Since Day One (spez’ fuckup) I have been trying to use and like lemmy but it just doesn’t work right at all. Like as in never did. Communities disappear randomly, posts don’t load, submissions have no comments, you name it. At this point I am considering going back to reddit just like everyone else I know that used to care is doing already. Any others out there with same experience or is it just me and my shitty ios app for lemmy?
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 109•11 months agoIt’s just you.
foo ( @foo@lemmy.ca ) 51•11 months agoCan confirm
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( @Emperor@feddit.uk ) 32•11 months agoI’ve double-checked your findings and they are valid.
HousePanther ( @housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ) English22•11 months agoCame on here to say this! Lemmy is awesome. It’s not shit.
hglman ( @hglman@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months agoI like it bc OP hates it.
primalanimist ( @primalanimist@kbin.social ) 44•11 months agoThe nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn’t care if you “go back to reddit”. Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can’t be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.
TheLemming ( @u202307011927@feddit.de ) 3•11 months agoThis service isn’t really free either to be honest
handofdumb ( @handofdumb@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months agoHow so?
TheLemming ( @u202307011927@feddit.de ) 1•11 months agoThe admins are paying or the donations are what keeps the services financed :)
Provoked Gamer ( @ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months agoTrue, but no one’s milking you for money here
AES ( @AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu ) 38•11 months agoNice try Spez.
KoboldCoterie ( @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ) 18•11 months agoSince Day One (spez’ fuckup)
Cake day: July 14th, 2023
Mmhmm.
saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 31•11 months agoYou may experience a lot fewer problems if you switch instances, lemmy.ml is notoriously overloaded.
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 18•11 months agolemmy.ml is known for being unreliable and slow and occasional censoring and word filtering. If you’re okay with that, it’s a good instance. If not: search a better fitting instance or self-host one.
(Disclosure: I had to re-write this comment, because the site did not post it – again.)
golli ( @golli@lemm.ee ) 15•11 months agoThere definitely are growing pains, but in think all things considered it is moving in the right direction. As much as I wish it were different, expecting lemmy to instantly match and replace reddit (that had a ton of time to organically grow) is wishful thinking.
Have you tried signing up on other instances? That determines a lot of the performance you are getting. Personally lemmy.world at the time I signed up was having issues (might be better now), which made me try out lemm.ee . So far it has treated me very well performance wise.
As far as apps are concerned I am on android so I can comment for its, but connect has been my choice this far. Works fairly well, although not perfect. However in all apps I’ve tried the speed of progress has been very encouraging.
Lastly concerning submissions without comments, lemmy simply still doesn’t have a user base to rival reddit. So in some way we have to be the change we want to see, otherwise things will never change.
Personally I have given up on reddit, but I wouldn’t fault you for using it alongside lemmy for a while. I’d just hate to see people like you stop using lemmy completely just because it can’t instantly replace a platform that had such a massive head start.
urda@lebowski.social ( @urda@lebowski.social ) 13•11 months agoThis might not be the fit for you. Sometimes it’s ok OP to just go “ya know I don’t fit here, I’ll hit the road”.
Peace.
TheButtonJustSpins ( @TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ) English3•11 months agosomething something airport
- Juno ( @Juno@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
Leaving, on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again!
krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months agoIs it me or is op a troll
AnonymousLlama ( @AnonymousLlama@kbin.social ) 10•11 months agoThe overall sentiment about the lack of comments feels pretty fair. One of the best parts of Reddit was the volume. While you don’t really need to have 3000 comments on a post to make it feel engaging, having 300 I feel is better than the 5 or 6 I’ve often seen.
It’s still an early platform so I’m hoping with time we get dozens of replies on most posts
Mane25 ( @Mane25@feddit.uk ) 14•11 months agoI don’t think that at all - a dozen or two replies to a topic is great because you can then reply to all of them on a personal level. That’s how things were on forums in the old days. If you have hundreds of replies then there’s the feeling of shouting in to the void, everyone competing for attention, that’s where centralised social media platforms went wrong. On a decentralised platform we can take back the personal approach, that’s what makes it better than Reddit - the danger is that it might get too centralised again and end up just as impersonal.
miles ( @miles@kbin.social ) 3•11 months agoive been off facebook for quite a while now but when i was still on it, id unfollowed just about any real-life bullshit and was exclusively engaging in private groups featured around special interests. i ended up doing the same with reddit & a private sub before leaving, i enjoy recognizing usernames.
all this to say: agreed
CaptnKarisma ( @CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml ) 10•11 months agoIt’s been solid for me, just blocking a lot of news type communities so I can browse all a bit more easily
Provoked Gamer ( @ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ) 8•11 months agoI see you’re on Lemmy.ml. It’s PROBABLY because of that. That instance is really big so it causes posts to not load and what not . Go to a smaller one. Like in the ~1k range or something and I’m SURE all of these problems will go away. It was the same for me when I first joined Lemmy and picked Lemmy.ml. The following day I switched to Lemmy.ca back when it had ~40 users.
calhoon2005 ( @calhoon2005@aussie.zone ) 4•11 months agoCan confirm. Started off on .world, team into all these problems, now on a much much smaller instance, and everything is smooth as butter.
SeaTurtle1122 ( @SeaTurtle1122@beehaw.org ) 8•11 months agoMany instances are having growing pains, and figuring out which apps aren’t crap is difficult. On iOS, I’ve been pretty happy with Memmy, though Lemmios is good too.
Overall though, the communities here are more pleasant to interact with, and Reddit can’t be trusted. Lemmy has gotten significantly better in just the last month. Give it time and stick with it.
Litany ( @Litany@kbin.social ) 6•11 months agoStill using Kbin via web browser on desktop and mobile; with Kbin Enhancement Suite. Aside from some availability issues early in the migration, it’s been very stable.
AnonymousLlama ( @AnonymousLlama@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoThe Kbin enchantment sweet is great. The developer who worked on it is actively in the Matrix chat. We’re working on getting a heap of those improvements baked into the platform, but being an open source protect it takes a while to get things through
b00m ( @b00m@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agothank you for the work load you put in
AdamantiteAdventurer ( @AdamantiteAdventurer@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoI was not aware of the kbin enhancement suite. Very helpful!
AnonymousLlama ( @AnonymousLlama@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoYeah the comment toggling, sidebar with your magazines and a few other parts are coming up kbin as native features, it just takes a while to get them tested + pushed out for release. There’s a heap of great stuff coming
Haus ( @Haus@kbin.social ) 6•11 months agoI’ve been using kbin and startrek.website’s lemmy instance since the blackout. Kbin had server issues the first few days, but has been dead solid - with the exception of the occasional upvote bug a few people mentioned - ever since. The lemmy instance has worked great. There were some usability improvements sorted out in 18.1 a few weeks ago (mainly the ability to sort by top articles from the last 3, 6, 12 hours) that helped it a lot.
Communist ( @communist@beehaw.org ) 6•11 months agocome back in a month, there are still major architecture changes in the works.