Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
I tried it out a while back but didn’t stay long, just rejoined a few days ago myself, it’s always on my radar because it’s on the fediverse though. I’m not very attached to Reddit, but I like the amount of content on it.
I really like Lemmy overall, but I like having niche content, hope there’s enough growth with the migration that we get more.
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not enough hentai catboys or catgirls yet either, how am I supposed to disappoint my parents properly under these conditions
Hrm, that name looks familiar ;)
Seems I’ve been spotted, time to run!
It’s pretty neat how intertwined fedi stuff is, I’ve never ran into someone I know on Reddit in years of using it, but within
23 days on here I haveI had the same experience when I joined the Fediverse, I kept coming across people who I recognised and had no idea were also on there.
My thoughts:
404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site
I think the server may be struggling a bit under everyone checking it out.
I’ve had this a few times too but it seems okay at the moment.
Funny enough just had it again between seeing this and trying to press See Context. It immediately fixed itself tho.
It’s really weird. There’s so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. That’s a really great vibe.
yea I fully agree! It seems quite nice so far
That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.
Yup. I mentioned this on Reddit as well. OG Reddit vibes.
Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and there’s a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldn’t last and was too difficult to use… lol change is hard sometimes but it’s life.
What are their complaints about lemmy?
The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven’t actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand…
But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how “communities are way too overbearing with the rules.” , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it’s run by a bunch of “tankies”
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If anything the tankie mud slinging has had the opposite effect on me. The Lemmy devs seem pretty damn gracious and accepting of people that probably have more moderate political beliefs than themselves.
Yeah, some instances lean a bit harder into that than others so there’s nothing really stopping people from creating their own instance and blocking some of those they deemed “troublesome” but nothing I’ve seen has really scared me anymore than some of the batshit crazy stuff I was seeing regularly on Reddit and other parts of the web lol.
Actually just saw a post on mastodon that was telling people to avoid lemmy because of the tankie shit lol.🤷🏻♀️
What’s a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.
Basically another term for communists.
The fragmentation might be a hurdle but with how the fediverse works I see it more just being similar to email. You’ve got people using gmail, yahoo, aol etc each is its own separate server but they can all play nicely together and if one dies the others keep trucking.
Yes I’ve noticed this as well. I think there’s some denial mixed in there. Right now the 3rd-party apps still work. They can still use old.reddit. Adult content hasn’t been banned on site and official app yet. The IPO and likely cash-out/sell-out that will follow is still some months away. A lot of the people are in the “this is fine” stage at the moment, similar to the situation over at Twitter. Most of them will see the light eventually. That said, there does seem to be a growing interest in Lemmy already.
I agree things are just now starting to intensify on Reddit. If and when they go through with those changes will be when some people start to wake up. The ones that don’t see it then probably never will lol.
Yeah, I’ll admit until a few days ago I had never heard about lemmy. Wasn’t until I was seriously seeking something other than Reddit did I come across this site. It reminds me some of the twitter exodus after musk bought it. Lots of new interest in mastodon like almost overnight. I’m sure some of it died down due to mastodon not being *exactly * like twitter and it does have a bit of a learning curve but surprisingly mastodon continues to grow at a pretty decent pace. I imagine a bit of a similar situation here.
It was the same with Firefox for me. As soon as Chrome announced The adpocalypse, everyone wanted to jump ship from Chrome. Forget what happened that made me switch about 6 months before that but I tend to catch on to stuff like this earlier than most.
My only hope and worry is that the devs and admins are aware and prepared for the big wave of new users. Especially this instance and those featured as recommended in joinlemmy. Mastodon also went through the same thing but for some reason I think they had some more time to mature before that.
Ive already been experiencing some stability issues and this volume is nothing compared to what could possibly be coming as early as next month.
im on the discord for beehaw and they admins are aware of whats going to happen and are currently trying to best prepare for it
I actually enjoy getting in on a platform at the early stages like this, because of the interesting conversations.
Much more like talking to real people and less like screaming into the void
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Thanks!
It’s still a bit confusing to me, but I’m already starting to like it here. Especially with the Jerboa app.
If you find a way to collapse/expand comment threads with Jerboa, let me know! It’s the main thing I’m struggling with right now, but should be a easy fix.
I’m really wishing for a way to disable not just the visibility of the score, but also the upvote/downvote buttons, and even the reply button, like I can on redreader for reddit. Sometimes I need that to get myself to stop spending too much time/mental effort on social media sites.
same here, hopefully the dev of the app reains active
The dev is @dessalines, who is also a dev for the lemmy project so the odds are pretty favorable he’ll stay active.
You can hold the space between the username and the upvote / comment age, in the middle top of the comment.
