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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think being open to change is good. Right now, I'm committed to lemmy. There are a few wrinkles here and there, so I'm hoping those things get sorted out.

However, if it turns to shit or a much better one comes along, then I'll definitely consider moving. Individually that's easy. For a community, though, it might be challenging.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think being commited no-matter-what to any product is unhealthy. Lemmy looks great so far, despite still being early in development. But there's also kbin and other alternatives that might improve significantly in the future - if they do, I see no reason to not change the platform.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Connect for lemmy is rad, honestly just need to convert more people and get the apple apps out of beta

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Lemmy has certainly already won me over reddit. Going back to centralized social media is something I will actively avoid if at all possible.

However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub. Having your account/identity tied so strongly to a particular instance is undesirable. As soon as there is a reddit-like (or even forum-like) client for nostr which is relatively active/polished, I will switch. Nip 172 can't come soon enough.

In addition to being less popular / newer than activitypub, nostr is also full of bitcoin[^1] bros and twitter refugees (not my crowd). But frankly I think complaints about that are like the complaints that lemmy is a place for tankies a couple years ago when people's only exposure was to a (much smaller than today) lemmy.ml.

[^1]: monero support would be nice though...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like Lemmy. Version 0.18.0 fixed some annoying bugs I had so I'm quite happy about that, and newer versions will fix even more bugs.

I still want to be able to click on a message to mark it as read without having to click specifically the checkmark.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe Lemmy won't be the right fit in the longer run, although development seems pretty good currently.

Whats more important to me is, how the adoption of ActivityPub evolves and the Fediverse developes in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

There is way too little nsfw content on here to make this a permanent replacement

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Then post some yourself. People love to complain without doing anything about it. That is why so many people will continue to use Reddit even if they have to use the crappy app they complained so much about. Pathetic

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I love it. It’s missing a lot of the things I disliked about the other place which is fantastic. It’s reasonably barebones by comparison and I am totally fine with it.

The only issue I have is some of my interests aren’t represented here (or I haven’t found them yet) and that’s something that will come with time or me actually putting in a bit of effort to create. Not the platform’s fault.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As long as this "next best thing" retains federation with Activity Pub, I might migrate. Or not. I'm already feeling like an old, change resistant curmudgeon.

As someone who's been sold to Elixir programming, I just want more instances running with Pleroma or some fork (https://github.com/uiri/pleroma), as that already deals very well with large numbers of users with low resource usage, and scales easily.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's under active, heavy development and the devs seem to be taking merge requests for accessibility issues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah I love lemmy too. First time I feel the envy to comment instead of just lurking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm interested to know specifically what about the UI/UX makes you physically ill? Even as someone without a physical disability I can see issues, but would love to hear more about your perspecive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My server is still on 0.17.4 (I think due to major security issues with 0.18.0) and the experience is AWEFUL. I also do not want an app but a web interface. Wefwef seam promising.

Also Lemmy needs a lot more content. I hope it will come but I fear the future will be a lot more fragmented. Some of my subreddits moved to their own Discourse instances which are not federated unfortunately. Having to check 10 forums is really annoying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can subscribe to their RSS and use a feed aggregator so you don't have to checkout every single website everytime

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To me it’s already something that someone has actually moved to Lemmy. As happened with Twitter, the thing lasted a few weeks and almost everyone went back from Mastodon. I have no faith in redditors, this is probably just a phase

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This may be a silly reason, but I'm unable to easily view communities from other federated instances. I wonder if it's just NSFW content? A lot of the more mature content is basically unavailable (I'm registered to sopuli.xyz), which is essentially any WTF or other content with warnings. I may be doing this wrong but I don't like having my content throttled, even unintentionally.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmynsfw is blocked on your instance if that's what you were trying to view https://sopuli.xyz/instances

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely sticking to lemmy.the fact that I don’t need an “app” or is controlled by some kinda App Store is a win for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Im 100% all in on lemmy and its replaced reddit in its entirety for me and works well using the lemmy app. I also have enough content here to satisfy me so will not be moving unless this stops.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm intrigued by the idea of nomadic communities jumping from platform to platform. Maybe that will become necessary. Each instance might be less stable than the mega-sites we're used to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The instance itself is run by the head mod though; I'd say it's much better than relying on a company that might shut down the sub any time

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I am liking squabbles.io way more and spend most of my "reddit replacement time" there. The UX of Lemmy is just woefully short of what I want.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not committed, I like Lemmy so far and have no reason to go back to Reddit (I miss mexican news and memes [not the propaganda that the mods from the main sub enabled]), but if something better arises I could easily move over because why not?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only permanent platform on the internet is usenet.

Hopefully Lemmy matures into something beautiful, but if not, usenet will always be there!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Staying for sure!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is great about Lemmy is that anyone could sit down right now and improve the UI/UX.

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