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great, i've really liked lemmy so far. its really the first alt big tech platform like this that i've gotten into, was never big on mastodon or any of the others out there.
lemmy is honestly a breath of fresh air. really great platform so far, i think it has very strong potential.
i still use reddit for some things, but overall i'm starting to use lemmy a lot more. great work from the devs, can't wait to see the future!
Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good
Quite enjoyable and, since seeing the sub.rehab site someone else posted, even better. I've found quite a few subs that have made their way over to Lemmy.
My only gripe is that quite a few have made their way to lemmy.world, and it's buckling under pressure. I can't sign up on that instance, nor can I remotely sub to communities from my own instance. Once that's resolved, I think I'll definitely be happy to call Lemmy my new home.
Can't go back anyway - deleted my Reddit account.
Yes, sub.rehab really helped. And the lemmy link extension for chrome.
Longtime Rif user posting from Jerboa. Seems pretty cool so far. The issue I've seen is some upvotes and comments not showing when viewed from a different instance.
Same here, I'm glad Jerboa exists. Otherwise I wouldn't even know if my account is active yet since I'm currently unable to log in on the desktop version of the instance I've chosen. Besides that and figuring everything out I enjoy it here so far.
Edit: Seems that a blank space after my username was the problem. Now everything works just fine.
theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)
I believe here its simply called "communities".
I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.
am a little lost but trying to understand the system and find my way around.
My biggest gripe is that there isn't a working Lemmy iOS app in my region, yet.
I have spotty metered mobile internet connection, and while the web app is lightweight enough, it requires the downloading of page structures each time and it adds up after a while.
I do hope we'll eventually get high-quality apps to interface with the fediverse, much like Apollo with Reddit.
Mlem, on iOS, is on testflight, can you use that? https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
My word! This is a godsend. Thank you!
At least on my instance everything is running fast, snappy. I like the clean interface. Haven't encountered any major bugs yet.
The only downside for me so far is that there is not a lot to see yet. The only active posts and communities are about lemmy itself. Which is understandable of course but I can't wait to actually get to the phase where I actually get to experience real content lmao
Lots of tankies and no porn
Sounds like a win-win to me. You can get your porn and your neoliberal ideology from nearly every inch of the internet, so why not have a space that leans otherwise?
I'd rather discuss political ideas with people who don't believe in the dictatorship of one party. Vanguard party + Democratic centralism are a recipe for disaster.
I'm glad there's no porn here.
moderates german humour
Not a big fan of fun?
Nein.
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I love it so far,only needs more people
This. We have to spread the word mouth to mouth. There are a lot of people who are sick of reddit and willing to tolerate the growing pains + bugs of Lemmy.
Today is my 5th day in the fediverse and I like it! In the beginning there were some troubles regarding the registration, but it all worked out (I was not able to create an account with Firefox. After I switched to Opera, it worked). Also there are some issues with the auto-update of the feed. It suddenly starts scrolling and doesn't stop until I hit the refresh button in the browser. As far as I understand, this bug will be fixed soon.
While being here for the last couple of days, I realised, how cluttered Reddit has become. Take r/askreddit for instance: There are so many very similar-to-another questions over there, I now wonder, if they have been created by bots. This applies to other subreddits as well.
Browsing here and interacting with other users feels refreshing! It is like the early Reddit, when it was more community-focused instead of what it has become now, riddled with ads, bots and NFTs. I also like that there is no such thing as karma here.
I certainly will visit reddit in the future, but I'm going stay with the fediverse. There is so much to discover!
I greatly dislike the UI. Makes for a bad UX.
Unfortunately, the UI source is not approachable to me (despite being very familiar with web tech). Theming documentation is not there yet either.
As far as content goes, it's still niche, so amount and usefulness varies a lot between communities and overall. But I've liked it in principle, posted comments, and found interesting links/infos.
I'm curious what your problems with the UI are? To me it's pretty close to old reddit.
Everything is small with many things without focus for obviousness.
On comments I want a vertical bar like on reddit to both see vertical thread relation and to be able to collapse it from anywhere in the thread. Instead I have to navigate to the top, locate and press visually the weak collapse button.
On post listings images thumbnails are too small, and the post has no direct link to the image. (On Reddit I hover over the image link and see the full image. The in-page preview/view specifically is a browser extension though.)
I am not using old Reddit design. I like being able to open a post, and at the end close it (click to the side of it) and be back to the listing. On Lemmy I have to work with tabs or back navigation.
On the listing the info I am secondarily interested in (after the headline or image) are not obvious. Community icons are [often] less useful than the community names. Weblinks are small and greyed out as if they were unimportant/aside when it's the primary content of the post.
Comment upvote and downvote should be to the side, like on posts. That'd be more obvious and visually consistent. Red on downvote I find irritating. As if it were a highlight color. Reply action is not distinct enough - goes under between the other buttons.
Notifications and their linking, marking read, and toolbar are a mess too.
Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.
Edit should be a primary toolbar action. Not hidden within a collapsed section. Only half the horizontal space is used even when expanded. But then visual separation is missing again between the different types of actions.
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Sounds like you want a few new reddit features when this site is more modeled on old reddit as many people prefer that.
> On post listings images thumbnails are too small, and the post has no direct link to the image.
How big would you want them to be? From a quick check they seem to be about the same size as new reddit's "classic" mode, about 100px wide by 80px tall. The main difference is lemmy doesn't crop the image to make it fix that box exactly.
And they do have a direct link, you should see it when hovering on the thumbnail, and middle clicking will open it in a new tab.
> I am not using old Reddit design. I like being able to open a post, and at the end close it (click to the side of it) and be back to the listing. On Lemmy I have to work with tabs or back navigation.
Those are pretty different UX philosophies and I doubt Lemmy would go for the former. Personally that's one of the things I hate about new reddit. All I can say there is middle click is your friend for opening new tabs.
> Comment upvote and downvote should be to the side, like on posts. Thatβd be more obvious and visually consistent.
The idea there is that you have to actually read through the comment before providing your opinion on it.
> Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.
How else would you accomplish that?
> Edit should be a primary toolbar action. Not hidden within a collapsed section.
Yeah probably.
> But then visual separation is missing again between the different types of actions.
What do you mean there? There's decent spacing and different icons. I can't think of anything else to do besides color.
(As a note: I contributed a bit to the functionality of post listings, but I'm not a lemmy dev)
And they do have a direct link, you should see it when hovering on the thumbnail, and middle clicking will open it in a new tab.
The thumbnail links to a little bigger version of the thumbnail.
Only the top right icon (small) that allows you to expand in place links to the full image.
Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.
How else would you accomplish that?
I have two languages configured, so it's 3 options: undefined, en, de. 3 flag icons would suffice - make it more obvious (visual differentiation between them) and be usable with one click.
What do you mean there? Thereβs decent spacing and different icons. I canβt think of anything else to do besides color.
When expanded, my comment has 7 action icons. All of them are greyed out, and are visually on the same layer and type.
When I look through them I see different groups though:
On your comment, when expanded, I see 8 action icons. Even more. All the same visual weight with no differentiation.
What I would like to see is visual grouping of the different kind of activities. That'd not only make correlation, relation, and interaction closeness more obvious, but provide visual help to the eye in locating the desired actions. It'd also make it more obvious what the icons (which have no visible text labels) mean through differentiated association.
I'd do a DOM edit mockup, but it looks like the HTML source is minified.