Download Mlem via TestFlight - it really helps!
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Lemmy is still very early in it's development and there's only two full time working on it afaik.
There's rough edges to be sure but the community seems pretty good and the devs seem like they're working hard.
Right now I'm seeing less time spent endlessly scrolling as more of a feature than a bug lmao, need to break that habit anyway
The mobile browser version is pretty much unusable for me. I select view All, then organize by either Hot or Active, and what I get is an endless stream of posts, but newly made and from two years ago (so, neither Hot not Active). And the page becomes unresponsive because of the endless stream.
The app works better but kept timing out when trying to upvoted stuff. Just updated to see if that fixes it.
So far, I gotta say squabbles is working better for me as a reddit alternative.
I hope they disable the live-update stuff soon.
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It's very new. Very valid concerns, but most of them are growing pains. If people just stick with this for a while it will improve by leaps and bounds.
Personally I've focused more on the community aspect than the software for now, since the latter is actively being worked on by a lot of people, so that's just a waiting game. The community has been fantastic, though. Already a nice feel in a lot of discussions.
Iβm on an iPad and using the web experience and am really liking it. I was able to find enough similar communities that Iβm getting a similar feed to Reddit and itβs growing like crazy. Iβm not seeing posts and content pop in very fast. On the home page I sort by new and subscribed
I got the beta Mlem for iPhone. Iβm liking it better than the mobile web. For two days it seems to be growing ok. I donβt miss the ads every other post for sure! (Didnβt have on Apollo either)
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Does anyone know why so many subs I've subscribed to say pending? Does a mod need to approve it?
I Think its a bug. if you subscribe to lemmy.ml communities it will say waiting or something else. but if you actually check your communities, you are actually subscribed to them. It's happening to me as well.
Give it some time, you'll start to see more and a bigger variety of posts. Additionally, change your sort of posts once in awhile, and enable the "all" selection and you'll see a bigger variety of posts
I definitely am having a tough time making the transition. It still feels a bit chaotic to me.
I was the same way the first couple of days after starting, but I can tell you that after a week into using the platform it has gotten a lot less chaotic. I have learned most of the basics and figured out what are the features and what are the bugs, so Iβm not so lost all the time trying to figure out how it all is supposed to work.
And Iβm really enjoying it! It feels like a fresh start, and it keeps me engaged in the community and helping to build a better place for anyone else who is looking for alternatives. It gets better!
Have you tried Mlem? Iβm using it on iOS and itβs been pretty stable and close to what I was used to using Apollo prior to this whole fiasco!
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I just love it, but you have to make sure to subscribe to a lot of communities from lots of different instances.
Im also on Android which I think has a better mobile client.
Beehaw is very chatty, join their popular communities. :)
Oh my, that has just been there the whole time and I repeatedly glossed over it!
Its hard for readers early on. You need lots of people to fill the feed. Get busy or wait for people to get things addressed and pipelines running.
Its mainly UX, it will come in time.
important to note, none of this made itself (even reddit); it took people using and contributing.
Yes, you' re right, I've been a Redditor for more than 16 years and have seen many subreddits come and go. Even today, there are subreddits like Android that only get 200 or 300 upvotes on a good day.
I know what you mean. The biggest issue I'm having is finding and subscribing to communities that are not a part of the instance I joined with.
I kept seeing links that listed communities I was interested in subscribing to, but then it would ask me to log in, I'd put in my credentials, only for the log in to not work. I finally realized I had to make a new account with that instance, and then i could log in and join it. I don't want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to enjoy content, plus much if it is duplicated as some instance are linked, but others are not.
Also I use Jerboa to browse lemmy, don't have a PC, and would rather use an app than my web browser(Brave).
You donβt have to create an account for each instance. You hsve to get the link for the specific community you want to subscribe to/interact with and search for it within your home instance.
yeah seriously
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I'm still feeling my way around and have subbed to a community or two here and there, but (using Jerboa on Android) so far it's actually not that different from using rif (for me, anyway.)
The only real issue that I've encountered so far is I kept getting timeout errors whenever I tried to comment (though the comments seem to have posted anyway) or when I clicked into a comment thread, but those seem to have subsided for the most part...
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I mean having 1 less thing to doomscroll on is good innit
The long and short of it is that it is rough around the edges, but it's a good foundation that can get better over time. It definitely needs some UI improvements and better onboarding
I'm confused to be honest, but I admit I just started. But like, where do I look at pictures of houseplants and post mine? Do I find a server devoted to houseplants? Or maybe I should just finally figure out Instagram for that.
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I used web version of lemmy.world on desktop (1080p monitor) yesterday, coming from old.reddit + RES, I really hate:
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The web trend to leave white space on both side of websites, it's space inefficient and causes thread with longer title to take two lines to display.
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Everything has a thumbnail slot even if it's just text thread, makes each thread took more height to display, also space inefficient.
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You need to be authorized to even subscribe/join to a community (that is not on lemmy.world).
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Image expand button is hard to spot for me, and I am pretty sure some threads with image didn't have expand button.
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My biggest pain point right now is that the iOS app is unstable, crashes constantly, and the web app is slow as molasses and inconsistent, randomly becomes unresponsive.
I think if they could work out the bugs, stability and inconsistent performance, and push stable working apps to their mobile platforms, there would be far more engagement and the Lemmy community as a whole would flourish.
Yeah, that's been my experiance too. The platform only has about 12,000 active users on it. Mastadon, in comparison, has 1.2 million active daily users. it's alot more than previously, but still nothing in the grand scheme of things. More people are coming in though and it is still growing but at this rate, what I believe to be 3,000 new active users in a day, it'll take a bit.
In the mean time, thank you for taking the initiative and posting. To others be the change you want to see, try posting a bit.
Edit: up to 19,000 now
I've been happy overall with it. I was lost at first but I set my feed to All severs and New posts. I have found some cool communities this way. I plan to stick around and I hope others do as well!