Gollum

This is an know issue, you have to downgrade your jerboa app, or wait for either an update of the feddit instance or an fix on the app side (which I guess won’t happen).

This is due to a breaking change in the API of the Lemmy backend, in version 0.18.
And feddit will wait for 0.18.1, because of problems they experienced with 0.18.

I am sorry, but I identify myself as a lemming.

Is there a list of kbin instances? The one from kbin.pub seems to be incomplete.

There should be a community, for the purpose of instance promotion. :D Perhaps someone should create one. Or maybe it already exists…

I would go one step further, not just a wizard that will explain. But maybe some “magic” that asks you a few questions, perhaps political orientation and how is your point towards specific topics. And will automatically choose an instance for you. Of course, this should be just something for new users and one that don’t actually care much about the federation concept. This could lead to a much better distribution of users. Some manual “tagging” of instances have to be done, but should be achievable. Best in a native app and maybe as well on the website.

Because based on your orientation towards specific (ideological) topics, you most likely will have problems regarding the moderation and content policies.

Best would be if there is an app, that would do backups of your posts and content automatically, that if, for whatever reason, the instance goes down. You have first all of your data saved and second you could import it fast onto another instance.

Somehow, the UI is really buggy for me so far, and I experience numerous lags. I didn’t manage to create a post yet, and sporadically, it seems like my instance is not available, due to some server error pages. Usually, after a reload of the page, it is fine again.

Furthermore, the UI is differently worse, than Reddits. Searching is awful, and I miss a lot of sorting functionality or algorithm for bringing up the comments based on likes and sub-comments.

I hope this will become better now, the Lemmy gets a lot of attention. Sadly, there is no completed iOS app yet. I don’t like using the Website. :D

But then, it is nice to have a decentralized version of Reddit. And it seems it has already a few users, I hope Lemmy will grow further. I will stay strong.

Edit: A grouping feature for “merging” communities from different instances is much needed. I get it, it’s a different instance and probably the users of the certain communities like to have specific rule variations or just don’t like the other participants of the other communities. But at least for browsing content it would be a great feature.