Involve more work but this kind of change is for the best. Freedom from the tyranny of corporate greed!

I’m starting to think the splintering caused by instances blocking each other is going to cause users to abandon Lemmy entirely. At the moment instances can suddenly decide to block other instances, and that is going to hurt both users on the instance that put a block into place, as well as users on the blocked instance.

The blocking is awful for an average Lemmy user, because you can get cut off from communities you already subscribed to, without any notification! So you might post and comment without realizing that your content is not getting published, even though you and your local instance still see it.

The user experience would be improved by getting a warning if you try to contribute to a community in this case. And also your subscriptions should show warnings about not working anymore, and those should come up as notifications on the account.

Yeah, I’m enjoying it outside of the small bugs. They’re not breaking the platform so I can live with them until they’re smoothed out. But the smaller communities are kind of a nice change of pace to be honest, it’s definitely like old Reddit before it got a case of the capitalisms. Terminal case, unfortunately.

But with the decentralized nature of it, we don’t have to worry about that happening again!

I really like the new style of interactions, even though I do currently miss the hundreds of thousands of funny/dumb comments some posts had (hoping that will happen eventually though)

I exclusively used old-Reddit, and I’m not in love with the new interface yet, but it’s not bad.

It took a solid couple days to wrap my head around how things work, where posts are coming from and how to find communities I’m interested in. I’m nervous that’s going to be just enough of a barrier that folks will say forget it when trying it out.

Otherwise it’s a refreshing take. Really wish there was an iOS app you could find in the App Store. All I find is mastodon apps.

Not speaking of app features, only thing missing are people… Which is a problem that will fix itself as time goes on and more people migrate to Lemmy.

It’s ok. Navigating takes some getting used to and the lower content and engagement so far is a bummer. Hopefully it will take off though. A mobile app at some point would be nice.

I’m still getting used to this and there’s not much activity yet, but I’ll stick with it. Reddit isn’t worth it, so I’m happy there’s a chance for an alternative.

I like Lemmy a lot! I’m gonna stick around :)

Its a better experience than reddit so far, the communities are small, most people are respectful and its not just the same shit in recycling.

I’m liking it so far - bit of a learning curve but not too bad!

I do have a bone to pick with users - there are a lot of niche communities that have zero posts. If you start a community, try to add something to it! I’m not sure if people are trying to “claim” rights to as many communities as possible - i surely hope not - but if you’re interested in a subject and want to start a community, surely you have something to say! It takes two hands to clap - if you don’t start saying something, then whoever comes to your community is gonna move on.

It’s a nice fresh start. Been lurking for 7 years and plan to comment more on Lemmy.

Using Mastodon for years now, I’m familiar with the structure and liking it. But I’m afraid most of the smaller subreddits that I followed won’t migrate here.

Quality username