Since Day One (spez’ fuckup) I have been trying to use and like lemmy but it just doesn’t work right at all. Like as in never did. Communities disappear randomly, posts don’t load, submissions have no comments, you name it. At this point I am considering going back to reddit just like everyone else I know that used to care is doing already. Any others out there with same experience or is it just me and my shitty ios app for lemmy?

  • primalanimist@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn’t care if you “go back to reddit”. Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can’t be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.

  • Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I see you’re on Lemmy.ml. It’s PROBABLY because of that. That instance is really big so it causes posts to not load and what not . Go to a smaller one. Like in the ~1k range or something and I’m SURE all of these problems will go away. It was the same for me when I first joined Lemmy and picked Lemmy.ml. The following day I switched to Lemmy.ca back when it had ~40 users.

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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      2 years ago

      Can confirm. Started off on .world, team into all these problems, now on a much much smaller instance, and everything is smooth as butter.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    lemmy.ml is known for being unreliable and slow and occasional censoring and word filtering. If you’re okay with that, it’s a good instance. If not: search a better fitting instance or self-host one.

    (Disclosure: I had to re-write this comment, because the site did not post it – again.)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, that’s a you thing. I have accounts on six or seven instances so far. No disappearing communities at all, posts usually loading fine unless there’s an issue with a specific instance. Comments can be sparse, but that’s a matter of patience. Posts that invite discussion get comments, it just takes longer. The flip side of that is that you can comment everywhere and be certain your comment didn’t get buried, and that there’s a higher chance of it leading to discussion because of that

    I can’t say why you’re experiencing the issues, it could be the app. Could be your instance being one that’s kinda not well liked and being defederated by more than the average. Could be your instance just fucking up in general (I’ve seen statements that lemmy.ml is a little unstable currently). And it could be that you just haven’t run across the things that interest you, which may or may not be helped by anything since not every interest has a big community at all, even on a bigger service like reddit.

    But the stuff you’re specifically pointing to aren’t happening for everyone, no.

  • urda@lebowski.social
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    2 years ago

    This might not be the fit for you. Sometimes it’s ok OP to just go “ya know I don’t fit here, I’ll hit the road”.

    Peace.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I tried Kbin, Lemmy, Tildes and considered Squabbles.

    Kbin is the one I settled on. I like it here.

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      The Kbin enchantment sweet is great. The developer who worked on it is actively in the Matrix chat. We’re working on getting a heap of those improvements baked into the platform, but being an open source protect it takes a while to get things through

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Yeah the comment toggling, sidebar with your magazines and a few other parts are coming up kbin as native features, it just takes a while to get them tested + pushed out for release. There’s a heap of great stuff coming

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy’s mobile app ecosystem is terrible… or rather just not very mature and needing a lot more work and contribution. I haven’t found a single Lemmy mobile app, iOS or Android. that is usable long term. I’ve just started logging into Lemmy on my mobile browser and using it that way (which works fine).

    Lemmy itself however is great. I run my own instance and yeah, there’s expense and work and troubleshooting involved in that, but it’s all worth it to have the reddit experience with the Lemmy community and to be in complete control of the gateway that I use for that experience.

  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I have been very much enjoying kbin. Sure the volume isn’t quite there, but I love that it’s run by volunteers with no agenda other than to host their commities for free.

    The software has a few hiccups here and there, but those will get improved over time.

    Reddit is there for money; your experience is secondary to that.

  • SeaTurtle1122@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Many instances are having growing pains, and figuring out which apps aren’t crap is difficult. On iOS, I’ve been pretty happy with Memmy, though Lemmios is good too.

    Overall though, the communities here are more pleasant to interact with, and Reddit can’t be trusted. Lemmy has gotten significantly better in just the last month. Give it time and stick with it.

  • CatBusBand@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Try instance shopping. Lemmy.ml might not be for you but there are other instances with lively communities. I’ve been having a grand time here