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I like it so far. But I think the large amount of reddit users won't like how separate everything is. Most of my friends and colleagues I've mentioned and shown it to, didn't like it for that one reason. Reddit is a singular easy to access place with communities for everyone that is popular.
Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) needs to simplify I think for people to be able to adapt to it. My girlfriend made an account and is having trouble finding groups for herself, but willing to take the time cause I'm next to her all the time. But not everyones got that.
edit: also, i am using Memmy for Lemmy now on IOS, nice to have when not at my PC. Good app so far.
Agreed... A lot of the complexities don't necessarily need to go, but a way to abstract them away, if you want to, would be much more attractive.
The less hoops people have to jump through the better.
agreed. i hope the UIs default to searching the whole fediverse and communiy search should do similar to open up and simplify for users.
the search ui could do with a little redesign maybe?
Yeah this is a good recap. I was on Reddit for over 12 years and I can not figure out how the F to add a specific community to my feed.. or even how to search it out.
so you're a lemmy.world user, in theory just go to any community there that you're interested in (eg: https://lemmy.world/c/technology) and click subscribe at the top right of the page.
if you find a community on another server that you're interested in, let's say "programmer_humor" on the "programming.dev" instance (https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor), you can go to that community on lemmy world by searching for its name on the search page (the community box has a search icon that appears when you click on the triangle). that takes you the lemmy.world view of that community. you can subscribe from there. if you know the name of the community and the server instance you can just go straight to it by entering the URL in your browser like this:
https://lemmy.world/c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
i'm not a huge fan of the lemmy web UI honestly, i find it a little clunky. there's a bunch of good apps coming out now. i like wefwef.app (web app) and memmy (iOS). wefwef is surprisingly feature-rich and is being updated like crazy (2 or 3 big new features every day for the last few days).
I've got it figured out enough for now, but still can be hard without using Lemmy Explorer to find things. I am hoping some apps like Memmy can incorporate better search functionality. There is so many that have similar/same names and its annoying finding the active one.
Also gets a bit weird thinking "Oh just found this cool community" and then seeing i need to make a new account, i understand it though.
I'm really hoping better apps will bridge this gap, but I agree the devs need to make this an easier access experience.
Just use the "All" tab, instead of the "Local" one 🤣
The "All"-Tab only shows communities someone on your server joined. To find communities on unknown instances you need other methods. If you are on a fresh server you have some work to do bevore browsing!
The thing is, unknown instances won't have large communities. Unless you want to take up the task of populating one? If so, finding or creating the community is the easy part.