Still better than the official reddit app.

I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.

At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

It just feels so weird to have big threads with good fresh discussions going on hours after the post.

Not to say there isn't an occasional asshole here and there during this wave, but I don't think reddit has ever felt like this at any point.

Would upvote but I keep getting server-side errors

And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post

It's early days here. Give it some time...

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great

To be fair, it worked well right before reddit cut off api access. This will probably happen everytime reddit does something stupid to drive away users. In other words, it could happen every two week based on how spez is lately.

I forgive it. It has tremendous potential

The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out

Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.

It's great to be here. All part of the fun of being apart of something new.

Yeah, every time I try to upvote something, it'll take like 10-15 seconds to register

All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.

search actually works here.

already better than old reddit.

Ngl. I am having fun.

You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂

Not sure if this is meant to be negative or positive but I for one like all the growing pains and issues. It makes the whole experience a little more engaging for me. I really like reading up on what problems are happening and how the teams are working towards solutions. I especially like the technical details that are just a little over my head because it’s fun to learn about!

The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community

Laughs in lemm.ee

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.