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?
The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn't care if you "go back to reddit". Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can't be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.
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.
The overall sentiment about the lack of comments feels pretty fair. One of the best parts of Reddit was the volume. While you don't really need to have 3000 comments on a post to make it feel engaging, having 300 I feel is better than the 5 or 6 I've often seen.
It's still an early platform so I'm hoping with time we get dozens of replies on most posts
I don’t think that at all - a dozen or two replies to a topic is great because you can then reply to all of them on a personal level. That’s how things were on forums in the old days. If you have hundreds of replies then there’s the feeling of shouting in to the void, everyone competing for attention, that’s where centralised social media platforms went wrong. On a decentralised platform we can take back the personal approach, that’s what makes it better than Reddit - the danger is that it might get too centralised again and end up just as impersonal.
ive been off facebook for quite a while now but when i was still on it, id unfollowed just about any real-life bullshit and was exclusively engaging in private groups featured around special interests. i ended up doing the same with reddit & a private sub before leaving, i enjoy recognizing usernames.
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.
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