Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

  • valzek@open-source.social
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    1 year ago

    I like that kbin/lemmy we can choose whatever fucking avatar we want instead of being limited to customizing our snoz or wtf Reddit calls their mascot thing.

    You can still do that on new reddit. When looking at your own profile while logged in, there’s a little camera with a plus in the corner of your current avatar/placeholder. (There’s also a separate icon further to the right for uploading a banner image.)

    Edit: Dang, I didn’t expect that image to look so big, it’s only 600x300