I migrated over to Lemmy from Reddit, and while I am excited to use a new platform and explore new and continuing communities from Reddit, using this app honestly confuses me. Part of the reason is app design. But I understand that many apps are newer and may be rough around the edges. Nevertheless, here are some things I’m confused about how to even do:

  • How do I visit communities of which explicit hyperlinks I know? Sometimes I can find them by typing in search, but why can’t I just go somewhere by typing in like an address bar or something?
  • I signed up at the VLemmy instance, but why are there menus everywhere for the lemmy.world instance everywhere that is practically useless to me? Can I make them go away?
  • How do I navigate through different communities? When I click a link that I expect to take me to a community my email app pops up instead and I don’t know how to get around. Do I have to type everything into search when I want to navigate to a new community that I’m not subscribed to?
  • Is there a way to re-hide NSFW posts once I’ve clicked them to make them visible?

Then there’s some design things I’m legitimately confused about why they’re like that. It’s entirely too cumbersome to reach saved posts. I have to go to my profile, then tap on the bookmark icon on the upper left. I feel like there should be a way to access that easier. There isn’t even an indication about where that is supposed to be so finding out that’s where saved posts are took awhile.

Sorry if it seems I’m too critical about this stuff. Coming over from Reddit does mean being a bit spoiled about this stuff since many Reddit apps have had longer to figure app design out. Still, hopefully some of these things are at least addressable towards making a more user friendly experience in the future.

  • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi I am a fellow reddit refugee. Unfortunately I so not have any answers as I am also stumped by all of your questions.

    To add to the question pile, I do not understand what the difference is between subscribed, local and all. They all seem to give me the same posts. I don’t see an explination anywhere. Any ideas?

    Also I would really like the app developer at add extents so when I click a Lemmy link from outside the app, say to a community it will bring me to the community page where I can follow it.

    • MaheP@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      All contains posts from all communities on Lemmy your server is federating with(kind of connected in a sense), similar to reddit’s All. Each instance, in your case lemmy.world will host some communities whose posts are given in local. However, you may not be interested in all the communities and the local feed your instance offers, so you can custom subscribe communities both on your instance as well as other instances.This is exactly like Reddit’s subscribe feature, and you’ll get these posts in the Subscribed feed.