For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[-] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Very confused.. I have a direct link to a Linux community and can't figure out how to open it, or join it, or whatever I'm supposed to do with it in Jerboa. Discovery seems severely limited.

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/

Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don't worry it's (mostly) mobile friendly) and type !name@instan.ce (don't forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.

[-] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you.

New thing I don't like: I could not reply to you from my inbox. I had to go back to this thread, start from the top, find my own comment again, and then respond to you. The button in my inbox that looked like a reply button just marked the message as read instead.

Also I just found the search, the icon looks nothing like a search icon.

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look 2 buttons to the right of the impostor button, the box with dots in it.

[-] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Oh, I see it now. My brain must have seen the one chat bubble and ignored all others. Surely that would make more sense to be a bell icon or something.

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Or an eye or something, yeah. I had the same problem until I got used to it.

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