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How many users here do you think are going to get bored and end up back on Reddit as soon as the blackout ends? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I'm curious about people's outlook on this situation.

Edit: Wow this blew up!

Edit 2: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Edit 3: RIP my inbox! I can't believe this made /r/all!

Edit 4: We did it ~~Reddit!~~ Lemmy!

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

Mostly everyone who will try kbin/lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Unreal how bad the UI/UX is considering the time they've had to copy Reddit.

Lemmy

Posts are randomly added realtime when scrolling the main page making it unbearable
Subscribed/trending community list is a weird unaligned logo+text instead of a normal scrollable list

Kbin

How the fuck do you navigate to your subscribed "magazines"? The magazines tab just shows you list of everything and going under your subscriptions shows posts from every magazine I am subscribed to instead of letting me click on the specific magazine

"Fediverse"

Content propagation from other instances is slow(?) I want to subscribe to [email protected] but beehaw still can't find it - maybe I don't understand it well enough and it's just a temporary issue

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

your fediverse problem is because kbin.social had to temporarily defederate because its hardware couldn't keep up with demand

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's so bad then why are you still here?

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

I'm sorry but this is the wrong attitude. His concerns are legitimate, even if somewhat poorly expressed, and they are just some among many. If Lemmy and the fediverse at large wants to grow and see wider adoption, there needs to be a way to tackle these issues, or be more transparent as to why they won't be tackled in the near future, or never.

For what it's worth, I am going to stick around despite the issues, because I see there's a drive to improve and so I expect Lemmy and other fediverse platforms to get better with time, while I expect reddit to keep getting more and more worse with time, and I'm done taking that abuse.