• sweeny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      Hell yeah, just got here and am ready boost some engagement! I already like it here, I forgot that being able to see the amount of down votes used to be a thing

      *Looks like I’m the 69th comment here, what a start!

    • Roderik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 年前

      Given there is no algorithmic recipe to hook you, I’d wager Lemmy is far better for everyone’s mental well-being. You’ll ultimately squander less of your time mindlessly scrolling.

      • madikonrad@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        That’s what I love about Fedi in general. The algorithms are either fully gone, or are almost entirely working in favor of the users rather than against them.

  • andrew@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 年前

    This seems like as good a thread as any to make my first post in as a Lemmy user. I’ve been on Reddit since '09, and was on slashdot back in the 90’s. I really am hoping that these new, federated services take off. Onboarding still seems like the biggest hurdle.

    • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      After onboarding the interface is kind of rough to figure out. Mostly because the mobile web version isn’t that great, and jerboa also isn’t that great, and they’re different enough that switching back and forth gets you confused. With reddit’s problems, I imagine we’ll see some more client apps and ui improvements show up in the next couple months with the added attention, and that’ll be the end of that. Honestly, I thought it’d be rougher. I do wish I got more replies to my comments though, so i’m trying to make a point to post a bit more than I ordinarily would.

      • Laplacian@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        The desktop web interface seems pretty similar to old reddit/rif so I haven’t had that much difficulty with browsing. The fact that I’ll be losing my niche subs is the hardest part of moving entirely to Lemmy though.

  • Windshear@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 年前

    Funny how even the small wave is enough to take down the city 🤣. I hope Lemmy can grow to be my primary time waster. There’ll be downtime and hiccups, but I’m a patient man.

  • its4am@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 年前

    I apologize in advance as I’m one of the many reddit refugees seeking alternatives. I can’t believe how fast reddit is unraveling and you’d think with u/spez’s recent AMA he would try to placate the community instead of inciting the situation even further. Anyway, Lemmy’s pretty cool so far.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      Don’t apologize. All refugees are welcome here. Although… there is one small thing you could do to help. Maybe make an account on a less crowded instance? Too many people see “dev-run” and think “main instance”. We do need to spread out a bit to make this sustainable.

      • kofe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 年前

        I’m new here, too. How do I switch instances from the mobile app? Edit: I’m using androids jerboa

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          You just add another account under the arrow on the top left side. Then you can switch between the accounts on different instances if you like. But I prefer having one account only on a small instance.

                • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  0·
                  1 年前

                  Yeah it’s a common problem and I had it too. There was many threads about it. It’s pretty much hidden.

                  Anyway, if you click on the top left hamburger menu in the app, there is a tiny arrow there at the top right. Click it. :)

      • Mike@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        I saw admin here say ‘not on this instance’ because it was too difficult to moderate.

        • Puls3@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 年前

          I think separate instances are actually perfect for porn, there can be an entire instance dedicated entirely to people’s specific tastes - making that their problem and not ours.

  • iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    1 年前

    Yep… Bought Sync and Apollo long ago. Moved to Lemmy today. Slowly moving all of my main socials to decentralized/federated platforms because the greedy corpos breaking their own shit.

  • drcabbage@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 年前

    We still need a good mobile app for Lemmy. I tried using the Jebora one, and its scrolling speed is abysmal.

    Silver lining, I am looking forward to all the new things getting developed for lemmy and the like when they can’t make things for Reddit anymore. Their loss is our gain.

    • suborbital@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 年前

      Interesting. I’m using Jerboa right now and while I have a few complaints, scrolling speed isn’t one of them. I wonder if it’s a phone specific issue.

      • casey@lemmy.wiuf.netEnglish
        0·
        1 年前

        Right now I’m just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.

          • Celediel@slrpnk.netEnglish
            0·
            1 年前

            Dark Reader made Firefox on Android so unbelievably slow for me that I disabled it out of frustration, and have just been blinding myself rather than waiting 10+ seconds for Firefox to load sites that Chrome loaded near instantly.

            • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              0·
              1 年前

              ehhh I don’t use firefox tho I use Kiwi Browser with dark reader extension. It works very very fast.

              I would use firefox but firefox is kinda slow on my phone and I dislike slow.

              • Celediel@slrpnk.netEnglish
                0·
                1 年前

                TIL about Kiwi Browser, thanks for this, I think I could like this a lot. Firefox’s mobile extension support is extremely limited, so this is a breath of fresh air.

                • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  0·
                  1 年前

                  The only warning I can give you cuz it bothers some people around me is that it’s centralized and closed source. It’s also not privacy oriented. Other than that I like it more than Firefox in all respects.

  • BackOnMyBS@kbin.social
    1·
    1 年前

    Judging from my experience trying to sign up for a Lemmy instance for the past 2 days, it’s going to be hard. Unless I was doing something wrong, I can see a lot of people having difficulty signing up and eventually giving up. kbin was much easier to sign up for.

    • Eisbef@feddit.de
      1·
      1 年前

      I just did it. It was super easy and just took a couple of minutes for the mods to approve it.