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.

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Eh. I was on Mastodon for a few days then left. Turns out I don’t care to follow specific people. So it’s a bit more than the protocol I will chase. The type of interaction also matters a lot.

      • timespace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well yea, that’s not a knock against Mast, that’s a preference for a type of social media. Mast is the Twitter equivalent; if you don’t like Mast, you would t like Twitter (or vice versa as it were).

        • therealmdubbs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          I think the point of Twitter is to follow famous people. Since there are very few famous people on Mastodon it makes it less useful. They need celebrities and media platforms to make the switch. That’s not really a problem for a link aggregator like Lemmy. I think this site has a bright future.

          • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Lots of people will hate me for this take but the best part of Twitter was its recommendation algorithm specifically between 2018-2021ish. The ability for everyone to meme about the same thing in the span of a few hours was fantastic and hilarious. I generally didn’t give a shit about following famous people and have only been on Twitter for the meme culture.

            Nowadays the algorithm is TERRIBLE though. I personally can’t see myself moving to mastodon because I don’t care about individual people though.

    • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As a matter of fact: I’m already eyeing to move to Kbin as soon as I can manage to install it on my server. If something even better comes up and it also works with ActivityPub, then back to moving ships it is for me

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It seems like lemmy picked up the bulk of the refugees so far. Shifting again would be risky at this point, it just serves to dilute the numbers again. Some stay, some go etc.

      I firmly believe this is only the beginning here. Reddit is probably fine to lurk so long as old.red*it.com remains, but it has become a pretty hostile place for people who participate.

      My prediction is that reddit will just end up hosting content posted by bots and commented on by different bots and nobody will have any idea that there’s so few real users left. This will become the home for actual discussion between humans.

      • coderade@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a widely accepted standard for decentralised social media. It can be adapted to many use cases relatively easily. If someone makes a better link aggregator server based on ActivityPub, it would be much easier to bring all the lemmy data and users to it than if someone started from scratch. As in what happened going from Reddit to lemmy, as Reddit doesn’t have a standardised federation behavior.

      • Rhabuko@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not OP but probably because it let’s us all communicate with each other. I can watch und discuss stuff from Kbin and even had a couple of Mastodon users commenting in one of my threads. It doesn’t look you on a platform, everything is more or less cross platform.

  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    A lot of people switched to lemmy recently, so the development focus is on scaling for now. It’ll probably take a while until that’s sorted out properly and the devs can focus on accessibility.

    I think lemmy is a good place for this community because we don’t need to worry about big platforms overmoderating.

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Come on, give it some time. It’s coming a long way, and devs are working their ass off to deliver some quality updates.

    Also, there are a dozen apps in the works for iOS and Android that are to be released soon, if that’s not already the case. So you should have more choice to pick a better experience browsing lemmy in the coming days.

  • webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    No apollo app no reddit. I agree the UI/UX is problematic but the native reddit ad filled app is way worse. Lemmy both has lots of room to still improve the experience but its build well enough already to actually function and people to be here.

    Its also open source, decentralized, possible to self host. Aka owned by the people rather then corpos. All those things for the new homepage of the internet? I can only get so errect.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I am more than willing to wait for Lemmy to grow to see where it heads since it’s only been a thing since 2019.

    Despite it having its fair share of problems, I am more than willing to put up with this for now since we’re still scratching the surface on the potential of a decentralized social media becoming a little more mainstream.

  • DoctorFail@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    OP check out wefwef.app. It’s basically Apollo for Lemmy.

    Now it feels just like Reddit except with longer load times.

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like to remember how ugly and difficult it was to adjust to Reddit after moving from Digg’s slick 2.0 interface. I think Lemmy will face more growing pains but will be the best solution in the end.

    Reddit has literally never had a good UI/UX. It was worth it because it was the best alternative at the time.

    That said, my requirements for a reddit alternative would have to be decentralized and open source. I just couldn’t get into another situation like this one and I won’t support it.

  • hiajen@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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 ;)

  • U de Recife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been a redditor for more than 16 years. Due the the recent events, I’ve been through my comments/submission history, noticing how much more active I was in the beginning. For the past, I don’t know, 5 or more years, I’ve been just lurking less and less, to the point that when it came to delete my content and account, I didn’t even have any regrets. Just did it, and that was it.

    Now comes the fediverse. Here I am, commenting again, actively checking what’s happening here with a renewed enthusiasm. So yes, I’m excited for it being FOSS, federated, decentralized. By the people, for the people. Yay!

  • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am committed to federated services from here on out. I am personally really liking lemmy… There are some minor annoyances but nothing major. The mobile browsing experiences makes me pretty cozy. With the dark theme it’s not too far from rif. Apps and plugins are coming that will make it that next special thing. Like I couldn’t imagine aliensite without old and res. It’s coming… I’m loving it.

  • hendrik@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    What alternatives?

    Maybe ask this question again if there actually is something better. But i’d agree. The UI should be accessible for people with disability. But maybe we need to work on lemmy and make that possible instead of waiting for something else to come along.