It's been amazing. It feels like the reddit of old and gives me early internet vibes. I'm way more involved with the community here than I was ever on reddit. I love it and I'm staying :)

I've just been lurking so far, but that's been good. Mastodon is great so I'm sure Lemmy will grow out of its initial pains.

I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.

Crazy. Been lurking around discovered mastodon and pixelfed too. Fediverse stuff is gnarly

I like it so far but my issue is that since Reddit had SUCH a huge community. Even niche subreddits were semi active. Here I think it'll take a while before we hit similar levels (or never at all)

A bit tougher than Reddit but so far so good.

I'm trying to be more active on lemmy than on reddit where I just lurked like you, so that's been a change. But I'm having a great time! Also, spinning up an instance took some trial and error but it was a lot of fun :)

Any1 know how to search a group for specific posts like reddit? On jerboa for android. Tx

The thing that's confusing me most is links, whether to communities or individual posts.

I see links in a format like this:

!communityname@instance.whatever

Sometimes the exclamation mark is part of the link and it works, and sometimes it's there but not part of the link, and my phone thinks the rest is an email address.

Is there a guide anywhere to how to do links properly? TIA.

EDIT - yeah, so in my example above, the exclamation mark is not being treated as part of the link for some reason?

Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good

I am trying it out just to understand it's nuances. I think the concept is solid, but I feel like the federated part could use a little more work so it's more possible to use whatever lemmy instance you prefer. Signing up on any particular instance is fine (Though I wish it had more options), but if I cannot get onto an instance that I prefer, it's tricky to curate my experience.

That being said, I think it is a fixable problem, and I have ideas to fix that based upon other websites I've used, but I have no idea where to submit them.

I'm loving it!

As an aside, I know a lot of people are using Jerboa for their mobile browsing app of choice, but I've discovered that you can just use the Lemmy progressive web app (PWA) instead and get the same experience as desktop. In Chrome, login to whatever Lemmy instance you're registered with, click the triple dot menu, and click "install app". You'll get a "Lemmy" app downloaded and added to your homescreen that looks and functions just like the website.

It reminds me of old reddit, so I'm pretty happy with it. I hope we aren't going to completely ruin whatever the Lemmy old guard had going on, though.

My instance gets an occasional hiccup but usually reloading the page gets me through. Even if Lemmy doesn't end up with a Reddit-sized userbase I'm excited to see what it becomes. All-in-all feeling pretty positive about it.

Longtime Rif user posting from Jerboa. Seems pretty cool so far. The issue I've seen is some upvotes and comments not showing when viewed from a different instance.

My main problem is the Jerboa app on Android does not make it easy to navigate to a specific subforum unless you know the name.

Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.