I really want to like lemmy, but it’s difficult. I’m new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but… I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren’t that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It’s not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

  • tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I know what you mean. The biggest issue I’m having is finding and subscribing to communities that are not a part of the instance I joined with.

    I kept seeing links that listed communities I was interested in subscribing to, but then it would ask me to log in, I’d put in my credentials, only for the log in to not work. I finally realized I had to make a new account with that instance, and then i could log in and join it. I don’t want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to enjoy content, plus much if it is duplicated as some instance are linked, but others are not.

    Also I use Jerboa to browse lemmy, don’t have a PC, and would rather use an app than my web browser(Brave).

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      61·
      2 years ago

      That’s not how it works.

      You can subscribe to remote instances from your own instance. You shouldn’t be using multiple accounts.

      For example, you are on lemmy.world, and the group you replied to is on lemmy.ml. I’m replying to the conversation from lemmy.blahaj.zone. The instances communicate with each other.

      What you need to do is search for the instance you want to join. So if you see a cool group called CoolGroup on a server called some.instance, you would go to the search box and search for !CoolGroup@some.instance. That will let you find it.

      Yes, that could and should be easier, but lemmy is not a finished product, and it was not prepared for the reddit influx, so it will take time to iron out usability stuff.

    • over_easy@dataterm.digitalEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      You don’t have to create an account for each instance. You hsve to get the link for the specific community you want to subscribe to/interact with and search for it within your home instance.

    • coldv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m on mobile, but when I search for communities, I go to “communities” in the dropdown menu, then make sure I’m in “All”. That should show you communities outside of your own server.