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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I like the desktop app, and the community - but the content is still a bit sparse. The nice thing about reddit was that you could find content for literally anything and every time you refreshed there'd be new content to view. It's obviously not nearly so busy here, but hopefully that will improve with time.

In the meantime I've been juggling this and Mastadon to get my fix lol

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good, I'm using Jerboa and it took me 3 days to find how to collapse comments, but except this, communities are great

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's been great. I'm allergic to social media, yet Lemmy does not feel like social media (to me at least). I hope that the Reddit horde won't turn it into a toxic cesspool.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only been 2 days. I'm feeling things out. Happy I found an Android app to use.

Already posted a cat photo. Not sure if it is correctly viewable.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tell us the link to the cat photo post please

[–] fods@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being honest: confusing. I can’t really decide if I like it or not right now.

It’s quite different from Reddit as in: you only see what you’re interested in (unless you’re in a big instance like lemmy.ml), but you have to look for it. Don’t get me wrong, this can be great! But there were situations where I accidentally found a niche subreddit that really matched stuff that I liked. I see that as more difficult here, but I might be wrong! Only time will tell

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's been a little tough? Trying to join communities hosted on other instances than the one I've joined is a little cumbersome so been having some trouble with that It almost encourages people to join the large instances for the sake of that convenience, undermining (to a certain degree) the whole point of this being federated

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So much this. Still haven't been able to join a community I'm very interested in, just because it's hosted on another instance. From my instance it's not visible, if I just paste the name after my instances base url it doesn't find it, and of course I can't sub from the instance hosting it because, well, that's lemmy.ml and I'm feddit.it.

So yeah, that's a bit annoying/confusing.

[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Which community are you referring to? I want to see if I can figure out how to do it on my end. (I haven't had any issues subscribing to communities, but that might be because my instance is already linked to the communities I'm interested in or whatever)

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I greatly dislike the UI. Makes for a bad UX.

Unfortunately, the UI source is not approachable to me (despite being very familiar with web tech). Theming documentation is not there yet either.

As far as content goes, it's still niche, so amount and usefulness varies a lot between communities and overall. But I've liked it in principle, posted comments, and found interesting links/infos.

[–] edward@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm curious what your problems with the UI are? To me it's pretty close to old reddit.

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[–] Rod_Orm@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the "subs" on reddit is called "communities" on lemmy

[–] itchy_lizard@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can we say "comms" for short?

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