I was only a skeptic because the UI of Lemmy is hot garbage when you first get here, and they are crippled by the fundamental point of the infrastructure: That there’s no single “correct” place to go. Lemmy the software can’t really endorse a single instance.
But it seems like lemmy.world is that one. They should honestly just self promote as if they “are” Lemmy, and let people figure out the rest after they’re here.
For me, I just really wanted to stop using Reddit and forced myself to figure it out. It hasn’t been an awesome experience, but it feels like the right thing to do. Getting Liftoff on my android phone has helped. I’m still skeptical. And would happily ditch Lemmy if something better came along.
That there’s no single “correct” place to go. Lemmy the software can’t really endorse a single instance.
I don’t think this really matters beyond signing up for an account. You can follow a community on any federated instance, from any federated instance. So it’s practically transparent to me as a user whether your community is on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or wherever.
I think communities will naturally consolidate and diverge when and where needed. I could be wrong, but it should be interesting to watch.
the UI of Lemmy is hot garbage
Couldn’t agree more until I discovered https://wefwef.app. If you’re not familiar it’s a WebApp interface that’s trying to be a clone of Apollo and it’s made me believe this could actually work.
I was only a skeptic because the UI of Lemmy is hot garbage when you first get here, and they are crippled by the fundamental point of the infrastructure: That there’s no single “correct” place to go. Lemmy the software can’t really endorse a single instance.
But it seems like lemmy.world is that one. They should honestly just self promote as if they “are” Lemmy, and let people figure out the rest after they’re here.
For me, I just really wanted to stop using Reddit and forced myself to figure it out. It hasn’t been an awesome experience, but it feels like the right thing to do. Getting Liftoff on my android phone has helped. I’m still skeptical. And would happily ditch Lemmy if something better came along.
I don’t think this really matters beyond signing up for an account. You can follow a community on any federated instance, from any federated instance. So it’s practically transparent to me as a user whether your community is on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or wherever.
I think communities will naturally consolidate and diverge when and where needed. I could be wrong, but it should be interesting to watch.
Couldn’t agree more until I discovered https://wefwef.app. If you’re not familiar it’s a WebApp interface that’s trying to be a clone of Apollo and it’s made me believe this could actually work.
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