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Today marks my first day on lemmy after leaving Reddit after 3 years, I already like the platform I just wish their was a mobile app, and wish the mobile web support was a bit more polished but i understand it’s still in it’s earlier stages

  • anonaddy29OP
    8·
    4 years ago

    gotta understand lemmy is still a beta, and has a lot of potential moving forward. Although you are right about reddit having a better UX and web-design, but subs come with users, the more users the subs. Adoption only happens with pioneers. But one field lemmy does do good is privacy as it’s decentralized and soon to be connected to fediverse

    • ketchup
      2·
      4 years ago

      Adoption only happens with pioneers

      Well said!
      Personally I think lemmy managed quite well to keep their politics under soft-wraps so to speak. The “empire” conspiracies rarely end up on front-page. I think of all reddit clones Lemmy has the best chance and it’s nice to see it unfold!

      I hope the maintainers find the strength to continue with this and launch federation soon — that’ll be huge for the platform. I really liked Prismo but it never managed to launch federation support, hopefully Lemmy managed to cross this step.

      Regarding UX I already wrote few greasemonkey improvements that make it a much better experience. I see few issues on github already but it seems to be low priority so maybe I should make my scripts sharable with other users 🤔

      • anonaddy29OP
        2·
        4 years ago

        yeah i’m really hoping to see lemmy succeed to, it’s always hard for early starting projects cause a big deal breaker is funding. And you can’t get funding if their is no user base. The best way to get user base is through influencers though get 1 influencer on the platform the rest follow like sheep

        • jsgohac
          3·
          4 years ago

          what kind of funding do you mean? I hope this remains true for the life of lemmy:

          Lemmy is free, open-source software, with no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever.

          also, do we really want influencers and sheep?

          • anonaddy29OP
            2·
            4 years ago

            Funding to keep the project alive, everything costs money. And yes influencers bring people and people talk to people and so on.

            • jsgohac
              2·
              4 years ago

              The tildes model (though invite only) seems appealing … here is a breakdown of their costs and donations:

              https://tildes.net/financials

              and on tildes potential lack of funding

              What if you don’t get enough donations to run the site full-time?

              One of the best parts about avoiding venture capital and other forms of investment is that there’s no pressure. Tildes doesn’t have to reach certain thresholds of traffic or revenue to prevent shutting down. The worst case is just that I end up running Tildes as a side project, and hope that it eventually grows to a point where it’s sustainable to work on full-time.

              granted, one main goal for lemmy is federation so approaches may vary, but in any event an influencers sheeple eyeballs revenue VC model is not the only one

      • stevo
        1·
        4 years ago

        Yes plz share those scripts! - I think lemmy users are willing to tolerate the rough edges because they see something that could be viable long term. I think we have all witnessed really silly censorship that has been going on at reddit, but also the pros when it comes to removing racist & extremist content. I think federation is the right way to go because it means you dont have to take an absolute side but the community can find its happy medium.