I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

  • CheshireSnake@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see a lot of difference in terms of effort in searching for communities between here and reddit. I’m on Jerboa and I tried searching “technology” and “science.” The communities with the same and similar names popped up. That’s how I did it when I first got here and that’s how I do it in reddit. If I wanted to, say, join an anime sub all I have to do is search (for example) anime then tap the sub I want to join if there is more than one. There’s a huge subscribe button there (I just tried it since I’m not subbed to that yet).

    I have’t come across crazy mods/admins yet so I can’t comment on that. Which subs have them?

    Edit: I think the main problem is with the browse.feddit.de and that’s what you’re referring to? Yeah, that can be a challenge (I don’t think Jerboa supports it yet), but it’s easy when you’ve done a couple.