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

  • @axzxc1236English
    4•1 year ago

    I used web version of lemmy.world on desktop (1080p monitor) yesterday, coming from old.reddit + RES, I really hate:

    1. The web trend to leave white space on both side of websites, it’s space inefficient and causes thread with longer title to take two lines to display.

    2. Everything has a thumbnail slot even if it’s just text thread, makes each thread took more height to display, also space inefficient.

    3. You need to be authorized to even subscribe/join to a community (that is not on lemmy.world).

    4. Image expand button is hard to spot for me, and I am pretty sure some threads with image didn’t have expand button.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah I would agree with all these things. Hopefully, the fact that this project is open source will mean that someone or a group of people will put some time and effort into improving the UI bits as issues with it come up.

    • ThomasEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      If you know how to use greasemonkey there is a script to make lemmy look more like old.reddit here Personally, it fixed a lot of the UI issues for me.
      What do you mean by 3? you shouldn’t need authorisation to join a federated community.

      • @axzxc1236English
        2•1 year ago

        That userscript is amazing! THANK YOU!

      • @axzxc1236English
        2•1 year ago

        It says “Subscription pending”

        • ThomasEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          ahh, I think this is because lemmy.ml is down all the time from the load right now. if you unsubscribe and resubscribe when lemmy.ml is back it might fix it.

            • ThomasEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              oh wow that’s strange. I cannot imagine what they must have done in the nginx config to do that. I guess there isn’t anything you can do until lemmy.ml fixes their IPv6 then. I just checked my logs and lemmy.ml isn’t federating with my instance anymore. Thats very bad! Also explains the lack of content i’ve been seeing.
              EDIT: Ok nevermind, lemmy.ml is federating with me. I just connect to it over IPv6
              EDIT2: If I keep refreshing the IPv6 page it does sometimes load. I wonder what happened.