Nah, I created a Lemmy account at the start of June (at least the Jerboa installation date says that) and uninstalled boost a few days later. Only checked in on Reddit from time to time with libreddit, to have a look at the John Oliver party.
I deleted or mass-edited all my comments and sent an GDPR request. Only thing left after that is the account deletion.
Didn’t want to give them any traffic anymore, so I avoided everything about it.
I currently live the remarkable 2 and also had the first one. Wouldn’t want to live without it, but the software is still not really there…
There are some patched versions on GitHub with more functionality, but never tried it.
Company itself argues, they want to be as near to paper as possible. so not many features, which is a fair design choice, but the software still feels sluggish and unoptimized imho
it still has quite some bugs, but yeah, the base is already quite solid and I can use it without much restrictions
I’m really optimistic for the future of Lemmy and the Fediverse in general. maybe I’m just wish-thinking here, but I feel so much more at home on the internet again since I discovered Lemmy, Gemini, Marginalia,…
I feel like being back in the internet of my youth again. I just love it :-)
I had some problems subscribing to non-local communities - especially the search never worked, didn’t matter if I paste in the URL or the !community@server notation. still I somehow managed to join most of them, but only after trying and playing around for some time.
this part definitely needs some work, but the concept is well with it imho - and as currently new contributors start to join, this could grow quite nicely.
I still don’t really know, if every instance needs to mirror the posts/comments of other instances, when I’m subscribed to their community, or only the data gets forwarded - or directly linked?
so I’m not sure what the costs of running a small instance would be, if my users would subscribe to larger communities on other instances - that would be hard to finance for instances with small user bases
well, everyone has to get comfortable first and had questions. also now with many more people, much more bugs show up.
there are some communities to report those issues to (like jerboa@lemmy.ml ) or you can probably use github to report an issue.
but maybe we should build up a New Lemmings community for those kind of questions, with a guide and FAQ. also those questions wouldn’t spill over as much in other communities.
You’re probably right, that this has a big potential to be annoying. but I also understand people with questions.
as currently Reddit is taking a dive and many people are newly discovering Lemmy, it’s currently also a topic of major interest.
I think it’s good for the project, when new ideas come up and people start to contribute more - be it content, code, documentation or moderation
I’m using Linux for desktop since years - even my non tech savvy girlfriend uses KDE without issues on her laptop.
What was your issue?
I can’t stand to work with Windows. Is gruesome slow and confusingly designed. Configuration is splittered across the system. Some parts in GUI setting tools, some part in registry, some part in specific files.
Error codes are completely useless under Windows. In Linux the error message gives me at least a clue what’s happening.
I can’t understand how anybody can really work with Windows. Gladly I can do 99% of everything in Linux. Only some industry hardware configuration tools are still stuck on Windows.