Asklemmy

It's OK, just wish the app was better. In android 11 and older you can force jeroba to open all lemmy-like links with jeroba but if you're on android 12, the only way to get somewhere other than lemmy.ml is if you're already subscribed to a place on another server. There is no way to browse sublemmys on other instances which really sucks.

I'm confused but have been figuring things out.

Mostly it seems that many of my Reddit subs are reconvening on different Lemmy servers (.ml, .world, .can) and I can't yet figure out how to combine them or view them under one account?

I'll keep trying.

Very good so far. I understand that server owners are needing to make changes to optimize for a large number of users migrating, so any slowdowns or service issues are completely understandable.

I really like the idea of a federated "reddit style" forum. Gives power back to the users.

not great. reaching my feed or finding communities requires multiple clicks, like why is the local community selection the default in the community tab, it's just stupid. collapsing comments requires more mouse movement and clicking in a different location every comment because of name length, very dumb. communities are too small and not reliable news aggregators yet, not sure why we couldnt just have subreddits move their culture over and agree of a server, or at least set up bots with RSS feeds from news sites or popular stuff in the mean time. lacks customizability for visuals and usage in general. i'd like to have it autocollapse or autohide posts i've already seen, but now i just see the same threads from 2 days ago. user and community pictures in every post on my frontpage are visually noisy. and more and more issues. the devs definitely need help with creating a reasonable browing experience.

I’ve enjoyed it a lot. There are some stuff that could fit better on screen, like when you look at the communities you’re subscribed to. Also, it would be nice to show your subscribed communities in alphabetical order.

Otherwise, I really enjoy the layout. It’s so simple

Fine.

To be fair, I used Mastodon long before Elon acquired twitter, so I'm pretty comfortable with federated social media. The fragmentation inherent to federation might make small communities difficult to form, but it also protects against the eternal specter of power-tripping mods, so I can't complain.

I just hope it doesn't have the same memory utilization as the Mastodon web client. Seriously. I flat-out can't leave a single Mastodon tab open in the background, because it'll eat all my RAM. No other social media I've used does this.

It’s promising, but I miss having Apollo (or similar) as my interface for the service. I very rarely used Reddit via a browser so not having that robust app is a loss. We’ll see if any of the app developers that have been impacted by Reddits API changes look to support the platform.

Started using Mastodon this year and it was conveniently at the time Ivory, Ice Cubes and Mona were all in the process of shipping beta or final releases. It made the whole experience much more seamless. Mastodon benefited from 6 months of prior unrest in the Twitter community and Devs were already transitioning when Twitter pulled the rug out under them. I think Lemmy will be a harder transition in that respect.

Keen to see how it develops but.

Edit: also interested to see how the decentralised nature of it all plays out for this sort of service which focuses on communities. For Mastodon it seems fine to follow people on other services where it’s still a 1:1 interaction. I’m sort of curious to see how things will scale and play out when you have a dozen different Lemmy services all with their own “Apple”, “music”, “tech” communities. Bit concerned things may get spread a bit thin at the conversation level, even accounting for the fact accounts can cross post.

I'm having a great time. Lemmy is a little bit harder than Reddit but I have been on Mastodon for some time now so I know how federation works. The only thing about Lemmy I don't like is that it feels kinda buggy and unpolished as it is very early stage and the same posts often reappear. But I like the community and it actually seems to be working so that's pretty cool!

Comment syncing to my instance is a problem. I get posts but comments, not so much.

It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.

A few things I would change on the web interface:

1. Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
2. Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
3. Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.

It's growing on me.

I enjoy getting into something new. Looks promising. Has some scaling issues as expected. But it looks like a great, new place. I hope this grows into a solid social media forum. 👍

I like it, and it isn't as complicated as it initially seemed to me.

As a Digg and Reddit refugee I can only say: "let's goooooooo!!!!"