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?
Still using Kbin via web browser on desktop and mobile; with Kbin Enhancement Suite. Aside from some availability issues early in the migration, it's been very stable.
Yeah the comment toggling, sidebar with your magazines and a few other parts are coming up kbin as native features, it just takes a while to get them tested + pushed out for release. There's a heap of great stuff coming
The Kbin enchantment sweet is great. The developer who worked on it is actively in the Matrix chat. We're working on getting a heap of those improvements baked into the platform, but being an open source protect it takes a while to get things through
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.
I've been using KBin for a hot minute. The only issues I still get regularly are errors when trying to vote on stuff. It's normally because I need to relogin but my Firefox browser still shows me as logged in due to I think cache issues.
I expect some problems but the community is still growing steadily so I'm staying for the general stuff and will give reddit some traffic here and there for niche shit. I'm still adblocking, using old reddit, and everything else I can to make myself useless I including deleting my content regularly.
Yeah the logout issue is pretty annoying. I've got a feeling it's got to do with the CSRF token that's on all the forms (like the upvote / downvote arrows) that if you sit idle probably don't match when you submit. Probably something we need to have a hard look into to fix up
lemmy.ml is known for being unreliable and slow and occasional censoring and word filtering. If you’re okay with that, it’s a good instance. If not: search a better fitting instance or self-host one.
(Disclosure: I had to re-write this comment, because the site did not post it – again.)
Sometimes you break up because you’ve been cheated, and no matter how good are your next partners, you’ll always be moaning about everything that’s “not like it used to be”, because face it, you didn’t mind being cheated and just broke up because you didn’t want people to say you were a cuckold.
There definitely are growing pains, but in think all things considered it is moving in the right direction. As much as I wish it were different, expecting lemmy to instantly match and replace reddit (that had a ton of time to organically grow) is wishful thinking.
Have you tried signing up on other instances? That determines a lot of the performance you are getting. Personally lemmy.world at the time I signed up was having issues (might be better now), which made me try out lemm.ee . So far it has treated me very well performance wise.
As far as apps are concerned I am on android so I can comment for its, but connect has been my choice this far. Works fairly well, although not perfect. However in all apps I’ve tried the speed of progress has been very encouraging.
Lastly concerning submissions without comments, lemmy simply still doesn’t have a user base to rival reddit. So in some way we have to be the change we want to see, otherwise things will never change.
Personally I have given up on reddit, but I wouldn’t fault you for using it alongside lemmy for a while. I’d just hate to see people like you stop using lemmy completely just because it can’t instantly replace a platform that had such a massive head start.
Yeah, that’s a you thing. I have accounts on six or seven instances so far. No disappearing communities at all, posts usually loading fine unless there’s an issue with a specific instance. Comments can be sparse, but that’s a matter of patience. Posts that invite discussion get comments, it just takes longer. The flip side of that is that you can comment everywhere and be certain your comment didn’t get buried, and that there’s a higher chance of it leading to discussion because of that
I can’t say why you’re experiencing the issues, it could be the app. Could be your instance being one that’s kinda not well liked and being defederated by more than the average. Could be your instance just fucking up in general (I’ve seen statements that lemmy.ml is a little unstable currently). And it could be that you just haven’t run across the things that interest you, which may or may not be helped by anything since not every interest has a big community at all, even on a bigger service like reddit.
But the stuff you’re specifically pointing to aren’t happening for everyone, no.
Many instances are having growing pains, and figuring out which apps aren’t crap is difficult. On iOS, I’ve been pretty happy with Memmy, though Lemmios is good too.
Overall though, the communities here are more pleasant to interact with, and Reddit can’t be trusted. Lemmy has gotten significantly better in just the last month. Give it time and stick with it.
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