I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of
I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be
Yes! It sorta reminds me of the early days of Reddit ironically. It has a nostalgic charm to it.
Was just saying this to my friend. Big difference is it is auto darkmode and not white like reddit was.
i like that it [at least in the foreseeable future] won’t debut some vomit-ass new design whose only purpose is to make number go up
Default dark mode is the sign of a good platform.
I think it’s a sign of youth.
Honestly not bad. Im using the “Jerboa for lemmy” app and you can change the view settings to your liking. Once i start following “subs” or whatever they are called here it gonna be more or less the same.
Thank you for welcoming us
I’ve been on Reddit for 17 years. Definitely reminds me of when it was a much smaller community.
This is what got me into Mastodon. Federated socials feel like social media from 2010.
It’s superb.
Yup. It’s like web forums circa 98-02 give or take a year or three… It’s very nostalgic 😘
My feelings too. Its why I jumped on so quick. This hopefully lasts a bit but soon the content creators, influencers, marketers and teams will be here to crash the party
Can we guide them into dedicated communities that are filled with response bots to engage with them?
Win win
It reminds me of the Vampirefreaks UI a lot, and I love it.
It feels very raw and less curated which I like. It feels more like I’m interacting with people and less like I’m interacting with an algorithm
Or what some mod thinks you should and should not be seeing.
With growth comes moderation
Yes a similar thing happened on voat, but voat died and it wasn’t just because of the trolls. It was because the only people who commented commented about reddit, it was basically a reddit based forum, and when people got tired of complaining about reddit they just left. Make sure to use this community as much as possible to grow it and keep it this way. Make it a habit to login daily and replace bad habits with this new habit. And 9/10 your favorite community won’t exist here, and I highly encourage you to build it if it doesn’t and then promote it. I am doing that for /c/frugal: https://lemmy.world/c/frugal
I think instead of solely talking about Reddit, people are creating communities based off reddit communities like c/tifu or c/mildlyinfuriating and carrying on as usual so I’m hopeful that the same thing won’t happen to lemmy!
And the reddit blackout is forcing people into the habit of using lemmy. Ideally that habit replaces the old one.
I’m quite lost, and don’t think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I’m even using those words properly).
I’ll do it like Reddit 10 years ago… wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.
Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!
I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.
I also don’t like the fact that the search function doesn’t let me select communities until I’ve already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to “All”.
I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.
I’ve read that’s actually a known bug that is being actively worked on. It sounds like this should be fixed fairly quickly, with any luck.
Hopefully. I get the feeling that Lemmy is much less mature as a piece of software at the moment than Mastodon was when the Twitter exodus happened.
Yup, definitely seems some polishing is needed. I know the devs are hard at work, and with the huge influx of users more OS devs are likely to jump on board to help out. I suspect the biggest complaints will get ironed out fairly quickly. At least I hope so!
I’m a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.
That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.
Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.
At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing. Hopefully we will also get some awesome third party mobile apps. Overall it’s very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.
Try Jerboa. Using it now and for being in alpha pretty solid.
I’ve been getting a feel for Jerboa today. It’s nice.
One thing I’m having trouble with: When a reply to a comment shows up in my inbox, I don’t see a simple way to respond. I’ve been going into the thread and finding it manually.
Do you, or does anyone else, know if there’s an easier way to respond from the inbox?
I might be overlooking something very obvious…
Yeah. That’s my one complaint too. Otherwise it’s pretty great 😃
It’s… OK. I’ve actually been thinking about doing a native app myself because losing some of the quality of life features from the reddit apps I love are the reason I’m pissed off with reddit in the first place. Luckily the lemmy api is easy to work with and if needed you can always host your own lemmy instance.
I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.
Guys, it’s wild. Let’s go.
I’m liking it, and anticipating its growth – with both trepidation and excitement. It’s unpolished but I don’t mind that all too much. Trying to engage as much as I can.
Hello world.
As an Internet Old Head I’m just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.
to quote Oprah’s first tweet, “FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY”
I like how it works! I don’t like the default web UI. For a ton of reasons. I’d love to see someone make a more old reddit-like one.
I’m surprised you say that - whilst the web UI is different and did throw me off at first, I honestly actually prefer it to the Reddit one. Way more responsive, doesn’t make my computer catch fire and everything is clean and easy to navigate.
At this point I’d actually honestly rather use Lemmy at this point, regardless of what happens with Reddit.
I hope they take notes from Kbin, it has a UI similar that looks like a cross between old and new reddit, but it is very clean. It’s still early days, but hopefully someone comes up with a better theme/UI.
I agree, I feel like the UI could be a tiny bit more clear, and old.reddit does exactly that.
For example, threads seem to lack a tiny bit of indenting, perhaps a tiny splash of bg-color alternating.
Another thing that I have an issue with, is the page auto-refreshing. That’s something that really makes me press “ctrl w”. I am reading something, it’s there, and then it’s gone. Nope.
One last thing, and this is particular to the Fediverse - When someone posts a Fediverse link (to lemmy sub on a different instance) and you end up on a the website of that instance, obviously not logged in. You have to copy the link to your instances search… You know what I mean, it just makes it all clunky. It would be nice if Lemmy could check if the link is from the Fediverse, and then offer the option of “opening it locally”.
It’s really cool so far. I am enjoying it.
Fuck Spez
I’ve honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.
Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we’ve been used to over on Reddit, but they’re also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.
That said, there’s still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn’t to knock on the devs - I’m thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.
Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D
