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

  • @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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        1 year ago

        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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