I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
Confusing. The apparent ‘segregation’ of instances is difficult to get my head around. The Jerboa app is (understandably) in early days and not that intuitive to use. The layout of the website isn’t much better (it wasn’t at all obvious how you’re suppose to even post stuff, for example). I get that we’re all coming in on the ‘ground level’ here, but the whole set up feels very rough-and-ready. I’ll keep an eye on Lemmy to see how things progress but at the moment, honestly, if feels like I’m working against Lemmy/the Fediverse rather than with it.
This is one that I think is a miss. How do we reconcile there being a separate distinction between say, !gaming@beehaw.org versus !gaming@lemmy.ml versus !gaming@lemmy.pt and so on. I get that they’re different “locations” in the fediverse, but really as a user I’d want an aggregate view where I can look at “gaming@everywhere” if that makes sense.