I’m having an easier time sticking to it and not visiting reddit than I thought I would. The first day was pretty sketchy with 90% of the posts being about Lemmy, reddit, or twitter - but since then it’s been giving a more enjoyable experience.
It probably helps that I’m making an effort to post and comment, which I never really did on reddit.
As Lemmy grows I’d like to see more niche communities take off, similar to how there was “a subreddit for everything”.
I do have a big wishlist for site functionality changes though. A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
My impression of lemmy changed a lot once I’ve read this updated from the lemmy devs from less than a month ago. TL;DR: Lemmy was developed by just two people and with reddit self-destructing everyone jumped to it, and lemmy wasn’t really ready for that.
With that info I’m now all the more impressed that lemmy is working as well as it currently is and not crashing every few minutes!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m impressed with Lemmy - it’s doing an amazing job handling the migration, its structure makes a lot more sense than I thought it did when I was a newcomer, and its functionality is both adequate and actively evolving. My wishlist is mostly minor usability details and it seems like that’s something they’re actively working on - even the text posts and youtube videos thing I mentioned in my previous message has already been added as a feature on lemmy.world today alone.
Yeah I think In a year or two this will be just as good as Reddit, maybe better. Personally I prefer Lemmy, it reminds me of Reddit before it gained mass appeal. The important thing is now there is a viable alternative to Reddit. Everytime Reddit does something controversial, this site will gain a wave of new users.
Yes, posting and interacting is essential to help our communities grow. I used to only lurk but have been trying to post more on here.
A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.
I see a book icon under posts that does this when browsing through my instance’s website. Most of the mobile apps are early in development and may not have this feature yet though.
I just use the desktop site - not really a fan of mobile anything. Didn’t even do reddit on mobile. Hopefully what you’re describing will roll out to more instances sooner rather than later though.
Edit: I do actually have a button to expand text posts - it’s a small square that appears on the right side of titles. Not sure if it’s brand new or if I just never noticed it until now. Cool.
Edit again: Youtube videos also can open in-line now, plus some videos from other places. Awesome. Guessing it’s related to this update
