Memes about the Fediverse
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Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
The problem for me was not Lemmy. I still believe in Lemmy, the Prolem was that slrpnk.net really was not user friendly. I'm writting this from phtn.app which someone told me about and it's awesome! Looks wayyy more like Mastodon and something from today :D
Glad that you found it, enjoy!
I'm using the Sync mobile app. I should try another one just to see what's out there. Are you aware of any third party apps that can be used on desktop?
The Sync app is great, only thing that bothered me compared to Reddit was that I would see again and again posts I've seen in the day when reopening the app later in the day, haven't tried anyting else yet
Sorting by active, post tend to stay on the "front page" for a day or 2. I like sorting by 12 hour top, keeps things fresher wile still getting interesting post.
Yeah. Is that just due to the small size of the user base, or does reddit hide posts you've already seen?
I would love a way of minimizing comments as you read them like on Reddit. It would make avoiding a long string of comments deviating from the topic much easier
Its the hard Right turn that most subs took that is keeping me away
Popular/Unpopular opinion : Lemmy is currently perfectly sized. The amount of altrighters and trolls one may encounter is low enough to make is a healthy network. Depending on the people leaving reddit, it might be a blessing... or a curse.
Counterpoint: There still is too little activity within communities that aren't tech related for me to say that it's the perfect size. I think we still need a good number of non-tech focused users here. Also, the jokes are stale, but reddit has that issue too.
Nah. All the niche communities are practically dead. Weeks go by between posts in most C's that aren't free concentrated big ones, most of those vaguely political in nature.
Unpopular/Popular opinion: the federal structure of lemmy makes it easier to stick to your bubble. Altrighters will eventually have their own instances you can easily block or defederate from. So each one's "observable fediverse" will always be perfectly sized.
Fair
Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big
What would you like to see improved ? This could be great contributions to the codebase :)
I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.
Here's a routine occurence: i'm browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i'm not logged in. This is how i find out i've accidentally left my instance. It's cooked at that point, i'm not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i'd have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i've opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.
I don't doubt that there's loads of work done in the backend that i don't see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That's right, it's been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven't seen glaring problems adressed.
Even when I do stay on my instance, I randomly get logged out every few minutes. Only happens on my iPhone, never my computer, but it heavily discourages me from upvoting let alone posting.
Also the fact I have to select the language every time is really annoying. When have I ever posted something not in “English”?
I see, I really need to get started using the official front-end more to understand UX problems :)
The web UI is pretty bad IMO. We need to get some serious designers on that.
AFAIK you can change the UI style a bit in your profile settings, but yeah, i guess more variants in appearance could help.
Are you aware of old.lemmy.world ?
Hah, that's dumb, and also cool. I might end up actually using it..
I've found a good 3rd party web app, Alexandrite.app although that's just another hurdle to entry like picking an instance. The official web UI should be much better.
Try a.lemmy.world
How many of these alternative UIs are there?
From LW sidebar
https://a.lemmy.world/ - Alexandrite UI
https://photon.lemmy.world/ - Photon UI
https://m.lemmy.world/ - Voyager mobile UI
https://old.lemmy.world/ - A familiar UI
Loads. I don't know if there is a list anywhere.
Could probably drag up DNS records or cert records, if it's not all wildcards
Nice, that's actually exactly the UI alaxandrite.app gives lemmings.world
Yea there are just way too many hurdles