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Now that you’ve used it a bit, what do you think of Lemmy? (self.discuss)

submitted 2 years ago by jgrim to c/discuss

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I’ve been using Lemmy a lot over the past two weeks. I’ve come to understand it and the fediverse. I understand the pros and cons. I kno how I want to improve it and I know what keeps people away.

How do you all feel about it? I wonder how many people create accounts not knowing what it is and then just abandon them.

Is anyone having trouble finding a community they fit well in? Or just trouble in general finding communities?

I think there are a lot of tools that can be added to help improve discovery and navigation. Thankfully, we are very close to a new release of Lemmy. I think the devs have v0.18 in testing. It has a much better UI and other tools.

Thinks will get better. But I would say I’m pretty happy with it as it is.

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[–] infinitevalence 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Subscriptions are still a mess especially on mobile. I have taken to looking at all but there is plenty of content I don't want to see in that.

I also liked the idea of creating a local algorithm of some sorts that starts to prune things I have already seen.

I also miss being able to swipe to return to the list after viewing a post.

And I miss RES view all images.

Other than that I'm enjoying the conversations and content.

I can't wait to see where things end up.

[–] jgrim 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with subscriptions on mobile? I’ve not known of any major issues.

Custom algorithm: as in people can create their own or there is a new one that removes seen?

I cannot wait either! It’s all about to drop. New apps, new web ui, and upgraded backend is coming.

[–] infinitevalence 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the idea that we build a way for our own instance/account to create a custom view that is more than just subscriptions but more filtered than just turning off say NSFW. I dont want to subscribe to every little thing of interest, but at the same time I dont want to see everything....

That is the one thing about the private companies is that they have conditioned us to having a personalized content flow.

In Jorboa every time I click a community link it CDT's on mobile so I cant get to a community im not subbed to, so I cant add it to my subscription.

Right now I have to go to my PC/Web and go through a rain-dance/rube goldberg where I try different combinations of the community name in the search and toggle between all/comments/posts/communities until I can navigate through my (your) instance so I can add it.

I wish I could just put the !name or !name@instance.tld into a box and have it add it to my sub list.

[–] jgrim 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe that's coming with Lemmy 0.18. I saw something called community groups in the code. I'd have to dig more to see for sure.

[–] infinitevalence 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have not dug into 0.18 yet, still trying to get a personal instance up on my own server :(

[–] jgrim 1 points 2 years ago

Rumor is .18 releases tomorrow. Lemmy.ml is already running a release candidate.