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
The problem with Fedi apps is that they’re built as replacements or clones of other apps like Reddit (Lemmy), Instagram (Pixelfed) or Twitter (Mastodon).
People come to expect the same experience that they had there and they’re disappointed by the small community and confused because it’s built on a fundamentally different philosophy and concept.
And of coruse, bugs are to be expected. It’s not a multi million dollars company that’s building these apps but a community of volunteers.
This is exactly my issue. I came from Boost (a 3rd party reddit app for android), hoping to the gods that this jurboa lemmy app offered card view so I can enjoy memes. Havent figured it out yet.
Also the termonology, “instances” “link aggregators” are confusing the f out of me.
And finally, even making a new account is confusing af.
I’m willing to bet a shit ton of people arent joining because of these reasons and the ones you made as well