Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

I’m still getting used to this and there’s not much activity yet, but I’ll stick with it. Reddit isn’t worth it, so I’m happy there’s a chance for an alternative.

Concept is great, but there’s a big usability issue (BE: 0.17.4) that quickly needs fixing. When you browse the main index, new posts just pop up and it messes up whatever you were reading and also closes images.

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It’s pretty interesting so far! I’m coming from Reddit Sync and now using Jerboa so it’s quite similar but also a lot of things aren’t where I expect them 😆

I do web dev and UX so definitely agree with the onboarding process being a little clunky for users.

I had no idea what the fediverse was until Lemmy so getting your head around it can be a bit much at the start. I was lucky to find a local server (instance? Not sure on terminology) so no delay issues.

And for any newbies this link is very helpful: https://browse.feddit.de.

I do miss the size of Reddit at times, but that’s likely to drop now anyway with all the buggering around they’re doing.

Liking the clean interface reminiscent of old reddit

It’s nice, I just wish there was more activity. Hopefully it will grow overtime. My concern is the barrier of entry for new users. The whole “different instances” thing can be quite confusing.

Signed up today, liking it a lot. Looking forward to learning more about it, seems like a viable reddit alternative.

I’m starting to think the splintering caused by instances blocking each other is going to cause users to abandon Lemmy entirely. At the moment instances can suddenly decide to block other instances, and that is going to hurt both users on the instance that put a block into place, as well as users on the blocked instance.

The blocking is awful for an average Lemmy user, because you can get cut off from communities you already subscribed to, without any notification! So you might post and comment without realizing that your content is not getting published, even though you and your local instance still see it.

The user experience would be improved by getting a warning if you try to contribute to a community in this case. And also your subscriptions should show warnings about not working anymore, and those should come up as notifications on the account.

I am trying to adjust to this format. I am used to old.reddit and RES. But, I’m going to give it a go. I imagine once I get a few sub… sublemmies? going It will start to smooth out for me.

And hey, good luck to everyone on the adjustment period.

Once you get a hang of how the fediverse works in general, it’s pretty good so far. Using mostly mobile atm, nice and clean, functional pretty similar experience to reddit. Aside from a few features missing like search, I’d imagine there is plenty of room for moderator tools too, and the occasional error codes, I’m loving it so far. No ads, just content, and while it’s not the firehose that reddit is/was, if this keeps getting popular, I could forsee just as many communities popping up across instances as there are subreddits.

I’m sure with the influx of users from reddit, especially the more technically savvy mods we’re going to see a lot of good tools made for the app and with it being open source, I imagine the devtimes are going to be even quicker than dealing with an ok API.

Overall, I’m liking it, but I have some critiques:

1. The apps won’t follow hyperlinks to third-party servers. This is not Lemmy’s fault; the Universal Links feature of Apple OSes and App Links feature of Android were not made with federation in mind. This will be a tricky problem for them to solve without getting seriously technical.
2. I don’t like how external links don’t open in new windows/tabs by default, and there appears to be no preference to fix this.
3. There appears to be some bugginess with the web interface and voting where, if I upvote something, the upvote may disappear a second or two later. But if I refresh and re-read the comment, my original upvote stuck.
4. There needs to be more centralization of subs; as of now, there is so much duplication that it’s worse than Reddit. Reddit has some forked subs, mainly on ideological grounds or because of mergers, but it’s got nothing on Lemmy so far.
5. When reading on the web, my view jumps around a lot. I’m guessing it’s loading in new comments as they come in on the server. That’s fine, but the abruptness of the whole thing causes me to sometimes lose my place. If it’s going to continuously load new comments, I would prefer that they be animated, so at least I can observe the change in motion.
6. While I was typing this, I noticed that the page top reloaded with a different topic. I’m guessing that’s a bug.
7. It’s good to have rules to prevent conversations from descending into chaos. I just hope that the rules are not interpreted too broadly.

I like it. I prefer the UI plus it’s really refreshing to browse some similar communities i also browse on reddit and not seeing that many memes.

The interface is simple and reminds me of old Reddit, which I like. There are some bugs, but that’s normal. It’s important for people who create communities to actually participate in them. On the mobile version, I wish there was more random stuff in my feed to find new communities easily.

The more I understand it, the more I love the concept of it. What really illuminated the concept of the fediverse for me was an illustrated diagram I saw on Lemmy earlier, which made the analogy of being able to email a gmail address even if you have hotmail.