I quite like the super-minimal interface design of fedia.io. I'm excited to see where this all goes.

Quite frankly I'm not on the same boat as most people. Don't get me wrong, I prefer having an alternative that can at the very least push Reddit to act with more regard for its user base. At most, it can prove to be a viable alternative to Reddit.

However, again and again I see Reddit alternatives come and go and repeat the same old formula of providing just a Reddit clone with little changes to the user journey. You still have the same old structure of communities where you post content, people commenting, and curation being determined by an upvote and downvote system.

I do realize that some level of familiarity needs to be preserved for people to be jumping from Reddit to an alternative. But when a platform is so similar (in regards to UX), I see this not only as a huge missed opportunity, but also as a sentence – a lot of Reddit’s problems stem from how the site is organized, and the fact it has devolved into a bunch of politically extreme echo chambers where dissenting opinions are distolerated and everything is a race to the bottom. An upvotes/downvotes system is a surefire way to silence moderate and reasonable voices.

On top of everything, I'm not sure I'm fully buying the fediverse model, and I'm not sure Lemmy in particular has long-term viability. What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance. Add to that the uncertainty of any given instance's life expectancy, and I can definitely see why the majority of people would be hesitant to give Lemmy a try. Nevertheless, it seems the Fediverse is still in its period of early adoption, and thus I don't expect it to be popular with the average Joe. It's still not September 1993.

That said, I am giving Lemmy its fair chance. Ironically, this is my first comment on here, but I definitely don't intend it to be my last. I even created an ADHD community here for serious ADHD discussions at Lemmy.world which I plan on promoting, especially since I've never been a fan of how partisan and immature r/ADHD has been (no real antagonization, just not my place). So I am also looking at Lemmy and Lemmy.world in particular as a new opportunity.

And even if it doesn't pan out, I definitely plan on spending much less time on Reddit. I already spent a lot of time these past few days unsubscribing from communities that didn't go dark not out of spite, but because I realized many of them added little value to my life and just provided an endless stream of useless or irrelevant “content”.

It's a bit technical for an old goat like me :) but I am loving the positive vibe.

I haven't found my groove yet. There were a lot of niche communities on Reddit that I was part of (lurked). Have to rebuild that over here.

I hope there is some way to implement something like streamable/imgur/redgifs on lemmy. I don't mind if it's these services if fediverse alternatives aren't there yet.

They form the backbone of content creation, from Porn to highlight clips of sports subreddits.

TBD, the organization seems more chaotic and seems like alot of duplication of communities of the same topic

I understand how federation works, and Lemmy's UI seems more or less fine, but I guess I'm still not quite sold on federation in this style being the answer for Reddit-like functionality. It's a bit awkward, and unlike how Twitter's functionality is quite easily mimicked by Mastodon, I'm still kind of skeptical that following subreddit equivalents in that fashion maps quite as cleanly.

I'm not sure how I would do it differently, but I get the sense that there is a better way to have a decentralized Reddit-like experience, and probably one that avoids the risks of the current method (downtime, discoverability, scaling costs for the largest instances, etc).

I'll stick around the fediverse for now, but I really get the sense that it was built for a Twitter or maybe Tumblr like experience, and the Reddit-like experience will always feel a bit short of ideal.

So far I'm enjoying the mobile interface on the website more than using jerboa. It'd be nice to get more random stuff on my feed while in ALL view, but I'm not sure if it's because of the instance I'm on or just that there's not much activity. It just makes it harder to find new communities if I've got to go hunting for them. Sometimes I like to see things I hadn't previously thought about, it's more fun to get the random stuff like that.

Im liking it. I'm pretty techy, so I got the gist of the whole "distributed" thing real quick. Honestly, it's also nice that it's still a smaller community. Feels like the old days of the internet, where you could actually interact with people

At first I thought it would be much more complicated to join and use than it really is. I really like the concept but the platform still feels pretty janky, needs polishing and some QoL features that are currently missing and hopefully we will also get some awesome mobile apps. Overall it's very promising and I hope it will get adopted widely.

I'm really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There's a few smaller communities missing but I'm sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don't know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it's great!

I want to be able to hide things I've read. If anyone knows how to do this, I'll give you all my LemmyBucks

I'm very confused, I was in the Sweden community and someone linked to ANOTHER Sweden community on a different server with different posts. So, where should I be to see all the things?