If Reddit were to revert it’s changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?

  • AvaddonLFC ☄️ 🤘@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Most of the people fleeing Reddit aren’t leaving just because of recent changes. A lot of people were already looking for alternatives, yet failing to find one active or familiar enough. So now we’re here.

    • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
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      I dont see most less technical users moving at all without some more UI maturity. The whole federated services thing is just a bit too abstract a concept for most. And right now its difficult to find/join communities outside your instance.

      • AvaddonLFC ☄️ 🤘@lemmy.world
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        Agreed. I’ve been enjoying this site so far but I know most of my friends would hate it. It needs better UI. They also needa ELI5 all the fediverse shit and then have a TL;DR easily accesible to new visitors.

        Or we(the community) needa ELI5 that shit, make memes about them, and maybe rename the fediverse because it sounds too generic.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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        The confusion seems unwarranted to me, though. It’s literally the same as email. Every time I discuss fediverse with people, all of their confusion stems from presumed complexity that doesn’t actually exist. The server they pick matters just as much as it does for their email. So the process is: create an account somewhere, and start interacting with communities. That’s it.

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          Right. Agree. But searching for communities, especially those outside your instance can be wonky. Finding communities and grouping like communities across instances is difficult as it currently sits. And it takes a bit of understanding how to search to find things.

      • Communist@beehaw.org
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        Honestly, there’s a pull request right now on lemmy-ui for instance agnostic linking, that combined with automatically staying on your instance will completely resolve the only issue I see for normal people.

        That and a little jank here and there but that’s bound to get buffed out.

        • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
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          Agree those two changes would be good. Along with making the ability to add topic sorting or community grouping where you can view say, all “technology” communities in a url. Or all Linux communities across instances in a big group etc.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        I don’t think it’s too abstract for people. I think we’re all just really bad at explaining it to non-techies.

        When you move to a city, choosing the neighborhood you want to buy your house in doesn’t stop you from being able to drive around looking at others.

        It ain’t rocket science.

      • mustyOrange@beehaw.org
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        See my post history if the ui is bothering you. With Sylus browser add on, some very small ui tweaks make the site much easier on the eyes

    • grant 🍞@toast.ooo
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      after I found out about the fediverse I’ve wondered why not more people use it and why it wasn’t already popular

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        Because most people just don’t understand it. It’s has a high barrier of entry (relatively speaking) and there aren’t really any good mobile apps. While I love the idea of the fed Ivette I just can’t imagine trying to explain it to everyone that’s isn’t tech savvy.