submitted 1 year ago by nanashi@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.

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[-] francis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. It seems promising and has that magic feeling of when I first encountered reddit for the first time post-Digg. That said, the federated aspects is neat but confusing... Still trying to work out how to view communities on different instances.

EDIT: Ok so apparently this post is actually on a different instance. Not entirely sure how I managed to get here. Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to remote communities?

[-] iod@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose "All" in the filter and search for "gaming" and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.

The sub you're on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.

[-] francis@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, now we're cooking with fire! I originally was trying to do it on the Android app, seems like the search isn't functioning as expected. Web UI works as expected, not a big deal anyways since I can just "app-ify" it with a home screen shortcut.

[-] DrQuint@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

My thoughts:

404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site

I think the server may be struggling a bit under everyone checking it out.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It's really weird. There's so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. That's a really great vibe.

[-] Cougar@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.

[-] Hyperz@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Yup. I mentioned this on Reddit as well. OG Reddit vibes.

[-] wicked82@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and there's a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldn't last and was too difficult to use... lol change is hard sometimes but it's life.

[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

What are their complaints about lemmy?

[-] wicked82@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven't actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand...

But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how "communities are way too overbearing with the rules." , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it's run by a bunch of "tankies"

[-] raj@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

What's a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they're complaining about us lemmygrad users, but we aren't even the biggest instance anymore + the 2 recommended instances block us anyways so it's a worthless complaint now

[-] Maxcactus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I thought the same thing when Voat started as a mirror to Reddit. It was similar for a while but every time a troll or Nazi was ejected from Reddit they migrated to Voat. Eventually I was one of the last liberals there. Is there anyone maintaining order here or will it be the wild west ?

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I think the lemmy structure really annoys trolls and right-wingers. They could register on a server, but they would have to play by the rules (be nice, don't be a nazi etc), which they really don't want. So they want their own server, but quickly realize that they'll be alone there with their miserable peers, which they also don't like.

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