Is it just me or is it lemmy shit?

It's just you.

The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn't care if you "go back to reddit". Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can't be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.

Nice try Spez.

You may experience a lot fewer problems if you switch instances, lemmy.ml is notoriously overloaded.

lemmy.ml is known for being unreliable and slow and occasional censoring and word filtering. If you’re okay with that, it’s a good instance. If not: search a better fitting instance or self-host one.

(Disclosure: I had to re-write this comment, because the site did not post it – again.)

Yeah, that's a you thing. I have accounts on six or seven instances so far. No disappearing communities at all, posts usually loading fine unless there's an issue with a specific instance. Comments can be sparse, but that's a matter of patience. Posts that invite discussion get comments, it just takes longer. The flip side of that is that you can comment everywhere and be certain your comment didn't get buried, and that there's a higher chance of it leading to discussion because of that

I can't say why you're experiencing the issues, it could be the app. Could be your instance being one that's kinda not well liked and being defederated by more than the average. Could be your instance just fucking up in general (I've seen statements that lemmy.ml is a little unstable currently). And it could be that you just haven't run across the things that interest you, which may or may not be helped by anything since not every interest has a big community at all, even on a bigger service like reddit.

But the stuff you're specifically pointing to aren't happening for everyone, no.

This might not be the fit for you. Sometimes it’s ok OP to just go “ya know I don’t fit here, I’ll hit the road”.

Peace.

There definitely are growing pains, but in think all things considered it is moving in the right direction. As much as I wish it were different, expecting lemmy to instantly match and replace reddit (that had a ton of time to organically grow) is wishful thinking.

Have you tried signing up on other instances? That determines a lot of the performance you are getting. Personally lemmy.world at the time I signed up was having issues (might be better now), which made me try out lemm.ee . So far it has treated me very well performance wise.

As far as apps are concerned I am on android so I can comment for its, but connect has been my choice this far. Works fairly well, although not perfect. However in all apps I've tried the speed of progress has been very encouraging.

Lastly concerning submissions without comments, lemmy simply still doesn't have a user base to rival reddit. So in some way we have to be the change we want to see, otherwise things will never change.

Personally I have given up on reddit, but I wouldn't fault you for using it alongside lemmy for a while. I'd just hate to see people like you stop using lemmy completely just because it can't instantly replace a platform that had such a massive head start.

The overall sentiment about the lack of comments feels pretty fair. One of the best parts of Reddit was the volume. While you don't really need to have 3000 comments on a post to make it feel engaging, having 300 I feel is better than the 5 or 6 I've often seen.

It's still an early platform so I'm hoping with time we get dozens of replies on most posts

It’s been solid for me, just blocking a lot of news type communities so I can browse all a bit more easily

I see you’re on Lemmy.ml. It’s PROBABLY because of that. That instance is really big so it causes posts to not load and what not . Go to a smaller one. Like in the ~1k range or something and I’m SURE all of these problems will go away. It was the same for me when I first joined Lemmy and picked Lemmy.ml. The following day I switched to Lemmy.ca back when it had ~40 users.

skill issue

It's a young piece of software in need of more maintainers. You're always welcome to join and help :)

Try instance shopping. Lemmy.ml might not be for you but there are other instances with lively communities. I've been having a grand time here

Many instances are having growing pains, and figuring out which apps aren’t crap is difficult. On iOS, I’ve been pretty happy with Memmy, though Lemmios is good too.

Overall though, the communities here are more pleasant to interact with, and Reddit can’t be trusted. Lemmy has gotten significantly better in just the last month. Give it time and stick with it.

try installing the website as a native app

I've been using kbin and startrek.website's lemmy instance since the blackout. Kbin had server issues the first few days, but has been dead solid - with the exception of the occasional upvote bug a few people mentioned - ever since. The lemmy instance has worked great. There were some usability improvements sorted out in 18.1 a few weeks ago (mainly the ability to sort by top articles from the last 3, 6, 12 hours) that helped it a lot.

come back in a month, there are still major architecture changes in the works.

Still using Kbin via web browser on desktop and mobile; with Kbin Enhancement Suite. Aside from some availability issues early in the migration, it's been very stable.

I tried Kbin, Lemmy, Tildes and considered Squabbles.

Kbin is the one I settled on. I like it here.

Sometimes you break up because you've been cheated, and no matter how good are your next partners, you'll always be moaning about everything that's "not like it used to be", because face it, you didn't mind being cheated and just broke up because you didn't want people to say you were a cuckold.

Go back to her, nobody will judge.

I have been very much enjoying kbin. Sure the volume isn't quite there, but I love that it's run by volunteers with no agenda other than to host their commities for free.

The software has a few hiccups here and there, but those will get improved over time.

Reddit is there for money; your experience is secondary to that.

The submissions with no comments are so dissapointing, I have open a couple of post and I can't even read them...

well, that's too bad. See you later i guess

I have a lot of issues with Lemmy and more specifically how the fediverse will work with multiple copies of communities and the knee-jerk defederation. But, in terms of stability, content and quality, I feel like it has been getting better. I'm willing to give it some more time.

Okey doke.

What instance are you using?

The only communities I've seen disappear have been communities from instances that the instances I've got accounts on defederated from. Which is honestly pretty cool IMO.

Also the browser version is way more stable than most apps I've found.

Lemmy's mobile app ecosystem is terrible... or rather just not very mature and needing a lot more work and contribution. I haven't found a single Lemmy mobile app, iOS or Android. that is usable long term. I've just started logging into Lemmy on my mobile browser and using it that way (which works fine).

Lemmy itself however is great. I run my own instance and yeah, there's expense and work and troubleshooting involved in that, but it's all worth it to have the reddit experience with the Lemmy community and to be in complete control of the gateway that I use for that experience.