That post is actually how I got here. This is my first Lemmy comment ever.
Welcome!
Here are a few communities for you
Feel free if you have any questions!
And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let’s keep guiding them to better UX
I don’t know if we want users who can’t grasp the concept that Lemmy and Lemmy.world are different entities and thinks that all of Lemmy should just be Lemmy.com
I think just having a Lemmy branded app with a proper UX is a good thing but let’s not just throw the baby out with the bathwater chasing people who just want Lemmy to be Reddit but it doesn’t make them feel yucky using it.
Thank you for your comments on Reddit btw
I’m willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.
The first complaint is that “lemmy.world” shouldn’t exist, because websites should be dot com. That’s not a UI/UX issue, that’s just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can’t have a dot app website!
The second argument is worth looking at, but it’s unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you’re looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?
Really shows the average intelligence of the average internet user.
As I get smarter, they just stay the same!
Part of me just thinks this place needs a natural barrier to entry. Look what happened to the internet when the iPhone released.
I don’t have any issues with the lemmy interface.
I’d rather they don’t mess it up to appease people who prefer reddit’s interface, old or new.
Someone replied to their post, with arguments and explanations I personally think are pretty well though out.
Let’s keep guiding them to better UX
I’ve been trying the Photon/Voyager approach, the issue is that some people despise Photon and modernist interfaces with a passion, there’s a comment on that thread I had to link to old.lemmy.zip
Some people will never be happy…
I think people who like .old tend to be more tech savvy, and can figure out how to find a UI they like
Maybe alongside the modern UIs, you could include a line about the mlmym interfaces.
But then they’ll say it’s confusing to have several links to the same website x)
In my opinion, most people won’t get confused by the ‘old’ interface being at a different subdomain, especially as Reddit did it themselves (apparently they had
new.reddit.comwhich hosted an older redesign thanreddit.com, like wtf!?? But somehow people understood that distinction, so this should be fine) Then again, I could be too much of a nerd and overestimating people :P (insert relevent xkcd here)btw, does sopuli.xyz have the mlmym interface?
Fuck that. A slight barrier to entry keeps the Facebook crowd out.
Reddit is trash. I got banned for hating on Nazis, they will bend to Trump, cut off porn and throw the ban hammer down. Reddit is only good for finding tech answers from the past. Everything else is trash.
Be careful with that. I went back in time and edited my posts to contain small errors to make them useless wastes of time for the reader and poison AI.
That just seems malicious to anyone who might find your answer and get increasingly frustrated by your incorrect advice.
That’s OK. Reddit later forced my account from my hands and I no longer have access to it. So it’s not my problem.
They decided to ban me but keep the posts. Their loss.
No, it’s not your problem, it’s the rest of ours (thanks for that), but it is your fault.
Well, I’m kind of stuck with it at this point. I appealed it and they never answered. Not much I can do. Oh well.
I appreciate the thought/effort.
Imo, it’s gross to withold help from a fellow person just to spite a website.
(just don’t use reddit)
Oh well.
Yeah and we hate you for it.
I never got banned. I just left because the greedy little CEO is a liar that sacrificed the only thing that made the site good, 3rd party apps, on the alter of the almighty dollar during the API debacle.
To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020. The killing of 3rd party apps just gave me the motivation to finally leave
To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020.
Wasn’t that when they banned /r/chapotraphouse? 🤔
Reddit is a censorship hellhole.
The modlog is one of the greatest features of lemmy.
Fuck censorship.
Seems to depend massively on the sub though, most I am in will never see a right winger above -20 and constantly mocked at best.
It’s unfortunate that people still think Brave is a good privacy alternative. Ungoogled-Chromium is a better alternative but also unfortunately requires manual upkeep. The best alternative is to use Mull or LibreWolf currently and some form of abstraction if you’re concerned about security as well.
Why is Brave bad?
Sketchy things happened in the past, that’s all I know. I simply don’t like it since it’s still chromium engine which wants to restrict Adblock
Edit: and I guess this now. https://lemmy.ml/post/26774594
While it’s excellent that Lemmy is getting some attention out on the capitalist web, I’m not sure I’m personally interested in hearing about what is trending on Reddit in the Fediverse community - for me, Fedibridge seems like a great community specifically for that. But I might be a minority, not trying to be negativistic! :)
Shared feeling to be honest. But for people interested, join us on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com !
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Like when OP complains about the user experience with the example of accessing a not-yet-federated community, clearly a mechanical problem that can’t easily be fixed by a redesign, and the replies advertise alternate Lemmy frontends or apps. Those don’t help with OP’s issue at all.
The first point of that comment is about the interface, hence the suggestions to alternative frontends.
The community was federated, but the user wasn’t using their local version, they thought they had to use the community host instance.
