I'm really not happy with Lemmy so far. Its a great community and a cool concept, but the amount of bugs I am experiencing is really starting to put me off.
The site constantly updates / glitches, when I try click on something it moves just before I click so I end up clicking on something else. If I open a post, as soon as I go back the entire home feed is different and my sorting preferences have been reset.
As someone coming from the refinement from Apollo this really is offputting and makes me want to use Lemmy even less.
The people here are great, the federation is cool and I like how decentralized it is, but I think I'm going to log off now and I don't expect to be back anytime soon.
Ps. A functioning app I can download directly from the app store would be great. I'm not interested in progressive web apps or testflight betas, I want something that just works and is well refined.
Edit: I understand its early days, I'm not faulting devs for not being able to keep up, all I am doing here is expressing my opinion. I'm also sad about losing Apollo so that definitely adds to my disappointment quite a bit if I'm being honest.
If you expected someone's fledgling project that's just getting started to be as polished and refined as something that's had thousands of dev hours over the last 5-10 years then that's just bad expectations management. It will get better.
I’m not sure if you will find much sympathy here. Many people (myself included) left Reddit because their policies and ethics now outweigh the benefits of a refined, smooth experience. Although, even that may be gone now if you’re switching from Apollo to the default Reddit app…
The communities here have made any occasional glitches worth it for me.
P.S. you can set your sorting preference under Settings.
Most have been here less than a week. It will take time. The Fediverse was not created with the intention of toppling Reddit in one week. Many of the bugs that people have been complaining about are being fixed in the next release.
You can't really expect an amateur project led by 2 people (or 1 in case of kbin) to be comparable to a decade of reddit development. Even the Apollo app, that just built in top of other tech instead of having to reinvent the wheel, is at least 5 years old by now afaik.
If you just care about convenience then reddit is still your best bet. If you have other concerns then you need to weight which one matters more.
I want something that just works and is well refined.
Not trying to be rude or anything but, if you are trying to replace reddit with another reddit this won't work out for you. Lemmy is not and will never be Reddit. It will never have the same functions and bugs will show up sometimes, why?, because this project is funded by normal people, they aren't making any money at all.
I'm not saying that you should be ashamed of expressing your opinion, but please keep in mind that this project is fueled by passion and love. You could focus your time in trying to make it better rather than just pointing out problems that people are actively trying to solve.
I'm sour about losing Sync, but have you tried Jerboa? It's absolutely not as feature-complete yet as any of the big 3rd party reddit clients were, but it feels totally familiar and I've been happy using it so far.
I'm extremely happy with Lemmy and I actually think the bugs give it charm. It make it feel more like home. No big corporations. I'm fine with limited content and problems for the time being. I'll take it over Reddit any day.
I'm using jerboa. It's very similar to rif. I had zero expectations coming in. And that's probably a big part of why I like it.
It's definitely buggy. Clunky. Etc. But I'm here for it, and I'm curious what becomes of it. It's actually pretty intuitive, and the bugs will be ironed out as we go. It's kind of like everything in life. It's what we make it. And I really vibe with that.
Tbh I don't need perfect or easy. It's home brew decentralized version of reddit. I can deal. But I understand your concerns and agree with all of them, but I'm just kind of enjoying the journey and viewing it as it's own experience.
It'll get better with time but yeah I agree it's clunky and buggy at the moment. Kbin (kbin.social or fedia.io) seems to be a more stable alternative but have their own bugs and issues.
I'm not sure I'd give up on it though; maybe come back and forth and see how it gets on. It isn't meant to be an instant Reddit replacement, but the increased interest will spur more people to help with development and some communities seem to be reaching critical mass to be sustainable.
I do have quite a laundry list of remarks for Lemmy too. The bugginess and lack of features is understandable. But it is quite centralized and I see a future where it will be more centralized the more users will join due to a bit of a fundemental flaw of federation.
Maybe these problems will be fixable. I hope so, because I think it is a really cool concept. But I am not sure if I agree with the execution of it. I would love to contribute to this project if these problems are fixable.
My big issue is that I haven't found a good setting for my home feed that consistently updates. I've had the same posts at the top of hot/all and active/all since I started, it's difficult to find posts that have any activity that aren't multiple days old because of this
I'm not using an app, but rather the site directly on a PC. I've been pretty happy with the experience so far, and it's become something that I check regularly now. I'm looking forward to the communities becoming larger and having more content.
Of course, I'm also looking forward to the mobile experience improving for others, too.
It's been three days since I've been unable to log in to a Lemmy.world account I also opened along with this Kbin one. I get the prompt, fill the username / password, click the button... and it spins and spins and keeps on spinning, nothing happens.
Did I get banned? Is it a bug? Some snafu on my end?
From appolo to jarboa, idk if it's a fair comparison. Even the browser has its perks compared to jarboa but I still use it, i will do the same thing I did with the Reddit app all those years ago, give it a chance, use it, report buggs, give feedback, enjoy the updates.
I was also really unhappy with it. Then I tried kbin.social. It's not a lemmy instance, but also uses the fediverse so you can still see and interact with posts from other lemmy instances.