Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

Still better than the official reddit app.

It's great to be here. All part of the fun of being apart of something new.

Ngl. I am having fun.

You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂

I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.

At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.

Laughs in lemm.ee

Yeah, this is taking me back to 2013 reddit. Really enjoying it here. I'm hoping it continues to walk down this path.

The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out

Gotta start somewhere...

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

Would upvote but I keep getting server-side errors

To be fair, it worked well right before reddit cut off api access. This will probably happen everytime reddit does something stupid to drive away users. In other words, it could happen every two week based on how spez is lately.

I’m worried about the search function. Every post ever made?

It just feels so weird to have big threads with good fresh discussions going on hours after the post.

Not to say there isn't an occasional asshole here and there during this wave, but I don't think reddit has ever felt like this at any point.

It's early days here. Give it some time...

Well, if its too slow, you can just self-host it.

Not sure if this is meant to be negative or positive but I for one like all the growing pains and issues. It makes the whole experience a little more engaging for me. I really like reading up on what problems are happening and how the teams are working towards solutions. I especially like the technical details that are just a little over my head because it’s fun to learn about!

Yeah, every time I try to upvote something, it'll take like 10-15 seconds to register

I forgive it. It has tremendous potential

search actually works here.

already better than old reddit.

Anything to make you feel at home 🥰

Like the good old times

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And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post

That depends on the instance you’re on.

Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.

For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

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Try lemm.ee instance. It is REALLY fast compared to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. And it is also general instance, not some theme-specific.

This is all I want. Just text, nothing more. Just like reddit.compact version that they took away.

Wooow haha. Happy to have this though, regardless of early hiccups. 10 years on Reddit has left a surprisingly sizable hole in my daily routine.

The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community

I even got an error page the first time I tried to load this post. Just like old times! 🥲

Check out mlmym if you want to see it resemble the old.reddit experience too.
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old.lemmy.world
old.lemmy.ca
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The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.

Is that why I need to click to subscribe 5 times having it time out every time?

All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.

Bottom text 🤓

Theres hope

i still get substribe in peding. it was one week ago.

Even the user interface brings back the memory...

It's just lemmy.world, because majority of people jumped on it.

https://files.catbox.moe/kfvn0u.png

Use different instances to get better experience (you can still subscribe to communities that aren't on your server)

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main

It's slower than reddit ever was.... at least in the 14 years I was there.

I love that your first instinct after being here just a few hours is to bitch about things. Maybe donate and thank the devs for the free work they're doing so you don't have to deal with the bullshit on Reddit, and then in a month or so when the user influx has calmed down a bit, then you can bitch if you want.

If you’re bothered by performance, donate to the server to get better resources. Lemmy.world added more servers and load balancing, and there’s a patreon to donate $1 a month.

See the sidebar on the frontpage:

I would just wish there would be a new Reddit view as well. It is just so annoying having to click on the images to zoom in

Legit the first thing I noticed. It’s actually not that hard to find the community you’re looking for.

I'm pretty new to this federation idea, but if I'm on a small instance of Lemmy and browsing c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world, would I still see degraded performance?

Are the instances mirroring the content of the communities hosted in another instance?

(Edit: thanks everyone, your responses are really helpful!)