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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Fediverse apps (though not Lemmy yet because they sort of accidentally exploded in popularity) let you migrate your data. This is the killer app, so there’s very little opportunity for Lemmy to “go bad”. Unlike Reddit where this sort of thing has to be built out separately and Reddit itself may take action (such as removing API, because they think they own your data), Fediverse explicitly has the functionality so you can move. This means moving from Lemmy to some other fedi-app should be fairly easy.
Unfortunately migration isn’t built into Lemmy yet, but I’d guess it’s on their feature wishlist.
There are issues opened on the GitHub for it already.
Mastodon already has it; it just needs to made a thing in Lemmy too.
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My understanding is that the functionality does not exist yet, but fediverse apps should have apis which enable this (which means it should be on the roadmap for lemmy). Since then I’ve learned that these APIs have some holes but overall the intent IIUC is that you can take your content and go elsewhere. This means instances cannot pull a reddit and leverage the content against you.