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Lemmy sucks but a return to Reddit isn’t the solution (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don’t give a shit about a platform. I come from the phbb days when you sought out your communities and eventually landed with a bunch of likeminded people.

I ditched Reddit because I will not support their greedy race to the bottom. I won’t “just check the sub I’m in to occasionally” I’m done with it.

The only content I’m remotely interested in here in the fediverse is news related. And it’s boring as fuck. I didn’t go to Reddit for Reddit or news. I went there for the specific things I’m in to. Real shit, not memes.

I’m not going back there. And I can only yell at a wall here for so long.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is young. There is a lot to be desired about it but I generally like to avoid negative words when it comes to open source because open source is a net positive for the computing world. Given time, Lemmy will get better. The Lemmy devs are doing this work uncompensated and gratis. They're passionate about principles of open software, freedom of speech and expression, and a generally anti-corporate world view. I can and do get behind this and can thus put up with imperfections in an implementation. What I don't understand is actually why people will tolerate bugs in a software that they've paid for. To use an analogy, I wouldn't tolerate my car just randomly stalling. I would be knocking down the doors of the manufacturer yet we shrug our shoulders at the utter rubbish that corporations like Adobe and Microsoft churn out all of the time.