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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by jaykay@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[–] Ghast@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having 'no single source of truth' is part of the joy.

If you're not happy with /r/cars moderators banning everyone who drives a Skoda, then you're out of luck. Here in federation land, you can just go to a different lemmy.something/c/cars place.

Of course you can still follow and interact with all the /c/cars communities from any Lemmy instance (and interact a little from Mastodon).

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

Part of the issue is that we hardly have enough people to sustain one random community, let alone several semi-independent ones. That barrier alone will turn others away and the cycle of not having enough souls will repeat itself

[–] Ghast@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Right, but everyone can follow the lot, so there's no need to divide.

[–] kosama@socel.net 1 points 1 year ago

@CleanDefinition @Ghast so true!

I got banned from Subs for asking questions, I couldn’t make my own without the original shadowing me on every search.

But theoretically on Lemmy every community can have a voice, if the rest of Fediverse believes it in, it can flourish. Other servers can’t report you or shadow ban beyond the confines of their server.

If a group tries to bully you they might get their entire server banned so the mod’s would likely terminate the user first