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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[โ€“] aski3252@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There are definitely a few bugs or perhaps performance issues that are annoying, but the experience seems already 1000 times better than just 2 days ago. I have also checked on lemmy every few months for about 2 years now, it's day and night. It already feels kinda like 2012 reddit to me, and that's a good thing in my view.

[โ€“] YahahaYouFoundMe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, I think it has a lot of potential, but the difficulty in discovering other communities is a barrier that most won't want to cross. Having to manually search a specific string in order to subscribe is just too cumbersome. I hope that improves. I think if discoverability was better, everyone would be here and interacting. But it's too different that I could see most giving it a quick try and then giving up. Im an addict though so I'm muddling through it. I think people here don't really realize what the average user is like, and how most don't even know that third party apps exist.

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[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's tricky at times, but I'm really liking it after a few days. It's a bit chaotic but in a fun way I think.

If you haven't seen it yet, check out https://browse.feddit.de for a way to search for more communities

Hope you start to enjoy it more :-)

[โ€“] Hazen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really just want a good r/all functionality.

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you filter to All and sort by Active does that not more or less do the job? I never really used /r/All so I'm maybe not the best judge.

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[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i setup my own instance ('bin, not Lemmy), and have subscribed it to so much content my doomscrolling is sitting at a comfortable, pre-reddit-death level. i am still scanning the 'verse for new instances to subscribe to.

they just added a feature in mbin that automatically groups crossposts, which is very nice.

i guess i prolly shouldnt have answered cuz im not using lemmy, technically...but

i would recommend:

  • checking another instance, maybe you'll get better content ( mine is public!, https://moist.catsweat.com )
  • subscribe your instance to more external content
[โ€“] ch00f@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep seeing the same posts more than once

In my experience, it sorts by "active" which keeps showing the same 5 posts. Try sorting by "hot" instead.

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[โ€“] Brad_Brace@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mobile browser version is pretty much unusable for me. I select view All, then organize by either Hot or Active, and what I get is an endless stream of posts, but newly made and from two years ago (so, neither Hot not Active). And the page becomes unresponsive because of the endless stream.

The app works better but kept timing out when trying to upvoted stuff. Just updated to see if that fixes it.

So far, I gotta say squabbles is working better for me as a reddit alternative.

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