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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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i mean so far, I'm enjoying it. sure, the community isn't as large, but that's mostly a good thing. on reddit, if i made a post, it would be like a 25% chance to get hundreds of comments, and a 75% chance to get none. here, I've gotten a few, high quality responses on every question post I've made. i do miss the "auto hide read posts" feature, but maybe that'll get added some day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can hide read posts here! In the web app settings for your profile:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a way to stop the endless loading of posts on the website? Because every time I try to click a post, it moves down because a new post loaded, and this happens every ten seconds, constantly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bug that wasnt an issue when the community was smaller. Last I heard they will replace it with a refresh icon that pops up at the top when new posts are available.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh thank God is a bug, I really thought it was a feature of the site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank jeebus. I was getting all fussy thinking it was a me/my phone/my browser problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s amazing what kinda bugs can be exposed in your system when your user base expands by orders of magnitude overnight

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you remember where you heard it? I have been looking around for info about this feature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here’s the comment (and link to) where I learned about the GitHub issue

https://lemmy.world/comment/134724

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve heard that one is just a bug. Hopefully they’re working on it. Mlem (the iOS app) seems to have it handled, but it does crash a lot, and it’s frustrating to lose your scroll progress. I think we just have to wait it out in these early days πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also don't seem to have that problem with Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I believe it’s specifically an issue with the web client. The apps don’t seem to have that problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediverse currently reminds me of Reddit from 10 years ago in frequency of content. There is something nice about not being in the rat race, less toxicity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yeah it's nice knowing that someone is gonna see my comment instead of it getting lost amongst hundreds. feels a lot more like a community that way