I like it a lot. I come here often, it’s a good addition to my reddit use, it has some nice people and some interesting content.
I love that it is decentralized, which means that there will always be a server without ads, tracking or bad governance.
Also it feels like being part of Lemmy is being part of something new and novel. The idea of decentralizing services online, away from corporate silos, should be resurrected.
Lemmy is working great on the web (desktop + mobile) but it should be noted that some people are still complaining about the app. Furthermore, genzedong might turn away some new people and repost are frequent on some lemmunities (lemmy communities). But discussions are different (in a good sense) from the one on reddit. I think the lemmy is great and I hope it will have a bright future
I don’t use it with an app but I totally think that lemmy deserves a really well made app. Who has the time though ;)
mostly i like the sense of community here. people are actually interacting with me lol
Yeah I like that as well :)
I like some parts of it (showing how many upvotes and downvotes you got beside just a sum is good).
But it’s mostly less good version reddit (It does not have it’s ecosystem, Like the excellent RES that makes it possible to incrementally read a post , no multireddits , and of course no big communities with good content like on reddit) .
I feel like improving the platform is the way to make it a more worthwhile use of most people time (As it should among other things will bring more people).
But it’s mostly less good version reddit (It does not have it’s ecosystem, Like the excellent RES that makes it possible to incrementally read a post , no multireddits , and of course no big communities with good content like on reddit) .
what’s RES?
What features is lemmy missing that RES has?
I can click on a comment to mark it as read and then just display read comments (and set this as the default, by default it marks as read just comments you “looked at” which does not seem to work as well).
I can also tag a certain user, so stuff like “lemmy developer” will appear next to his name.
I also shows the sum of upvotes and downvotes i made to a guy, so if he has “-4” that means his judgement is probably not very good and i should avoid engaging in conversation with him, if it’s high it might be especially “useful” to start talking to him.
Another advantage of reddit (at least old reddit) that given the front page has a few default subscriptions i can remove some i am not interested in, on Lemmy “all” stream it looks like basically just communism propaganda/advocacy (So you are not going to start looking for regular stuff there, which makes people post less regular stuff and the circle continues), having the ability on the client side to block a specific instance or community could be useful (not to mention some people know people who lived on communist countries and heard some pretty bad stories, even if you think it was not “true communism” or something like that it can still give a pretty bad impression). There is the “remove” button but it is not clear what it does (It should have a pop up when hovering over him).
Maybe one day people will develop browser addons to enhance lemmy ^^
It’s pretty great. There’s a lot more content than when I first joined. Plus, the software itself is very fast and usable.
yeah I really love the feeling of a browser not being slowed down by useless telemetry and advertising.
I think the software is great!
If we could follow people, post to our own profile, and host/play videos, then it would be the only fediverse website anyone needs!
If lemmy would support videos it would be a much more difficult software to host. I like that it’s very lightweight.
Not enough people, or not enough participation by current members. Basically not enough activity/liveliness. This will probably solve itself given enough time.
Hmm idk it hasn’t changed fast.
too much tech ppl
Oh I can totally see how someone would feel that way. Sorry but unfortunately it’s like that on many smaller alternatives to the big social networks. I guess it’s because it’s mostly tech people that think about the problems and implications that the big social media brings. Tech people then can then find an alternative.
I guess this won’t change in the near future.
I think the issue is not the presence of tech ppl, but a combination of the world view they bring and their unwillingness to recognize their bias.
Examples of ways this can get annoying:
- insisting to people who say ‘it’s too difficult’ or ‘I’m not interested in doing that’ that it is, in fact, very easy to do.
- outsized importance to tech/security issues, often ignoring/downplaying other issues
- primarily cis white hetero male viewpoint, problems with privilege
- so many links about tech shit, like please share what you like but goddamn where are my news articles on something not tech related
in b4 ‘not all techies’, if this doesn’t apply to you fuck yea keep being awesome
insisting to people who say ‘it’s too difficult’ or ‘I’m not interested in doing that’ that it is, in fact, very easy to do.
I agree with your assessment, but on the other hand sometimes people don’t know or forget about the hard work by volunteers to even make things work in the state they are. Aggressively claiming that this project isn’t user friendly and that’s why people can’t use it and it should have a nicer UI and whatnot sometimes is very unfair. There isn’t a behavioral scientist and a shitload of UI designers in every open-source software project ^^
