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So far really good! It has some quirks, and there are some bugs and some teething issue with the large influx of people (specifically on lemmy.ml)
It is a mind-set change working with a different system and the whole instance idea is still very new for me
As an Australian, it was very quiet last night (10ish hours ago), but that will improve as more people join
Really liking it so far. I joined Mastodon a couple of months back and like it there too. It's a shame because I spent most of my social media time scrolling Reddit, but I'm sure the Fediverse is going to get there.
I'm having trouble finding communities in lemmy.ml here (is one of the unblocked instances). I can find them from another lemmy instance, just not here. How often are the communities updated? I'm hoping to make beehaw my 'home' instance.
I've found https://browse.feddit.de to be super helpful in finding communities to join, even cross server, which is cool.
@atomicpoet
I like it! I especially like that you don't even need to make a separate account to interact with the communities on there! (I'm literally commenting from a custom fork of glitch-soc right now) That alone makes Lemmy better than any normal Forum out there.
Edit: doesn't appear that Lemmy handles content warnings in replies
I like it so far. The tech seems good, it's not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.
So far I've mostly used jerboa. It's a usable app, and a good starting point. That said, from a UI/UX perspective, it does seem to be missing a lot of quality of life features that were in Reddit apps.
Overall Lemmy seems like a decent Reddit replacement and I'm sure it will only improve with time.
Technically, things need a bit of polish. In particular, I’m talking about the website being intermittently unavailable, and today I experienced the joys of the page reloading as I was typing a comment. Fun!
Still, those problems are dwarfed by the quality of the community and the conversations that are had. I’d much rather put up with a few glitches than go back to the idiocy I’d gotten used to. Lemmy all the way!
Reddit refugee here. I like it so far! Really dig the federation between the instances.
Pretty impressed for the most part! A few tech hiccups (that feel like growing pains more than anything) and of course always looking for the amount of content I'm used to from Reddit, but I expect both those to change!
I love the idea of federated networks, so I'm glad to see a lot of projects thrive recently (calckey, mastodon, lemmy, kbin, etc.)
As of right now, I really like how Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse operates! Scrolling here seems to be much more lightweight on my low end computer than using Reddit.
Yeah, who knew that serving text and links didn't need to hog all of your computer's processing power? It really shows how much tracking BS reddit (especially new reddit) had
Fedia also gives off a very modern look, in my opinion. I have no idea why modern sites these days consume so much processing power. I think that future web developers could learn a thing or two from Fedia.
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!
One problem is there is no dark mode button in user settings. I'm sure there is something you can download and apply or something, just would like a little slider in settings before I go snowblind.
Hmm, Im in dark mode but it might be because of OS settings
ETA: settings on the left, look and feel, theme
No dedicated toggle button but I personally always use dark mode
If you can't find a dark theme in your instance, try the DarkReader extension for Chrome or Firefox.