i like the minimal look as it mirrors my RES and old.r settings. I would like the ability to stretch the pages out to fill in the empty voids of my 1440 window though. At the moment it looks like Lemmy was built on a mobile portrait view only.

I'm liking it so far - bit of a learning curve but not too bad!

I do have a bone to pick with users - there are a lot of niche communities that have zero posts. If you start a community, try to add something to it! I'm not sure if people are trying to "claim" rights to as many communities as possible - i surely hope not - but if you're interested in a subject and want to start a community, surely you have something to say! It takes two hands to clap - if you don't start saying something, then whoever comes to your community is gonna move on.

lemmy is open source though too! so if there’s a bug, someone in the community can help fix it. speaking of which, i had some ideas for the UI that i’d love to propose for lemmy, such as giving posts a slight background color to make them easier to read. kind of like old reddit.

is anyone free to create a PR for lemmy-ui? mostly wondering if there’s a group it needs to be proposed to or something.

I think it's kindof hard to find topics, because even if you set a filter the auto refresh ignores the filter. Still waiting for communities to pop up that match tastes.

So far, so good. The official Android app needs work but the desktop site works well. Deleted Reddit and not looking back.

I like it and there's probably about as much traffic here was there was on reddit when I was started using it in the early 2010s. The design is nice and I like the federated concept although it is going to be a learning curve for some users. My particular home server is slow and down sometimes but in a way I feel its necessary to take some ownership and contribute to server improvements as we get more users if we want to sustain this.

I'm strongly, strongly tempted to go on an angry rant about the unusability of the front page jumping around constantly. I'm thinking of donating in order to help out, because I love the idea of a federated forum/news aggregator. Is this a new bug, or something?

A bit rough on the edges and scarce in content but I'm hopeful it will improve with time.

I dislike how in the app there's no functional inline image/video viewer, at least on my end (unsure if it's not working on my end or its just something everyone lives with).

I've gotten more done today than I have in a long time. And spent plenty of time in the Fediverse too. I'm loving this so far, there'll be things I'll miss of course.

I'm enjoying it more than reddit for the time being for the same reason I enjoyed reddit before it was commercialized. The slight technical barrier to entry is keeping the braindead out for now.

Kind of a catch 22 though, because you need to have some of the idiots to flesh out the population. Time will tell.

I'm a fan of it so far. It's slower paced at the moment and I feel like I can keep up with a smaller number of communities.

It's very interesting so far, and the idea of being able to access this via Mastodon is really cool to me

Using mlem... just kinda feels like Reddit thru a third party app I guess. Honestly impressed. Didn't have super high expectations but so far they've been blown out of the water.

It's early stages but the conversations here feel more "high effort". I think it might also be because of signup approvals which weeds out bots/low effort posters. I do feel the growth pains with the timeouts happening more often but overall content-wise it is quite nice.

I really hate this. I used Reddit for 13 years as a news aggregator/internet 2.0. I don't understand how this whole Lemmy/Kbin instance thing works, I just want to find the primary ~~subreddits~~ sigh, Communities for the things I'm interested in and have them aggregate the content... but now there's all these separate 'instances' each with their own ~~subreddits~~, and they're all empty and I don't know which ones to join to get content from...

As an iOS user on safari, where is the damn “back” button!? I end up reading then having to return to the main menu and re-scroll down. Is this a lacking feature or am I just an idiot?

I like it, but there are issues like timeouts when I try to sub/comment on some posts, but I'll take it if it means being free of corporate control