Hello. I moved to Reddit with the Digg Exodus, and now I'm here. History does repeat itself.

Think I'm still trying to get my head around it all, such as trying to join new communities. Trying to take my time to read through guides and such, but so far it's been good!

Other than the random communist extremists, I like it, but I hope this place doesnt turn into the next Voat as I have a strong feeling it will.

I like it! I'm on Jerboa and it's no different from what I'm used to using Boost, although I do hope it continues to add customization and sorting comments by new wouldn't hurt (unless if I somehow miss the setting in each post)

Your username is perfect.

other than the growing pains of today, it seems good to me so far. Very much like Reddit from back in the day. Really like that the control is out of the hands of a corporation, I'm tired of changing site (Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > etc

I'm liking it so far, I've been trying to explore other instances other than lemmy.one but, the login always turns into an infinite loading screen.

I was talking with my friend about this last night and his biggest gripe was that he didn’t know which communities to join. IE there are communities of similar names and intents on different servers, and that choice was annoying. I’m guessing that as the fediverse expands this will be less of an issue, thoughts?

Still definitely needs some polish on the UI / UX front, as well as a more seamless experience for new users. But overall I can definitely see the potential!

I'm mostly ok, the only annoying thing is that I like to chose "all instances" especially to discover interesting things, but there's a lot of instances says in Deutsch, Italian, Polish, or whatever, and we cannot block whole instances, only communities, so if there is dozens of communities on an instance, you have to block them one by one

Seems solid, I was really excited for Mastodon and loved the idea but.......I didn't really use Twitter much so I didn't have a need for it still.

Reddit has always been my go to social media so I'm glad a fedi version of it exists with lemmy!

@ruud@lemmy.world

New to Lemmy like most on here rn. Can we get thumbnails for the posts and for links to open in new tabs?

Also, what is the delay on posting comments? Is that due to server usage or syncing to other instances?

Much appreciate the instance!

i like the minimal look as it mirrors my RES and old.r settings. I would like the ability to stretch the pages out to fill in the empty voids of my 1440 window though. At the moment it looks like Lemmy was built on a mobile portrait view only.

I love it! I love the energy of everyone trying to figure out what the future will be. And it feels good to be out of this corporate dystopia that reddit has become.

TBD, the organization seems more chaotic and seems like alot of duplication of communities of the same topic

Haven't used it much but something that I don't really like correct me if I'm wrong, but basically the site has multiple servers, and each server can have multiple subreddits right? What I don't like is that there isn't really a r/all combining all subreddits within all servers, it's just r/all within the server which I feel spreads the content too thin. Correct me if I'm wrong

It is like wild west here and I like it!

It doesn't really feel much different to me than reddit, aside from being less active and having fewer communities. I'm enjoying the smaller feel of the communities here though. It can feel pretty futile to go into a reddit thread with 3k+ comments and try to say anything because youre bound to be buried. It feels like talking into a void. Here on Lemmy, I feel more like it's worth my time to contribute to the discussion and the community. I mean, it's not like attention is my motivation for posting. It just feels empty and pointless to contribute to a social space and get no kind of interaction - or worse, a toxic and negative interaction.

I'm liking it a lot. I think it will get even better once more people show up. It's kind of cool to be part of pioneering this experience, though. I do feel like this is going to grow into something substantial.

we need RES and a decent iOS app..

It's a breath of fresh air after using Reddit for so many years.

I'm getting comfy. It feels right to be away from Reddit.

I'm very confused, I was in the Sweden community and someone linked to ANOTHER Sweden community on a different server with different posts. So, where should I be to see all the things?

I like it and there's probably about as much traffic here was there was on reddit when I was started using it in the early 2010s. The design is nice and I like the federated concept although it is going to be a learning curve for some users. My particular home server is slow and down sometimes but in a way I feel its necessary to take some ownership and contribute to server improvements as we get more users if we want to sustain this.

lemmy is open source though too! so if there’s a bug, someone in the community can help fix it. speaking of which, i had some ideas for the UI that i’d love to propose for lemmy, such as giving posts a slight background color to make them easier to read. kind of like old reddit.

is anyone free to create a PR for lemmy-ui? mostly wondering if there’s a group it needs to be proposed to or something.