Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

  • Showervagina@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:

    • Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don’t need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.

    • It’s confusing how communities on other servers aren’t automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.

    • If you add an external community and are confused as to why it’s missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it’s fine, it’s just syncing.

    • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      communities on other servers aren’t automatically and easily available.

      You may be aware but for others, on the main page you can change which communites are displayed. At the top, there is the option or Subscribed, Local, and All that’s only a single click/tap. (I do personally think the default should be All)

      • Subscribed shows you just the content from the communities you are following from any instance.
      • Local shows you the content from the communities only from the instance you’re currently viewing.
      • All shows you posts from the communities of all the instances that are federated with the instance you’re viewing from.

      From the list of posts, you can then select a community from a different instance (these will have the community name with something like @example.ml at the end) which will bring you to that instance. From there, you can select the “Communities” option from the menu and it will show you all the communities that are hosted on that instance.

      • Showervagina@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Also there should be an easier way to reply to posts on other boards. As it is now you have to subscribe, find the post, find the comment you want to reply to again, then reply. If you paste in a link it should detect board, post, and comment.

        • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          You should be able to copy the link from the fediverse button (the rainbow Pentagon) and then paste it into the search on your instance.

    • tmpod@lemmy.ptMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      First of all, welcome! I hope you have a nice stay :D

      Now, to answer your points:

      1. I’m quite positive that won’t happen any time soon because registration needing approval was the only measure that realistically stopped bots, and with the new influx of users, it would be a bad idea to turn it off. A solution would be to get more people to approve users, instead of disabling the protection. Either way, the developers are making an effort to push people towards other generic instances, because lemmy.ml is not supposed to be a flagship instance, despite always being seen as one (and understandably so).
      2. Servers can’t know what communities exist on servers they do not know, but I agree this should be more robust and easy for the end user. Federating servers should periodically exchange a list of communities to help with discoverability. For now though, there’s https://browser.feddit.de.
      3. Definitely. It should be made very clear. If you can, you should try opening an issue on the lemmy-ui repository about it, if there’s none already.
      • Showervagina@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago
        1. Makes sense. Is mirroring feasible? Happy to help there.
        2. Yeah I get it. Maybe there could be a button of servers to show, and by default it shows everything. Allow users to paste in a server list.
        3. Will do.

        Also Lemmy could use a way to easily mirror Lemmy sites to help with overloaded servers. This is actually what I thought lemmy was at first, a giant decentralized IRC-meets-Reddit.

        I think from 12-14 june all lemmy servers should have a giant “hello redditors” banner with a how-to of setup. Put instant registration servers at the top of the list. And a quick how to. Simple is best. Relax normal rules and moderation.

        I hope I’m not too critical. I see a future in lemmy but what I don’t want are redditors coming over, getting frustrated and confused, then leaving. We do well, we could very well end up being the successor to reddit. If things are buggy and difficult, not so.

        • tmpod@lemmy.ptMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago
          1. I suppose you could somehow spin up a new instance and attempt to mirror exactly another one, but I don’t think it would work very well, since you wouldn’t be able to comment/vote as a user of the mirrored instance.
          2. mmm, a “mass” server follow thing could be neat, but also could be an easy point for bad actors to abuse.

          I think from 12-14 june all lemmy servers should have a giant “hello redditors” banner with a how-to of setup. Put instant registration servers at the top of the list. And a quick how to. Simple is best. Relax normal rules and moderation.

          Yeah, there has been some work towards improving the documentation. A nice banner pointing to it would be nice for new users.

          I hope I’m not too critical. Criticism like you’re doing it is fine and needed! Lemmy was a very small project until some days ago and any help is highly appreciated, be it suggestions, contributions or donations. Thank you!

    • mustyOrange@beehaw.orgEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      undefined> Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don’t need to be approved?

      That probably won’t happen - any old timers here correct me if any of the following is incorrect, I hope im not being confidently incorrect. The amount of resources that the server needs, and the amount of mods it would take for that, would be quite a bit. Think of it this way - its not like lemmy.ml is meant to be reddit as a whole. Its mean to be one singular small-ish instance of something similar, of which the server is ran on some private place by people largely doing it out of the goodness of their own heart. If one instance gets too big, that requires a lot of resources, and could likely kill the instance. Not only that, but open registration just screams bot abuse

      Its better to have things more decentralized, and have people go to new instances so that theres not a huge influx that burns moderators and resources out. Im personally hoping that more instances pop up for more niche things - ie, a server for sports, or for pc building etc