I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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    I really like lemmy so far. With such a small community it almost feels like how online forums used to be

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    I’m quite lost, and don’t think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I’m even using those words properly).

    I’ll do it like Reddit 10 years ago… wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.

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    I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

    I also don’t like the fact that the search function doesn’t let me select communities until I’ve already done a search. It just keeps resetting back to “All”.

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      I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.

      I’ve read that’s actually a known bug that is being actively worked on. It sounds like this should be fixed fairly quickly, with any luck.

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        Hopefully. I get the feeling that Lemmy is much less mature as a piece of software at the moment than Mastodon was when the Twitter exodus happened.

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          Yup, definitely seems some polishing is needed. I know the devs are hard at work, and with the huge influx of users more OS devs are likely to jump on board to help out. I suspect the biggest complaints will get ironed out fairly quickly. At least I hope so!

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    Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

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    At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing. Overall it’s very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

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        I’ve been getting a feel for Jerboa today. It’s nice.

        One thing I’m having trouble with: When a reply to a comment shows up in my inbox, I don’t see a simple way to respond. I’ve been going into the thread and finding it manually.

        Do you, or does anyone else, know if there’s an easier way to respond from the inbox?

        I might be overlooking something very obvious…

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          Yeah. That’s my one complaint too. Otherwise it’s pretty great 😃

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        It’s… OK. I’ve actually been thinking about doing a native app myself because losing some of the quality of life features from the reddit apps I love are the reason I’m pissed off with reddit in the first place. Luckily the lemmy api is easy to work with and if needed you can always host your own lemmy instance.

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    It’s more clunky but not unbearably so. Once Jerboa gets more features it’ll be a lot better. I miss swiping back, having to use the back button sucks.

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    I’m a big fan of the fact that you can sort by both Activity and also Hot.

    That seems ripe to create a neat way for communities to organize, because you can either make your groups into a more Reddit-styled combination of both new/score or alternatively, allows people to run almost like an old school forum where the most recently used threads are filtered back up to the top.

    Intended or not, really cool feature, and I hope it stays.

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    Hello world.

    As an Internet Old Head I’m just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.

    to quote Oprah’s first tweet, “FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY”

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    I’m liking it, and anticipating its growth – with both trepidation and excitement. It’s unpolished but I don’t mind that all too much. Trying to engage as much as I can.

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    I like it here. Even with all the bugs, the interface is clean, the community is very nice. I actually like to engage more here on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. I hope that stays.

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    I’ve honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.

    Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we’ve been used to over on Reddit, but they’re also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.

    That said, there’s still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn’t to knock on the devs - I’m thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.

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    I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it’s been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It’s like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It’s been great, like the old days.

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      back in the day, normal forum software was considered “too hard”

      signing up for an account on another site at all was “too much”

      now signing up on a federated system is “too confusing”

      tomorrow it will be running your own edge node will be “too intense”

      they will do it anyway. it will be baked in, these solutions aren’t just good for individuals, they are good for all users and make the internet better.

      Standards>Sites.

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        I really don’t understand, how is it difficult? You just type a username and pick a password…

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          there were multiple reasons we called them walled gardens. Users of AOL and CompuServe systems were very unaccustomed to having to create more accounts initially. It was amusing and sometimes frustrating to watch that userbase join the rest of the internet.

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            I recently had a similar experience with a long-time iOS user switching to Windows and Android for work.

            Let’s just say she wasn’t happy that she actually had to go to the internet to download stuff and my introduction to F-Droid as an alternative to the PlayStore was met with “but that’s not official”.

            Some users probably just need the comfort of their golden cage.