Asklemmy

so far it’s pretty ok and i’m quite hopeful for its future. the layout reminds me of reddit so it’s not particularly confusing to use… like someone else said, i hope the customisation improves (especially profile customisation, i can’t seem to upload an avatar). i’m a bit confused about the different servers though (what’s the difference between beehaw/lemmy/shitjustworks/etc? will i be able to access all of them if i signed up at beehaw?…) i’m not very tech savvy so perhaps somebody could eli5. i’m hopeful though!

I appreciate the fact there is no infinite scroll on the front page.

It's a little confusing so far but I haven't spent a ton of time with it yet so I put that on me. Do instances coordinate what communities they start? Let's say I'm looking for a "home assistant" community, will there only be one across all of Lemmy or will I find several?

I think its pretty promising. There are some improvements that could be made with UI, but thats the tiniest gripe.

This doesn't particularly matter, but in the interest of answering your question, the equivalent word to "subreddits" here is "communities". Thus the /c/ instead of /r/.

I've just been lurking so far, but that's been good. Mastodon is great so I'm sure Lemmy will grow out of its initial pains.

Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.

Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.

I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.

I'm enjoying it! Smaller community feels cozy, I even started commenting (was a lurker on Reddit). Although there's always a room for improvement. I occasionally lose comments because of some bugs or server issues, sometimes opening things just leads to refreshing of the main page and you lose the post and so on

Still learning how to use this but I think I will be good

It's good. Except for the confusion about linking to communities on different servers. That's a real show stopper, if you ask me. Which you did, technically.

My instance gets an occasional hiccup but usually reloading the page gets me through. Even if Lemmy doesn't end up with a Reddit-sized userbase I'm excited to see what it becomes. All-in-all feeling pretty positive about it.

The thing that's confusing me most is links, whether to communities or individual posts.

I see links in a format like this:

!communityname@instance.whatever

Sometimes the exclamation mark is part of the link and it works, and sometimes it's there but not part of the link, and my phone thinks the rest is an email address.

Is there a guide anywhere to how to do links properly? TIA.

EDIT - yeah, so in my example above, the exclamation mark is not being treated as part of the link for some reason?

I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.

There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.

On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.

I'm still getting used to the whole "instance" thing but I think that a FOSS, decentralized thing has a better chance to stick around a while.

its been great, i been posting in the Hexbear instance for like 2 years, i decided to make an account here while i wait for HB to federate with the rest of lemmy

So far so good! Is there any mobile apps available though? That is 90% of my reddit browsing.

My main lemmy instance went down, and I had to go to three because so many people are creating accounts. So bad; but, for a good reason.

I like it, but it needs UI work for mass appeal. All federated services do really. It’s such a strong concept but it’s only in its (relative) infancy just as all of these events are happening to direct traffic toward the Fediverse.

I think it is annoying that most posts, like this one, are about Lemmy itself. I hope this will change soon.

My main problem is the Jerboa app on Android does not make it easy to navigate to a specific subforum unless you know the name.

While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too

My biggest gripe is that there isn't a working Lemmy iOS app in my region, yet.

I have spotty metered mobile internet connection, and while the web app is lightweight enough, it requires the downloading of page structures each time and it adds up after a while.

I do hope we'll eventually get high-quality apps to interface with the fediverse, much like Apollo with Reddit.

It reminds me of old reddit, so I'm pretty happy with it. I hope we aren't going to completely ruin whatever the Lemmy old guard had going on, though.