically via markdown.Just type /c/[email protected] and it will automatically create a link in your post.
I think I have since found the way, at least on the lemmy.world website.
You need to type ‘!’, then it will prompt you with a nice search of all the communities on the Fediverse and when you choose it, it will automatically create a markdown link with the community.
Are text commands like markdown the same as they were on Reddit?
Not sure what you mean by that, but yes markdown works just the same here than how it did in reddit.
I am honestly not sure why it seems to bug people so much to have multiple communities, but I’ve seen this brought up a bunch.
It existed on Reddit too, they just weren’t the exact names so it wasn’t as obvious.
If there are two communities for the topic you’re interested in, join them both! There’s no reason not to.
I think you have to look at it from the point of view of people who are less technically skilled. The hurdle of Lemmy versus Reddit is greater anyway because the structure is more unfamiliar and complex.
And as a “new” platform you also have a chicken-and-egg situation that you have to overcome.
Imagine you don’t know Reddit and someone sends you a link to a subreddit for a topic that interests you. You see many members and a lively exchange. This makes it interesting and you subscribe/follow it and in the best case participate.
Now imagine someone sends you a link to a Lemmy community for a topic that interests you. Since the userbase is already much smaller, there will be much less going on there. If you now also splitting things up, it will look even less alive than its really is. And that makes it less attractive for most people and they leave.
If you had one big community instead of many smaller ones for a topic, the chance of faster growth would be higher.
As I said, always from the perspective of someone who is not clear about the concept and may not see that there is actually a much larger number of users for the topic.
I can understand why you like the concept, I’m not saying it’s bad in principle. But in my option the most important thing for Lemmy is to quickly become attractive for a large number of people.
And since most users would rather join an already alive platform than build something from scratch, the last thing you want is to make things look smaller/less alive than they are.
I also miss the change to list all post under a community (e.g. “technology”) regardless of where it is. I have multiple accounts, which works as a safety insurance against slow severs. However, I find it a pain being unable to group similar communities under the same umbrella. Hope such functionality is implemented at some point.
Its just a matter of time for the apps to start having a feature to link together communities with the same name for easy subscribe/block.
There was a dev who said they were working on this but the app was still in early acces. I think the app was Nemmy