Coming from Reddit, it feels similar but nice overall. Still a bit clunky because fediverse stuff is clunky, somewhat by nature.
I’m finding it very interesting to see this from a perspective that we have pushed together a bunch of power users into a budding, starting community. Things are changing every day and these are the days of legend and myth.
It’ll be like the twitter-like platforms, rocky/slow start but then there’ll be a lot of people.
It’s different. I wish I had the ability to create a meta-community (or meta-instance) that pulls communities from different instances together into one feed without having to mass-subscribe to all of them.
The fact there are multiple communities of the same or similar interest spread across multiple instances makes it much harder to get a good grasp of actual activity, so it takes more effort to reach a critical mass.
It’ll get better with time since Lemmy is still pretty underdeveloped as software.
Yeah, a feature that let people (or instances) “link” together communities to get their posts as 1 would be nice. Also if it let you post to all of them in parallel
I reckon such a feature would start catching on, even if it’s on client side.
The entire point of federation is to allow duplicate threads (kind of like how different forums can have the exact same discussion thread), but a consequence is it does spread activity out, and from my PoV, at least in the short term making things seem less active than they actually are is a bit discouraging for people to want to commit.
Cross-posting is also supported innately so that’s nice.
Hard to say. Burggit was defederated so quickly that I never really got to make use of the other instances. As it is now this instance could almost just be another message board. Don’t know if there’s any chance of re-federation once moderation tools improve. I hope so. I do like the communities feature of Lemmy. They provide a gathering place that was missing in Mastodon.
I’m using the Liftoff app and I’m liking how you can sign into multiple accounts at once and view all your instances and communites you have access to across all accounts, so that sort of mitigates this issue, though of course it’s not perfect.
I hope for the refederation too, but, if mastodon/pleroma/etc culture tells us something, most likely it wont happen, which sucks massive ass. I hate those heavy handed moderation practices.
But loli is very harmful :( real children died for my drawing of a foot that I made on a napkin the other day. All servers should defederate us so we do not draw flat chests on napkins anymore and cause more unnecessary deaths.
I don’t like loli that much lol
same, i just think they exaggerate by literally calling it “csam” as if there were some abuse happening when someone draws a loli on a napkin.
The analogy I like to use is that you can draw a girl and say she’s 18 and that’s fine, but use the exact same drawing and say she’s 17 and everyone loses their shit.
nice analogy, don’t know if i’ll use it a lot cuz ppl will lose their shit but i’ll keep it in mind lol, thx uwu
Yeah, people vilify you for even considering that it might not be as bad as everyone says it is.
I’ll probably just turn it into a meme later.
Yeah, at this point in time, it really feels like just another message board. It’s like we’re on a completely different software and site compared to if we’re still connected to the big instances. I do hope we grow further still.
It’s pretty slow on activity. My most visited sub garners only 5% of the action it had on Reddit. Lemmy also doesn’t have my niche subs.
I find it okay so far. I’m repeating myself from a previous comment, but I’m surprised and happy that this instance isn’t super heavy-handed on moderation.
Reading on Beehaw’s stance on things and LemmyNSFW’s stance on things left a sour taste in my mouth. I don’t believe that’s how the internet I grew up on should look like.
Reddit used to be my go-to for lurking and reading on niche topics.
I stopped using it since Apollo died. I wish there was a good mobile app for Lemmy. Currently trying both Mlem and Memmy, but they could be better.
I found replacements for Reddit/Twitter though. Having Misskey.io for following japanese artists, using the Mangadex forums for manga discussions instead of /r/manga and participating on threads here covers pretty much 80% of my Reddit browsing needs.
The other 20% is specific game subreddits. I haven’t seen any desire from those communities to migrate so it’s hard to fully leave Reddit :/
The mobile site works pretty well. Not sure how you turn a website into an app on iOS, though.
It’s the swipes and the scrolling that I miss the most from a mobile app!
Reading a post, swiping back to /c/, reading another post.
One cool feature from Apollo was their GIF scrubber, you could move back and forth, play it faster etc.
It’s the same reason why I’d rather use Paperback on iOS instead of Mangadex on my mobile browser to read manga. Swiping on a phone is faster than pressing next or back.
For your question about how you turn a website into an app, the same way those 3rd party apps did it on Reddit. You can fetch the posts via Lemmy’s API and show them in a different way in an app :p (I hope I understood the concept correctly.)
Naa, in andriod, if you open a page in the browser and go to the triple dots menu, there’s a “add to homescreen” button that makes the website look like an app on the homescreen. Opening it from there is the mobile web view, but there’s a lack of things like URL bars getting in the way.
The first couple of hours were very confusing… After a day I feel I have a good handle on it, still learning but so far I love it… It will continue to get better as more people join and improvements are made
