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Yeah I'm much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I'm actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
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.
And I feel like there’s a lot less algorithm generated aggression. It’s nice, reminds me of reddit back in the earlier days.
You also don't have a 50% chance the comment you're replying to is from a bot and copy and pasted either from that post, another random post, or even the original post that a repost bot stole posted snd you are now commenting on. Reddit is a bot riddled mess.
It's nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don't see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that's alright because it's just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
I always wondered how reddit would solve it's not problem, I never knew it would be by driving all the real people to other platforms
…yet
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
I actually fixed a minor build error on windows by telling git to change all the line endings to lf lol
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.
I like to sort by All/hot and All/new.
I find sorting ‘All’ by new has been helpful. I’m new here too.
Using the active filter seems to be the worst for that. I find hot gets me the best stuff and then new if you're desperate. Top for the day is always good too.
Also change what setting the instance is on all is like old reddit all shows everything from every instance that is federated. Local is everything from the home instance like a watered down all and subscribed shows you only stuff from communities you add. These options have been available on all of the instances I've used so far.
Two buttons and the one is just like reddit but active is trash.
If you subscribe to some communities, you WILL have an option to see posts only from those communities, you shouldn't have to go into a community unless you only want to see posts from that particular one. Also, I'm new but the default sort is usually "active", which I assume means posts which have a lot of activity, such as comments. Try setting it to hot or something else to check whether you get a better variety of posts.
Be sure to set your filter to “subscribed” or “all” instead of “local”, and give it a few seconds to load content from other instances.
+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?