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Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by communist@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

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[–] yozul@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, I think Lemmy has some usability issues that are probably holding it back some. Like, typing !CoolCommunity@some.other.instance will make a completely useless link to the other instance that doesn't let you subscribe to it or post there. There are also only two apps, and they're cool, but clearly unfinished. That's just a couple examples off the top of my head.

I think they're minor issues that will be ironed out relatively quickly, and whining about federation being unfathomable nerd stuff is just silly, but it is true that this is all happening before Lemmy was really ready for it, and a lot of casual users will be scared off by that.

[–] zarquon@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's even funnier/worse then I expected.

Jerboa notices that's a link and makes it click able but clicking it opens my default email client instead of anything lemmy.

[–] CosmxTi@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A user mentioned a toggle in the App info for Jeroba that allows instance links to open in-app, as opposed to a web re-direct. They do plan on adding more instances to this list from what I understand. Since toggling, it has felt more like a functional app imo. "They’re working on expanding it past their default list, but to enable those long press on Jerboa > App Info > Open by default > toggle the enable button and turn on all the links."

[–] balderdash9@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Using Lemmy seems better in a mobile browser than in the app. But maybe that's just me