I’ve been using Lemmy a lot over the past two weeks. I’ve come to understand it and the fediverse. I understand the pros and cons. I kno how I want to improve it and I know what keeps people away.

How do you all feel about it? I wonder how many people create accounts not knowing what it is and then just abandon them.

Is anyone having trouble finding a community they fit well in? Or just trouble in general finding communities?

I think there are a lot of tools that can be added to help improve discovery and navigation. Thankfully, we are very close to a new release of Lemmy. I think the devs have v0.18 in testing. It has a much better UI and other tools.

Thinks will get better. But I would say I’m pretty happy with it as it is.

  • infinitevalenceEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Subscriptions are still a mess especially on mobile. I have taken to looking at all but there is plenty of content I don’t want to see in that.

    I also liked the idea of creating a local algorithm of some sorts that starts to prune things I have already seen.

    I also miss being able to swipe to return to the list after viewing a post.

    And I miss RES view all images.

    Other than that I’m enjoying the conversations and content.

    I can’t wait to see where things end up.

    • jgrimOPMAEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      What’s wrong with subscriptions on mobile? I’ve not known of any major issues.

      Custom algorithm: as in people can create their own or there is a new one that removes seen?

      I cannot wait either! It’s all about to drop. New apps, new web ui, and upgraded backend is coming.

      • infinitevalenceEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah the idea that we build a way for our own instance/account to create a custom view that is more than just subscriptions but more filtered than just turning off say NSFW. I dont want to subscribe to every little thing of interest, but at the same time I dont want to see everything…

        That is the one thing about the private companies is that they have conditioned us to having a personalized content flow.

        In Jorboa every time I click a community link it CDT’s on mobile so I cant get to a community im not subbed to, so I cant add it to my subscription.

        Right now I have to go to my PC/Web and go through a rain-dance/rube goldberg where I try different combinations of the community name in the search and toggle between all/comments/posts/communities until I can navigate through my (your) instance so I can add it.

        I wish I could just put the !name or !name@instance.tld into a box and have it add it to my sub list.

        • jgrimOPMAEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I believe that’s coming with Lemmy 0.18. I saw something called community groups in the code. I’d have to dig more to see for sure.

          • infinitevalenceEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I have not dug into 0.18 yet, still trying to get a personal instance up on my own server :(

            • jgrimOPMAEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Rumor is .18 releases tomorrow. Lemmy.ml is already running a release candidate.