& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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[–] drekly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.

Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?

The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.

I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.

There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.

[–] morelikepinniped@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but as someone who has mostly adapted to the fediverse in the last 2 weeks after 15 years on Reddit, I remember a time when reddit was considered too complicated for the "casual" user. Lemmy is in its infancy right now and I think if one is the kind of person who is an early adopter, it will be very appealing to be in the first stages of the journey. I found my early years on Reddit to be much more rewarding and filled with joy than my later years because it felt more niche and close-knit in a way.

Also, subreddits are called communities here and you should join as many as are of interest! Just like a user could create multiple competing subreddits (looking at you /r/meirl, /r/me_irl, /r/2meirl4meirl), the good ones will take off and others may die off, or might just add additional content to the pool, which is a good thing.

[–] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

This is the right answer. As long as your instance is federated, you can see all communities via All. Sub to all of them you want, and they all get shared between federated instances. Some will naturally grow and others will die, so don’t worry too much about duplication at first. It’s going to happen.

Instead try ADDING content. Don’t lurk. Engage and have actual conversations with people, even if you disagree. The hive mind here is much less ingrained, so the community is more open and accepting of all points of view. Enjoy it while it lasts!

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