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?
It’s just you.
Can confirm
I’ve double-checked your findings and they are valid.
A peer reviewed meta analysis of a significant number of sources concluded that it’s just OP.
What they said
Is it already time for the pitchforks? *hides pitchfork in anticipation*
Came on here to say this! Lemmy is awesome. It’s not shit.
I like it bc OP hates it.
The 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.
This service isn’t really free either to be honest
How so?
The admins are paying or the donations are what keeps the services financed :)
True, but no one’s milking you for money here
Nice try Spez.
Since Day One (spez’ fuckup)
Cake day: July 14th, 2023
Mmhmm.
You may experience a lot fewer problems if you switch instances, lemmy.ml is notoriously overloaded.
Yeah, that’s a you thing. I have accounts on six or seven instances so far. No disappearing communities at all, posts usually loading fine unless there’s an issue with a specific instance. Comments can be sparse, but that’s a matter of patience. Posts that invite discussion get comments, it just takes longer. The flip side of that is that you can comment everywhere and be certain your comment didn’t get buried, and that there’s a higher chance of it leading to discussion because of that
I can’t say why you’re experiencing the issues, it could be the app. Could be your instance being one that’s kinda not well liked and being defederated by more than the average. Could be your instance just fucking up in general (I’ve seen statements that lemmy.ml is a little unstable currently). And it could be that you just haven’t run across the things that interest you, which may or may not be helped by anything since not every interest has a big community at all, even on a bigger service like reddit.
But the stuff you’re specifically pointing to aren’t happening for everyone, no.
lemmy.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.)
There 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.
This 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.
something something airport
Leaving, on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again!
The 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
I 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.
ive 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
It’s been solid for me, just blocking a lot of news type communities so I can browse all a bit more easily
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I 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.
Can confirm. Started off on .world, team into all these problems, now on a much much smaller instance, and everything is smooth as butter.
skill issue
It’s a young piece of software in need of more maintainers. You’re always welcome to join and help :)
Try instance shopping. Lemmy.ml might not be for you but there are other instances with lively communities. I’ve been having a grand time here
