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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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[โ€“] hddsx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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:

  1. Long text post should have a "show more" instead of having to click into it
  2. 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.
  3. Please. I have no iOS development skill but need an iOS app that's not in beta.
[โ€“] cdbob@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's a change. Harder to use initially but then I'm sure I'll get used to it and enjoy it more

[โ€“] oceanic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As a Digg and Reddit refugee I can only say: "let's goooooooo!!!!"

[โ€“] defaultcube@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I like it a lot so far! Most of the time it's pretty much indistinguishable from how Reddit used to be, with the only annoyance being that any interaction with an instance other than the one your account is on has a very noticeable lag, but I guess that can't really be helped.

[โ€“] lynny@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Better UI, I just wish the iOS app was more mature than it currently is. Still very usable in the browser.

[โ€“] Evolone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™ve been bouncing between Lemmy and Tildes to see which I prefer. I am having a hard time with deciding. I vastly prefer how Lemmy has the reply to a post box right underneath the body of the post, whereas Tildes requires you to scroll to the bottom of ALL comments to make your own reply.

I like that Lemmy has the ability to create a ton of different communities and sub-communities. Tildes has like ~music, but nothing below that (like ~metal or ~indie). So Lemmy seems to have more of a curated community feel.

I think I like the UI of Tildes more, as of now, but Mlem is a promising app (I just wish there were notifications for comments to my posts/replies on the app. Maybe someday!)

[โ€“] c4444v@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still a little confused about how instances work and subscribing. But other than that I like it, not toxic like reddit. Feel like I just need to familiarize myself more

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[โ€“] goat@burggit.moe 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

pretty alright but man most admins are hella toxic

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[โ€“] Agility0971@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't like the sidebar with rules. It removed the horizontal space from content if you keep scrolling.

[โ€“] salieri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly im loving the experience and even though its getting big because of all the reddit drama, im loving the small communities feel that it has for now. I have to say though that navigation cross instances its being a bit of a headache and i hope it gets better, much better. At least it should notify me that i am not able to see the rest of the comments on a post because of some settings of the instances / my account no? Or am i missing something?

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Support for GIFs is a bit lacking but otherwise its going great :-)

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