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So far it is mostly fine, but confusing at times. Especially navigating and finding things. But so was reddit in the begining.
Besides this, there are a lot of communities missing. I hope there is a way to extract post-histories from subreddit so we don't loose the accumulated knowledge. Especially for troubleshooting and programming, reddit it a valuable source. I hope we will keep those and transition to lemmy (or another alternative) smoothly
It reminds me of old reddit, so I'm pretty happy with it. I hope we aren't going to completely ruin whatever the Lemmy old guard had going on, though.
As someone who used Lemmy before but made a new account during this migration, this is a very welcome thing. The biggest issue Lemmy has always had was lack of content, and lack of contributors. This burst of new users, even if a large percent don't stay, will be really good for both
I love it so far,only needs more people
Seems interesting, UX could be a lot better (Logging in via jerboa app is hidden behind 2 seperate menus for example).
Main issue is lack of content so far but honestly that is probably just me learning how to use it and subscribe to what I want. 3 pages deep into "Hot" and about 2 of those pages consist of posts from one....instance? Sub Instance? whatever we call them :D
Also probably my own limitation for now, but the constant refreshing of pages is annoying, if I stop to read a post and go back, everything scrolls automatically, depending on time spent on post I could completely lose where I was.
Overall, I unfortunately think its not a threat to Reddit in its current state, it takes too much effort to understand what is going on for most people and even if the features I complained about above are avoidable it should not take effort or experience to figure out how, but I will stick around anyway, as it seems fun. I would think a lot of users will migrate back to Reddit after the blackout.
Oh man it has been unironically great! First day I joined there was basically nothing but a meme sublemmy and a couple of tech subs too, but nowadays there are communities popping up left right and center, and I'm seeing so many familiar subs recreated on here, too
Overall my past week of using Lemmy have been phenomenal, and I'm happy to say that Lemmy has become my mindless scrolling app of choice now
Edit: correct number of weeks
First comment :) Researching about self-hosting a personal instance now...
You're not the first, you just don't get the full list of comments until you subscribe from your home instance... and I'm unsure if you get earlier comments than when you did that. It's a bit of a pain point
You don't need to just search, you need to have at least one member subscribed
just got my signup approved, the ui is awesome and the dark mode this place has won't destroy my eyes during night shift. it's a bit slower than reddit but that's fine
Fairly good actually. Im using the italian instance Feddit and its quick and easy to use. The actual issue is the lack of good clients
I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.
So far I don't quite understand how everything works. I am confident I will figure it out though
I've just been lurking so far, but that's been good. Mastodon is great so I'm sure Lemmy will grow out of its initial pains.
Itβs been good so far. Iβve just been lurking, looking at different communities. Iβm a long time Reddit user and like others have said, Iβm going to miss the really niche subreddits. Hopefully the platform keeps growing!
I like it so far but my issue is that since Reddit had SUCH a huge community. Even niche subreddits were semi active. Here I think it'll take a while before we hit similar levels (or never at all)
Yeah itβs going to be a small drop in the bucket for some time, but I am pretty optimistic that if the best content creators and mods move over, the rest will too. The best part is the bottom barrel users will remain at Reddit and weβll relive the glory days before Reddit reached critical mass.
In the meantime I think we are so used to the big subs being awful that we donβt realize the big communities on Lemmy being quality of small subs at Reddit.
It's taking me a bit to grasp the practical use of the "federated" thing.
It seems like there aren't a lot of tutorial-type instructions on the web of how to use it. Like a YouTube video.
I would be nice if a good number of redditors would join for activity to flourish.
I was in so many niche places that I think it'll be hard to really find somewhere to connect with.
I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.
I'm honestly really lost and just stumbling around in the dark. It's been really confusing to learn about federation and what ever makes lemmy so unique.
But I'm really happy to see an open source alternative to reddit which is cool.
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.