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.
Lemmy has certainly already won me over reddit. Going back to centralized social media is something I will actively avoid if at all possible.
However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub. Having your account/identity tied so strongly to a particular instance is undesirable. As soon as there is a reddit-like (or even forum-like) client for nostr which is relatively active/polished, I will switch. Nip 172 can’t come soon enough.
In addition to being less popular / newer than activitypub, nostr is also full of bitcoin[1] bros and twitter refugees (not my crowd). But frankly I think complaints about that are like the complaints that lemmy is a place for tankies a couple years ago when people’s only exposure was to a (much smaller than today) lemmy.ml.
monero support would be nice though… ↩︎
I’m not necessarily committed to Lemmy, but I am fairly committed to a fediverse Reddit-like app. And Lemmy is the one I’ve liked the most. The nice thing is, if something comes along that you prefer, you could switch to that and we’d still be able to interact.
As long as that other app also uses activitypub which might not be the case
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 ;)
I started on Mastodon last year and watching it increase in size by orders of magnitude over the last several months has been a beautiful thing to watch. I am thrilled Lemmy has taken off, finally. The fediverse has restored my faith in humanity quite a bit and consuming it feels healthier, there is no way I am going back to centralised platforms. Come to mastodon and get a glimpse at what Lemmy may become. :)
100% agree!
But yes, it’s the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse.
Agreed. I think the fediverse is still pioneer territory.
There is way too little nsfw content on here to make this a permanent replacement
Then post some yourself. People love to complain without doing anything about it. That is why so many people will continue to use Reddit even if they have to use the crappy app they complained so much about. Pathetic
I‘m committed to decentralized social media, so for now that’s this and kbin yeah.
I hope though that eventually a better UI in some app can help with your disability, being physically ill doesn‘t sound like a good time at all.
Same. The UI and apps and whatnot will all improve given time. You already have a bunch of new people working on new apps.
I am hard committing to decentralized social media.
Honestly i would go back to reddit if the hole drama ends. Its not my intension to be rude by any means but I honestly dont care about the politics, im here to pirate free software
Do you care about not seeing ads? Since you apparently like getting stuff for free: this is the free version of reddit
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.
Generally, you do not need multiple accounts on different lemmy servers. You can “use” the other servers with one account. And, that you have multiple different servers, is by design.
Or are you referring to defederation, when you are writing about “seperation”?
Maybe Lemmy won’t be the right fit in the longer run, although development seems pretty good currently.
Whats more important to me is, how the adoption of ActivityPub evolves and the Fediverse developes in the long run.
Staying for sure!
