I think being commited no-matter-what to any product is unhealthy. Lemmy looks great so far, despite still being early in development. But there's also kbin and other alternatives that might improve significantly in the future - if they do, I see no reason to not change the platform.
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Connect for lemmy is rad, honestly just need to convert more people and get the apple apps out of beta
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.
[^1]: monero support would be nice though...
I like Lemmy. Version 0.18.0 fixed some annoying bugs I had so I'm quite happy about that, and newer versions will fix even more bugs.
I still want to be able to click on a message to mark it as read without having to click specifically the checkmark.
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
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.
I love it. It’s missing a lot of the things I disliked about the other place which is fantastic. It’s reasonably barebones by comparison and I am totally fine with it.
The only issue I have is some of my interests aren’t represented here (or I haven’t found them yet) and that’s something that will come with time or me actually putting in a bit of effort to create. Not the platform’s fault.
It's under active, heavy development and the devs seem to be taking merge requests for accessibility issues.
Yeah I love lemmy too. First time I feel the envy to comment instead of just lurking.
I'm interested to know specifically what about the UI/UX makes you physically ill? Even as someone without a physical disability I can see issues, but would love to hear more about your perspecive.
As long as this "next best thing" retains federation with Activity Pub, I might migrate. Or not. I'm already feeling like an old, change resistant curmudgeon.
As someone who's been sold to Elixir programming, I just want more instances running with Pleroma or some fork (https://github.com/uiri/pleroma), as that already deals very well with large numbers of users with low resource usage, and scales easily.
My server is still on 0.17.4 (I think due to major security issues with 0.18.0) and the experience is AWEFUL. I also do not want an app but a web interface. Wefwef seam promising.
Also Lemmy needs a lot more content. I hope it will come but I fear the future will be a lot more fragmented. Some of my subreddits moved to their own Discourse instances which are not federated unfortunately. Having to check 10 forums is really annoying.
You can subscribe to their RSS and use a feed aggregator so you don't have to checkout every single website everytime
Definitely sticking to lemmy.the fact that I don’t need an “app” or is controlled by some kinda App Store is a win for me.
This may be a silly reason, but I'm unable to easily view communities from other federated instances. I wonder if it's just NSFW content? A lot of the more mature content is basically unavailable (I'm registered to sopuli.xyz), which is essentially any WTF or other content with warnings. I may be doing this wrong but I don't like having my content throttled, even unintentionally.
Lemmynsfw is blocked on your instance if that's what you were trying to view https://sopuli.xyz/instances
To me it’s already something that someone has actually moved to Lemmy. As happened with Twitter, the thing lasted a few weeks and almost everyone went back from Mastodon. I have no faith in redditors, this is probably just a phase
Im 100% all in on lemmy and its replaced reddit in its entirety for me and works well using the lemmy app. I also have enough content here to satisfy me so will not be moving unless this stops.
I'm intrigued by the idea of nomadic communities jumping from platform to platform. Maybe that will become necessary. Each instance might be less stable than the mega-sites we're used to.
The instance itself is run by the head mod though; I'd say it's much better than relying on a company that might shut down the sub any time
Not committed, I like Lemmy so far and have no reason to go back to Reddit (I miss mexican news and memes [not the propaganda that the mods from the main sub enabled]), but if something better arises I could easily move over because why not?
Personally I am liking squabbles.io way more and spend most of my "reddit replacement time" there. The UX of Lemmy is just woefully short of what I want.
It looks nice and kinda more mature, but I'm in love with the Fediverse.
The only permanent platform on the internet is usenet.
Hopefully Lemmy matures into something beautiful, but if not, usenet will always be there!
Staying for sure!