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Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.

I'm hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don't love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren't out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.

As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like the idea. There one major issue that I see currently, and that is discoverability. It takes some real effort and time to explore things outside of your own instance. I think the federation of pre-federation content will be important for discoverability, since the foundation of a community is in it's ranking of posts, which takes time and interaction. Right now, votes, comments, and most posts pre-federation on another instance are just not reachable.

I believe this problem can be solved, and there are a lot of motivated developers here, so I'm all in on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And unfortunately if you are the first from your instance to discover a community, currently your instance can only pull new content after you initiated the subscribe.

This obviously can be fixed with allowing the Admin to set back-pull limits. Also for discoveribility, we need a central indexer, which is possible but would need to be worked out who runs it, costs etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

looks like https://lemmyverse.net/ is doing a decent job with indexing at the moment. I do honestly feel that indexing should take place on every instance, since each instance has a unique position in the network, and the indexing parameters/ranking algorithms could be under per-instance control rather than an outside third party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.cfd is my domain which is currently redirecting to the communities section.