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I'm curious how well niche communities will work. It seems too niche here, like it's hard to find, hard to grow.
Like I do alternative keyboard layouts. If someone on Reddit wants to find it, it's rather easy and everyone in that community is there (there are dozens of us, dozens!). But on lemmy I think those dozens will be spread out more.
It's shaping up to be a very cool platform and I hope with time it gets bigger than Reddit. I find the UX to be a bit clunky and not visually appealing at the moment and also the way communities work are a little confusing. Because of federation, you can have duplicate community groups and that can make content a bit segregated.
I like pretty well. I've been on reddit for over a decade now, and the UI on Lemmy is kinda like a combination of the good parts of old and new reddit to me.
People here are nice (maybe that's because my home instance is Beehaw...); and I like the small community.
The main thing I miss is being able to have things disappear from my front page after I press like or dislike on them.
Under settings, you can uncheck ”Show read posts”, hopefully it will help
I've moved from Twitter to Mastodon and Reddit to Lemmy and am so far loving both. Even though they're taking a bit to get used to they're mostly pretty straight forward and familiar feeling in how they work. I will definitely miss certain subreddits but many of them are already here in some form or in the process of moving over. I really love the distributed model that is not at the behest of a single corporate entity or billionaire.
The Software lemmy+jerboa does the job. It's basic and misses a lot of features that one would ideally want, but it's good enough.
I'm enjoying the back-to-the-roots vibe of early reddit or early internet that comes with lemmy.
Now, it's ask about content and how the communities will form in the ecosystem. Federation is nice, but wilm people actually find the communities relevant to them.
This is my first post, so hello everyone! I do like a fresh start every now and again but it's a shame it's happened in these circumstances. As for lemmy, I'm enjoying it so far. I'm just learning about how it all hooks together. I really like the decentralised concept. In a way, Reddit doing what it's done may have been the catalyst to give this new framework what it needs to succeed. The UI is similar but feels cleaner than Reddit (which I found extremely sluggish). So far, so good!
Testing a lemmy instance to see how it might work for the r/blind community. There will be a bunch of accessibility issues fixed in the next release it looks like, so it's a bit early to judge. Also, it's pulled me, personally, into the world of being a sysadmin for other people. Now I get to figure out why email doesn't work and why when you search for a community you need to press search nine times before anything shows and all kinds of other niggles like that before I feel ready to open an instance to the general masses.
It's ugly, difficult to understand, And the search function is fucked. All in all, it's pretty crap and I miss reddit a great deal. That said, I'm never going back. I just wish lemmy was better.
I’m a software dev, early adopter of most techs I find, and I had like more than a week trying stuff out to replace he-who-shall-not-be-nameddit. After some trial and error, and wefwef, I’m confident I found a replacement. But I seriously doubt most people will adopt it. I think the communities will diverge, and I will think of Lemmy as the new reddit and reddit as the new Instagram anyway.
so far it's really nice, it's what I liked in reddit and before that forums, without being what reddit became.
the fediverse is hard though, but it kinda makes sense. I'll see if I get more used to it
So far so good. This is actually my first comment.
I had a hard time wrapping my head around how the federation worked. But figured out I just search here in communities only with my keywords. If I don't get a result here and https://browse.feddit.de then it means no community has yet been created anywhere.
I decided to make Beehaw my 'home' server after discovering it actually had an 'interview' that I jived with and a moderated/structured set of communities. As my first deeper 'test' of lemmy I have created my first community at lemmy.world since it seemed like the place for my random community about a grocery store chain: !traderjoes@lemmy.world
If I was making a specific tech/software related community I likely would have chosen lemmy.ml as that's where many other tech/software related projects have landed so far. But lemmy.world seemed the better choice for random.
Does this seem relatively close to be how I should handle things in the lemmyverse?
Edit: It would be nice if there was a user setting to open external links in new tabs.
I quite like it so far, though the users of the communities I've been moderating are not necessarily the most tech savvy and may not find their way here, despite instructions and plenty of prior announcements.
So ultimately I feel like throwing 1.5M people to the wolves (though some other mods might stick around, who knows).
On the other hand, I might also have outgrown some of my communities, and just stuck around due to the familiarity. Joined reddit in my mid 20s, now I'm pushing 40.
Compared to old.reddit + RES there's still some space for improvement in terms of UX for lemmy but overall, not too bad :P
The fediverse? Meh. Beehaw? Loving it
I actually like it a lot. I think I can stick with it. I hope that this is the moment when the fediverse and the decentralized social networks will have the chance to become mainstream.
I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.
It's great to see decentralization in action to foster a thriving community, not just to make/gamble money.
Enjoying it so far but there's a lot of posts about reddit and not much else for the time being.
What perhaps will be the final nail in the coffin for Reddit is working here perfectly! Mobile apps! Jerboa is perhaps lacking some features, but works like a charm.
I didn't until I found Beehaw. I'm enjoying it now.
I wish you could block servers personally, though. Like some of the stuff that's blocked here makes this place a lot better to be around. There's less hate and reactionary fear mongering. Everything is more chill.
I feel like it's more of a community than Reddit. There is more collective spirit here right now.
I'm concerned about the tankie baggage.
Jerboa is what I'm using, has a very old school android feel to it or Windows Phone
I have been enjoying it so far, the software feels quite similar to old reddit in many ways but the community so far is a bit less toxic. If anyone is wishing to use it on iPad I recommend going to your instance and in the share menu adding it to the home page as there isn't yet a good option for iPad.
I am also looking forward to the addition of 2fa in the next update
Havn't tried Lemmy yet... does my comment show up alright coming from fedia.io? The fediverse is neat.
I think its really cool! I will definitely stay here.