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.
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.
The fediverse thing makes me feel like I’m in the dust. I thought Kbin was its own federated thing, separate from Lemmy. Like there are decentralized federated Kbin nodes as its own thing, and decentralized Lemmy nodes as its own thing. But Lemmy and Kbin intermingle?
I feel like I need something like that old UK/GreatBritain/British Isles infographic, but for Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and whatever else springs up.
It’s less of a “UK/GreatBritain/British Isles” thing and more of a “You can have gmail/hotmail/outlook/etc and all have ‘email’” kind of thing.
All of them are speaking the same language/protocol so they all talk to each other even if they do things differently
Mastodon is probably the most different since it’s trying to be Twitter which is a very different “thing” than Reddit.
