The relative difficulty to sign up will be a deterrent to most people. Every other social network has you up in seconds. This needs to be streamlined.
I'm missing some o the features, hoping they will come in time.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I'm starting to learn how it works and it's been a fun adventure so far! I really dig the community feeling. Everyone seems so chill and supportive, it's exactly what I was looking for. I can't wait for kbin to be fully federated. I'm really happy here
The UI's a little janky, search doesn't always produce clickable links (mostly federated subs).
Finding subs relies on lemmyverse, when it should be integrated into the sites.
Similar subs should federate together, not be siloed. More USENET, less phpbb.
Kbin has a strange division of threads and "magazines", which means clicking thru multiple places to read anything, Lemmy & Beehaw seem simpler.
The default lemmy UI is... not great
It reassembles the new reddit UI and that's not great. It has a lot of wasted whitespace on ultrawhide monitors.
Kbin's UI is a lot better and it reassembles the old reddit UI, in a modern way, I like that.
With that said, I'm a huge fan of federation, and want to support it, but I'm aware things aren't great right now
Discoverabily is not great, and I had trouble finding subs I care about... as a power user... imagine normal users doing that...
Just like with Mastodon, the main Lemmy website has a bunch of technical jargon that will scare any new user away immediately.
In spite of the technical issues and mild learning curve, I am really enjoying Lemmy more and more as I continue using it.
I like the idea of it, but it's janky as hell. For example, when I tried to post a comment here using the mobile page without choosing a language, the UI just sat there spinning forever without telling me what I did wrong. It wasn't until I tried using Jerboa that I got a message saying what I did wrong. It also appears I need to manually set the language in each post!
I'm hopeful that these are just growing pains as compatibility and optimization is worked on. I'm not sure on the developing side what's going on and what their plans are, but I think this latest episode with Reddit shenanigans shows that it's necessary to continue working on future platforms over continuing to promote the "product" that Reddit has become now.
I was using Boost for Reddit but with it's eminent death I came to Jeroba for Lemmy. Pretty close to my boost experience! very easy to adapt and made the whole "servers" thing that I didn't really like a lot easier. Now I'm following a lot of comunities in different servers and can see them all. Perfection
I’m the admin of krabb.org, honestly I’m loving it. There is a learning curve, particularly for non-technical folks, but that will get easier as time goes on.
As an admin, it is far easier to “jump start” an empty Lemmy instance with content from other instances than it is to do with Mastodon and Pixelfed.
Where we need to improve is the mobile apps, documentation and providing ways to make it easier for small instances to get new users. These are all very much in the spotlight and improving every day (especially the apps), so I’m confident we can get there
Tldr: it good, do like
I’m a software dev, early adopter of most techs I find, and I had like more than a week trying stuff out to replace he-who-shall-not-be-nameddit. After some trial and error, and wefwef, I’m confident I found a replacement. But I seriously doubt most people will adopt it. I think the communities will diverge, and I will think of Lemmy as the new reddit and reddit as the new Instagram anyway.
Lemmy has bugs and lacks features. Assuming those get ironed out and I expect they will in time, I'll like it a lot better than Reddit. Actually even with its shortcomings I like it better. The issues facing Reddit are of a different nature and for sure those will never get worked out, only worsen.
Otherwise the content on Lemmy is adequate for me. What's interesting is I actually get more rounded information here. Reddit is so big that I can only subscribe to a limited number of subs before I get overloaded. Here I'm subscribed to a healthy set of communities so I see posts on a wider array of topics.
I think people are a bit intimidated by the Fediverse at first. Once you have a basic understanding of what's going on, it becomes pretty transparent. It's just the added step of finding a good instance to log into. Once you've overcome that, it's all downwind sailing.
Snappier and snazzier than reddit (via the website) and I like that. Harder to find communities. If one expects this to function somewhat like reddit, well, it's not yet (or maybe should never be). Where are the emails? How do I follow the posts that I want to, or commented to? Growing/noob pains.
it's not as bad as mastodon, not perfect, but workable
Feels like home, it's been easy to use, albeit with some hiccups in terms of searching and subscribing to communities on different servers.