Yeah, this describes my experience so far. I really want to like it here, but so far it’s been an effort.
I am using Mastadon more, hopefully with time we see a similar level of polish. However, even there it don’t see a dent in Twitter.
I like this place. A lot. Yes, everything is not super polished. Yes, I have to be more active to find the content I want. Yes, there’s a lot less content than on reddit. But the people here feel like real people, not people and bots who push agendas.
And I’ve always been somebody who contributes, so I’m here to help build the place I want.
This right here
But the people here feel like real people, not people and bots who push agendas.
that’s what my experience here has been too, it’s really nice to be honest
i feel that, i have lerked on reddit for so many years. But i am ready to make a change, and do my best to make these platforms the new home of the internet.
I’ve been a lurker on Reddit for the last decade so contributing here has definitely been a learning experience. One issue I’m running into is, how does one easily share what they are contributing with everybody else? Discoverability is somewhat of an issue on here whether you are trying to make a new community or a new instance.
I mean, you’re on fediverse.boo, and I’m on kbin.social, and I saw your comment here, and am replying to it. I’m pretty new here myself, but I’m finding no issue discovering communities on other instances and subscribing to them to have them show up in my feed. So I’d say subscribe to the communities you want to contribute to, and post. I’m sure we’ll all be able to see it and interact with it.
As a new kbin user from Reddit, it’s… jank to say the least. My biggest gripe is the new comment box being at the BOTTOM of the page.
I prefer it that way, because I’m like forced to read what other people commented previously.
there are several scripts or styluses to fix this for now.
Wow you’re right. I thought i just wasnt allowed to comment on stuff
I think the idea is to promote reading comments before writing.
but what happen when you have a MT with thousands of comments? (there are already some here.)
At least for me, the comments are currently paginated. I don’t like the pagination, but it makes getting to the bottom easier. I’ll say that I would prefer the comment box to be at the top, but I’m sure as hell not going to let that stop me from enjoying this site. kbin and the fediverse have done a great job replacing Reddit for me.
My scroll wheel hated me until I figured out I could just hold the space bar for a sec to jump to the bottom lol. I would imagine it needs to be changed sooner than later before the number of comments in the threats increases.
The “End” button on your keyboard should be instant, and there for exactly this job btw.
If you’re on desktop you can use the Kbin enhancement userscript which moves it to the top, also shows peoples tags like @lemmy.world
Link for stylus users: https://userstyles.world/style/10288/kbin-it
Link?
I use this one with Tampermonkey:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-script
Oooo, thanks :)
On the plus side this place feels smaller so instead of just lurking all the time it feels meaningful to participate.
I think this is really spot on. I wasn’t looking for a “reddit alternative” that “kinda sucks” because it’s not reddit. I was looking for an actual “reddit alternative,” not a reddit clone. And yes, I’ve just been lurking up until now, but so far this seems so much more sane and reasonable. For the time being, at least. Until someone finds a way to turn it into a reddit alternative.
It’s super buggy still, I hope the devs continue making lemmy work better. There are still issues with posts not being federated between instances. I’m having lots of issues seeing posts and comments on other instances in a consistent way. It always depends from which instance I’m looking from. I hope these and other issues are going to actually be fixed.
I‘m actually relieved if it doesn‘t become too big, I‘m afraid if it does, the corporations and other bad actors might come to destroy it again. I‘ve gone through this often enough.
The good news is that federated open source projects should be a little harder to destroy.
I’m really starting to like this place now! At first I was hesitant, but it’s great!
Lemmy isn’t currently usable by “normies” but we, the weird ones are already here, building great communities, fixing bugs, developing features. Give it 6 months, and Lemmy and kbin will be ready for prime time. The world will watch it rise like a giant middle finger shown to /u/spez.
