I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.

  • sibe@beehaw.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mostly everyone who will try kbin/lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Unreal how bad the UI/UX is considering the time they’ve had to copy Reddit.

    Lemmy

    • Posts are randomly added realtime when scrolling the main page making it unbearable
    • Subscribed/trending community list is a weird unaligned logo+text instead of a normal scrollable list

    Kbin

    • How the fuck do you navigate to your subscribed “magazines”? The magazines tab just shows you list of everything and going under your subscriptions shows posts from every magazine I am subscribed to instead of letting me click on the specific magazine

    “Fediverse”

    • Content propagation from other instances is slow(?) I want to subscribe to [email protected] but beehaw still can’t find it - maybe I don’t understand it well enough and it’s just a temporary issue
    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      your fediverse problem is because kbin.social had to temporarily defederate because its hardware couldn’t keep up with demand

    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do note that a lot of this is created and maintained by people who don’t have it as a full-time job and who likely have not experienced the surge of users that are currently moving from reddit. There are growing pains, there are going to be more, that’s an unfortunate fact of the matter.

      I think what will end up as a “make or break” factor for most is whether you believe in the underlying concept or not. Basically, do you believe in having a form of social media that is independent and federated, or do you prefer one that is centralized.

      All this probably doesn’t ease your frustrations but I think we all need to try to be patient at this point in time. Do come with constructive criticism, that is almost always beneficial, but be aware that it’s gonna take time to get everything sorted.

    • Clbull@beehaw.org
      0·
      1 year ago

      I agree that Lemmy needs massive improvements to compete with Reddit, but it’s still an improvement over Mastodon.

      For an open source hobbyist project, it’s quite good. I just hope that programmers help out.

      • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think Mastodon isn’t trying to solve the Reddit usecase though. As a Twitter replacement, Mastodon is great from a UI/UX perspective.

      • fernandofig@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry but this is the wrong attitude. His concerns are legitimate, even if somewhat poorly expressed, and they are just some among many. If Lemmy and the fediverse at large wants to grow and see wider adoption, there needs to be a way to tackle these issues, or be more transparent as to why they won’t be tackled in the near future, or never.

        For what it’s worth, I am going to stick around despite the issues, because I see there’s a drive to improve and so I expect Lemmy and other fediverse platforms to get better with time, while I expect reddit to keep getting more and more worse with time, and I’m done taking that abuse.

      • hydrospanner@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Bad take.

        Someone can point out the issues that lead to their dissatisfaction without it being a case of “then you should leave”.

        I don’t think that’s the sort of attitude we should be adopting in this community, and certainly not at this stage in the game.

      • sibe@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Cause the subreddits I’m interested in are private at the moment? What is this question lol