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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[–] Showervagina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:

Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don't need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.
It's confusing how communities on other servers aren't automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.
If you add an external community and are confused as to why it's missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it's fine, it's just syncing.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First of all, welcome! I hope you have a nice stay :D

Now, to answer your points:

I'm quite positive that won't happen any time soon because registration needing approval was the only measure that realistically stopped bots, and with the new influx of users, it would be a bad idea to turn it off. A solution would be to get more people to approve users, instead of disabling the protection. Either way, the developers are making an effort to push people towards other generic instances, because lemmy.ml is not supposed to be a flagship instance, despite always being seen as one (and understandably so).
Servers can't know what communities exist on servers they do not know, but I agree this should be more robust and easy for the end user. Federating servers should periodically exchange a list of communities to help with discoverability. For now though, there's https://browser.feddit.de.
Definitely. It should be made very clear. If you can, you should try opening an issue on the lemmy-ui repository about it, if there's none already.

[–] Showervagina@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Is mirroring feasible? Happy to help there.
Yeah I get it. Maybe there could be a button of servers to show, and by default it shows everything. Allow users to paste in a server list.
Will do.

Also Lemmy could use a way to easily mirror Lemmy sites to help with overloaded servers. This is actually what I thought lemmy was at first, a giant decentralized IRC-meets-Reddit.

I think from 12-14 june all lemmy servers should have a giant "hello redditors" banner with a how-to of setup. Put instant registration servers at the top of the list. And a quick how to. Simple is best. Relax normal rules and moderation.

I hope I'm not too critical. I see a future in lemmy but what I don't want are redditors coming over, getting frustrated and confused, then leaving. We do well, we could very well end up being the successor to reddit. If things are buggy and difficult, not so.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose you could somehow spin up a new instance and attempt to mirror exactly another one, but I don't think it would work very well, since you wouldn't be able to comment/vote as a user of the mirrored instance.
mmm, a "mass" server follow thing could be neat, but also could be an easy point for bad actors to abuse.

I think from 12-14 june all lemmy servers should have a giant “hello redditors” banner with a how-to of setup. Put instant registration servers at the top of the list. And a quick how to. Simple is best. Relax normal rules and moderation.

Yeah, there has been some work towards improving the documentation. A nice banner pointing to it would be nice for new users.

I hope I’m not too critical. Criticism like you're doing it is fine and needed! Lemmy was a very small project until some days ago and any help is highly appreciated, be it suggestions, contributions or donations. Thank you!