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Honestly, Jerboa in alpha is already better than the official reddit app for me. It's no TPA reddit app, but the number of contributors (in github) has risen by a lot so I'm expecting/hoping development will pick up and it'll get better fast.
I appreciate the community the most in here. They've been very welcoming and minimal, if any, toxicity.
Using Jerboa too.
Just got started an hour ago and loving it so far, as a boost user I felt right at home.
I still haven't figured out how to look up a community on Jerboa... The desktop site works well enough, though a little slow.
You can search via the hamburger icon in the bottom left, to the right of the home/house.
Its great, but I still want comment sorting before I start to prefer it over webui.
It's coming in the next update.
For real? You rock devs! 🤟
I think having your account tied to an instance without an option to move is a huge issue. Now I'm still dependent on the instance owners rules and willingness/ability to keep it up. Just like reddit oranzy other centralized network. Accounts need to be movable including history and linkage to posts. Same goes for communities. We are just hyper fragmenting now. Communities need to.be able to span instances tobincrease performance and uptime as well as resiliency.
Jerboa works fine for me. The overall experience and peoeple are nice enough. We just have technicalities to iron out.
Wait can you not easily migrate on Lemmy?? I’m coming from Mastodon and just assumed that data portability was part and parcel of the fediverse. That’sa huge problem that needs to be remedied.
Is there any information on this being a planned feature? That would make a huge difference for me personally. I don't mind losing my posts but I'd rather be able to keep them through a migration
Lemmy.ml needs to lose "default" status. I changed servers due to their load and inability to deal with it. They're practically unusable right now.
They kind of have taken away their default status. They removed lemmy.ml from the list of instances on join-lemmy.org.
They have, but they're also incredibly slow at adding new instances to that list. I've been waiting for lemmy.cafe to be added for a few days now. In the meantime more and more instances are getting overloaded.
I've been using the Jerboa android app today, it works pretty well. It reminds me of reddit mobile apps 10+ years ago, which isn't a bad thing.
I'm excited to see how it turns out though and what fediverse/social platform will end up being the most popular.
Same just wish there's a way to jump to a person's reply when viewing the reply in the messages area
I expect a small boom of loudly announced instances, that will be essentially unmaintained, half of them will silently disappear while taking users identities with them in less than a year, and the rest spliting the federation in half by implementing ideological blacklists, some properly shutting down when the money runs out, or lawsuits and takedown notices starts to flood in.
Let's hope I'm wrong.
Every party needs a pooper. That's why we invited you.
Glad to be here! :)
I am very happy to see people trying to use federated apps, it's a movement back to the old days of internet, when communities and real people make things, not big corporate companies with ad based model bulding sites to collect massive amounts of data.
I like the idea and general functionality, my biggest concern is what happens if the owner of Lemmy.world gets hit by a bus? Eventually you'd lose your account, all your subs, etc. Same goes for any other instance really. It's pretty much my only reservation at this point.
Yeah I'd like to see a mechanism to move subs and accounts between instances at will. If that also includes the ability to merge subs it'll fix 90% of the things everyone is worried about.
There is an open issue for adding a mechanism to move instances, people should go vote for it
I'm in the same boat as you. Now that I've spent a day on Lemmy & Kbin I feel much better about using both sites and it's been a fun experience learning something new.
I personally am treating them as betas so I'm willing to forgive them not being as smooth experiences to browse as I'm used to on Reddit. Also because of this, I'm hesitant at this stage to suggest them to a lot of my friends until more kinks are sorted out.
Jerboa is a good and rapidly improving android app for Lemmy.
It's tough to find new communities on Jerboa, though. It doesn't seem to have the capability to search for them. I keep having to go to the browser to do that.
It seems to be working well enough. There will be growing pains, but I'm more than willing to live with some bugs & limitations while this all matures and grows. There's a risk of losing all comment history & whole communities if an instance decided to shut down, but that's true of centralized sites today. I'll take the chance on something less centralized that one single asshole corporation can't screw up.
A lot of the communities only seem to have like 50 subscribers. I know a lot of people are exploring options other than Reddit, so I'm confused where everyone is at.
