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.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I like it so far, it has a low key relaxed energy. I mostly used reddit for the smaller communities so this kinda works for me.
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Still a little confused about how instances work and subscribing. But other than that I like it, not toxic like reddit. Feel like I just need to familiarize myself more
It feels a little fresher/brighter than reddit. Not as callous. Hoping the positivity keeps, and creates a separate beast altogether!
It definitely needs the rough edges smoothed out if we want to see wider adoption.
Better UI, I just wish the iOS app was more mature than it currently is. Still very usable in the browser.
I've been lurking pretty much on reddit with my 12 year old account, but the new experience here is pretty much ok. The usual teething problems on how to find what is manageable.
It's really interesting and I think has a huge potential to work out really well.
All these little instances being able to interact with each other seamlessly is really cool. It's seeming quite easy to curate communities I'm interested in and I think once it's a little more fleshed out, there'll be go-to communities for certain things which everyone from all instances uses. It's really cool.
I'm really hoping for a slick app or community improvements to Jerboa. It's okay, just not as nice as I'm used to.
I'd really like an integrated option in android to "share to Jerboa" (or other Lemmy app) which would make link sharing easier
So far, I am enjoying the experience. Full disclosure - I had an account on lemmy.ml a year or two ago that I deleted because I was not using the platform. I'm more engaged this time around. The only technical issues that I've noticed seem to be tied to the rapid growth in the user base and the administrators seem to be making adjustments as growth continues.
I haven't had any difficulty subscribing to communities that interest me and there seems to be enough content being generated to keep me interested and engaged. Generating content has been easy so far and I am enjoying myself.
The instance system seems nice - I like my instance and there are some good local communities. Some of them seem to replicate communities on other instances, but I don't mind having more than one community to check when I want to distract myself with a specific topic.
I don't hate it. It's going to take some time to adjust to but overall, it's easy to use. Main complaint is that I can't use it at work.
Concerned regarding the state of apps in iOS, probably will have to mourn the loss of Apollo (which was absolutely amazing). I had an amazing iPhone and iPad app I could run on Mac as well.