Communities will grow and shape with time, but the only thing I'm really missing is some of the RES features: j and k keyboard navigation, click-and-drag expando resize.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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It's good, but it really needs combining of same name communities across the fediverse to prevent fragmentation.
I want to see all the technology instances if I go to /c/technology on whichever instance I"m on. It's hard enough remembering all the other fediverse names and which instances they have.
I mean, it's kinda already doing that on the front page, i.e. grabbing all the other fediverse posts.
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The most difficult part so far has been finding communities and joining them.
- It's difficult to search for communities that aren't on your home instance.
- If you go to a big instance and search for communities there, you can't directly join them, but have to go back to your home instance and paste something into a specific field, then click "next" since the community is never the first result, then click on the community to load it up in your home instance and THEN join it.
- Communities are fractured across instances - I found at least five different serves with a "cat" / "cats" communities, and there's no way to aggregate these, and it's difficult to search out the rest of the cat content without just going to the other instance servers one-by-one and doing it manually
Feels a bit broken tbh. I'm currently on dbzer0 instance and I couldn't post in the community I created. Wonder what's happeneing. Did I get shadowbanned?
The relative difficulty to sign up will be a deterrent to most people. Every other social network has you up in seconds. This needs to be streamlined.
I'm missing some o the features, hoping they will come in time.
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I like that it's more similar to old.reddit.com. Already use mastodon, so federation is not a new concept for me (I'm sure a lot of people are still getting their heads around that).
The community is much smaller, but that's to be expected (and maybe a good thing). I miss the feeling of find super-niche hobby subreddits. But I guess those will come to Lemmy if/when the userbase grows.
PS: also, had no idea what sizz was. Looks cool. Is there a new home for it here?
I like it, but to me, it just needs more people, more communities, more life! Hopefully people keep migrating from Reddit to Lemmy.
How beautiful would it be, to have an open source federated system be one of the leading internet communities.
I was using Boost for Reddit but with it's eminent death I came to Jeroba for Lemmy. Pretty close to my boost experience! very easy to adapt and made the whole "servers" thing that I didn't really like a lot easier. Now I'm following a lot of comunities in different servers and can see them all. Perfection
The UI's a little janky, search doesn't always produce clickable links (mostly federated subs).
Finding subs relies on lemmyverse, when it should be integrated into the sites.
Similar subs should federate together, not be siloed. More USENET, less phpbb.
Kbin has a strange division of threads and "magazines", which means clicking thru multiple places to read anything, Lemmy & Beehaw seem simpler.
it's not as bad as mastodon, not perfect, but workable