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sh.itjust.works is an unbearable name to read. i read dots in a website link like the end of a sentence (ex lemmy.world would be lemmy {break} dot {break} world.) good instance, despise the name

What should we do about Threads? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

i appreciate the message but what is that ui design???

the floating hearts that go over the text. the neon pink background. the fact that this serious pact is in all lowercase (i know im typing in all lowercase, but i think the fedipact is different from an internet forum). the weird text animation for hyperlinks that makes it unreadable for a second. this does not lead to any reasonable credibility

We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (23 children)

congrats from .ca!

while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the "main" instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx

Goodnight, RIF in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

RID (reddit is dead)

...very ironic acronym, lol

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unpopular opinion: i dont like the reliance on lemmy third party apps (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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you're gonna have to hear me out on this one.

so, we all obviously know reddit had a lot of third party apps, due to how bad the official reddit app was.

but heres the thing, right? this isn't reddit. this is a federated alternative, where the owners arent just corporate shills who dont have to care about making a usable app. i appreciate all of the options, dont get me wrong, and i appreciate the tons of effort put into them. but...will lemmy ever be accessable if you have to look up lists of apps to even browse it on mobile?

it makes no sense to me. i think what the lemmy developers should be doing is working on or improving a mobile app; again, this is not reddit, and nobody has to deal with a bad mobile app because all of the people who work on the project are under the whims of a corporate product with over, like, 100 million daily users.

i appreciate the options a lot. i really do. but if the culture of 'go on a separate app to browse on mobile' persists for lemmy, which is way smaller and prone to skepticism, not to mention federation being confusing at first and its poor user joining page (join-lemmy.org), all the reliance on getting other people to make mobile apps does is throttle site growth, in my opinion.

td;lr official lemmy app pls (if feasable)

So, how do we think this ends? in c/[email protected]

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

you cant really return to normalcy from this, but i dont think most users care. whenever i get into a casual convo about the fediverse online, the general consensus from people is 'yeah reddit isnt going to die, i'll stay on reddit for my communities'. so if the majority think reddit isn't going to die and continue using the site, it probably wont die! it'll just go back to normal with a few million less users (which actually isnt that much for a big site) unless spez hilariously fucks up

really the fediverse is just a lot of people who like tech at the end of the day, not the average web user

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? in c/[email protected]

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

i like the community but

this app needs a better ui...i know that comes secondary but it just seems to vague. whats with the weirdly small coloured thread indicators?
theres gotta be a better explanation of federation out there. there's gotta be. i didn't understand it for days because i couldnt find any decent sources on lemmy

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