& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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[–] drekly 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.

Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?

The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.

I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.

There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.

[–] git 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not much different than having multiple subreddits on same topic which is extremely common. Eventually one of the multiple communites will become the biggest and New users will go to that without much confusion. However Lemmy has added benefit of having those different communities on same topic hosted by different people. So if one host starts doing things users disagree they can just move to another without much hussle

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