I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
I like the jerboa app on mobile but I dislike the desktop site layout. I’ve used Shine for Reddit for years for the grid layout. I’m hoping someone will eventually release custom layouts to make use of all the space on desktop. The content is about the same after subscribing to lots of communities.
There’s some work going on currently to allow the previous Reddit third party apps to connect to Lemmy instead of Reddit. This should allow you to use Shine for Lemmy in the near future.
I still don’t quite understand how it works, instances and all that… but I’ll figure it out, and I’m here for the cause.
It’s looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!
Also written in Rust, btw :)
How do you know something is developed with Rust?
Don’t worry, the devs will tell you.
I’ve also found this to be true with Julia devs
Source: am Julia dev
I like it. I can see myself being a long-term user here, in fact I plan to be. However, I’m experiencing a lot of timeouts and lag, I know it’s not on my end. I’m not techie enough to know the reason this happens, but Im pretty sure that it won’t adopt mainstream users until it runs smoother.
Yeah I’m the same way. The good news is that when I joined Mastodon a few months ago, the same thing happened. Now, it’s one of the most stable websites/apps I use!
I’d like to see more color settings. The default colors do not have enough contrast and are hart to read in some cases like the blue on gray.
Beehaw has been wonderfully welcome, so thank you all for that. Between /kbin and Beehaw I honestly don’t have any desire to go back. The community here is awesome and it’s even more awesome that we aren’t split up by app. I can switch between /kbin and Beehaw as I like, and even post from each onto the other. Blows my mind how well it works!
I’m confused, but I’ve got the spirit. Reddit was confusing at first too, given I joined before it was mainstream popular. I figured it out, I’ll figure this out too. Looking forward to a restart and seeing this grow.
I’m also a recent transplant. I too find the (current) lack of activity in certain niche areas disappointing, but I’m hoping that’s temporary. I hope discussions of some of those topics can survive the inevitable fragmentation among instances.
On the other hand, I’ve installed Jerboa on my phone, and it’s working very well. Now I’ve just got to get busy participating in those niche communities–could be tricky, 'coz the ones I often liked best were the ones I knew the least about. I enjoyed learning from people who already knew the ropes.
This is where I’m at as well. The thing I enjoyed most about reddit was the communities for various niche hobbies, which I think will be hard to replicate on lemmy given the smaller community.
But I really love the idea of using open source software and the idea of a federated internet. I’ll most likely stick around here unless everyone else leaves.
It’s ok, just needs more users and content.
Pretty well, actually. There are some features that are definitely badly needed, and others which would be nice to have but aren’t vital. Plus of course It would be nice to reach a larger userbase; there are some things you just can’t do when there’s only a small number of users.
But all things in good time!
I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.
- How do we handle “dupe” communities?
- What’s the best way to find new communities?
- How are cross-posts handled across servers?
How do we handle “dupe” communities?
I think the only really option is to let things play out. This was/is a problem on Reddit see r/gaming vs r/games. Overtime certain communities on certain instances will float to the top.
What’s the best way to find new communities?
This still needs some work. It would be nice if you were able to search communities by instance or look just see the hot/active page of a different instance to help with discoverablility. These may be possible but I haven’t found how to.
Reddit had similar problems with finding subs - it was sometimes really difficult. But, honestly that was sometimes my favourite part. You’d randomly stumble upon a sub that you’ve never heard of that’s super active.
I think there should be a way to easily find communities, but there’s something fun about discovering a community out of nowhere.
The nice thing about Reddit being super centralized was that you could just append “reddit” to a Google search and find a community for anything under the sun. The distributed nature of lemmy makes it a little harder, but dedicated search indexes are already popping up and I’m sure they’ll incorporate that kinda stuff back into the main lemmy instances sooner or later.
The fact that it will use activity pub is rather interesting to me, but I don’t have faith in that lasting long term. Eventually they’d defederate I feel or purposefully have features that only work on the Meta client making it worse for everyone else to interact with.
I dislike the idea of multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances. Sure, you can subscribe to multiple communities, but that’s just extra overhead. I’m hopeful reddit backs down after the protest (as unlikely as it may be), but either way I will probably go back to using it regardless. Social media is about content, and unless there is a dramatic shift away from reddit being the content hub that it currently is, nothing else will be as useful.
It’s fine. The content is slightly more sparse but that’s unavoidable given current population levels. The basics are there in terms of content though. There are some rough edges with regard to stability and particularly mobile app quality – especially as someone more used to one of the more polished third party Reddit apps. But it’s already improved drastically since last week, and given time I’m sure it’ll only improve even more.
I feel the generation gap for the first time when I see people complaining about the difficulty of selecting a server to sign up and connect to!
Other than that, it does bring a lot of the atmosphere of the wild west times of the web, in a good way. I’m liking it!
Hopefully we retain a healthy amount of users after this wave passes and everyone is back at reddit. :)
