I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted.
Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like “yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org” 🤦♂️
It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.
This and the overwhelming number of comments being “against the mod protests” just prompts me to question whether there isn’t some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.
Here’s an example: how can I subscribe to the topics I want to follow? I don’t want to see the 198 or whatever it is posts. Nor programmer humour. Lemmy has a great community of fans and users but if I can’t see only what I want I’m not going to use it.
I don’t know about lemmy but I’m using kbin and it’s pretty easy to subscribe to magazines (aka communities) and block the ones I don’t want to see
It’s the same in Lemmy, I’d say it’s even a bit easier. Default is local/active, and that has a lot of noise depending on the instance. But it’s only a click to switch to subscribed. And it’s easy to subscribe to or block communities as well.
Speaking of Kbin i’ve had one gripe
If you turn on the top bar, it doesn’t show your subscribed magazines, just random magazines. I can click the Subscribed page but if nobody has posted in that magazine today It won’t show up.
I did just find that there is a place that just lists the magazine subscriptions if you need to see them, but it’s tucked in profile and you actually have to scroll to the right of the profile options to see it.
Yeah, and you can even make the view with only your subscribed communities the default when you open the site
Yeah tbh while obviously not going to be as polished as the reddit app or a third party app because they have YEARS more headway, I find kbin to be working pretty fuckin good. If you told me a few months ago I would be rarely if ever checking reddit I would have laughed.
It has it’s problems as anything like this will , but most of the stuff I want is working fine.
If you are not subscribing to anything, then the only two “walls” you can see is “local” and “all”. “Local” showing posts from communities on your Lemmy server and “all” showing posts from every known Lemmy server.
“Oh no … my very new free software that’s not selling my data and run by VC overlords has some bugs”
I know I’m being an asshole there, but this is about more than usability, it’s about values and speaking with your feet. Not that your comments about usability and bugs don’t matter … they do! My issue is that it is way too normal to put convenience and usability front, center and above everything else.
So many conversations with intelligent people about things like this end with “but is it as convenient!?” If that’s all we care about, then we don’t really deserve anything better. In the mean time, we can try to adjust what we and others care about.
I could really care less if it’s a part of something “good”. I just want somewhere to kick back and relax, maybe learn something or gain a new perspective. For that purpose convenience is king. In any case the better the product the more others will use federated alternatives and better/more diverse the content would be. And yeah, I already threw money at the devs to show my appreciation for what’s been built so far.
I mean, I’m willing to subscribe to a Reddit service, too, if their in-house app wasn’t hot shit.
I definitely get where you’re coming from and at least you’re giving alternatives a shot. Don’t abandon Reddit just yet, just use both even if that means Reddit is still your main.
Unfortunately no one can compete with the big tech companies anymore both in scale and user experience. The most you can hope for is to keep alternatives afloat as a solid secondary option and hope they gradually improve. If only tech savvy people hang out here then a lot of the UI jank will go uncontested and unnoticed.
Couldn’t.
If you COULD care less, then you still care to some degree because there is a level of caring you COULD go down to.
If you COULDN’T care less, then you are literally already at the lowest level of caring and could not possibly go lower.
LOL fair. I’m the usually the guy that corrects they’re grammer