• sweeny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hell yeah, just got here and am ready boost some engagement! I already like it here, I forgot that being able to see the amount of down votes used to be a thing

      *Looks like I’m the 69th comment here, what a start!

      • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        One of the things I love about Lemmy is that I’m literally over here in a different instance. I can willingly see other content but I also have this local group I can be close with. It brings me back to the old Internet with the benefits and reach of the new Internet.

        • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Excellent point. A small community, that can easily interact with the larger community. This is what the internet always should have been.

    • Roderik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Given there is no algorithmic recipe to hook you, I’d wager Lemmy is far better for everyone’s mental well-being. You’ll ultimately squander less of your time mindlessly scrolling.

      • madikonrad@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s what I love about Fedi in general. The algorithms are either fully gone, or are almost entirely working in favor of the users rather than against them.

  • andrew@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This seems like as good a thread as any to make my first post in as a Lemmy user. I’ve been on Reddit since '09, and was on slashdot back in the 90’s. I really am hoping that these new, federated services take off. Onboarding still seems like the biggest hurdle.

    • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      After onboarding the interface is kind of rough to figure out. Mostly because the mobile web version isn’t that great, and jerboa also isn’t that great, and they’re different enough that switching back and forth gets you confused. With reddit’s problems, I imagine we’ll see some more client apps and ui improvements show up in the next couple months with the added attention, and that’ll be the end of that. Honestly, I thought it’d be rougher. I do wish I got more replies to my comments though, so i’m trying to make a point to post a bit more than I ordinarily would.

      • Laplacian@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The desktop web interface seems pretty similar to old reddit/rif so I haven’t had that much difficulty with browsing. The fact that I’ll be losing my niche subs is the hardest part of moving entirely to Lemmy though.

      • ButterBiscuits@beehaw.orgEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Having to write a cover letter explaining why I’m a good fit for the instance.

        It’s not a difficult ask, but it’s going to turn a vast majority of potential users away from the service.

        I understand the need for it, but a typical user is going to be confused by:

        • Having to “sell” yourselves to some unknown individual, or group of individuals
        • Choosing an “instance”, when most users have never heard of such a thing, and don’t understand how a federated system operates
        • For the above: Understanding different instances and which one allows cross-instance posting
        • Simplicity. None of this is “simple” in terms of making a new account for a social media platform. This is unlike any mainstream platform out there.

        Again, I understand the need for all this. But your average user, which Lemmy desperately needs more of if it wants to become the safe haven for Reddit refugees, is going to be incredibly frustrated and dissuaded by the whole process.

        • heartlessevil@lemmy.oneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          All I put in my “cover letter” was “reddit refugee” and I got accepted on lemmy.ml, lemmy.one and beehaw.org, 2/3 with no email verification either. I don’t think that it’s hard to sign up here, it might just be unfamiliar to some people, who will hopefully grasp the simple concepts quickly.

  • Windshear@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Funny how even the small wave is enough to take down the city 🤣. I hope Lemmy can grow to be my primary time waster. There’ll be downtime and hiccups, but I’m a patient man.

  • BackOnMyBS@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Judging from my experience trying to sign up for a Lemmy instance for the past 2 days, it’s going to be hard. Unless I was doing something wrong, I can see a lot of people having difficulty signing up and eventually giving up. kbin was much easier to sign up for.

    • Eisbef@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I just did it. It was super easy and just took a couple of minutes for the mods to approve it.

  • drcabbage@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    We still need a good mobile app for Lemmy. I tried using the Jebora one, and its scrolling speed is abysmal.

    Silver lining, I am looking forward to all the new things getting developed for lemmy and the like when they can’t make things for Reddit anymore. Their loss is our gain.

    • suborbital@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Interesting. I’m using Jerboa right now and while I have a few complaints, scrolling speed isn’t one of them. I wonder if it’s a phone specific issue.

      • casey@lemmy.wiuf.netEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Right now I’m just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.

          • Celediel@slrpnk.netEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Dark Reader made Firefox on Android so unbelievably slow for me that I disabled it out of frustration, and have just been blinding myself rather than waiting 10+ seconds for Firefox to load sites that Chrome loaded near instantly.

            • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              ehhh I don’t use firefox tho I use Kiwi Browser with dark reader extension. It works very very fast.

              I would use firefox but firefox is kinda slow on my phone and I dislike slow.

              • Celediel@slrpnk.netEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                TIL about Kiwi Browser, thanks for this, I think I could like this a lot. Firefox’s mobile extension support is extremely limited, so this is a breath of fresh air.

                • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  The only warning I can give you cuz it bothers some people around me is that it’s centralized and closed source. It’s also not privacy oriented. Other than that I like it more than Firefox in all respects.

  • its4am@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I apologize in advance as I’m one of the many reddit refugees seeking alternatives. I can’t believe how fast reddit is unraveling and you’d think with u/spez’s recent AMA he would try to placate the community instead of inciting the situation even further. Anyway, Lemmy’s pretty cool so far.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Don’t apologize. All refugees are welcome here. Although… there is one small thing you could do to help. Maybe make an account on a less crowded instance? Too many people see “dev-run” and think “main instance”. We do need to spread out a bit to make this sustainable.

  • iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Yep… Bought Sync and Apollo long ago. Moved to Lemmy today. Slowly moving all of my main socials to decentralized/federated platforms because the greedy corpos breaking their own shit.