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[–] HerrNovad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like it a lot, but I do miss the multi-reddit feature, several communties in one feed. But so far, so good!

Currently I use Connect Lemmy for Android as with Jerboa there was a login issue when the server version wouldn't match. Not sure if this app is more resilient to this but it wasn't a good start. I couldn't use Lemmy properly for about a week or two. I also don't like that Lemmy is hard to search for new SubLemmy or search for results via Google. Before I just added "Reddit" to get the good results, I wonder how this will evolve if Lemmy gets bigger. Well and the whole kbing/Lemmy/mastodon link of the Fedyverse is really confusing for new people.

[–] Bison1911@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

r/NCD and various firearms related subreddits are all I miss from reddit.

Think it would be cool to start an instance dedicated to firearms where there's a general community and separate smaller communities dedicated to certain popular platforms or topics like r/longrange or r/ak47. If I take it upon myself to start this I'd try to keep it apolitical other than maybe a community dedicated to gun rights/control/policy discussion only.

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[–] ReducedArc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's weird, a little quirky, and can be a unpredictable at times. It all adds to charm though and I love it.

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a bunch of people chopping it up. I'm a fan. Mostly cause it's not apart of any economic system probly.

I prefer the smallish community size over the vast sea of opinion that is reddit.

[–] f4te@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i found it challenging to understand how to subscribe to communities across instances until i discovered the Home icon in the top right of lemmiverse.net. i wish there was a quick 'subscribe' button there that would help you build up your subscriptions fast.

generally, i feel good about it. waiting for a few communities i really enjoyed to pop up- watchexchange and watches are big ones imo.

glad to see two huge F1 communities though!

[–] merida_belle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

After I took the time to understand it, I love it. Just need my favorite communities to migrate/become more active (yes I’ve thought of starting at least one myself and might do so).

I especially enjoy that I feel good about contributing to a conversation here. I didn’t comment much on Reddit because the mob seemed relentless at times.

I’ve joined two instances and I think I need to do more to understand their differences (Lemmy.world vs discuss.online) before I settle on a β€œmain.”

[–] willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been in Lemmy for a month now and I've never seen the need to come back to reddit at all. I like it here.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It's good but it doesn't have all fixes for all problems yet like reddit had

[–] LoafofCrazy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a learning curve. I think it'll be great in the long run though. Not sure which app I'm going to stick with. Using jerboa currently.

[–] awttech@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I’m certainly enjoying it. As others have mentioned it’s a lot slower content wise and the smaller subreddits I was in aren’t here. Lots of niche content is missing, but things like news, politics, gaming, tech, security, are all here and doing fine.

[–] G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's Much faster than reddit, no ads. it makes me think reddit should die at earliest

[–] yinonl@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just got banned from lemmy.world/c/world because they are anti-semites who won't even let people express their opinions there fuck that community other then that i like this place quite a bit, and i keep explaining it to new people.

[–] HungryKoala@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For what did you get banned exactly that would make them antisemitic?

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how it works, I don't know what I'm doing and I'm loving it.

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[–] Punk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm getting used to Lemmy, really enjoying my experience so far. I'm using the Jerboa app and it has honestly worked very well. Slowly discovering more communities to join. I think I'm here to stay (and mostly lurk)

[–] Mkultron@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm digging it so far. Nothing to complain about. Just being patient with it's growth. Great potential.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As of today, Connect loads the comments again, so I'm pretty stoked.

[–] n00b001@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried a few lemmy apps, but none of them (as far as I can tell) support swiping between posts

As in: you see a list of posts, click one to view, and after viewing: swipe from right to left to see the next post

Hopefully I'm wrong and someone can correct me!

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It has been fun so far. Just wishing more content eas here, but hopefully it'll increase with time.

[–] Heku@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Still learning how to use it, but so far i like it. I wish to find an app that would use less mobile data tho, RIF was nice and light, but Connect atleast feels like good ol' RIF.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Loving it except for a handful of bugs that I expect to be fixed in the next release :)

It feels good to start fresh with a new set of community subscriptions. Some of them I've subscribed based on the topic before they've had significant traffic, but we'll see what happens!

It also seems some communities that have been copied from reddit (by name) have multiple competing instances. I expect some community wars and perhaps mergers to occur in the future. Exciting!

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