how are yall feeling about the website?

  • Sun-Spider@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    1 year ago

    Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.

    As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)

    Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.

    I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit

    • jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.

    • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      God dam right friend.

      The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.

      Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.

      I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.

  • Cycrus93@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. The days when people would run little community servers for IRC or shoutcast or whatever on spare laptops hooked up to cable modems, and would mess around doing stuff for their friends or whatever online community they were part of. When websites didn’t all look the same because they’re hosted on the same big tech platform, and if you wanted to publish something you’d put creativity into web design rather than just signing up for a Twitter account. When you didn’t have the constant Faustian deal of selling your activity data in exchange for free platforms. When talking to your gaming clan meant typing in the IP of whoever hosted the TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Wilco server, rather than everybody all using Discord. When you didn’t have content policies for millions of people being made by one guy in California (IE Tumblr). When most websites were hosted on little $20/mo shared hosting accounts so nobody gave a shit about pandering to advertisers. When a ‘big forum’ was 10s of thousands of users, and forums had their own communities with their own culture.

      I miss those days. But this feels a lot closer to that than anything else I’ve encountered in the last several years.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.

    … With blackjack! And hookers!

  • Cakein@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

    I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

    I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.

    The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it’s not clear how that’s going to shake out in the long run. I’m not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I’m willing to give it a go.

      • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It seems like the intended use-case for federated stuff like this is that all of FOO would be in one instance, even though it’s accessible from any instance it still shows which instance it originates in. Which feels a little weird, some topics don’t really have a overarching supertopic that it makes sense for them to belong to.

        • lhx@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t necessarily want only FOO@xyz. I want to make say my cars meta community so I can look at several grouped communities like simracing, F1, Indycar etc. the meta community would be my creation and only for me.

  • thanksbrother@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I’m interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can’t wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I’d like to participate or lurk in. Right now there’s a lot of… uh… shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I’m posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like… somebody has to do it, right?

  • dboxcar@lemmy.one
    5·
    1 year ago

    I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn’t have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn’t realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won’t stay. (I don’t doomscroll on my computer either).

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I just tried out mobile browser. It works great on iOS Firefox. It’s good enough as a stopgap until someone makes a better mobile app.

    • lenninscjay@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      memmy is another ios (x-platform?) app to try that is apollo’esq, is more stable, and seems to default to using swipe as the primary method of up/down vote and commenting.

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. Mlem needs a bunch of work. It crashes, sometimes shows full posts, has no option for compact posts, etc… I bet it will get there; it’s just going to take time.