TL;DR - Lemmy’s userbase compare to Reddit just feel more angry and it so offputting when asking a question and getting an answer that sound like their pissed off. Feels oddly worse than Reddit.
Honestly, I want to like Lemmy as I want to try not use Reddit as much. The thing that is holding me back is I hate the users on Lemmy which their often passive aggressive and really snarky. I know Reddit does have those people but I always seen more them on Lemmy where I barely used it as much.
I asked on AskLemmy community if there’s any Gen-Z community around, ideally just talking about nostalgia and stuff like that. Nothing malicious at all. Then got a angry reply saying “Fuck Gen-what, just join community and post!” and telling me about generation are there to “divide” people. Apparently, me asking community which mainly be me talking about cartoon and games I grow up with is evil.
If the tone was at least “This may not matter as much and you find it better picking any community that in your best interest” then I’m be alright, it the way they seem pissed at me for even asking it like I’m an idiot which gets to me. When I told that person to calm down and stop being snarky, I got reply from other users saying they wasn’t.
Might stick to Reddit for now. I know it not great but it in my experince isn’t as easily pissed off and is actually bareable to scroll for awhile. I hate talking bad about Lemmy as I really want to like it but I just hate the userbase so much that it feels pointless to even properly use it as much.
Lemmy really needs to focus on improving the default UI, and making it as easy as possible for users to sign in and start seeing posts etc.
Especially on mobile, it was a nightmare for me to figure out which app, which instance etc. most people would have given up by then.
People are used to having a very smooth process when using social media etc. and Lemmy is really lacking in that department.
My experience getting started here was a rollercoaster for sure. I think that one thing that would improve the experience immensely is if there were a way to have one profile no matter which instance you sign up on. I’m on my 3rd instance right now and the first 2 were both within my first 2 days of trying this place out.
It’s like if you want one permanent profile, you have to first research the politics of an instance, and its politics with other instances, and hang around long enough to check out the users and see if your first impression was true etc. etc. And just kiss your old profile and history good bye if the politics change and you need to move homes.
Account portability is a challenge from a technical perspective. There are some discussions about it but it’s never progressing much: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-7952-roadmap-for-actor-and-object-portability/4332/26?u=erlend_sh
It’s not my place because my own work rate isn’t much to speak of, especially in terms of the amount of times that I’ve started and abandoned programming tutorials over the years now. But that phrase seems to be the answer to a lot of missing / possible features around here so far, from what I’ve seen. It’s like this place reached a certain point in development and now it’s just being maintained. Which is sad, I heard about this place a couple of years ago already and from what I can surmise, it hasn’t progressed much since then.
Not complaining, I like it here. Just an observation from my uneducated but not completely uninformed viewpoint.
Seems nobody subscribed from your instance, so here’s the direct link: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_2025
Thanks, I did sub to a different Piefed community. This one doesn’t show any content for me, at least in the app I’m using.
Yes, if nobody from your instance subscribes to a remote community, you won’t see it. This is to avoid every instance having to fetch content from every community.
There is a tool like https://lemmy-federate.com/ to solve that issue, but I guess Piefed isn’t registered there yet. The other link in the comment above should still allow you to see the community’s content.
Just joined from my recently created Piefed account. Not sure that I see an option to join / subscribe from my Lemmy account.
I see, it was an app issue. Both of those links show an empty community for me via Eternity. But jumping onto my laptop quick, I see that the working link leads to the Piefed interface (duh), which obviously isn’t compatible with apps currently.
Lemmy is still being developed and regularly receives new features: https://join-lemmy.org/news/
Piefed development is a bit faster, I linked you the meta community the other day, here’s the one for their roadmap: !piefed_2025@piefed.social
Yeah I made an account there to check it out actually. I’ve just been lazy at it. And I’ve made the assumption that it doesn’t have an app yet. So I need to be in the headspace to feel like getting a little bit of shit done on my laptop.
I can always use Firefox Android if it comes down to it though, I’ve just got a garbage slow phone that struggles a little with Firefox these days, which is why I rely on apps more.
I’m giving myself about another week to shop around and hopefully find a more permanent home. For now I’m learning a lot about the politics and general lay of the land around here.
And yeah, it really wasn’t my place to talk about development, considering that I haven’t even been here for two weeks. It’s just that looking up the what’s what regarding multicommunities, and the way the downvote blocking thing is and seemingly always has been implemented didn’t inspire much confidence in me. But I think I need to take a backseat in that conversation until I’ve been here longer.
That would be great yes
I think a good start is to just join lemm.ee or even lemmy.world
And then figure out if you really want to switch or not.
Yeah it seems obvious to me now to choose the busiest server first but when I first came here, the join page was taking forever to load anything lol. So at that point the obvious (to me) choice was the small server advertised as for reducing load.
Here’s the message I usually post on Reddit when people are looking for an alternative. What do you think?
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
That’s great thank, I’m going to steal this.
You’re welcome!
Yeah I use connect, probably could be better apps but I don’t mind this one