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
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.
I was a bit confused about the place at first too. Here’s a comment I copy-pasted from a previous post of mine:
My friend gave me a great explanation:
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Lemmy the platform is planet Earth
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“Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth
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When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country
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If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community
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When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from
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Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately
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c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it’s c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.
Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit
Hope it helps even a little
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Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!
Is this the part where we seize the means of production and eat the rich? Because I’m here for it.
Nah, we’re just seizing a little corner where the bosses mostly leave us alone.
Okay but if we eat the rich, I’m here for it
Just so we’re clear, we’re definitely eating the rich, right? Don’t just tell me we have the rich at home.
In case anyone was wondering, I’m pro eating the rich btw.
I think having friction to use it can end up as a good thing. Works as a good first filter for bad/low effort users.
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.
It’s a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.
Definitely this corner of the internet passes the vibe check.
Guys, it’s wild. Let’s go.
I’m still getting used to this and there’s not much activity yet, but I’ll stick with it. Reddit isn’t worth it, so I’m happy there’s a chance for an alternative.
It works, at least. The only issue I’m seeing is that if I try to follow ‘sublemmies’ (or whatever the Lemmy equivalent for a subreddit is called) from certain other federated servers, they just sit in ‘subscribe pending’. A fediverse that creates a lot of friction when spreading out beyond your local instance is a bit of a bummer.
Yeah I’ve noticed that also. Not sure what’s up with that
I’ve had a lot of issues trying to subscribe as well. Even searching in Jerboa has been a bit of an issue, I’ve had to go onto my computer and search for a community I know that exists and subscribe that way. It won’t otherwise even show up in the app.
All things I’m sure will get ironed out soon enough. I quite like this whole thing, if I’m being honest. Doesnt have angsty reddit bullshit yet either, but I’m sure that will soon follow when the problematic mods start showing up.
Surely the servers are overloaded the refugees are always a stressing factor to infrastructure IRL, turns out that in the online life is kinda the same.
I think they’re “communities” here?
Do moderators have the ability to “require approval” for new subscribers? I’d assumed that “pending” meant that someone had to “let me in” because that’s how they chose to run their corner of the internet (which is great).
Is it actually just lag/a tech issue?
As far as I can tell, this is only an issue if you’re the first one from your instance to subscribe to that community in the other instance. This is because your instance has to tell the other instance to start sending new posts its way. As well as any other subsequent updates. Lemmy instances work on a queue, so it may be a while before the other instance gets to that request if they have a lot of load.
EDIT: This doesn’t seem to be just for the first person to subscribe. I guess so that the list/count of subscribers is accurate every subscription does indeed make a server-to-server transaction. The rest is accurate, though, your instance will have to tell the other instance to start sending updates over.
I like sublemon. Wtf is even a lemmy?
I want to be able to hide things I’ve read. If anyone knows how to do this, I’ll give you all my LemmyBucks
Upper right hand corner, click on your user name. Go to settings, scroll down and uncheck “show read posts,” click save.
Is that what you are looking for?
Not quite. I don’t want to have to click into everything. E.g. if I see a picture, but I don’t want to click in to see comments, I just want to hide it.
As in collapse comments? If so, there’s a collapse button next to the username.
What’s the ratio of ZuckBucks to LemmyBucks?
Bit of a learning curve, but it’s fun! Feels like the early Internet!
Using Mastodon for years now, I’m familiar with the structure and liking it. But I’m afraid most of the smaller subreddits that I followed won’t migrate here.
Can you name a few? Are they really that niche?
Many of the subs are going dark, so I can’t view everything. Here are some under 10k: r/Balconygardening r/filen_io r/MagicaVoxel r/saneprepping r/shotcut r/HistoricalFencing r/SimpleMobileTools r/volunteerplants
Under 50k: r/archeologyworld r/containergardening r/wma r/fonts r/Inkscape r/JewelsofRussia r/Mastodon r/Medievalart r/neverwinternights r/Banished r/EnaiRim r/opsec r/StainedGlass r/VOXEL r/vtmb r/WhiteWolfRPG
These are some of them that’s still open to public view.
I’d imagine r/Mastodon would quickly find a replacement
Is historical Fencing about sword sports or garden walls?
It’s about using swords.
I’m really happy here.
Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings
Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There’s a few smaller communities missing but I’m sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.
I don’t know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.
It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.
Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it’s great!
An instance can crash, close down or somehow disappear at any time, and if that happens all the users, communities and content in those communities from that instance is lost forever. Right?
I would guess that the copy of the community that this instance cached (starting after the first subscription to that community by a user if this instance) might persist. Anything from before that time would be gone, at least from your perspective.
This is my interpretation but I don’t know for sure.
It’s pretty interesting so far! I’m coming from Reddit Sync and now using Jerboa so it’s quite similar but also a lot of things aren’t where I expect them 😆
I do web dev and UX so definitely agree with the onboarding process being a little clunky for users.
I had no idea what the fediverse was until Lemmy so getting your head around it can be a bit much at the start. I was lucky to find a local server (instance? Not sure on terminology) so no delay issues.
And for any newbies this link is very helpful: https://browse.feddit.de.
I do miss the size of Reddit at times, but that’s likely to drop now anyway with all the buggering around they’re doing.
Concept is great, but there’s a big usability issue (BE: 0.17.4) that quickly needs fixing. When you browse the main index, new posts just pop up and it messes up whatever you were reading and also closes images.
I have to be honest, this was a bit of a painful (but hopefully fruitful) experience. I had to learn about the Fediverse, figure out which ones to join, decided on Kbin but had to abandon ship as it was too slow as an PWA, ended up in Mastodon but for some reason I could not access other instances, got over here but still had to troubleshoot (and still figuring out) how to join communities. But fuck that - I’m just happy to make my first comment!
I’ve been on Reddit for 8 years (mostly as a lurker) and am quite saddened with its current state. I hope I get to find my safe space here.
Also redditor from many years 9 I think, got some troubles accessing other instances but I’m learning slowly. What like the most is seeing how more knowledgeable users help and welcome the Reddit refugees. That gives me high hopes about the community all together!
It’s still very new but I think it’s a great framework to build on. I do worry about fragmentation (each instance having its own gaming community for example). And the smaller niche subreddits I followed will be hard to replace / replicate here.
I am amazed how fast this platform has grown in a few days. Quite exciting!
I’m not overly worried about fragmentation. I think more likely you’re going to see instances own various particular “communities”. So maybe Beehaw is gonna end up the primary instance more people interact with a the Gaming Community on, but maybe Lemmy has more/better meme shitposting groups or something.
Plenty of users still flooding in and we’re not quite sure how people are going to shape things.