Or maybe I just have weird taste. I am not so interested in shitposting, memes, politics, news; this may be where where everyone is? I'll give it time to see who trickles in. I like the forum/discussion board style of this as opposed to Mastodon, which is obviously more timeline/feed based, but can feel like a random assortment of things.
On the other hand, since many of the communities are empty, I either do not have interesting topics to yet follow, or am not quite sure where I feel comfortable posting. Somewhat opposite ends of the spectrum, but okay that there is differentiation. Would like to see the fediverse group together (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, whatever else believes in this approach), as alone there may not be power, but together, maybe something impressive can be made.
Imperial theme looming in the background...
What did you sub to on reddit? I've found a music-related instance with just a small handful of people, but I'm already enjoying the feel of it. I hope it turns into something slightly larger, but time will tell. I'd suggest looking for communities that are similar to your tastes and stick around for awhile. The party is early, and I think many are too shy to make a move to break the ice. The more active a community seems, the easier it is for newer people to start sharing as well.
Most people are probably just doing something completely unrelated. Remember 99% of people aren't spending a ton of time online.
I think it's missing a few things. Notably, for me at least, an option to block communities directly in the feed instead of having to go in to the community to do it, and the option to hide posts from the feed. Unless i've missed something. It does all remind me of old reddit before it got flooded with users and it started getting filled with memes and joke comments prioritising karma instead of discussion. I'm sure I'm not the only person who noticed that subs on reddit had a critical limit of users, that when reached tarnished the quality of the posts on the sub. I like that all the instances have their own communities which I think will help with that problem. Some instances might not care too much and let the users be joke tellers while others will want to keep quality up. The idea with most instances beeing NSFW-free with a dedicated NSFW instance is a really good one. There's still so much I need to learn about the fediverse, but the decentralised nature of it all will hopefully keep the money out of it. Overall, I'm enjoying it so far.
need a lot more tooling but it seems livable at least.
kbin looks more modern but I havent tried it yet. biggest sticking point is the discovery workflow. Im not sure I can get most people to do that. Its like asking them to setup a damn crypto wallet.
It's exciting to be here, honestly. It will be fun to help build communities and to watch them grow.
I'm on desktop. Everything is working as it should in spite of a little lag, due no doubt to an influx of visitors. Like others have mentioned, it's just a little confusing at first but that is to be expected. I think we're off to a good start.
(I've yet to check out Kbin.)
honestly, once I wrapped my head around the idea of federation (which is very easy given I've been active in the P2P torrent field before- federation is but a simple extension of that concept) lemmy has pretty easy to use. It's simple. The interface is clean and has what I want right in front. I search what I want, deal with a couple minor bugs, and then look at what I want to look at.
My only biggest concern with Lemmy longterm is community fragmentation. As more instances spin up with the user influx, and Lemmy being (currently) limited in horizontal scaling of individual instances, we are going to have cases of tens, maybe even hundreds, of instances all ending up with identical, but separate, communities. Federation of a single instance's community can only work so well, if we're expecting users in the millions, and such fragmented communities that may or may not end up federating with one another can artificially make the service feel a lot less active than it really is and/or potentially lead to a lot of content being missed by some users.
it's nice :)
It’s seems great. But I am very visual, I miss big thumbnails layout as in Apollo. Do I miss a setting?
I don't care about what instance will last too much. I'm not that active contributor so if my comments/topics will disappear the world will not end. I always can create a new account on another server.
I chose Lemmy for now because Kbin seems to be not mature enough. I don't like some background of Lemmy devs that I was reading about, but I'm still not sure what make of it... Does it matter much? I support freedom of speech, and from my perspective people can have opinions very different from mine and still provide great value for community.
I'm currently exploring available communities and subscribing to stuff that I was subscribed on Reddit. Considering creating some communities too, but not sure how that works yet and how much involvement it will need.
Regarding software - using Jerboa. Overall very usable, but there are some UI issues that are irritating.
Just joined Lemmy, seems nice so far. Currently waiting for a Kbin Android app, then I'll give it a try.
After finding the right instance (which doesn't block any other instances) I'm really happy. I'm surprised how many communities exist that existed before on reddit