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Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? (beehaw.org)
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I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I'm testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It's in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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[–] iamliterallysatan@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.

  1. How do we handle "dupe" communities?
  2. What's the best way to find new communities?
  3. How are cross-posts handled across servers?
[–] Bardak@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do we handle "dupe" communities?

I think the only really option is to let things play out. This was/is a problem on Reddit see r/gaming vs r/games. Overtime certain communities on certain instances will float to the top.

What's the best way to find new communities?

This still needs some work. It would be nice if you were able to search communities by instance or look just see the hot/active page of a different instance to help with discoverablility. These may be possible but I haven't found how to.

[–] kia@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit had similar problems with finding subs - it was sometimes really difficult. But, honestly that was sometimes my favourite part. You'd randomly stumble upon a sub that you've never heard of that's super active.

I think there should be a way to easily find communities, but there's something fun about discovering a community out of nowhere.

[–] prlang@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The nice thing about Reddit being super centralized was that you could just append "reddit" to a Google search and find a community for anything under the sun. The distributed nature of lemmy makes it a little harder, but dedicated search indexes are already popping up and I'm sure they'll incorporate that kinda stuff back into the main lemmy instances sooner or later.