Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
Its the hard Right turn that most subs took that is keeping me away
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Popular/Unpopular opinion : Lemmy is currently perfectly sized. The amount of altrighters and trolls one may encounter is low enough to make is a healthy network. Depending on the people leaving reddit, it might be a blessing... or a curse.
Unpopular/Popular opinion: the federal structure of lemmy makes it easier to stick to your bubble. Altrighters will eventually have their own instances you can easily block or defederate from. So each one's "observable fediverse" will always be perfectly sized.
Fair
Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big
What would you like to see improved ? This could be great contributions to the codebase :)
The web UI is pretty bad IMO. We need to get some serious designers on that.
I've found a good 3rd party web app, Alexandrite.app although that's just another hurdle to entry like picking an instance. The official web UI should be much better.
Yea there are just way too many hurdles
If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let's be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like "already has been" is ... a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that'll be fun.
Which is why Musk will keep spez to take the blame, just tweaking the site slightly to not allow it to ban links to X anymore.
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That will be when old.reddit is culled. They have been preparing to quell future dissidents for a year now and this decision would be the only one that I can think of which would bring that much outrage
Just a heads up it's old.reddit.com. Oh and "quell" - sorry.
Shit
Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren't going to switch no matter what happens. We'll see.
They're far too addicted to the algorithmic brain rot to switch of their free will.
Tbf there is FAR more content there, and also somehow less authoritarianism and echo chamber effect than here - like we have the modlog but they have modmail and the ability for people to continue their already started conversations on posts after removal from the sub, while here (without even a notification sent to the user) we simply have a message like "Rule 1" (which says nothing at all about why a message might have been removed...?).
If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there's hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.
Sublinks
I would just refrain from mentioning Sublinks until there is at least a working instance with a minimal product
There is https://demo.sublinks.org/, but yeah it's nowhere close to being actually functional unlike PieFed that can almost be a daily driver.
There will, some day, be a mass exodus away from reddit. But it's not gonna be to lemmy.
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Well I'm here to stay because fuck reddit
Yeah, ever since Apollo died, I can't go back.
Having Voyager on Android has been a real life saver.
Same for me, but for Sync. I liked it here immediately but when the dev put out Sync for Lemmy like a month later I was so happy.
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