this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (21 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I went through https://browse.feddit.de and subscribed to a bunch of communities that matched what I had on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From the community page https://beehaw.org/communities you can click all, and search for communities everywhere. Except for instances beehaw blocks.

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