Awesome! Is there a way to turn it into a single tap instead of tap and hold?
I don’t think so, there’s not many settings in the app right now.
Thank you so much! Not knowing about this had been been making reading larger threads like this one fairly cumbersome.
No problem 😁
reddit also was confusing 13 years ago :)
I opened an account on lemmy, yesterday, and it looks nice, very promising. If we were 10 of thousands it would be even more great. I also installed Jerboa on my cellphone and it’s good beginning, it does the job
reddit also was confusing 13 years ago :)
“That site which looks like a spreadsheet?? It’s so fugly!”
- Edgelord Diggers (digg.com users)
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Wanders in, looks around, flops down into a comfy looking chair
Nice place you’ve got here. Very nice decor, not an advert or crappily disguised advert in sight.
Just wait until lemmy gold drops
Just joined as well. Looks pretty good here to me!
Agreed. It seems promising and has that magic feeling of when I first encountered reddit for the first time post-Digg. That said, the federated aspects is neat but confusing… Still trying to work out how to view communities on different instances.
EDIT: Ok so apparently this post is actually on a different instance. Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to remote communities?
For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose “All” in the filter and search for “gaming” and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.
The sub you’re on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.
Thanks, now we’re cooking with fire! I originally was trying to do it on the Android app, seems like the search isn’t functioning as expected. Web UI works as expected, not a big deal anyways since I can just “app-ify” it with a home screen shortcut.
Is there a way to make use of all the white space? I don’t understand why the content is restricted to such a small portion of the page.
I agree with you about the whitespace, and your post made me realize that there is a dark mode. Thanks for that.
I actually have an extension on my browser called Dark Reader that makes all websites dark for me. So I didn’t even know there was a dark mode either.
Could really use a pure black mode. For OLED and night. Seems like an easy and major improvement.
Yeah that side bar needs to be minimizable.
Would be cool if Images I click could expand into that space
I originally asked this question because I’m new to Lemmy and wasn’t sure if I was missing something about why the design was this way. I didn’t know if there was some setting or other way to modify to get it to have a different design.
Having looked into it a bit more, just seems there isn’t a way to do it ourselves, perhaps as the userbase expands there might be someone who eventually develops extensions.
What I have noticed is there’s apparently other Lemmy instances that run a different UI, but maybe they aren’t really federated with everyone else. Hexbear.net was one I just found out about. Basically I’m wondering if anyone knows of other instances that are part of the fediverse.
I’m actually really curious about hexbear as well. It’s a pretty different place over there…
Do Lemmy servers publish their federation lists?
Agreed. I’d prefer far more density.
I understand why they might like to constrain the column, but it would be nice if there was an option to turn that off and let you just control the width yourself by sizing the browser window.
Here since yesterday, but I like everything I’ve seen. The communities are welcoming, and users’ profiles lack the useless vanity metrics but allow enough customization to feel personal. Jerboa works well on Android, and everything looks well thought out generally. I hope Lemmy is going up to a great future!
I like it here. Its small but growing. I just wish the UI was bit better. Selecting text is weird :S
Just trying the jerboa android app and finding it 100% usable. Does all I need and easily replaced my RiF reddit app.
I’m not noticing anything weird. What do you mean selecting text is weird?
If you look at a site like https://news.ycombinator.com/news , you can left click on your mouse and it will highlight and select any text. This is the standard for most websites. But on Lemmy, it doesn’t highlight or allow me to select text.
Edit: Okay it may be related to me having it in the sidebar on Edge. For some reason, Hacker News works perfect but Lemmy doesn’t.
Oh I think I am encountering a related issue now. If I hold the mouse down to highlight text for a longer period of time (say, 10 seconds), it just randomly unhighlights most of the text and stops highlighting any more text. It seemed to only happen when selecting text across multiple posts. Though it is inconsistent, sometimes happening right away, other times it looks like it doesn’t happen at all. I wonder if it has something to do with Javascript updating the posts maybe?> ere. I
check your browser devtools network requests while you’re trying to select stuff if there’s some appearing on an interval it could be javascript
Welcome, glad to have you here! I hope Lemmy will continue to grow as a vibrant, diverse and friendly community.
Thanks, glad you’re enjoying it so far!
I’m liking the look of it so far.
One thing I miss is that I have reddit configured to hide any posts that I’ve voted on, in order to keep my feed fresh (using the Save button if I want to check a post again later). I’d love to see similar functionality here as well.
Yeah I’m using the Android app, it have a lot of functionnality but also miss some of them
Very much agreed. UI friendly, both on desktop and on mobile–even mobile browser. Instances are kinda confusing but I think im starting to understand it
