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No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.

I'm hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don't love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren't out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.

As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.

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[–] Relected@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

yes, focused on Lemmy for now, its the best alternative

it will get updated and developed overtime, even if the devs went full political someone would just fork the project and we would still federate anyways, we have nothing to lose if we commit

[–] jim@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

It's not about what it is today but what it can be. I agree that there are a bunch of problems, but the future does look bright.

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not a mod so you might not care about my opinion but...

I don't hate lemmy and hope it will continue to improve but at the same time, I still feel the UI is a bit minimal and lacking on a lot of features right now (TBF probably some of it is me getting used to it still). Some of this works in its favor tho.. like if I created a new account on reddit, I'd have to deal with all the karma bs again before I could even post to most subs. Here, this is my first post on this instance, and no problems AFAICT... which is really fucking awesome IMO. Other things, like how to show all communities sorted by # of subscribers or how I search for a specific phrase in a specific community (like "rootless docker" + "qbittorrent" in c/Piracy for instance), I am still a bit unclear if there is even a way to do that.

I don't see anything overtaking lemmy immediately. kbin is the next closest one I can think of that is open-source + federated and not controlled by a company and I think it is even less smooth than lemmy right now. There's mastodon but IMO that is more twitter alternative than reddit alternative.

But I guess if something came along that checked all the right boxes (foss, federated, markdown, long-form comments, more features, etc) then I would at least be open to considering it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's plenty of apps now and if you want a web app have you tried wefwef?

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, should have clarified... I meant on desktop site via browser.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's supposed to support desktop too but I haven't tried. May still look more like a mobile app though. I'm sure someone will make a desktop focused one as well. I've already seen a lot of user scripts.

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

That's cool and I genuinely wish them luck with it, as it will probably help lemmy adoption... but for me, I'm pretty partial to staying in the browser. Have a shit load of addons I like, including userscripts. plus, I run librewolf with a firejail container and I'm too lazy to write a new profile for whatever app just for one site lol. Still I hope after the infra issues get some love that the site UI won't end up lagging too far behind the apps

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[–] FXSonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly i would go back to reddit if the hole drama ends. Its not my intension to be rude by any means but I honestly dont care about the politics, im here to pirate free software

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[–] hiajen@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Looking at other fedi apps like Mastodon, accessibility and UI/UX will soon follow. Which is promising.

But yes, it's the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse. So we'll see what the future brings ;)

[–] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I'm being honest, I can see myself switching pretty quickly. I'm still pretty new to all this Fediverse stuff and changes happen all the time.

The main thing that irks me about Lemmy right now is the UI and the latency. I've used Jerboa, and now I'm using Liftoff and I'm really not a fan of the UI. I was a Boost for Reddit user, so if Boost was somehow reworked for Lemmy, I'd be more than happy to use it (I'm not trying to demand this, just saying that's what I'd like to see in apps).

The other issue is latency. The dbzer0 instance is already pretty damn slow for me, but even lemmy.world takes so long for loading comments and posting is the most annoying.

[–] kholdstayr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm not a fan of it. I have three separate accounts on lemmy servers. I don't like the separation of different servers that are happening and I feel like it's all a big mess. I know it can improve but so far I'm not impressed. I also agree with others that it is very slow in terms of performance.

[–] friedtofu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What...why? You only need one account. You have the ability to join, read, and post on any other federated "magazine". The only caveat is if a site decides to break their ties like beehaw.org did from Lemmy.world until the latter got their bot situation/login guardrails in place.

The easiest way IMO is to just subscribe to other communities(make sure you search 'all' communities instead of 'local'. )

If you're using a web browser(mobile or desktop) if you're looking for a specific community you can just append it to the end of your home url if the above solution isn't working for whatever reason but I wouldn't expect anyone would need to manually type out these urls.

Example:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/(community)@[instance] - this is not a working site just a reference

so the following links all end up on the same technology community on beehaw.org:

open me

https://beehaw.org/c/technology

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/technology@beehaw.org

https://lemmy.world/c/technology@beehaw.org

https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org

The only confusing thing that I think may get people is if they create accounts on both Kevin and Lemmy and start getting confused by magazine vs collection(essentially subreddits or /r/ from reddit)

Also maybe, why does data such as upvotes, user's subscribed, upvotes/boosts look different on(for instance):

  1. https://lemmy.world/c/technology@beehaw.org

vs

  1. https://beehaw.org/c/technology ?

It's the same posts and the same comments, you aren't missing out on anything . However the upvotes, views, and subscribers are all coming from lemmy.world specifically to https://beehaw.org/c/technology

You aren't seeing beehaw's upvotes and number of subscriber, but just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. This is why I'd urge for people to find one instance to call home. If you make accounts on multiple instances it's just going to cause confusion for no good reason.

I think there have been enough threads created on this but I hope this helps you out.

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