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
Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!
Is this the part where we seize the means of production and eat the rich? Because I’m here for it.
Nah, we’re just seizing a little corner where the bosses mostly leave us alone.
Okay but if we eat the rich, I’m here for it
Just so we’re clear, we’re definitely eating the rich, right? Don’t just tell me we have the rich at home.
In case anyone was wondering, I’m pro eating the rich btw.
I think having friction to use it can end up as a good thing. Works as a good first filter for bad/low effort users.
I’m starting to think the splintering caused by instances blocking each other is going to cause users to abandon Lemmy entirely. At the moment instances can suddenly decide to block other instances, and that is going to hurt both users on the instance that put a block into place, as well as users on the blocked instance.
The blocking is awful for an average Lemmy user, because you can get cut off from communities you already subscribed to, without any notification! So you might post and comment without realizing that your content is not getting published, even though you and your local instance still see it.
The user experience would be improved by getting a warning if you try to contribute to a community in this case. And also your subscriptions should show warnings about not working anymore, and those should come up as notifications on the account.
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 like it. I prefer the UI plus it’s really refreshing to browse some similar communities i also browse on reddit and not seeing that many memes.
I feel like the algorithm is weighted too strongly towards upvoted posts. I know there are new ones out there, but I opened my app this morning to see everything is from 17 hours ago.
This is a bug that is being worked on that will be fixed in the next release
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.
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 took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.
Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.
It’s nice, I just wish there was more activity. Hopefully it will grow overtime. My concern is the barrier of entry for new users. The whole “different instances” thing can be quite confusing.
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
I quite like the super-minimal interface design of fedia.io. I’m excited to see where this all goes.
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!
we need RES and a decent iOS app…
Memmy is already really, really good in Beta.
I’m looking it, though I haven’t found much good content yet. Gotta do a serious community search.
Sidenote: anyone know if I can replicate Reddit’s “hide post after upvoting” behavior?
Signed up today, liking it a lot. Looking forward to learning more about it, seems like a viable reddit alternative.
It’s very interesting so far, and the idea of being able to access this via Mastodon is really cool to me
