• Brunacho@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    Pretty tiring to see complaints like “there are four equally named communities in different instances which one real bwah” as if Reddit never has had forking within their subreddits.

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      I’d highly recommend you actually read it. Once you look past the LLM-ish phrasing, it quickly becomes clear that the actual information contained is human-made with a great amount of valuable thought put into it.

      I’ve been here for a long-time (go and check if you’d like). There wasn’t a single thing in that post that made me think the author hasn’t understood the principles of the fediverse that make it so valuable or reasoned wrong about them – quite the opposite.

      This post idenifies many (if not most) of the major problems that I have had with Lemmy over the years. The onboarding improvements you’ve seemed to have at least glanced at are just the tip of the iceberg.
      I use Lemmy despite of these limitations but I am also a technical person with quite a bit of tolerance for such technological pain. The high-level improvements proposed here would meaningfully diminish these; allowing less technologically capable or tolerant people to benefit from Lemmy too.

      This is actual UX requirement engineering.

      If broader (and less technical) user adoption is a goal of the Lemmy project, I’d consider the vision outlined in this post to possibly be one of the most valuable non-technical contributions to Lemmy as a whole.
      Seriously.

      • Nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        First of all, Lemmy is open source. If you or anyone else wants to improve things, please open issues with concrete suggestions, or better yet make a pull request.

        The linked post also has various factual errors, not sure if AI hallucinations or the author was using older versions.

        The first 30 second: Stop explaining federation up front

        I changed this on join-lemmy.org a few days ago. Maybe its not reflected in other language translations yet.

        Feeds: Lemmy needs content gravity, not just content

        Not really sure what these mean, would have to see concrete examples of these supposed problems.

        Search: “Technically present” isn’t enough

        Search already shows communities first.

        Portability: Lemmy’s killer feature new to feel real

        Data migration between instances has been implemented for a long time.

  • RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but… does Lemmy want to become Reddit?

    A few years ago when I first tried Lemmy, I had a lot of the same criticisms. I had no idea what instance to choose and was agonizing over it, until I saw a comment that said “it doesn’t fucking matter what instance you start with. Just pick a big one and get going.”

    After a couple months of browsing and getting familiar, I now have multiple accounts on multiple instances and use a couple of them frequently. I don’t need one single identity on a social media platform, and because karma doesn’t matter, I jump ship on my accounts whenever I want.

    At this point, I don’t think I want Reddit users to migrate over to Lemmy. A lot of the problems with Reddit come from their users. Lemmy has a far better culture than Reddit.

    The user experience of Lemmy could improve, but there’s an assumption that Lemmy should be a kind of “Reddit killer”, but after a few years of using Lemmy, I could care less about that.

    • lemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      One thing I really miss from Reddit is that there’s almost always an expert in the comments. And I don’t mean a know-it-all, I mean people of the kind “I wrote the paper this article is based on”, “I used this exact tool professionally for the last ten years”, and of course amazing “Astronomer here”. These people come from having much larger user base. I don’t want all the people from Reddit here, but I do want more, and these in particular. Of course, if we get these, the others will follow, which will probably be sort of a problem.

      Also, it would be have a wider range of people here, now it’s very, very much skewed towards IT.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Advocatus diaboli:

      “If there’s something worth stealing, I steal!”
      –Picasso

      In this case, yeah… there’s still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I’d love to persuade more of Reddit’s better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they’re not much more than a “$” sign to spez and the investors, anyway.

      Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like… bloody hell, mate…