Asklemmy

Liking it so far. A social network is only as good as its community. The community is small but high quality. I'm excited to see Lemmy grow.

I’ve enjoyed it a lot. There are some stuff that could fit better on screen, like when you look at the communities you’re subscribed to. Also, it would be nice to show your subscribed communities in alphabetical order.

Otherwise, I really enjoy the layout. It’s so simple

Using lemmy zing it in my phone is a nice experience. I see everything. Looks good on my desktop also. Still trying to get a feel for this place

It's a little confusing, the whole fediverse concept takes some time to learn and understand, but I think I'm getting it. I tried Mastodon before and couldn't get used to/understand it, but lemmy feels more my thing. Given some time, with more people joining and more communities forming, this could be great!

I'd be interested in navigation shortcuts, similar to RES. J/K to move up and down, X to expand post content. Made it very easy to navigate Reddit. Not sure if that's a thing on Lemmy or not...

A bit confused but I'm getting there. Getting an account going was the most confusing part but it seems like overnight my account got approved, so thats done with!

So far I like it. It was a little odd signing up because I would find an instance to sign up on and kept scrolling until I found a join button which looped me back to the list of instances. Or I would click on the "you must log in or sign up to comment " message on a thread hoping I could sign up that way and getting sent to the instance lists. I didn't understand to join the instance I needed to hit join from a drop down menu at the top of the page, until I tried looking there since the other options didn't work.

I was doing that through the website on mobile browser. Now that I have an account I am running it through Jerboa. It works well so far, I'm just learning how to find communities to subscribe to, and I'm not sure if when I search from the search options in Jerboa if I'm getting all possible results or just certain ones my instance is somehow connected to? From other comments it sounds like it's the latter and I'm not sure how to get around that.

Other than the learning curve I like it so far. I'm trying to migrate here from Reddit and someone there recommended I try this.

As a Digg and Reddit refugee I can only say: "let's goooooooo!!!!"

It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.

A few things I would change on the web interface:

1. Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
2. Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
3. Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.

I’ve been bouncing between Lemmy and Tildes to see which I prefer. I am having a hard time with deciding. I vastly prefer how Lemmy has the reply to a post box right underneath the body of the post, whereas Tildes requires you to scroll to the bottom of ALL comments to make your own reply.

I like that Lemmy has the ability to create a ton of different communities and sub-communities. Tildes has like ~music, but nothing below that (like ~metal or ~indie). So Lemmy seems to have more of a curated community feel.

I think I like the UI of Tildes more, as of now, but Mlem is a promising app (I just wish there were notifications for comments to my posts/replies on the app. Maybe someday!)

I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.

I personally still don't understand the point behind instances. It seems to just introduce confusion about the sign-up process, and also makes usage unrealiable. I don't understand why it can't just be one large decentralized instance, in a similar (though obviously not exact) way as blockchains were distributed account systems.

All these introduced technical details are deterrance for non-technical users. I would consider myself a very tech savvy user and still have been offput by both Mastodon and Lemmy, but have still pushed myself to both due to their recent corporate counterparts going to shit.

Couple of nit-picky things that I'd love to see changed.

This comment box. There's nothing to visually divide it from the original post. I got it figured out, but my brain is still resisting it as bad UX.

On the home feed, the group an article comes from is tiny and not obvious. My eye is constantly jumping back and forth from subject to group, group to subject, and it's fatiguing. The subject is only half of what describes the post: what group that subject belongs to is the other.

On the home feed, I have to click Subscribed for my feed. Setting and getting a cookie is at most two lines of code each in vanilla javascript, seems to me that'd be an easy choice to remember.

Times out quite a lot.

Very confused.. I have a direct link to a Linux community and can't figure out how to open it, or join it, or whatever I'm supposed to do with it in Jerboa. Discovery seems severely limited.

pretty alright but man most admins are hella toxic

It was a bit confusing, I'm still a little confused on why I would choose one instance over another (I kinda just picked one?) And then there's the communities within the instances, I see some that are duplicates between instances and I'm not sure if I should just subscribe to the one on my instance or can I subscribe to the others? Are the vibes different? I'm sure I'll get used to it, I just haven't had to be an internet pioneer in many years.

I don't understand how federation works and the different instances and how communities with in that regard. But otherwise I'm happy to leave Reddit and still have similar communities talking to my interest.