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
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 feel like this can be a really great replacement, but people will need to stick with it and watch it grow. Right now there is not enough content to keep people engaged. It’s mainly just questions confusion. I am really digging the format simplicity of things!
We need to all post the content we want to see.
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica
Bears do not— What is going on— What are you doing?!
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!
So the real question is has anyone made and office community yet?
Be the change you want to see. I just made a community, and I guess now I just wait and see if people show up.
Honestly it doesn’t need to be that much bigger. Small communities on reddit were better than the large ones imo. I’m fine with Lemmy being quite a bit smaller than reddit as long as the content is stuff worth engaging with.
It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.
I’m pretty impressed and have adopted quickly. Anyone sitting on the fence needs to dive and pro actively comment.
It’s not the time to lurk. The user base will grow when people fully engage.
But I have nothing to say
If on android, there’s Jerboa for an app. Kbin is working on an app iirc. It’s all open source too, so if it really picks up there will probably be a few others that pop up eventually.
KBin is also a PWA so pretty “app-like” already.
I can’t get kbin to “install” on my phone as a pwa. When I click “add to home screen” I just get a blurry icon and the navbar at the top of the page is still there. Am I missing something? Lemmys app and higher user count is what got me to settle on it instead of kbin but if I could get the pwa working I might give kbin a fairer shot.
That’s really odd! It sounds like you’re doing things right. You might try another browser? PWAs live in the mobile browser so sometimes that can help.
I appreciate the suggestion, but I thought the same thing and tried switching from Firefox to Chrome and got the same problem. Even updated both browsers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is Jerboa for Lemmy if you want to use an app.
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It’s more clunky but not unbearably so. Once Jerboa gets more features it’ll be a lot better. I miss swiping back, having to use the back button sucks.
I wonder how difficult it would be to add Lemmy support to existing Reddit apps.
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It wouldn’t be trivial. You could use some of the UI elements you already have but every interaction you make with the app triggers some sort of event, and a lot of those events would be functions that need to be rewritten to work with a completely different set of APIs.
I’m sure it’s do-able if the dev was inclined to do so though.
Yeah, it would probably be easier than creating a whole new app, but still a ton of work
If Boost, RIF, or any other app supported it, that’d make the migration a lot smoother.
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.
Guys, it’s wild. Let’s go.
Its a better experience than reddit so far, the communities are small, most people are respectful and its not just the same shit in recycling.
Exactly. Everyone on here has been awesome without any backhanded comments
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Would you say he could liquor balls?
Heh I’ll see my way out 👉
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You know, that’s a good point about the recycling.
It always felt like any popular post in r/pics one week would just show up again the next week. And not everyone sees these things the first time, so it makes sense. But still.
I browsed reddit at old.reddit and turned off subreddit CSS, so this is actually pretty similar.
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.
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.
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”
The more I use it, the happier I am. I’m an old geezer who was tinkering with computers way back when 8K was an outrageous amount of RAM. This reminds me of why I became a geek to begin with.
8K is still an outrageous amount of RAM lol
Why would anyone ever need more than 8K ram?
