Yeah I'm much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I'm actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
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The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.
And I feel like there’s a lot less algorithm generated aggression. It’s nice, reminds me of reddit back in the earlier days.
You also don't have a 50% chance the comment you're replying to is from a bot and copy and pasted either from that post, another random post, or even the original post that a repost bot stole posted snd you are now commenting on. Reddit is a bot riddled mess.
It's nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don't see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that's alright because it's just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
…yet
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I'm happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it'll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we'll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.
The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the "Reddit moderator" stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?
I'm struggling to figure out where to find all the posts. I'm subscribing to communities and stuff but the same old posts keep appearing on the feed for 24hrs+. I'm flicking around with filters and manually exploring a lot and find things. It feels like I'm doing something wrong. Like there's two new posts an hour in total.
I'm probably doing it all wrong. I don't even really know what the point of subscribing is since I need to go into communities to see things, otherwise nothing shows up on the feed.
I'm bouncing between 4 apps, though, so kind of hamstring myself with familiarity.
Be sure to set your filter to “subscribed” or “all” instead of “local”, and give it a few seconds to load content from other instances.
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The comments timed out twice for me before it would load on Jerboa. That’s just perfect. 👌
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The meme sub is spearheading the migration!
Meme it and they will come
Using wefwef on iOS is making me feel like the migration didn’t even happen
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This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.
I ain't even mad. You've got a good heart, soldier.
It also HIGHLY depends where you sign up. Over at feddit I couldn’t login to browser on PC anymore, couldn’t change my password, which in turn fucked up my login process overall (aka being stuck with Safari and the App I already was logged in), updates aren’t made and a lot of shit is blocked or defederated because of reasons (some even make a lot of sense, so no hard feelings here).
To be fair, it seems like some users on Lemmy.world had the same problems with logins last week. We are still in the try things out until something sticks phase.
I had a feeling some of the larger instances would be feeling the heat. Tried to pick something a little less mainline.
Just using Connect For Lemmy until Boost has a release out. Been nice and stable so far :)
This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.
This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.
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Can't wait for the 3rd party app makers to come with apps so everything will get better and better
boost for lemmy soon!!
i Loved Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy will be awesome. But i highly recommend wefwef.
wefwef is incredible for a PWA! I'm on android but the interface made it as if I were on an iPhone haha
Excited! I'm preregistered.
i feel so dirty going on reddit. it's like going to mcdonalds
To me it feels like texting an ex after a breakup. I know I shouldn't but...
Anyone impatient with Lemmy bugs or downtime clearly wasn't around for Reddit's early days.
Scaling up social websites is never smooth. Expect bumps.
Lemmy has gone from having no viable apps a few weeks ago to having several under active development that are getting better every day. It’s actually impressive. I’ve spent so little time on Reddit today.
My only wish is that Apollo comes back as a Lemmy client in the near future.
also helps putting things into perspective when you remember that Reddit has these issues at least once every week
When I started on Reddit 14 years ago these issues would be daily or more. It was pretty unstable under load.
Absolutely. I will tolerate hours of downtime and indefinite periods of fuckiness, because at least it’s not Reddit. I know I’m valued here. We all are.
I extend the same consideration to the Lemmy apps as well. They're all in various stages of development, but as buggy as they can be, they run better than the official Reddit app even now.
I love seeing this new style of social media grow. I'd love for a comment to actually post too
There are still some early adopter pain points but goddamnit I love it here.
Definitely getting a feel for it. It's ALMOST the same but not quite
Used Apollo before. Now I’m on wefwef and it literally feels like nothing changed lmao.
A very interesting and reassuring mix of novelty and familiarity. Welcome to the other side 😃
Source: Jumped ship right after the initial strikes.
I'm an extremely new user to Lemmy so I very well may be in the 'honey moon' phase but I freaking love it. Seriously reminds of how exciting it was when reddit first came around, quality over quantity imo.
This sums up my experience with big instances rn.. lol...
When I use local & smaller instance, it is far faster..
People definitely should pardon some bugs. What I consider a bigger problem is that I am not sure how many people will like the multiple instances.
My oldest reddit account was 13 or 14 years old. I remember when reddit would go down several times a week. Growing pains are just part of the deal!
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