Thought that I would start off my first post in this place by getting this off my chest. In case anyone is wondering why more people haven’t flocked to Lemmy yet, this has been my experience so far.
Last night I decided to give this place a shot and sign up, just to be met with a join page that was mostly unresponsive and didn’t want to load anything. I ended up giving up and going to bed but thankfully by the morning, the web page had listed the possible servers for me to join.
So, especially after my experience the night before, I thought that the server that has in its description “recommended for users to join this server to reduce load” was a good start.
Then it came to looking for apps. I thought that the app with the description “made by Lemmy devs” would pair well with the server recommended to new users. Only to find that the server that I joined isn’t even listed in the app when I try to sign in. And that manually typing it does nothing but give “server error” responses as well.
So now here I am, typing this from my laptop, wondering how many other people try to join this platform and give up after the first couple of hoops that need jumping through first. I’m hoping that eventually I will find the right server and app combo to give me an actual complete, working experience but so far my experience here has been a little bit ridiculous.
Anyway, glad I got that off my chest. Hi Lemmy, just a Reddit refugee hoping to make a home here, once I’ve got this absolute circus of trying to get going here in the first place behind me.
I’m using the web UI and it works great, even on mobile.
Yeah, looks like it’s back to Firefox on Android for me. Just tried Sync and it doesn’t list the server that I signed up with either. Lol. Lmao even.
It seems like most of your struggle is from choosing a new instance with a very low number of users.
I’d say just use lemmy.world
Apologies if this is a stupid question. I promise I’m not usually tech illiterate but this whole setup is new to me. How do I transfer my account to a new instance? Or do I just have to abandon this one and make a new account there?
Edit: yeah this instance I’m on sucks. Realizing now that it definitely does not let you access everything from there. A lot of communities I’ve searched for and thought were missing just aren’t showing up in myserv.one’s search results. Here I was thinking that there wasn’t even a functional non-binary community in the lemmyverse or fediverse or whatever.
Aaand it looks like I found my answer. From what I can tell, the Lemmy devs consider import/export as good enough / the same thing as transferring a profile so they’re just going to ignore the issue and never attempt to implement it. So I guess new account it is.
https://lemmy.world/ is a large general purpose instance that would certainly work. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ is a popular instance that is specifically gender diverse.
They both block the two most obnoxious instances.
Just make a new account. There is an option in the settings of the website to export and import your settings. I’ll reply with a screenshot.
Apologies for another reply but I just wanted to dump my mounting frustration with this platform somewhere. Now I am lemmy.world, signed up and everything, and if I try to visit this Offmychest sub that is part of lemmy.world, it only loads one single post from 2014. And yet if I access the same Offmychest sub from my myserv.one account here, I see all the posts. Currently have lemmy.world open in the subreddit on my laptop, via Firefox, so I can confirm that it’s not an app issue.
Honestly I dunno anymore. I really wish that this wasn’t the only really viable Reddit alternative because I’m getting less and less impressed and more and more frustrated with this fucking place with every moment.
There’s also this sort button.
It was hidden by the bright header for me. If it’s set to something like top posts for the day, you’ll only see today’s posts.
It’s one of my favorite features because I often limit to the last six or twelve hours.
Nice, thanks. I’ve actually ended up settling on the Eternity app. I used its Reddit sibling, Infinity for a long time, so I’m finding my way around pretty easily at this point. I’m sure I’ll start making use of sort more once I’ve got a bit more lurking in and I’ve seen what there is to see.
That’s definitely strange. Could you please have a look at your account settings and make sure that in the “language” part you have “Undetermined” selected? That could be the issue.
Thank you for the help here. Turns out that “Undetermined” was selected but “English” was de-selected. And in order to select both, you have to ctrl click them, or else it de-selects the other. But the problem seems to be solved now, so thank you very much.
Thanks for the info but I ended up just signing up with lemmy.world in the mean time. Myserv.one doesn’t seem to be what it’s advertised as because I even only got the notification for your reply now, besides a bunch of images not loading and communities not showing up search (basically every queer or feminist space I looked up besides long dead communities, suspiciously enough).
lemmy.world is already 10x better. Didn’t bother with import/export as I wasn’t around on the old server enough. And I’d rather start over subscribing to communities somewhere that’s actually going to show me all the communities.
Even if it’s not listed, you can still login with it and use it. Just type your instance domain and it should work.
I did that with Jerboa and just got server errors. So I didn’t even bother trying with Sync. Gonna give it a go now, thanks.