I consider myself only moderately tech-savvy and definitely not an IT person. I managed to make my way on here, and decided to create an account on a lesser-used instance after the second evening of looking around. Granted, it took some figuring out (didn’t see any guides), but after about an hour I had most things set up to how I wanted it, and had Jerboa installed on my phone. If I can do it, 90% of the general population can. They just need the motivation.
The way I see it is, do you even want the general population on here? Maybe it’s a good thing they can’t figure it out.🙃
Definitely don’t want it popular enough for bots. But more engagement in niche (or non-techy) subjects? Yup.
PSA for non-developers: “six-months” in the software world is slang for “optimistically, one year”.
“We’ll have full self driving by the end of this year”
– Elon Musk 10 years ago
Personally I don’t need it to be “polished”, and too much polish would smack of corporate excess to me. I want lively but friendly discussions on a variety of topics that interest me. And it’s fun to watch something grow from early(ish) stages into a more complete package. I hope this will be a good social media home for me.
ETA I upvoted you for good topic and discussion, rather than downvoting in disagreement.
Apollo was polished. It can be good and look good at the same time.
I created an account about 24 hours ago and this is actually better than I expected. Of course, I wasn’t expecting a complete and polished interface from something so new, but I had read plenty of horror stories about how lemmy/kbin signups were impossibly complex.
I like it. It’s already pretty intuitive and I like that it’s not a 1:1 Reddit clone. I can easily imagine this expanding and growing into something really interesting
Also, I got the username I wanted.
Hell yes. First dibs on usernames!
“Currently” is the key word here. I’m using the TestFlight beta of Mlem and it’s coming along quite quickly. I haven’t been back to Reddit since the day before the blackout. Admittedly I’m spending a ton of time just searching for the subs that migrated over to communities here.
His issues are that he misses the cultivated nature of Reddit. Reddit didn’t start out cultivated, and took time and effort by volunteers to figure out it’s identity. The same thing will happen with the fediverse. It will get cleaned up and streamlined as people put in effort. People look at a lump of carbon and say it’s worthless, but with time it becomes a diamond.
Some people only see the value of something in it’s present form and miss out on potential. The fediverse has a lot of potential so long as it is active. It’s open nature will bring in freelance development help and it could very well become BETTER than what reddit was. Keep the faith
The same thing will happen on the fediverse if there are enough people using it. It’s a circular problem.
The technical and usability aspects of Lemmy/Kbin will get ironed out, and probably sooner rather than later. I just want there to be enough critical mass of people that I have communities for most of what I want. E.g. gaming is well covered, but I don’t have a replacement for /r/nfl which was my primary NFL news source.
Also, I imagine that the NFL mag will pick up when the season actually starts. The NBA mag was fairly active for the finals, so long as people are still active here they’re gonna wanna talk pigskin
Danny and I have been sharing topics on the NFL mag, help us out
I ended up switching to Kbin and like it a lot more in regards to how the main page provides threads. It still has it’s issues, but they’re for the most part outside of the main loop.
I’m somewhat surprised at how much the dynamic page load really messed with my ability to navigate Lemmy. Basically if I went away for any given time it would go from top threads for the day to random junk that had no activity. It really needs a way to turn that off.
Thing is, people looking for a Reddit replacement are going to be in some way disappointed, since part of the idea of developing a new system is to avoid the things that made Reddit turn terrible. The sad truth it Reddit is probably too big for its users to just leave, but maybe they will financially just crash since their efforts to become profitable aren’t looking all that effective.
I agree. While some users are able to leave the platform, most will stick around - but as you mentioned, they will definitely struggle financially.
Majority of the people here are super helpful, much friendlier, and supportive even with all the flaws that we are experiencing. Building a community takes effort. Everyone’s effort is focused here so that we can have the place that we want it to be - a place better than reddit.
I agree with this 100%
It’s the people that make a platform a success. For all its popularity and polish, reddit often felt toxic and abrasive. I haven’t seen too much of that here.
I think kbin is working just fine. I’m willing to give it time to grow. Patience.
