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

The timeouts are because of the huge influx in users. The way Lemmy currently connects to the server is horribly inefficient and the new 0.18 release should fix a lot of the issues we're seeing now. I think they said it would release soon, so hopefully we can hold out until then.

Mastodon had a similar story earlier this year when the Twitter Migration happened.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I was attributing it to, so I wasn't incredibly worried about it. Of course, I was also tossing around the idea of cobbling together my own shard (or whatever they're called lol) for fun from one of the PCs i have sitting idle so then I'd have no one to blame but myself! 🤣😂

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

By all means, give it a shot. The best thing about the Fediverse is that ability to federate using your own local version. It doesn't even have to be a Lemmy instance: Friendica, Calckey, or Mastodon will all talk using ActivityPub, so if you want to have a conversation on a Lemmy thread but would rather a Facebook or tumblr style layout, more power to you!

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will say, the fact that it apparently can run in a docker instance (I'm sure I'm getting the terminology a bit wrong here, but... 🤷‍♂️ lol sorry! I'm learning as I go) certainly does make it seem like a neat little experiment to run, if nothing else, as I'm semi-familiar with it from my Linux tinkering. This would give me something practical to do with it, for a change, though 😋

It's on the todo list, right after finally getting a Windows/Linux OS install server working 😂🤣

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

OS install server meaning like PXE boot? Have you looked into FOG?