It's not about what it is today but what it can be. I agree that there are a bunch of problems, but the future does look bright.
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I don't hate lemmy and hope it will continue to improve but at the same time, I still feel the UI is a bit minimal and lacking on a lot of features right now (TBF probably some of it is me getting used to it still).
I don't see anything overtaking lemmy immediately. kbin is the next closest one I can think of that is open-source + federated and not controlled by a company and I think it is even less smooth than lemmy right now. There's mastodon but IMO that is more twitter alternative than reddit alternative.
But I guess if something came along that checked all the right boxes (foss, federated, more features, etc) then I would at least be open to considering it.
There's plenty of apps now and if you want a web app have you tried wefwef?
Sorry, should have clarified... I meant on desktop site via browser.
It's supposed to support desktop too but I haven't tried. May still look more like a mobile app though. I'm sure someone will make a desktop focused one as well. I've already seen a lot of user scripts.
That's cool and I genuinely wish them luck with it, as it will probably help lemmy adoption... but for me, I'm pretty partial to staying in the browser. Have a shit load of addons I like, including userscripts. plus, I run librewolf with a firejail container and I'm too lazy to write a new profile for whatever app just for one site lol. Still I hope after the infra issues get some love that the site UI won't end up lagging too far behind the apps
Whoa, thanks for sharing this. It looks great!
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I'm not a fan of it. I have three separate accounts on lemmy servers. I don't like the separation of different servers that are happening and I feel like it's all a big mess. I know it can improve but so far I'm not impressed. I also agree with others that it is very slow in terms of performance.
What...why? You only need one account. You have the ability to join, read, and post on any other federated "magazine". The only caveat is if a site decides to break their ties like beehaw.org did from Lemmy.world until the latter got their bot situation/login guardrails in place.
The easiest way IMO is to just subscribe to other communities(make sure you search 'all' communities instead of 'local'. )
If you're using a web browser(mobile or desktop) if you're looking for a specific community you can just append it to the end of your home url if the above solution isn't working for whatever reason but I wouldn't expect anyone would need to manually type out these urls.
Example:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/(community)@[instance] - this is not a working site just a reference
so the following links all end up on the same technology community on beehaw.org:
open me
https://beehaw.org/c/technology
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
The only confusing thing that I think may get people is if they create accounts on both Kevin and Lemmy and start getting confused by magazine vs collection(essentially subreddits or /r/ from reddit)
Also maybe, why does data such as upvotes, user's subscribed, upvotes/boosts look different on(for instance):
vs
It's the same posts and the same comments, you aren't missing out on anything . However the upvotes, views, and subscribers are all coming from lemmy.world specifically to https://beehaw.org/c/technology
You aren't seeing beehaw's upvotes and number of subscriber, but just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. This is why I'd urge for people to find one instance to call home. If you make accounts on multiple instances it's just going to cause confusion for no good reason.
I think there have been enough threads created on this but I hope this helps you out.
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The apps will dictate where people go. It's only natural
If I'm being honest, I can see myself switching pretty quickly. I'm still pretty new to all this Fediverse stuff and changes happen all the time.
The main thing that irks me about Lemmy right now is the UI and the latency. I've used Jerboa, and now I'm using Liftoff and I'm really not a fan of the UI. I was a Boost for Reddit user, so if Boost was somehow reworked for Lemmy, I'd be more than happy to use it (I'm not trying to demand this, just saying that's what I'd like to see in apps).
The other issue is latency. The dbzer0 instance is already pretty damn slow for me, but even lemmy.world takes so long for loading comments and posting is the most annoying.
Looking at other fedi apps like Mastodon, accessibility and UI/UX will soon follow. Which is promising.
But yes, it's the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse. So we'll see what the future brings ;)
It's still early but I wouldn't expect the community to suddenly move to something new/better in the very near future. People here are still getting used to Lemmy/Fediverse.
Personally I'm happy with how things are progressing but you're right, stuff like UI/UX needs more fine tuning.. I'd expect it to get better as things go on. Also keep in mind since everything is federated here you could technically still participate via any other software that is also federated to Lemmy (signing up to a Kbin instance would be the closest at the moment).