I found it complicated at first (didn’t know which instance “will last”, where to register to not lose anything when instance admin decide to turn it down), but now it’s going good. We are missing mobile apps though.

What’s are your thoughts about Lemmy/kbin?

  • cetic0@lemmy.ptEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I am very happy to see people trying to use federated apps, it’s a movement back to the old days of internet, when communities and real people make things, not big corporate companies with ad based model bulding sites to collect massive amounts of data.

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using the Jerboa android app today, it works pretty well. It reminds me of reddit mobile apps 10+ years ago, which isn’t a bad thing.

    I’m excited to see how it turns out though and what fediverse/social platform will end up being the most popular.

      • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed, that would be a nice enhancement. I’m actually not sure if the desktop/web app has this feature. Unless I’m doing it wrong, it just takes me to the overall post instead of the specific thread or context.

        • NicoCharrua@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          If you’re on the latest version (0.0.34), you’re able to do it by clicking the little link button between the downvote and mark as read.

          I think the F-Droid and Google Play versions are on version 0.0.33 for some reason, probably so they can get verified or something.

          GitHub and IzzyOnDroid have the latest version.

  • CheshireSnake@lemmy.oneEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, Jerboa in alpha is already better than the official reddit app for me. It’s no TPA reddit app, but the number of contributors (in github) has risen by a lot so I’m expecting/hoping development will pick up and it’ll get better fast.

    I appreciate the community the most in here. They’ve been very welcoming and minimal, if any, toxicity.

  • brokendolphin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s missing a few things. Notably, for me at least, an option to block communities directly in the feed instead of having to go in to the community to do it, and the option to hide posts from the feed. Unless i’ve missed something. It does all remind me of old reddit before it got flooded with users and it started getting filled with memes and joke comments prioritising karma instead of discussion. I’m sure I’m not the only person who noticed that subs on reddit had a critical limit of users, that when reached tarnished the quality of the posts on the sub. I like that all the instances have their own communities which I think will help with that problem. Some instances might not care too much and let the users be joke tellers while others will want to keep quality up. The idea with most instances beeing NSFW-free with a dedicated NSFW instance is a really good one. There’s still so much I need to learn about the fediverse, but the decentralised nature of it all will hopefully keep the money out of it. Overall, I’m enjoying it so far.

  • DoakSteezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I like the idea and general functionality, my biggest concern is what happens if the owner of Lemmy.world gets hit by a bus? Eventually you’d lose your account, all your subs, etc. Same goes for any other instance really. It’s pretty much my only reservation at this point.

      • Meekajahama@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think merging subs is necessary, I would like to see a user based grouping function. That way you can add duplicate communities to one group and see them all while maintaining the benefits of decentralization (primarily redundancy whether through server issues or power hungry mods). Plus it would allow you to group any type of communites you see fit (gaming for multiple gaming subs, sports for multiple teams you follow, etc) without forcing it onto others

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

          This would be especially great if apps like Jerboa allowed automating the grouping process (opt in by user maybe). Some sort of maintained lists of equivalent communities across instances, so the app can easily allow you to subscribe to one community or, in a more Reddity way, a federated set of communities with one tap.

  • domsch@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think having your account tied to an instance without an option to move is a huge issue. Now I’m still dependent on the instance owners rules and willingness/ability to keep it up. Just like reddit oranzy other centralized network. Accounts need to be movable including history and linkage to posts. Same goes for communities. We are just hyper fragmenting now. Communities need to.be able to span instances tobincrease performance and uptime as well as resiliency.

    Jerboa works fine for me. The overall experience and peoeple are nice enough. We just have technicalities to iron out.

    • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There is a younger project called Nostr, that came up as a twitter / mastodon replacement. It deals with user identities in better, more sustainable way. Thle client generates a keypair for you locally (you can back it up and use it to “log in” with any other client). Then you choose relay server (or even multiple relays) that will save and forward your posts to others.

      Most of the client software resembles twitter UI, but there are some with more *chan/reddit like look.

      Since the Nostr protocol is built primarily by people around bitcoin related projects, there is software ready for the relay operators to accept payments. Most of them are currently free, but thanks to bitcoin lightnong network, paying for a relay is pretty fast, and trustles.

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I expect a small boom of loudly announced instances, that will be essentially unmaintained, half of them will silently disappear while taking users identities with them in less than a year, and the rest spliting the federation in half by implementing ideological blacklists, some properly shutting down when the money runs out, or lawsuits and takedown notices starts to flood in.

    Let’s hope I’m wrong.

  • devrand@kbin.projectsegfau.lt
    3·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy for us was very broken, having many bugs. Kbin works a lot better, even though we had some issues with federation. Overall, the platform itself is quite nice and smaller communities are still fun!

  • pound_heap@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t care about what instance will last too much. I’m not that active contributor so if my comments/topics will disappear the world will not end. I always can create a new account on another server.

    I chose Lemmy for now because Kbin seems to be not mature enough. I don’t like some background of Lemmy devs that I was reading about, but I’m still not sure what make of it… Does it matter much? I support freedom of speech, and from my perspective people can have opinions very different from mine and still provide great value for community.

    I’m currently exploring available communities and subscribing to stuff that I was subscribed on Reddit. Considering creating some communities too, but not sure how that works yet and how much involvement it will need.

    Regarding software - using Jerboa. Overall very usable, but there are some UI issues that are irritating.

    • ojmcelderry@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t like some background of Lemmy devs that I was reading about, but I’m still not sure what make of it…

      @[email protected] – out of interest, what have you read? 👀

      • Camus@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy developers have communist figures as avatars. They manage the lemmy.ml instance, which other instances tend to defederate.

        That should not prevent people from using a platform they don’t manage (Lemmy.world or Beehaw) and they can’t influence in anyway. The code is open source anyway.

      • pound_heap@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yup, that what other person replied. There was a post on r/privacy which I cannot look up today due to the boycott - it was about Lemmy developers being very radical communists.

        The software being open source makes this less concerning, but in case original devs start doing something crazy it will damage the project significantly.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m reading this through Jerboa right now. It’s clearly new and not as mature as RiF (that I prefer) but it’s an excellent start. This platform and community has a lot of potential.

  • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    need a lot more tooling but it seems livable at least.

    kbin looks more modern but I havent tried it yet. biggest sticking point is the discovery workflow. Im not sure I can get most people to do that. Its like asking them to setup a damn crypto wallet.

  • 9Volt@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m in the same boat as you. Now that I’ve spent a day on Lemmy & Kbin I feel much better about using both sites and it’s been a fun experience learning something new.

    I personally am treating them as betas so I’m willing to forgive them not being as smooth experiences to browse as I’m used to on Reddit. Also because of this, I’m hesitant at this stage to suggest them to a lot of my friends until more kinks are sorted out.