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

  • @[email protected]
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    1921 year ago

    i mean so far, I’m enjoying it. sure, the community isn’t as large, but that’s mostly a good thing. on reddit, if i made a post, it would be like a 25% chance to get hundreds of comments, and a 75% chance to get none. here, I’ve gotten a few, high quality responses on every question post I’ve made. i do miss the “auto hide read posts” feature, but maybe that’ll get added some day

    • @adj16
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      1011 year ago

      You can hide read posts here! In the web app settings for your profile:

      • @adriator
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        611 year ago

        Is there a way to stop the endless loading of posts on the website? Because every time I try to click a post, it moves down because a new post loaded, and this happens every ten seconds, constantly.

        • CosmicSploogeDrizzle
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          661 year ago

          It’s a bug that wasnt an issue when the community was smaller. Last I heard they will replace it with a refresh icon that pops up at the top when new posts are available.

          • @Quartz
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            331 year ago

            Oh thank God is a bug, I really thought it was a feature of the site.

            • @instamat
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              191 year ago

              Thank jeebus. I was getting all fussy thinking it was a me/my phone/my browser problem.

            • @b34k
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              101 year ago

              It’s amazing what kinda bugs can be exposed in your system when your user base expands by orders of magnitude overnight

          • @mxh
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            21 year ago

            Do you remember where you heard it? I have been looking around for info about this feature

            • CosmicSploogeDrizzle
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              21 year ago

              I heard it from someone who said they looked at the GitHub page. They mentioneded that they were switching from websocket to html or something and the change would prevent the auto updating. I’m not knowledgeable enough in this area, but that was the gist of the conversation.

        • @adj16
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          I’ve heard that one is just a bug. Hopefully they’re working on it. Mlem (the iOS app) seems to have it handled, but it does crash a lot, and it’s frustrating to lose your scroll progress. I think we just have to wait it out in these early days 😵‍💫

          • @atp2112
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            231 year ago

            I also don’t seem to have that problem with Jerboa.

            • @TheMinions
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              81 year ago

              I believe it’s specifically an issue with the web client. The apps don’t seem to have that problem.

          • @IUsedTo
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            101 year ago

            They’ve also fixed the problem on Jebora

            • LUHG
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              71 year ago

              Having FOS Jerboa could mean we’ll have a sync and Boost like app hopefully rather sharpish.

              Even the last 2 updates have been rather impressive.

          • @danc4498
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            91 year ago

            This is good to hear. Hopefully they can work out their aggregation on the main page too.

        • otter bee
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          11 year ago

          i AFKd with this open and it just kept loading more posts, my computer was grinding to a halt until i killed firefox.

      • @Illegal_Seafood
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        151 year ago

        This is incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!

      • @Acronychal
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        91 year ago

        What is considered “read”? Something you scroll past or a post that you open?

        • @adj16
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          Ok, I just tested it out. It’s any post that you upvote, downvote, or open the comments for. Expanding an image is not enough.

          Edit: Seems like opening a post’s comments in Mlem (iOS app) doesn’t seem to flag something as “read”. But open a post in the web app and it disappears from both on next reload. Up/downvoting work on both.

          Edit 2: If you upvote a post and then remove your upvote, that seems to count as “read” as well. In case you’re like me and can’t commit to an upvote or downvote for every post 😅

        • @adj16
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          51 year ago

          I’d assume a post that you open, but I haven’t really tested it out much yet. If I figure it out I’ll update you here

      • @B4tid0
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        41 year ago

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    • Briongloid
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      651 year ago

      Fediverse currently reminds me of Reddit from 10 years ago in frequency of content. There is something nice about not being in the rat race, less toxicity.

      • @[email protected]
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        381 year ago

        yeah it’s nice knowing that someone is gonna see my comment instead of it getting lost amongst hundreds. feels a lot more like a community that way

        • Briongloid
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          It’s amazing how many Reddit comments just aren’t seen, no wonder so many people end up lurking.

          I had 150k+ karma and most of my comments would go unnoticed.

        • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)
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          61 year ago

          I know I don’t post when I see other 1000 comments, even if it’s my own personal experience and it could help someone, the truth is no one will see it and it will be just pollution

        • netburnr
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          51 year ago

          I saw your comment :)

      • candyman337
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        31 year ago

        agreed, I missed the old slower reddit, this feels like that again, it’s kind of nice