I found it complicated at first (didn’t know which instance “will last”, where to register to not lose anything when instance admin decide to turn it down), but now it’s going good. We are missing mobile apps though.

What’s are your thoughts about Lemmy/kbin?

  • jonah@lemmy.oneMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lots of people here with the opposite opinion of me, which is that I like the website and not the mobile apps, but overall yeah I’m pretty convinced this format is probably the best poised alternative to replace Reddit for a lot of people. Maybe not everybody, but I am willing to “settle” for quality over quantity ;)

    • DiscoShrew@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve just been using the browser or a progressive web app on mobile so far. Seems to work more or less okay.

    • deadcyclo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I agree. I too prefer the website as a progressive web app. Though I’m playing with the idea of making a cross platform app highly inspired by relay for reddit. But with my history of procrastination that probably never will get finished.

      • stallmer@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Same. Much easier to use the progressive web app, and it seems to function better than Mlem.

        Once the mobile apps are more mature I’ll probably switch over, but for now the progressive web app works best for me

      • ojmcelderry@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’d love to see some of the existing Reddit client apps pivot over to Lemmy.

        I’m a long-time user of Reddit is Fun and would love to continue using it!

  • Theta_Centauri@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s exciting to be here, honestly. It will be fun to help build communities and to watch them grow.

    I’m on desktop. Everything is working as it should in spite of a little lag, due no doubt to an influx of visitors. Like others have mentioned, it’s just a little confusing at first but that is to be expected. I think we’re off to a good start.

    (I’ve yet to check out Kbin.)

  • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I think its great. Joining remote Communities can be a bit iffy but its okay and the UI is a bit janky but that will improve by time I hope :)

  • nemrod@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s seems great. But I am very visual, I miss big thumbnails layout as in Apollo. Do I miss a setting?

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    honestly, once I wrapped my head around the idea of federation (which is very easy given I’ve been active in the P2P torrent field before- federation is but a simple extension of that concept) lemmy has pretty easy to use. It’s simple. The interface is clean and has what I want right in front. I search what I want, deal with a couple minor bugs, and then look at what I want to look at.

    My only biggest concern with Lemmy longterm is community fragmentation. As more instances spin up with the user influx, and Lemmy being (currently) limited in horizontal scaling of individual instances, we are going to have cases of tens, maybe even hundreds, of instances all ending up with identical, but separate, communities. Federation of a single instance’s community can only work so well, if we’re expecting users in the millions, and such fragmented communities that may or may not end up federating with one another can artificially make the service feel a lot less active than it really is and/or potentially lead to a lot of content being missed by some users.

    • ojmcelderry@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Ah - interesting point. So you’re saying scaling limitations could arise if a particular community (akin to a Reddit ‘sub’) gets big enough to outgrow one instance. I wonder if multi-instance federated communities will become a possibility.

    • Joris@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Good point, valid concern! I hope existing (real) communities (from existing subreddits or elsewhere) can have leaders pointing users to a specific Feddit community. What would be even more awesome, is if communities could be merged: that way we could ‘repair’ in a sense, fragmentation that happened naturally without losing the users and content that one of the communities already amassed.

    • asden@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Isn’t this partially intentional? If you don’t like the moderation or community or one instance, you can join a community with the same name on a different instance. I don’t know how it works out in practice, but this should reduce the power of moderators who hang around forever without actually moderating.

      • null_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        There are benefits to it, but it naturally limits maximum community size since it will be a problem if any community significantly outscales the instance it is from. I don’t see an easy way around it, it likely needs a better hosting/funding solution for the servers that support the “big” communities.

    • pivotraze@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If something like multi-reddit comes about in Lemmy, I believe it could solve that issue. Just make a multi-reddit of what is the same community (roughly) over multiple servers. It won’t solve the problem of duplicate posts though. But Reddit had the same issue at times, where multiple subreddits for the same topic existed, although generally it merged down into a single subreddit that was actually useful.

  • OrthoStice@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just joined Lemmy, seems nice so far. Currently waiting for a Kbin Android app, then I’ll give it a try.

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I expect a small boom of loudly announced instances, that will be essentially unmaintained, half of them will silently disappear while taking users identities with them in less than a year, and the rest spliting the federation in half by implementing ideological blacklists, some properly shutting down when the money runs out, or lawsuits and takedown notices starts to flood in.

    Let’s hope I’m wrong.

    • scarecrw@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ll have to try Jerboa at some point, but just the mobile site alone works quite well.

      I haven’t used Mastodon, but does account exporting allow you to move subscriptions and other account info from one instance to another?

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m reading this through Jerboa right now. It’s clearly new and not as mature as RiF (that I prefer) but it’s an excellent start. This platform and community has a lot of potential.

  • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy.ml needs to lose “default” status. I changed servers due to their load and inability to deal with it. They’re practically unusable right now.

  • realitista@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I miss downvotes. How do I get a post that I have no interest in to leave my feed?

    Other than that, pretty happy.

        • realitista@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yep you are right, that’s it. I guess I chose the wrong instance. But this is the advantage of the fediverse. It would be nice to have some table that shows the features in each instance so that we could decide which is the right one for us. I just chose based on the direction I got from lemmy.ml.

          • AntennaRover@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I do wonder if it’s entirely disabled or just on the default web interface. The Mlem app still gives me the option to downvote things.

            I don’t even necessarily disagree with the sentiment of not having downvotes on a platform, but it seems weird to give that up as one server on a federated network, considering anyone from other instances could presumably still downvote posts on here.

            • realitista@lemmy.oneEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Yeah I could log into lemmy.one on mlem and still downvote, so just removed from UI. But it was enough to make me migrate to lemmy.world.

    • Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I do as well. At least the threads I’ve read through, most of the time reddit was pretty good about downvoting the shit out of a comment that has misinformation or the user is being a dbag (racist, sexist, unnecessarily negative, etc) which was one of my favorite things. I could always count on users to call out those types of comments. It made searching for answers and information so easy and also amusing

      Sometimes I would run across a comment that just downvoted purely for their opinion, which was one of the problems it had, but in my opinion (10+ years on reddit), it doesn’t seem nearly as often as people claim

      To answer the thread: I like it, I use Jeroba for Android but I’m a long time user of reddit boost which I think is way ahead. I’m not a fan of the website yet but I just think it’s a little confusing

  • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Good start, but it needs mobile apps that are polished, and more users. The more people who switch the better.

    • ritchie@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I agree. It has been nice talking to people from my country on reddit and discuss recent events. These people did not find their way to lemmy, unfortunately. There are some international groups in topics I like, but I was on reddit especially because of my countrymen.

  • TheYang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I understand, but dislike kbin choosing their instance uptime over federation, and thus decided not to use it for the time being