Memes about the Fediverse
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Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
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
Its the hard Right turn that most subs took that is keeping me away
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 :)
I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.
Here's a routine occurence: i'm browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i'm not logged in. This is how i find out i've accidentally left my instance. It's cooked at that point, i'm not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i'd have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i've opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.
I don't doubt that there's loads of work done in the backend that i don't see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That's right, it's been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven't seen glaring problems adressed.
The web UI is pretty bad IMO. We need to get some serious designers on that.
Are you aware of old.lemmy.world ?
lol, that's cool! no i wasn't
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.
Try a.lemmy.world
Nice, that's actually exactly the UI alaxandrite.app gives lemmings.world
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.
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
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.
I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn't always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I'm guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they've become 🙂
I loved Apollo. Now I love Voyager
I got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram....