The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.

Your voice DOES matter. Heck if you have an idea for an improvement or a change or anything open and issue on the GitHub. It may not get added immediately, but if it's a good idea it'll eventually get added.

As a developer, I had never coded in TypeScript before, but I was able to figure it out enough to add a minor change to the upcoming lemmy version

Agreed, big time. I have a few gripes with this platform, but it's just starting, just had a huge amount of users come so it's manageable. I kind of don't want the massive reddit user base.

I'm struggling to figure out where to find all the posts. I'm subscribing to communities and stuff but the same old posts keep appearing on the feed for 24hrs+. I'm flicking around with filters and manually exploring a lot and find things. It feels like I'm doing something wrong. Like there's two new posts an hour in total.

I'm probably doing it all wrong. I don't even really know what the point of subscribing is since I need to go into communities to see things, otherwise nothing shows up on the feed.

I'm bouncing between 4 apps, though, so kind of hamstring myself with familiarity.

+1 It's their thriving early day with new concept of social network. It need sometime to adjust, mending, improving and whatnot. But I'm pretty sure it will be better than ye' old TW/RD day.

Yep, we get to watch it grow and I can be patient for that: I'm along for the ride. It's kind of like the people who have been playing a video game since alpha get to appreciate all the features that were introduced along the way that the rest of us take for granted. I'm predicting a flood of apps for the Fediverse since it's the most obvious next step for the third party app developers that have no Reddit to design for anymore.

Agree. This is just the early stages, and it will improve as time goes on. Just the fact that there are so many different apps for both Android and iOS means that Lemmy’s communities will grow, and I’m excited for the future.

I'm happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it'll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we'll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.

The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the "Reddit moderator" stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?

When I started on Reddit 14 years ago these issues would be daily or more. It was pretty unstable under load.

To me it feels like texting an ex after a breakup. I know I shouldn't but...

So dirty… 🙃 Oh wait nevermind all the NSFW are gone in the API

Try wefwef, it's hands down more polished than the Lemmy web UI and Jerboa.

SPOILER ALERT NEXT TIME PLEASE

I extend the same consideration to the Lemmy apps as well. They're all in various stages of development, but as buggy as they can be, they run better than the official Reddit app even now.

A very interesting and reassuring mix of novelty and familiarity. Welcome to the other side 😃

Source: Jumped ship right after the initial strikes.

Used Apollo before. Now I’m on wefwef and it literally feels like nothing changed lmao.

Meme it and they will come

I had a feeling some of the larger instances would be feeling the heat. Tried to pick something a little less mainline.

Just using Connect For Lemmy until Boost has a release out. Been nice and stable so far :)

This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.

This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.

This is why you shouldn't serve an open server from home. If you serve your feddit from your house, it's ok if it's for you and your kids. But if you add more than that, I wonder if it just stops. I serve my photo server for my personal use and it makes struggling noises when I look at the images. I picked a cheap 100 HP mini desktop to try this on so I'm not surprised. So imagine if 100 people wanted a 20MB image from the server's HDD.

Lemmy has gone from having no viable apps a few weeks ago to having several under active development that are getting better every day. It’s actually impressive. I’ve spent so little time on Reddit today.

My only wish is that Apollo comes back as a Lemmy client in the near future.

It should be a bug, this post does not disappear from my feed.

Connect has an option to hide read posts, haven't checked it myself since I've been jumping between wefwef and connect.

There’s a setting for this, Show Read Posts. The manual doesn’t specify how lemmy discovers that you read a post. I read in a different comment that you have to interact with it (i.e., vote). I don’t know if that’s true.

To be fair, reddit’s first post always was the same for me, too.

... it's available on ios? i couldn't find it at the apple store.

How is that? I've been using connect and been digging it

I too, came from RiF to Liftoff and I kind of dig the vibe of the app. I don't know of it's the default text size or the colors but it seems easier to read than reddit was on RiF.

Liftoff is pretty nice, but try wefwef web app, it replaced all the other Android apps for me.

I use Jerboa but I'm going to use Boost when that comes out for Lemmy

boost for lemmy soon!!

Reddit is the best thing to ever happen to Lemmy. By making their product so terrible, it just keeps making Lemmy look more enjoyable because it's incendentally rather than actively trying to be terrible.

Yeah. I'm subbed to three Formula 1 communities and would prefer just the one place to save seeing reposts, though I'm not sure which is the best at the moment.

I'm expecting instances become clearer as time goes on, like lemmy.world is general, but there may be a sport or motorsport instance that is like the place where it goes really heavy toward those topics. I may be completely misunderstanding the concept of instances, though.

It feels like literally any third party app for Reddit AND Lemmy are far smoother than the official Reddit app. What makes it so damn stuttery?

And better