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

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually think the double-split between communities/subs and instances is rather unfortunate overall.

I'm guessing, many people will end up subbing almost identical subs on different instances. In my opinion, it would have been better to use instances more as identity providers and let the communities be the first level distinction.

I actually don't feel it's organic at all, I have to make an effort to even find this post here on a different instance.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope that they can add the ability to create subs that exist in multiple instances. (i.e. !aww@lemmy.lh and !aww@beehaw.org could both have the same posts and mods)

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as I just noticed, it's really cumbersome to reply to you.

There's a "show context" button in my inbox for your comment, but that links to lemmy.ml, where I'm not logged in (since I'm on feddit.de), so I can't reply. Instead I have to use the reply dialog in my inbox.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this needs to be fixed. There needs to be some way to link between instances and not get your browser stuck on a foreign instance.

I think this might help as a workaround for now. (browser only) https://lemmy.world/post/48816