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Will Lemmy ever replace Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was wondering what the point of lemmy was, if we can't get a certain number of people, we won't be able to thrive as a community and I don't see lots of people joining even though it is an open-source and decentralised forum unlike reddit.

There are many obvious things lemmy could do better, should I make a report about it? I think we are lagging behind and not doing things which are obvious. A better GUI for mobile website would be one of the top suggestions I have. thoughs?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@libre_warrior @triplenadir Could you be more specific? What exactly isn't humane in Lemmy's design?

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

Justifications for design choices, backed up by principles that creates the foundation for a humane platform. There needs to be a justification for how a platform is presented like it is. What is the purpose of the platform? Who is the target audience? And build everything from there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is helpful. There's also the ethical.net definition of "humane technology". It would be amazing for someone to do some user research, or a usability study. Are you volunteering? 😉

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

@libre_warrior In addition to my reply to another of your comments let me add

Justifications for design choices

The justification for a design doesn't matter as much as the result itself. Just because something wasn't built thinking about the usecase you have in mind doesn't mean it cannot fit that purpose.