how are yall feeling about the website?

  • Sun-Spider@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    2 years ago

    Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.

    As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)

    Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.

    I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit

    • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      God dam right friend.

      The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.

      Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.

      I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.

    • jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.

  • Cycrus93@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 years ago

    The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Exactly. The days when people would run little community servers for IRC or shoutcast or whatever on spare laptops hooked up to cable modems, and would mess around doing stuff for their friends or whatever online community they were part of. When websites didn’t all look the same because they’re hosted on the same big tech platform, and if you wanted to publish something you’d put creativity into web design rather than just signing up for a Twitter account. When you didn’t have the constant Faustian deal of selling your activity data in exchange for free platforms. When talking to your gaming clan meant typing in the IP of whoever hosted the TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Wilco server, rather than everybody all using Discord. When you didn’t have content policies for millions of people being made by one guy in California (IE Tumblr). When most websites were hosted on little $20/mo shared hosting accounts so nobody gave a shit about pandering to advertisers. When a ‘big forum’ was 10s of thousands of users, and forums had their own communities with their own culture.

      I miss those days. But this feels a lot closer to that than anything else I’ve encountered in the last several years.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.

    … With blackjack! And hookers!

  • Cakein@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!

  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.

    I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.

    I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.

    • arc@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!

      • teuast@lemmy.world
        26·
        2 years ago

        That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    It’s good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.

    The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it’s not clear how that’s going to shake out in the long run. I’m not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I’m willing to give it a go.

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      There should be a way to make meta-communities. I.e. I could group FOO@lemmy.world and FOO@lemmy.ml and so forth so it shows as one large community when reading it.

      • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        It seems like the intended use-case for federated stuff like this is that all of FOO would be in one instance, even though it’s accessible from any instance it still shows which instance it originates in. Which feels a little weird, some topics don’t really have a overarching supertopic that it makes sense for them to belong to.

  • dboxcar@lemmy.one
    5·
    2 years ago

    I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn’t have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn’t realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won’t stay. (I don’t doomscroll on my computer either).

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I just tried out mobile browser. It works great on iOS Firefox. It’s good enough as a stopgap until someone makes a better mobile app.

    • lenninscjay@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      memmy is another ios (x-platform?) app to try that is apollo’esq, is more stable, and seems to default to using swipe as the primary method of up/down vote and commenting.

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah. Mlem needs a bunch of work. It crashes, sometimes shows full posts, has no option for compact posts, etc… I bet it will get there; it’s just going to take time.