How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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12 years Reddit refugee here:
So far the concept is VERY promising but it still does all feel a bit wonky. Signing up was a headache and took me hours, sign in still sometimes work sometimes not.. A huge of development will be required to get lemmy where it needs to be to really compete with Reddit, but so far, I'm very hopeful and happy!
It's a bit wonky but so was reddit. I expect it to improve quickly with it's sudden interest.
It is also very hard to subscribe to other server's community (or subreddit equivalent).
E.g.: i had account from beehaw, if i want to subscribe a channel from lemmy.world i need to see the list of community from lemmy.world comminity list, but I cannot subscribe from there because i dont have lemmy.worlda account. So i need to back to beehaw and search it again in community search bar.
In jerboa android, I didnt even see a way to search new community
Would be nice if there is a way to subscribe other server easily
Yeah, just found that out the hard way myself. I got to lemmy.world and suddenly was no longer logged in etc... That is something that def needs improvement.
Agreed. There's a similar issue on Mastodon that's been confusing people for years and still hasn't been addressed, let's hope Lemmy prioritizes it a bit more!
I went through https://browse.feddit.de and subscribed to a bunch of communities that matched what I had on Reddit.
In Jerboa, there is an icon on the bottom that takes you to the search function. I've been able to "join" communities from other instances using it
From the community page https://beehaw.org/communities you can click all, and search for communities everywhere. Except for instances beehaw blocks.
At least for me downloading their app jeroba makes the experience much nicer. Haven't had the issues I had on the website though it's a bit taxed because of the influx of users. Expected.
Is Jerboa android only? Didn’t see in the app store
Yes, there's an apple one but not sure if it's official. Mlem or something.
Afaik Mlem is iphone's lemmy client
Yeah, android only. For iOS, there's Mlem.
I'll give that a try, I need an app
Right? I can't wait to see how it improves as time on. I didn't have any real problems with joining on my end, though. When you signed up, was it the approval process on your instance, or just confusing? If it was the approval process, that's probably specific to lemmy.ca.
I first tried signing up on lemmy.ml, that was impossible. Various hours of trying just got me the "click the signup button and it starts rotating and... nothing"
Then I went to lemmy.ca, there signup worked, but sign in at times gives the same "button rotating" thing and then nothing. Try again, and it works.
Its a minor issue, but a very visible one that I would say should be fixed ASAP because its the first thing new people see and you don't want the first experience to be tiresome.
It's because there is some approval process involved I think to avoid bot/troll accounts. I join lemmy.ca cause I live in Canada. :D
That's fine that they have an approval process, but then the user interaction should be different. IT should immediately say that my request is under review and they'll get back to me asap or something, instead of a "this process is frozen" indication
The infinitely rotating button happens if their email settings are invalid- just discovered that on my instance. I have mine set to open but require email validation and everything seems to happen instantly, but if they require admin verification it may be bugging out and not telling you.
I just moved to a different instance and logged in there, browsing ml subs.
Think of it like moving to a new house rather than picking up your house and moving it to a new neighborhood. The excitement comes from the differences even if you miss the other place.
I felt the same at first too. The longer sign-up issue makes joining a pain, but I think it's worth it.
Part of what I'm coming to love about the lemmy side of things is how free of filler and bots it is. By making a tiny barrier to entry, that's going to prevent that kind of thing to a degree.