I'm trying things out on Mlem and may try switching to browser for a while to see if it's better. As far as I can tell... I can't save posts or comments, search for anything, block communities I don't feel like seeing, see comments I've made, lots of posts repeat, can't easily find communities, etc. afaik things are still pretty new, so that's fine... but it's not SUPER usable in this form.๏ฟผ Still, it's nice not to feel afraid to comment like I did on Reddit where I felt like you'd often get torn apart unless you were VERY familiar with a sub-Reddit.
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Honestly, I'm really enjoying it and no regrets on making the switch.
Initially took a few moments for the penny to drop with the regards to the different instances etc. But using the Jerboa app is not a million miles away from the app I used to use for Reddit (Boost).
Just incredibly glad to have an alternative.
Same here. I do feel and see that a LOT of work will be required to get lemmy where it needs to be but something tells me that these are the interesting days for Lemmy!
I like the idea and KBin's software looks really nice. My concern is that it just won't have the critical mass needed to get what I got out of Reddit: niche subs. On Reddit, every single game has its own individual sub and they're all active. That's not gonna work here.
I did set up !fgc@kbin.social and !splatoon@kbin.social, but I don't know if these will take off, and I'm not going to bother trying with individual fighting games or smaller indie titles.
Also, I'm intrigued that KBin is able to talk to Mastodon and Pleroma, but I can't seem to find myself. I search for @missingno but nothing shows up.
It definitely needs the rough edges smoothed out if we want to see wider adoption.
It's a change. Harder to use initially but then I'm sure I'll get used to it and enjoy it more
I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.
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Times out quite a lot.
That probably also depends on what instance your own, I am guessing. A lot of them are experiencing such a large and unprecedented influx of new users, it's often hard for them to cope with the existing hardware they're running on.
I've been lurking pretty much on reddit with my 12 year old account, but the new experience here is pretty much ok. The usual teething problems on how to find what is manageable.
It's really interesting and I think has a huge potential to work out really well.
All these little instances being able to interact with each other seamlessly is really cool. It's seeming quite easy to curate communities I'm interested in and I think once it's a little more fleshed out, there'll be go-to communities for certain things which everyone from all instances uses. It's really cool.
It's actually pretty good, especially once you figured out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. I'm a bit miffed, to be honest. I was thinking about making something like this and I found that it already existed.
A few things I would change on the web interface:
- Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
- Clicking on the title should bring you to the article if it's a link. Clicking on the comments should bring you to the discussion.
- Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.