Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.

  • Francis@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Agreed. It seems promising and has that magic feeling of when I first encountered reddit for the first time post-Digg. That said, the federated aspects is neat but confusing… Still trying to work out how to view communities on different instances.

    EDIT: Ok so apparently this post is actually on a different instance. Not entirely sure how I managed to get here. Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to remote communities?

    • iod@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose “All” in the filter and search for “gaming” and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.

      The sub you’re on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.

      • Francis@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks, now we’re cooking with fire! I originally was trying to do it on the Android app, seems like the search isn’t functioning as expected. Web UI works as expected, not a big deal anyways since I can just “app-ify” it with a home screen shortcut.

  • ado@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Very much agreed. UI friendly, both on desktop and on mobile–even mobile browser. Instances are kinda confusing but I think im starting to understand it

  • wintrparkgrl@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I really hope lemmy is the one, the biggest plus is that it isnt one company, so no investors to fuck it up

  • buda@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like it here. Its small but growing. I just wish the UI was bit better. Selecting text is weird :S

    • Independent_Node@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just trying the jerboa android app and finding it 100% usable. Does all I need and easily replaced my RiF reddit app.

  • Maxcactus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought the same thing when Voat started as a mirror to Reddit. It was similar for a while but every time a troll or Nazi was ejected from Reddit they migrated to Voat. Eventually I was one of the last liberals there. Is there anyone maintaining order here or will it be the wild west ?

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think the lemmy structure really annoys trolls and right-wingers. They could register on a server, but they would have to play by the rules (be nice, don’t be a nazi etc), which they really don’t want. So they want their own server, but quickly realize that they’ll be alone there with their miserable peers, which they also don’t like.