Only my first comment so far, but I like it! It took a sec to wrap my head around the fediverse concept, but I'm so glad there's a functional alternative to Reddit that seems healthy, respectful, and functional.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Add some more of the browsing features RES has, and I'm good to go.
I'm liking it so far, the communities I've federated with are mostly chill and quite a bit of fun. That being said, there's dark parts of the fediverse too. I plan on keeping my instance around for a while, but so far it's just me and a friend or two, but maybe that's a good thing?
I'm liking it. Seems chill. Some growing pains and there's not quite as much here as I was following on the other site, but, maybe that's a good thing and humans aren't actually meant to have a constant information firehose?
I'm starting to learn how it works and it's been a fun adventure so far! I really dig the community feeling. Everyone seems so chill and supportive, it's exactly what I was looking for. I can't wait for kbin to be fully federated. I'm really happy here
I'm having trouble finding communities in lemmy.ml here (is one of the unblocked instances). I can find them from another lemmy instance, just not here. How often are the communities updated? I'm hoping to make beehaw my 'home' instance.
The default lemmy UI is... not great
It reassembles the new reddit UI and that's not great. It has a lot of wasted whitespace on ultrawhide monitors.
Kbin's UI is a lot better and it reassembles the old reddit UI, in a modern way, I like that.
With that said, I'm a huge fan of federation, and want to support it, but I'm aware things aren't great right now
Discoverabily is not great, and I had trouble finding subs I care about... as a power user... imagine normal users doing that...
Just like with Mastodon, the main Lemmy website has a bunch of technical jargon that will scare any new user away immediately.
Day or two of work, looks like home.
I didn't come here to talk about Reddit all day, but every thread on lemmy is just reddit, reddit, reddit. So I'm mostly lurking until that is gone.
I have a lot of questions about the whole Fediverse concept but I love the general vibe of hopefulness that there is around here, it's crazy refreshing!
I'm also using Jerboa currently and I love it!
P.S. Don't forget to nuke your reddit accounts!