For a sub that’s supposed to promote Reddit alternatives, there sure is a lot of pessimism on there. I see so many people dismissing Lemmy and kbin already for being too inaccessible, the UI is clunky, it’s hard to pick up etc and saying these sites will never take off. But why? Of course a platform in its infancy will have hurdles to overcome, and it takes time for devs to implement all the QOL features to make the site more intuitive. And when I see people trying to explain how Lemmy works, people just respond “Too complicated, I’m not reading all that etc.”
Do people expect a fully functional Reddit clone with all the same features to conveniently exist somewhere they can hop to? Do people not realise that Reddit itself was just as confusing when users migrated from Digg all those years ago? Do they not realise sites take time to mature?
RedditAlternatives is the only subreddit I still use because I want to help people make the jump, but it’s kinda disheartening seeing the attitudes there. Anyone has a more optimistic take on this?
Lemmy suffers for the tankie sentiments (i.e. pro-Putin and pro-CCP) of the founder and major instances. Kbin has the benefits of Lemmy without those drawbacks.
That’s how I ended up here. Originally I made an account on lemmy.ml.
Big part of why I’m on kbin despite Lemmy seeming to be more popular, and the cool thing about these sites is that it doesn’t really matter what I chose because I can see all of the content nonetheless. Federation is an amazing tech that makes me way more excited about the viability of these alternatives.
Despite the devs’ behavior, Lemmy’s Russia community actually seems pretty chill and pro-Ukraine. For example as of now the 3rd thread from the top is linking to a Western article about protesters being arrested in Russia. It’s kinda hard to tell though because there’s not much content in the community yet.