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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm kinda hoping someone will point out this feature already exists, but I wish there was a way to subscribe to a topic. Right now it feels like multiple instances are forming their own, say, gaming community, and it feels like this is splintering the community rather than growing it?

Other than that, I actually really like the decentralised nature -- and, while this is likely due to the very early nature of things, man is it nicer here. Weirdly feels like early Slashdot days...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this is my only real issue. It would be amazing to have an app that would allow you to create a gaming "folder" of sorts that you could drop all the gaming communities into under one heading.

Since you can already post to different instances, having a way to better organize them would solve for the fragmentation pretty well. Then even with multiple gaming communities, they all still show as #Gaming or whatever on the user end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cant seem to find it, but I believe I saw someone mention this feature is being worked on and is on their github.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That would be incredible and help to ease the somewhat jarring user experience for people new to federated platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So basically multi ~~reddits~~ lemmies?

Edit: does strikethrough not work? Do edits work well?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemii if you will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, i don't understand why it'd be built like that? i guess it prevents overbearing mods, but the only true advantage seems like you can still call the backup "Gaming" instead of "TrueGaming" or whatever