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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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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is still very early in it's development and there's only two full time working on it afaik.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I definitely am having a tough time making the transition. It still feels a bit chaotic to me.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Its all a bit too confusing. I'm sort of understanding it all now after a few hours. I think great apps for android and iOS will definitely help a lot, but also I just really miss apollo :(

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, were in the 'keep swimming' fishing boat scene from Nemo.

Reddit wants to stay the 'homepage of the internet' but also force everyone to go through their tools for ad bucks.

If we succeed, we can bust our communities out of the centralized net and reform on the other side.

We fail by not working together here today in this moment, we have to use this event to convince the average person to switch now, we might not get another opportunity like this.

[–] mvu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually enjoying the lack of doomscroll.

Since Lemmy isn't built to trap you for hours on end to get that sweet ad revenue, you can just run out of new stuff to see and then stop lemmying. Bust open the eReader or get to that backlog of bookmarked articles.

[–] thesalamander@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's far from perfect, but I'm taking a stand.

Half the reason I used Reddit was to cure boredom. I've decided to find other things to do. The other main reason I loved to check in was to make sure I don't miss big news. So far, Lemmy seems to scratch that itch. It'll take a long time for niche communities to establish, but I'll just deal with that for now. Maybe I'll just go back to some old forums for that purpose.

[–] motcho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean having 1 less thing to doomscroll on is good innit

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 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
[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone know why so many subs I've subscribed to say pending? Does a mod need to approve it?

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I Think its a bug. if you subscribe to lemmy.ml communities it will say waiting or something else. but if you actually check your communities, you are actually subscribed to them. It's happening to me as well.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Give it some time, you'll start to see more and a bigger variety of posts. Additionally, change your sort of posts once in awhile, and enable the "all" selection and you'll see a bigger variety of posts

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just love it, but you have to make sure to subscribe to a lot of communities from lots of different instances.

Im also on Android which I think has a better mobile client.

Beehaw is very chatty, join their popular communities. :)

[–] SMC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had trouble with Mastodon, primarily because I had a very curated list of people I followed and most of them didn't move to Mastodon. Those that did are clearly using some type of program to just copy posts over from other platforms.

But for Lemmy, it feels different. I've been able to find most of the same communities I was a part of over there. The fact that they are smaller and less busy means I can spend less time scrolling, but still feel like I got my "fix" in for the day.

[–] YahahaYouFoundMe@lemmy.world 1 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.

[–] wdfa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Use https://browse.feddit.de/ to browse and search for communities across many instances at once

[–] TheWaulicus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh my, that has just been there the whole time and I repeatedly glossed over it!

What I'd recommend in your case is sorting the posts by "hot" instead of "active" which is the default setting. Posts get up the active sorting whenever somebody comments on them or upvotes (I think?), even if they are very old, whereas hot should only show you new and currently popular posts. You'll still see the post that you've already seen and a setting for that is clearly missing, but it should still be an improvement.

[–] tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know what you mean. The biggest issue I'm having is finding and subscribing to communities that are not a part of the instance I joined with.

I kept seeing links that listed communities I was interested in subscribing to, but then it would ask me to log in, I'd put in my credentials, only for the log in to not work. I finally realized I had to make a new account with that instance, and then i could log in and join it. I don't want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to enjoy content, plus much if it is duplicated as some instance are linked, but others are not.

Also I use Jerboa to browse lemmy, don't have a PC, and would rather use an app than my web browser(Brave).

[–] linos@lemmy.graz.social 1 points 1 year ago

You have tried browse.feddit.de before, do you?

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[–] kamasupra@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Newbie question, can we just use the standard Mastodon application for IOS?

[–] kosama@socel.net 1 points 1 year ago

@jaykay @kamasupra sorta… like I’m replying via my Mastodon account. Currently there isn’t post creation, though some googling has shown that it’s something they’re working towards.

But you basically copy the Fediverse Logo Link of a post and paste it on search in your mastodon client. It appears as a toot and you can comment; Lemmy will display it natively like this comment.

Favoriting the post on Mastodon counts as an upvote.

Communities appear as group accounts.

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