I really want to like lemmy, but it’s difficult. I’m new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but… I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren’t that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It’s not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

  • milkytoast@beehaw.orgEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    i mean so far, I’m enjoying it. sure, the community isn’t as large, but that’s mostly a good thing. on reddit, if i made a post, it would be like a 25% chance to get hundreds of comments, and a 75% chance to get none. here, I’ve gotten a few, high quality responses on every question post I’ve made. i do miss the “auto hide read posts” feature, but maybe that’ll get added some day

      • adriator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Is there a way to stop the endless loading of posts on the website? Because every time I try to click a post, it moves down because a new post loaded, and this happens every ten seconds, constantly.

        • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          It’s a bug that wasnt an issue when the community was smaller. Last I heard they will replace it with a refresh icon that pops up at the top when new posts are available.

            • instamat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Thank jeebus. I was getting all fussy thinking it was a me/my phone/my browser problem.

            • b34k@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              It’s amazing what kinda bugs can be exposed in your system when your user base expands by orders of magnitude overnight

        • adj16@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve heard that one is just a bug. Hopefully they’re working on it. Mlem (the iOS app) seems to have it handled, but it does crash a lot, and it’s frustrating to lose your scroll progress. I think we just have to wait it out in these early days 😵‍💫

        • adj16@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ok, I just tested it out. It’s any post that you upvote, downvote, or open the comments for. Expanding an image is not enough.

          Edit: Seems like opening a post’s comments in Mlem (iOS app) doesn’t seem to flag something as “read”. But open a post in the web app and it disappears from both on next reload. Up/downvoting work on both.

          Edit 2: If you upvote a post and then remove your upvote, that seems to count as “read” as well. In case you’re like me and can’t commit to an upvote or downvote for every post 😅

    • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Fediverse currently reminds me of Reddit from 10 years ago in frequency of content. There is something nice about not being in the rat race, less toxicity.

      • milkytoast@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        yeah it’s nice knowing that someone is gonna see my comment instead of it getting lost amongst hundreds. feels a lot more like a community that way