Long time Reddit user and I find Lemmy easier to navigate. I’m used to Mastodon so maybe that’s a factor.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Is there one overall community just mirrored across all instances? Or is the “Nintendo” on lemmy.ml different than the “Nintendo” on bee.haw or whatever? (Just an example - no idea if these communities exist)
It's accessible from every instance that is Federated with the other. So for example if I'm on sh.itjust.works and there's a Nintendo community on lemmy.ml, I would be able to access it just by searching !nintendo@lemmy.ml for example. The same goes for other communities on other instances, you would just replace lemmy.ml with the instance url.
Ok that makes sense… but in this example, they are still two distinct communities? E.g., the comments are different in each?
yes, they are distinct
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I don't like the sidebar with rules. It removed the horizontal space from content if you keep scrolling.
Using lemmy zoomed it in my phone is a nice experience. I see everything. Looks good on my desktop also. Still trying to get a feel for this place
I already had some experience with federation due to setting up Mastodon so I have found it pretty seamless. So far it reminds me a lot of very early Reddit.
I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.
+1, I feel much more inclined to contribute to the community in lemmy vs. reddit. And its awesome to see so much growth in the past few days (and I'm sure we're about to see it explode in the next week)
It’s so nice to see I’m not the only one who is 1) slow, and 2) slow. The interface takes some getting used to but if you refer to my two previous points I think you’ll understand.
Worried about the future of fediverse, all it takes is a few external bad apples and servers will start defederating. Also even less internal bad apples who decides to make specific desirable features proprietary with the goal to amass the majority to users. Both of these are bad for the fediverse.
It’s easier than I was expecting (using kbin, at least), but still growing pains. I assume that there just aren’t communities set up for some of the game-specific subreddits I was on (Zelda, Genshin, Star Rail, etc.) but I don’t know that I’d really expect there to be yet.
I also noticed that some people have profile pictures/avatars and I can’t figure out how to set that. I assume it’s because I just made my account today though that I’m not able to yet.
So, I think Kbin and Lemmy are separate pieces of software operating on the fediverse. But since they speak the same language you can interact cross platform. Interestingly, seems that kbin supports even more fediverse platforms than lemmy. I've been able to use kbin to follow mastadon users.
Yeah as I understand it support for interacting with Mastodon and other twitter-like sites is something that sets Kbin apart from other "thread" (is that even the right term?) based sites.
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It's a change. Harder to use initially but then I'm sure I'll get used to it and enjoy it more
So far, so good.
I am taking to it a bit quicker than Mastodon since I used Reddit more than Twitter.
Overall it's going well, and experience from both browser and Jerboa is great, especially considering the lack of maturity and large influx. It's been amazing to see how quickly communities have shown up. A couple of weeks ago when I first heard about Lemmy and plans for Reddit subs going dark, I looked at Lemmy and walked away with a meh because of lack of content, and what was here was not my thing. However, throughout the day today I watched the number of communities grow like crazy, with new topical communities popping up every time I checked.
I do think lack of a centralized /c/ namespace makes things confusing for a lot of people, and will result in a lot of topical duplication between servers - even with federated access and searching. I get why lack of a centralized namespace is also a design feature, but it comes at a price, in my opinion, and it'll be interesting to see how it works itself out over time. Just an observation/opinion on my part.
Still a bit early to call it, but it's looking good!