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'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. Overall it's very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

Guys, it's wild. Let's go.

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"

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.

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.

It works, at least. The only issue I'm seeing is that if I try to follow 'sublemmies' (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in 'subscribe pending'. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.

It's really cool so far. I am enjoying it.

Fuck Spez

I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.

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.

It's a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.

It's gonna take time. And the web UI needs WORK.

But I'm gonna stick around and give it a chance.

Better by the minute to be honest. A lot of stuff I follow allready has some nice ammount of content going on :D

It's confusing and change frightens me. I love it.

I'm still getting used to this and there's not much activity yet, but I'll stick with it. Reddit isn't worth it, so I'm happy there's a chance for an alternative.

I've subbed to the /r equivalents I could find but honestly I'm having a blast just browsing random communities I'd never have looked at before. Did you know there's a community for people who collect Uranium Glass?? Wild stuff. Today is a good day.

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.

It feels like I'm dreaming about using a weird version of reddit that isn't quite right. But I just keep browsing with the intent of getting used to it.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They're not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they're smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it's definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don't have to worry about that happening again!

I'm really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There's a few smaller communities missing but I'm sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don't know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it's great!

The more I understand it, the more I love the concept of it. What really illuminated the concept of the fediverse for me was an illustrated diagram I saw on Lemmy earlier, which made the analogy of being able to email a gmail address even if you have hotmail.

I like that I am not being advertised to. I just hope critical mass of commenters and content makes it to fediverse systems.

I’m finding the experience on mobile (via the browser) to be pretty usable too.

I still find it a bit confusing to navigate, mostly with finding new communities. I do miss the front page with r/all of Reddit but I hope that will eventually evolve/adapt into something workable. I do wish there was a solid app to use as I do most of my redditing (I suppose I need a new verb) via my phone and mlem is a good start although it crashes constantly for me but I am fully confident that we will see a lot of improvements over the next few weeks.

I do hope that people stay off Reddit and give the fediverse a chance but I am worried that when the blackout is over people will slowly make their way back to Reddit. The fact that u/spez gives no shits about this blackout helps show what a small and petty man he is.