Honestly, mobile needs a breakthrough app for iOS. It is not nearly as new user friendly as Reddit was when I started there. The whole instances/federation stuff is new to me so there is that additional layer to learn/understand. Here to give it a try though and I am hopeful for a new and different route for sharing and communication.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I’ve enjoyed it a lot. There are some stuff that could fit better on screen, like when you look at the communities you’re subscribed to. Also, it would be nice to show your subscribed communities in alphabetical order.
Otherwise, I really enjoy the layout. It’s so simple
Overall it's going well, and experience from both browser and Jerboa is great, especially considering the lack of maturity and large influx. It's been amazing to see how quickly communities have shown up. A couple of weeks ago when I first heard about Lemmy and plans for Reddit subs going dark, I looked at Lemmy and walked away with a meh because of lack of content, and what was here was not my thing. However, throughout the day today I watched the number of communities grow like crazy, with new topical communities popping up every time I checked.
I do think lack of a centralized /c/ namespace makes things confusing for a lot of people, and will result in a lot of topical duplication between servers - even with federated access and searching. I get why lack of a centralized namespace is also a design feature, but it comes at a price, in my opinion, and it'll be interesting to see how it works itself out over time. Just an observation/opinion on my part.
Still a bit early to call it, but it's looking good!
pretty alright but man most admins are hella toxic
I'm new, but any instances that made you think so?
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Former Reddit user here. It's a bit confusing but I'm holding up. I'm glad I found Kbin as it seems pretty user friendly compared to the various Lemmy instances. I'm excited for the future of both networks, and look forward to getting my head around it all a little better.
Very confused.. I have a direct link to a Linux community and can't figure out how to open it, or join it, or whatever I'm supposed to do with it in Jerboa. Discovery seems severely limited.
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It’s easier than I was expecting (using kbin, at least), but still growing pains. I assume that there just aren’t communities set up for some of the game-specific subreddits I was on (Zelda, Genshin, Star Rail, etc.) but I don’t know that I’d really expect there to be yet.
I also noticed that some people have profile pictures/avatars and I can’t figure out how to set that. I assume it’s because I just made my account today though that I’m not able to yet.
its not an all-purpose zelda subreddit, but i've made a magazine for botw, aoc, and totk at m/breathofthewild. it's meant to be similar to r/Breath_of_the_Wild
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So, I think Kbin and Lemmy are separate pieces of software operating on the fediverse. But since they speak the same language you can interact cross platform. Interestingly, seems that kbin supports even more fediverse platforms than lemmy. I've been able to use kbin to follow mastadon users.
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Former Reddit user here. It's a bit confusing but I'm holding up. I'm glad I found Kbin as it seems pretty user friendly compared to the various Lemmy instances. I'm excited for the future of both networks, and look forward to getting my head around it all a little better.
It’s like eating something extremely good, best way to put it. It’s amazing, everything reddit did wrong doesn’t exist here. It’s like a utopia.
I find the new layout to be confusing, no doubt I'll get used to it, but the hardest part was creating an account. I had no idea what "server" to make my account on, had no idea i had to choose one, thought it was exclusive and couldn't interact with other ones, etc.
Also, the only Lemmy app I saw on Google play was Jerboa for Lemmy. I got that, and I can't really make an account on the app so I had to go to the website. I eventually decided on lemmy.world or something. Overall, the app feels a bit unpolished and the Reddit app seems more welcoming, even though most of the subs are dark now.
One thing I do enjoy is the formating at the bottom. I do like that. And I have high hopes for my future using Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit.