Since Day One (spez’ fuckup) I have been trying to use and like lemmy but it just doesn’t work right at all. Like as in never did. Communities disappear randomly, posts don’t load, submissions have no comments, you name it. At this point I am considering going back to reddit just like everyone else I know that used to care is doing already. Any others out there with same experience or is it just me and my shitty ios app for lemmy?
I see you’re on Lemmy.ml. It’s PROBABLY because of that. That instance is really big so it causes posts to not load and what not . Go to a smaller one. Like in the ~1k range or something and I’m SUREall of these problems will go away. It was the same for me when I first joined Lemmy and picked Lemmy.ml. The following day I switched to Lemmy.ca back when it had ~40 users.
Lemmy’s mobile app ecosystem is terrible… or rather just not very mature and needing a lot more work and contribution. I haven’t found a single Lemmy mobile app, iOS or Android. that is usable long term. I’ve just started logging into Lemmy on my mobile browser and using it that way (which works fine).
Lemmy itself however is great. I run my own instance and yeah, there’s expense and work and troubleshooting involved in that, but it’s all worth it to have the reddit experience with the Lemmy community and to be in complete control of the gateway that I use for that experience.
I've been using kbin and startrek.website's lemmy instance since the blackout. Kbin had server issues the first few days, but has been dead solid - with the exception of the occasional upvote bug a few people mentioned - ever since. The lemmy instance has worked great. There were some usability improvements sorted out in 18.1 a few weeks ago (mainly the ability to sort by top articles from the last 3, 6, 12 hours) that helped it a lot.
I have been very much enjoying kbin. Sure the volume isn't quite there, but I love that it's run by volunteers with no agenda other than to host their commities for free.
The software has a few hiccups here and there, but those will get improved over time.
Reddit is there for money; your experience is secondary to that.
I have a lot of issues with Lemmy and more specifically how the fediverse will work with multiple copies of communities and the knee-jerk defederation. But, in terms of stability, content and quality, I feel like it has been getting better. I’m willing to give it some more time.
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